Andrew Hammond

Andrew Hammond is a historian at the University of Oxford and visiting fellow at the Centre of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University. He is the author Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought, Popular Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, and The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia.

Recent articles by Andrew Hammond

Why Gaza is a global cause

Why Gaza is a global cause

In the West the claim is often made that Palestine is an issue that Arab or Muslim governments manipulate to stay in power by appealing to a populist cause. The deeper truth is that Palestine has become a subversive issue in the Middle East: the liberation of Palestinians through a South Africa-style dismantling of an inequitable system implies the dismantling of repressive regional systems that have managed to perfect Panopticon surveillance (with the help of Israeli technologies) and returning to the unfinished business of the Arab Spring.

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