Gilbert Achcar

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1. Karl Marx

   Author of Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1845-47, Vol. 5: Theses on Feuerbach, The German Ideology and Related Manuscripts

2. Michael Perelman

   Author of The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation, Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology

3. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Revolutionaries

4. Ellen Meiksins Wood

   Author of Empire of Capital, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

5. Tom Segev

   Author of One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East, 1949: The First Israelis

6. Robert Brenner

   Author of The Boom and The Bubble: The US in the World Economy, The Economics of Global Turbulence

7. Zaki Chehab

   Author of Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement, Inside the Resistance: The Iraqi Insurgency and the Future of the Middle East (Nation Books)

8. Gilbert Achcar

   Author of The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder, Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror

9. William Blum

   Author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003

10. Avi Shlaim

    Author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations

11. David Harvey

    Author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, The Limits to Capital, New Edition

12. Augustus Richard Norton

    Author of Hezbollah: A Short History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)

13. Immanuel Wallerstein

    Author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

14. Robert Pollin

    Author of Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity

15. Slavoj Žižek

    Author of First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes

16. Benny Morris

    Author of Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001, Israel's Border Wars 1949-1956

17. Doug Henwood

    Author of After the New Economy

18. Ilan Pappé

    Author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

19. Bertell Ollman

    Author of Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD

20. Giovanni Arrighi

    Author of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times