Journalist and writer.
Writing about the Middle East at http://seamus-malekafzali.com and about film at http://burntnitrate.com.
Email: [email protected]

@seamus-malekafzali.com
Journalist and writer.
Writing about the Middle East at http://seamus-malekafzali.com and about film at http://burntnitrate.com.
Email: [email protected]
Wrote about the third anniversary of October 7th, how the regional paradigm has shifted since the world was forcibly reoriented toward Palestine, and about the burning internal divisions within Israel that threaten to set it alight.
Our Issue Eighteen launch party is this week! Featuring readings from @lorakelley.bsky.social, @seamus-malekafzali.com, @benpurkert.bsky.social and more.
Said out loud, "oh, awesome"
The GOAT @seamus-malekafzali.com is here for Houthi news, plus Kash Patel's Peanut Butter Problem www.patreon.com/chapotraphou...
Wrote about the Ansarallah offensive that took over Yemen's western coast, what the global economic effects of a simultaneous closure of the Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz could be, and to what extent Israel may get involved to stop its advance. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/everything...
Wrote about the Ansarallah offensive that took over Yemen's western coast, what the global economic effects of a simultaneous closure of the Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz could be, and to what extent Israel may get involved to stop its advance. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/everything...
I will be on @majorityreport.bsky.social at 12:30 PM ET to talk about this article, as well as my latest in @thedriftmag.com and the @versobooks.bsky.social Blog.
Wrote about the Israeli leftist plan for a socialist kibbutz in the West Bank to promote "coexistence" with Palestinians, how the kibbutz has always been a tool for expelling Arabs, and about the proposals to build kibbutzim inside Gaza itself.
extremely curious about exact the degree to which the president is fully encased in a slop-generated alternate reality
Okay so I really hate this
I wrote for the Verso Blog about the Democratic Party’s intractable relationship with Israel, its ideological roots in an image of the Jewish state that no longer exists (if it ever existed), and how that relationship is faring amidst the war on Iran. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/l...
I wrote about Trump's "Economic D-Day" on Iran, what the US-Israeli war and naval blockade have actually done to the Iranian economy versus the narrative of impending collapse, and how the Iranian military is planning to respond to America's "economic war." www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/trumps-eco...