The Agrarian South Research Bulletin announces its new issue alongside a new call for contributions. The current issue contains a series of documents dealing with Arab nationalism and the Arab national question, originally commissioned during the initial and false ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, from January-March 2025, before the current “ceasefire” was agreed upon and implemented only through the downscaling, but not stopping, of Zionist violence, on October 9, 2025. These articles were originally conceived as part of a dossier entitled, “The Arab-Iranian Region after the Ceasefire,” which for obvious reasons, became historically obsolete. Nevertheless, they are critical for enriching our current debate on the nature of class and politics, and Arab nationalist politics, in the Arab region.

The documents include, first, an excerpt from Samir Amin’s The Arab Nation: Nationalism and Class Struggle, which entered the debate on the nature of the Arab social formation, or formations, both before and after the arrival to power of the Arab republican movements. A second text, Zeyad el Nabolsy’s introduction to his translation of Mourad Wahba’s Madkhal ila al-Tanweer (Introduction to Enlightenment), shows how the latter offers a qualified defense of the relevance of Enlightenment ideas, alongside a partial embrace of a form of relativism, understood as necessary in order to make rational claims about knowledge. It also engages in immanent critique of deficiencies of patterns of thought within Arab nation states. Finally, Haithem Gasmi in “Adequate Consciousness: The Arab National Question in the Thought of Yassin Al-Hafiz,” synthesizes al-Hafiz’s thinking regarding Arab nationalism, its differences from European nationalist movements, and how it had to pay due attention to the class basis of disunity in order to make good on its unitarian aspirations.

We also announce a new call for contributions, and a new format. We will move to a more regular publishing format, no longer focused on special issues.

Thematically, we remain open to the broad range of content which the journal publishes, and beyond: including not just political economy but political economy-inflected literary or cultural analysis, touching on agrarian or urban themes, political parties and social movements, technology and development, gender and social reproduction, ecology, racism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and imperialism, the caste system and Third World (and settler-state) indigenous and national minority struggles, and reflections on the building of socialism, past and present. Contributions are welcome from, or concerning, the whole Global South.

In terms of content, we are open to a wide range of articles:

Short or long-form replies or reflections to content we have run in the magazine

Short draft or conference papers that are being developed for publication

Translations of articles pertaining to current events and transformations in the world

Poetry

Interviews with theorists, activists, political leadership, or any other interesting or relevant content for interviews.

In terms of overall approach, we wish to make the bulletin both more of a “draft” space for emerging interventions which need sharpening before they take on a more formal and final scholarly form, and to offer a forum for critical feedback, reflections, and interventions within the journal itself.

The Editors, March 2026

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