Mark
LeVine is a leader of the new generation of scholars of the modern
Middle East and Islam, Globalization, and Popular Culture, and an
award winning musician who has performed with many world renown
artists.Mark
LeVine is a leader of the new generation of scholars of the modern
Middle East and Islam, Globalization, and Popular Culture, and an
award winning musician who has performed with many world renown
artists.
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Mark
LeVine is among the most prominent scholars and commentators of the
new generation of historians and analysts of the modern Middle East
and Islam. He has spent over fifteen years living, researching,
reporting from and performing in the region, including Iraq, Israel,
the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey,
Pakistan, Iran, the Persian Gulf and Morocco. Working in Arabic,
Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian, as well as Italian, French and German,
he has interviewed senior international political figures, reported
from Beirut's green line, taught Qur'an to Muslim Brothers, performed
from Woodstock to Paris to Damascus Gate, lived next door to Hamas
mosques, stood against bulldozers, dodged terrorist bombs, and
uncovered damning files in dusty archives. He knows the history,
politics, religions–and most important, the peoples–of the region
as a friend, but with a highly critical eye.
LeVine's
wide and deep knowledge of the politics and history of the Middle
East and North Africa (from Morocco to Afghanistan), its religions
and its cultures, and its relations with Europe, Africa, Asia and the
United States, enables a unique breadth of insight into the broader
dynamics that have produced the events that dominate the news today.
His writings challenge the actions and opinions of rulers and ruled,
oppressed and oppressor, and through them the accepted paradigms for
writing about the region, and about hot-button issues such as
globalization, terrorism, politics and popular culture.
"Informative,
valuable and moderately mad"
(Editors'
Pick! NY Times)
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Besides his academic, journalistic and
consulting activities, LeVine has a long history of blending art,
scholarship and activism. As a musician he has recorded, performed
and toured all over the world with artists including Mick Jagger,
Chuck D, Michael Franti, Dr. John, Ozomatli, Hassan Hakmoun,
Arab/Muslim heavy metal and hiphop artists The Kordz (Lebanon), MC
Rai (Tunisia), Salman Ahmed (Junoon--Pakistan), Cafe Mira (Morocco,
Algeria, France), Ghidian Qaymari (Palestine), blues greats Johnny
Copeland and Albert Collins, world music artists Sara Alexander and
al-Andalus, and numerous R&B and hiphop acts. Most recently,
LeVine performed with the Tangier-Reading metal group Lazywall at
their headlining
show at l'Boulevard festival in Casablanca, on June 21
2008.
LeVine arrived on the national political
scene as lead organizer of the "National Summit on Ethics and
Meaning" in 1996 and 2000, after which he immeidately began work
as culture and music director and political organizer of both of
2000's wildly successful Shadow Conventions created by Arianna
Huffington. These events established a new paradigm for cutting edge
progressive activism, bringing together hundreds of leading scholars,
politicians, activists and artists from the US and around the world.
He is also a founding member of the Culture Jamming movement, and has
organized and hosted culture jams in the US, Europe and Middle East
that have brought into much-needed dialog an innovative combination
of leading artists, intellectuals and activists from Jonathan Kozol
to Jello Biafra.
LeVine received his BA in
comparative religion and biblical studies from Hunter College. His MA
and Ph.D. were done at New York University's prestigious Department
of Middle Eastern Studies, home of the most acclaimed new generation
of Middle Eastern scholars in America. There he focused on the
history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and modern Islamic
religious and political thought and movements.
Before
being hired at the University of California, Irvine, in 2001, LeVine
was a fellow at numerous research institutions, including the
International Center for Advanced Studies at NYU, the Stuttgart
Seminar in Cultural Studies, in Stuttgart Germany, the Society for
the Humanities at Cornell University, the Robert Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence,
Italy, where he has a continuing relationship and co-directs an
innovative program bringing Israeli and Palestinian scholars together
to imagine new ways to approach their country's history and current
trouble. His publications have appeared in leading newspapers and
journals around the world such as the Los
Angeles Times,
Le Monde,
The
Washington Post,
and the Christian
Science Monitor,
and he appears regularly as a guest commentator on issues related to
US foreign policy, the MIddle East and the larger Muslim world, on
The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hannity & Colmes, CNN, al-Jazeera
International, numerous NPR and Pacifica Radio programs, KPFK, KPFA,
WHYY, KABC, WBAI, The O'Reilly Factor, KCAL 9/Channel 2 News, KCET's
"Life and Times," KPCA, the Ian Masters Show, KKLA, Talk of
the Nation, Day to Day, the Dennis Prager Show, Charles Perez, and
NYC's Channel 11. He has been extensively quoted in the NY Times,
the Washington
Post,
Salon
and other leading
newspapers and magazines. He was also historical consultant for the
Oscar-nominated and double Emmy award-winning Promises
documentary and 2008's
Global
Metal.
He is currently filming the documentary for his book Heavy
Metal Islam in
a co-production with Brooklyn's Moxie Firecracker FIlms and the
Paris-based production company Bonne-Pioche.
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Major
Publications:
An
Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989,
has just been published by Zed Books. It offers the first
comprehensive historically grounded exploration of the Oslo peace
process and why it failed, focusing on the roots of the myriad
problems that doomed it going all the way back to the late Ottoman
period, while also accounting for such contemporary issues as the
rise of Hamas and other socio-religious and militant movements in the
two societies, and role of neoliberal globalization in the rise and
fall of the Oslo process. Order the book from Amazon.com
here.
Heavy
Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam,
LeVine's third single-authored book, is published by Three Rivers
Press/Random House in July 2008. The book offers a pioneering
exploration of the relationiship between heavy metal, hiphop, rock
and punk musicians and their more conservative and religious peers
across the Muslim world, and how their experiences shed light on the
larger dynamics of their societies today, and of such crucial issues
as the war on terror and the future of American foreign policy in the
Muslim world. An album featuring music from the book, titled Flowers
in the Desert,
will be released by EMI in the Summer of 2008, while the documentary
of the book is currently in production. Order the book from
Amazon.com here.
Why
They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil,
his second book, was published by the Oxford-based Oneworld
Publications, also in 2005. Based on over a decade of research across
the Middle East, including post-occupation Iraq, it is the first
book-length analysis of the impact of globalization in the Middle
East and larger Muslim world, and remains the definitive book on the
subject today. It also features a detailed history of and prognosis
for the future of the global peace and justice movement in the
post-September 11 era, and the role of "culture jamming" in
building new and positive identities among people of different
cultures in the global era. Order the book from Amazon.com
here.
Overthrowing
Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine,
LeVine's first book, was drawn from the research for his dissertation
and published by the University of California Press in 2005. It
explores the history of Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms and the
conflict between them through the lens of the development,
interactions and conflicts between the two movements' cultural and
economic capitals, Jaffa and Tel Aviv. At once an urban,
architectural, economic, cultural and literary history, the book uses
archival sources in Arabic, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, German, French
and English in order to provide a comprehensive portrait of life in
the Jaffa-Tel Aviv region, and through it, in Palestine/Israel,
during the last 150 years. Pre-publication reviews: "Excellent...
high quality, original and penetrating account of the failed 'peace
process'" (Oren Yiftachel, Ben Gurion University); "A lucid
analysis of the trajectory of the conflict since the end of the cold
war" (Zachary Lockman, NYU); "Challenges the simplistic
view of Oslo... A very readable book" (Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman
University). Order the book from Amazon.com here.
Twilight
of Empire: Responses to Occupation,
the first comprehensive analysis of the realities and impact of the
US invasion of Iraq, was co-edited with Viggo Mortensen and Pilar
Perez, was published by Perceval Press the same year, and features
leading scholars and activists from the US and the Muslim world
writing about the US occupation of Iraq (including Naomi Klein, Mike
Davis, Nadia Yassine, Jerry Quickley, Amir Hussein, Jodie Evans, Amb.
Joseph Wilson, and a breathtaking collection of photographs of
post-invasion Iraq taken by Linsey Addario. Order the book from
Amazon.com here.
Mark's
work with Moroccan Gnawa and world music star Hassan Hakmoun, the
French Gypsy band Les Yeux Noirs and Ozomatli on the band's CD,
Street
Signs,
earned the 2005 Grammy for Best Latin Rock/Alternative
album.
LeVine currently has two other
co-edited volumes:
Religion,
Social Practices and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public
Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies,
was edited with Armando Salvatore and published by Palgrave Press in
2006. This volume brought together leading scholars of modern and
contemporary Islam and of the public sphere in a variety of
disciplines, from critical theory to law and included countries as
diverse as Morocco, Yemen and Pakistan. Order the book from
Amazon.com here.
Reapproaching
Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine,
co-edited with Sandra Sufian and was published by Rowman and
Littlefield in 2007. The book features over a dozen of the best of
the new generation of Israeli, Palestinian and Western scholars
working on the country and the history and present dynamics of the
two national movements and societies, whose research is expanding the
state of the art in Israel and Palestine studies thematically,
methodologically, and chronologically. Order the book from Amazon.com
here.
Currently
in Production:
Struggle
and Survival in Israel/Palestine,
still in the compilation stage, is a co-edited volume with UC San
Diego sociologist Gershon Shafir, to be published by the University
of California Press. This volume will add a much-needed human
dimension to the study of Israel/Palestine by featuring biographies
of individuals from both communities who lived during the late
Ottoman, mandate, post-1948, 1967 and 1989 periods. While few of the
subjects of the biographies are well known figures, their often
fascinating lives epitomize crucial dynamics and processes that
impacted the histor of the two peoples and the still zero-sum
conflict between them.
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PREPUBLICATION
REVIEWS OF Heavy
Metal Islam,
publication date: July 8, 2008:
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TO HeavyMetalIslam.net
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BOOK SUMMARY, PHOTOS, MUSIC, VIDEOS AND INFORMATION ABOUT ALBUM,
DOCUMENTARY, TOUR AND MORE
New
York Times Book Review,
July 20, 2008, Editors' Pick!: "LeVine manages to unpack enough
cross-cultural incongruities to mount his own mosh pit…[an]
informative, valuable and moderately mad book... This conscientious
anti-imperialist has written a swell tract in favor of a... Marshall
Amps Plan... and his program is undoubtedly the first to enlist death
metal as the spearhead of a new Peace Corps."
Los
Angeles Times,
July 17, 2008: "[LeVine's] material is rich, as he mingles
scenes of conflict with surprising moments of understanding... Young
men in long hair and black T-shirts are proudly marginalized
everywhere, but the stakes are far higher here. The sounds and scenes
he finds are a fascinating social phenomenon."
Starred
Review,
Publishers'
Weekly,
May 12, 2008: "With a Jolting Arrangement of images and voices,
LeVine powerfully upends received notions about the Middle East by
exploring one of the area's least known subcultures... Warm and
intelligent."
Rocky
Mountain News,
July 25, 2008: "This is an excellent and entertaining read for
metalheads or anyone interested in a different look at Mideast
culture... Just as there's more to LeVine than academics, in his new
book he argues that there's more to Muslim culture than what
Americans consume on the nightly news... LeVine deftly showcases both
the struggles and successes of Mideast metal artists."
Kirkus
Reviews:
May 15, 2008: "Offer[s] a surprising message of hope and
solidarity that contrasts sharply with [the music's] reputation.... A
solid work of cross-cultural analysis."
Gilbey
Clarke, Guns N' Roses:
"A fun and important read..."
Library
Journal:
June 18, 2008: "Highly Recommended... Using music as a prism to
observe social relations, [LeVine] expertly describes the political
upheaval and social confusion in the Middle East that Westerners
ignore or seldom understand."
Paste
Magazine:
July 2008: "A deeply felt, informed volume that's both hopeful
and emotionally honest... [LeVine] does a remarkable job, sketching
not only the surprising realities of the musicians, but also
providing excellent historical background and terrific detail...
Anyone-regardless of musical preference-who wants an eye-level
glimpse into the Middle East should pick up Heavy Metal
Islam."
Chronical
of Higher Education:
Check back soon for link to exclusive excerpt from Heavy
Meal Islam in
the Chronicle,
July 2, 2008.
REVIEWS
OF Why
They Don't Hate Us:
Newest
Review of
Why They
Don't Hate Us,
March 22, 2007, on About.com's Terrorism website, "A Wonderful
Cacophony... and a vibrant critique of the "clash of
civilizations" theory. LeVine redraws the West vs. Islam map
that has been so prominently displayed in the last few years.
NEW:Why
They Don't Hate Us chosen
as "Editors' Pick" for
the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern
World journal. The editors write that "by insisting on the
reality of complexity, LeVine powerfully shows the fallacies of the
dominant rhetoric and conceptions about Muslim societies"
(Autumn 2006 issue).
NEW:
LATEST REVIEW OF Why
They Don't Hate Us,
by the prestigious International
Journal of Middle East Studies,
the leading journal of the field, writes that the book "combines
solid analysis with advocacy... His analysis of the war in Iraq is a
must read... The discussion of culture is key to his overall
analysis... His style ranges from providing statistical evidence to
show how the policies of the World Bank, IMF, and WTO impact the
lives of ordinary people to creative story-telling about musicians,
preachers, and gay and lesbian dancers in a Beirut night club. The
variation in LeVine's narrative show that his iconoclastic book is a
product of scholarly research as well as journalistic dispatches from
Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
Syria, Turkey and Morocco. Few readers would agree with all of his
views, but even fewer could fail to appreciate his edifying and
revealing insights." Click
here for the complete review, which appears in Vol. 38, #4
(2006).
Read major stories on Mark LeVine in the Press:
NEW:
Read
Mark's interview in the Orange
County Register about
the writing and research behind Heavy
Metal Islam,
July 26, 2008.
Read
the interview with Mark and pictures from performances in the
Pakistani weekly In
Step,
June 3, 2007.
OC
Weekly,
Nov. 1, 2002 | Orange
County Register,
April 4, 2003
(inlcudes photo gallery, recordings of Mark's guitar work and video
of him performing with world music artists Sara Alexander and Ghidian
Qaymari at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate) [ enter
"levprof"
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username and password when login requested]
BREAKING
NEWS! Mark has joined the blogiverse. Read
Mark's blog at the History News Network. Also look for Mark's
blogs on The
Huffington Post
NEW:
Read
Mark's in depth interview by editors of beliefnet.com. the largest
religion web-magazine, about Why
They Don't Hate Us
NEW:
Mark
LeVine named "Orange County Innovator in Culture, Ethics and
Values" [ Enter
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Read
the latest review of Why
They Don't Hate Us,
Beirut Daily Star, Jan. 18, 2006
FIRST
REVIEW OF Why
They Don't Hate Us ,
by Publisher's Weekly: "Sprawling... engaging... and valuable to
anyone wishing to hear a different perception on the complication
relationship between the US and the Islamic World."
SECOND
REVIEW,
by the London Sunday Times,
says that the book "should be celebrated. First, LeVine is
absolutely right and, indeed, quite brave to insist on the reality of
complexity. Terrorism and war both tend to simplify world views and,
without doubting their intellectual status, so do the utopians of the
new right... Perhaps his book’s greatest virtue is that it
introduces both the many shades of opinion and cultural complexity of
the, largely, Arab world. In addition, LeVine is absolutely right to
insist on the importance of culture... LeVine detonates the uneasy
but nonetheless profound complacency that seems to have invaded
politics."
THIRD
REVIEW,
by The
Economist,
says that "What LeVine writes about is worth reading... [he]
supports his thesis with such a wealth of statistical detail that
even the most gung-ho advocates of IMF and World Bank programmes must
pause for thought."
More
reviews:
"LeVine is an intellectual giant. The most important book
I've read in a long time." Jon
Elliott, Air America Radio
"A
Remarkable book." Jim
Bohannon, Jim Bohannon Show, Westwood One Radio
"Remarkable...
a riveting discussion, incredible depth of knowledge... complicated
and evocative [yet] sure to be enjoyed." National
Public Radio
"The
best description I've seen yet of the situation about the riots in
France and beyond." Dave Ross, KIRO 710 radio, Seattle
"An
important book and sure to be provocative." ABC
Radio
"A
great book, and important to read to gain the necessary understanding
of what's going on in the Middle East" Sam
Seder, Majority Report, Air America Radio
"An
absolutely important book." Mike
Levine, Expert Witness Radio
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NEW:Listen
to Mark's interview about Iran with Marco Werman of PRI's "The
World," NPR, June 23, 2009.
NEW:Watch
Mark's interview with Riz Khan on al-Jazeera English, discussing the
conflict over Israeli settlements, May 29, 2009.
Listen
to and read Mark's interview about Heavy
Metal Islam on
NPR's Talk
of the Nation.
Read
the profile on Mark and his experiences writing Heavy
Metal Islam in
the Orange
County Register.
Listen
to Mark's interview about Heavy
Metal Islam with
KPBS San Diego's Tom Fudge.
Listen
to Mark's interview with KPFK/Pacifica Radio host Jon Wiener
("Beneath the Surface") about HMI
and the current situation
in the Middle East.
Listento
Mark's brand new radio documentary, "Heavy Metal Islam" for
Pacifica Radio, now available as a podcast. Includes
Music from the best metal, rock and rap artists from Morocco to
Pakistan discussed in the forthcoming book and included in the
soon-to-be-released EMI album, "Like Flowers in the
Desert"
Watch
Mark's interview with Connie Martinson "Talks Books"
COMING
SOON:Video
and audio podcasts of Mark's appearances on Canadian television and
radio from his recent booktore
Watch
CNN's special on Mark's trip to Istanbul and performance at the 2007
Barisa Rock for Peace Festival, October 8, 2007.
Watch
the CNN Turk version of the Barisa Rock for Peace concert story, with
additional live footage and interviews
Watch
Mark on al-Jazeera International's "The Listening Post"
discussing Iranian President Ahmadinejad's visit to New York,
September 28, 2007.
Watch
Mark performing with Hassan Hakmoun from the concert film "A
Night of Ferocious Joy".
Listen
to Mark's performance and arranging of Ozomatli's Grammy Award
winning song, "Believe," featuring Hassan Hakmoun and the
French Jewish Gypsy band Les Yeux Noirs
Watch
Mark performing at the Barisa Rock for Peace Festival, August 24,
2007, with the Iranian melodic death metal supergroup Farzad
Golpayegani on You Tube (better footage from CNN coverage of Mark's
trip to Istanbul coming soon).
See
Photosof Mark at Barisa Rock for Peace, and pix from Dubai Desert
Rock, on Flickr.
See
photosof Mark at Barisa Rock for Peace on Facebook.
Watch
Mark on al-Jazeera International's "The Listening Post"
discussing world media coverage of Iran, August 31, 2007.
Watch
Part
1 and Part
2 of Mark's interview with Faraz Khan, host of the Pakistani
video channel The Music's "Rock On," recorded in Dubai
during the Desert Rock Festival, Other video of Mark's interivews on
Pakistani television, including MTV Pakistan, the Talat Hussain show
on ARY, and Indus Television coming soon
Coming
Soon:
Video of Mark's January 1, 2007 appearance on Hannity and Colmes
discussing Saddam's execution.
Watch
and read the transcript of Mark's November 24, 2006 Appearance on the
News Hour with Jim Lehrer discussing the latest developments in
Iraq.
Listen
to Mark's discussion of globalization in the Middle East and why it's
not working on NPR's "On Point," August, 22, 2006
Check
back soon for video of Mark's appearance on CNN's "In the Money"
on August 17, 2006
Watch
the video of Mark being interviewed at the PEN International
Conference in Copenhagen, September 8, 2006, Copenhagen.
Listen
to Mark's discussion of the media spin of the Israel-Hezbollah war on
NPR's "On the Media," August 16, 2006
Listen
to Mark's interview with KPFA Hard Knock Radio host Davey D, as they
discuss their trip to Beirut together last fall
Watch
excerpts of Mark's debate with David Horowitz on Hannity and Colmes,
Aug. 1, 2006 (full interview to be uploaded soon)
Watch
the video of Mark's appearance on Fox News The Big Story, transcript
of Mark's appearance on The Big Story, Nov. 10, 2005, about the riots
in France
Read
the transcript of Mark's appearance on Hannity and Colmes, Nov. 6,
2005 on the riots in France
View
pix of Mark's recording and performance with some of the leading
Arab/Muslim rock, metal and hiphop artists, from Morocco to Pakistan
in Beirut, October 2005
Watch
the video and read the transcript of Mark's October 12, 2005
interview with Ray Suarez on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Listen
to Mark's September 28 interview on San Francisco's NPR station, KALW
about Why
They Don't Hate Us
Listen
to Mark's August 5 interview with Rikki Klieman on KFI 640AM Los
Angeles about Why
They Don't Hate Us and
the latest about the terrorist bombings in London and the situation
in Iraq
Listen
to Mark's discussion of the Iraqi elections on NPR, Feb. 11
Listen
to Mark's discussion of the certification of the Iraqi election
results on Air Talk with Larry Mantle, Feb. 17.
Read
the transcript and watch the video of Mark's November 19, 2004
interview with Ray Suarez on the NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer.
Read
the transcript and watch the video of Mark's September 30, 2004
interview with Ray Suarez on the NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer.
Read
the transcript and hear the real audio of Mark's August 5, 2004
interview with Margaret
Warner on the NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer.
See
the video of Mark's August 5, 2004 NewsHour
appearance here, on
RealVideo.
See the video of
Mark's appearance on the O'Reilly
Factor,
on RealVideo.
Read transcripts of Mark LeVine reporting from
and on Iraq during the first anniversary of the invasion for
Democracy Now and National Public Radio
Listen
to Mark on NPR/WBEZ on April 5, 2004 | audio
recording of Mark reporting from Baghdad on March 19, 2004 for
Democracy Now
Transcript of Mark reporting from Baghdad on March 19, 2004 for Democracy Now
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Articles
available online:
NEW:What
Goldstone Says About the US, al-Jazeera International, November
12, 2009.
NEW:University
Blasts in Pakistan and the Future of Islam, Christian Science
Monitor, October 23, 2009.
NEW:NObel
Committee Bets 'Obama Can', al-Jazeera International, October 10,
2009.
Framing
Tel Aviv, al-Jazeera International, September 13,
2009.
Jerusalem's
myriad divisions, al-Jazeera International, August 27, 2009.
US
Shifting Stance on Settlements, al-Jazeera International, August
27, 2009.
Bush's
Torture Legacy Haunts US, al-Jazeera International, August 8,
2009.
Obama's
Strategies Failing in Iran, al-Jazeera International, June 29,
2009.
Read
Mark's dispatches from some of Iran's best musicians about the
Iranian election protests at the Huffington Post, with music and
video as well, June, 2009.
Iran
on the Brink?, al-Jazeera International, June 17, 2009.
An
Insane and Most Modern Form of Revolt, Social Science Research
Council, June 16, 2009.
Business
as Usual in the Middle East?, al-Jazeera International, May 5,
2009.
Gaza
is Not Warsaw, al-Jazeera International, February 2, 2009.
Muslim
Metal: Reporting from Cairo, The New Humanist magazine (UK),
February 2009.
Obama's
Mideast Challenge, al-Jazeera International, January 28,
2009.
Can
Obama Heal the Rifts?, al-Jazeera International, January 22,
2009.
Who
Will Save the Palestinians, al-Jazeera International, January 20,
2009.
Who
Will Save Israel from Itself?, al-Jazeera International, January
13, 2009.
Led
Zeppelin Needs to Come Back in Black, Red Pepper Magazine (UK),
January 2009.
To
Succeed Where Clinton and Bush Failed, Obama Needs a History Lesson,
LA Progressive, January 2, 2009.
Obama
will have to go where no other president has dared, The National
(UAE), November 11, 2008.
Guilty
of Befriending Muslims, Tikkun magazine, October 30,
2008.
Interview
with Religion Dispatches magazine, September 29, 2008.
Arabia's
Metal Scene, The National (UAE), September 28, 2008.
Palestinian
Play a Wild Card, Asia Times, September 5, 2008.
Islamism
and Heavy Metal, Washington Post, PostGlobal, August 3,
2008.
Motley
Crue: It's Time to Really Make Rock History!, Huffington Post,
August 2, 2008.
Obama
and the Taliban, Asia Times, July 30, 2008.
First
al-Bashir, Next... Bush?, al-Jazeera International, July 16,
2008.
Read
Mark's discussion of the music that influnced his writing of Heavy
Metal Islam,
Largehearted Boy, July 15, 2008.
Obama's
Other Muslim Problem, al-Jazeera International, June 23,
2008.
Israel
Won the Wars, Lost the Peace, al-Jazeera International, May 15,
2008
Silencing
the Drums of War, al-Jazeera International, March 18, 2008
The
Tragedy of Israel and Palestine,, al-Jazeera International, March
9, 2008
ReadMark's
interview with the Vancouver-based Georgia
Straight newspaper
about his new book, Heavy
Metal Islam,
February 21, 20008
Tracing
Gaza's Chaos to 1948, al-Jazeera International, February 17,
2008
Led
Zeppelin, A Force for Peace, with Salman Ahmed of Junoon, Boston
Globe, December 8, 2007
Led
Zeppelin: Crossing Cultures, with Salman Ahmed of Junoon,
al-Jazeera International, December 6, 2007
Blowback,
Pakistan-Style, al-Jazeera International, October, 24,
2007
Islamo-Fascism
Awareness Week Ignores the Real Enemy, New University, Ocotober
22, 2007
Myanmar's
Monks' Message to Muslim Extremists, October 11,
2007
Ahmadinejad's
Message to the World, al-Jazeera, October 3, 2007
NEW:No,
It's the Dog that Wags the Tail (Review of The
Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt). Asia Times, September 8,
2007
Conclusion
of Why
They Don't Hate Us now
available online
Moderation
Rocks in Pakistan, Boston Globe, April 8, 2007
Rocking
to the Sound of Guns (and Roses), Asia Times, March 22, 2007
The
Price of Hypocrisy: Rice Sells out Egypt... Again, Asia Times,
January 25, 2007
Bush's
New Plan for Iraq, Huffington Post, January 11, 2007
Playing
With Death in Lebanon, Asia Times, November 28, 2006
Who
Forms the 'New We'? A Response to Tariq Ramadan, Re-Public,
October, 2006
The
Trouble with Borat, Huffington Post, November 3, 2006
What
Does 600,000 Iraqi Deaths Make George Bush? Or Us?, Huffington
Post, October 12, 2006
Note:
From March through July, 2006, I was on research leave in Europe and
the Middle East and so was not writing much for the American/English
language press.The
New Creative Destruction, Asia Times, August 22, 2006
Why
Globalization Isn't Working, Boston Globe, August 17, 2006
101
Uses of Chaos, Tom Dispatch, August 8, 2006
Hamas
and Hezbollah: The Religion Fallacy, Beliefnet, July 18, 2006
A
Cartoonish Disdain for Discourse, Orange County Register, March
9, 2006
America's
Most "Dangerous" Professors, Mother Jones, March 6,
2006
It's
Good to Be Dangerous Again, OC Weekly, March 2, 2006
The
Wages of Chaos, February 28, 2006 | Why
Muslims Are Fighting Muslims in Iraq, Beliefnet.com, February 23,
2006
Heavy
Metal Muslim, OC Weekly, February 9, 2006
Cartoongate
and the Long Road to Civilization Beliefnet.com, February 4,
2006
Cartoongate
and the Clash of Civilizations Mother Jones, February 7, 2006
The
Birth of "Hamastan"?, Beliefnet.com, Jan. 27, 2006
Can
the Palestinian Elections Succeed? Only if Hamas Wins, Mother
Jones, Jan. 25, 2006
A
Truce, Yes, But Not with bin Laden, Boston Globe, Jan. 26,
2006
The
Last of the New Jews, beliefnet.com, Jan. 6, 2006
The
End of the Sharon Era, Time for a New Beginning? Informed
Comment, Jan. 6, 2006
Democracy,
and All That Talk Asia Times, Jan. 3, 2006
A
True "Mission Accomplished" in 2006, Mother Jones, Dec.
15, 2005
Christian
Peacemakers and the Failure of the Left, Mother Jones, Dec. 7,
2005
Waist
Deep in Big Oil The Nation, Dec. 12, 2005
Syriana
and Iraq, Mother Jones, Dec. 1, 2005
Gandhi,
King and the Elastic Sheik, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 9, 2005
Interview
with Mark LeVine on "Music Mending Differences" and on
being named "Orange County Innovator in Culture, Ethics and
Values" [ Enter
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Islam
Needs Radicals (And So Do We) | Sex,
Shopping and the Death of a Regime
Assimilate
or Die! | Assimilate
or Die! (original version together with New Yorker editor Françoise
Mouly's "Semantic Attacks")
Why
Some of 'Them' Hate Some of 'Us'
Why
Paris is Burning | Playing
the Chaos Card in the Middle East
Shaikh
al-Dhari's Disastrous Gamble, and Ours
Read
Mark's account of how Mircrosoft Word's "Track Changes"
reveal Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as the man behind the Hariri
assassination
Iraq's
Oslo Moment
Read
Mark's blog on his discussions and performances in Beirut (10/05)
with some of the leading rock, metal and hiphop artists in the Muslim
world
America,
Welcome to the Global Era | The
Iraqi Constitution: And the Winner is... The United States? | We
Should Have All Gotten Our Asses to Iraq
Echoes
of Oslo: Iraq's New Constitution | Good
Muslim, Bad Muslim, Moderate Muslim?
Why
Withdrawal Is
Possible
| The
London Bombings: Globalization's Revenge?
When
Your Enemy is Your Best Hope | Life
Before Wartime--An Iraqi Filmaker Stuck Between US Marines and Iraqi
Insurgents
An
Open Letter to John Yoo | Carrots
and Sticks in Post-Election Iraq
If
Only Iraqis Vote Their Conscience | Gandhi,
King and the Elastic Sheik | Will
Elections Make a Difference in Iraq?
Decoding
the Palestinian Elections | Torture
and Human Rights: A Roundtable Discussion
Why
is This Man Banned? (archive copy) | An
open letter in response to Robert Spencer's article: "Mark
Levine: Noam Chomsky as Rock Star"
Iraq's
Lose-Lose Scenario | The
Death of Arafat and the Myth of New Beginnings
Four
Solutions for Falluja? | We're
All Israelis Now--Redux
To
Be Muslim, Western, and Modern. An interview with Tariq
Ramadan
Towards
a Truce with the Muslim World. Also published on/in Znet, Mother
Jones, and the History News Network
Towards
a Truce with the Muslim World. Updated, longer version appearing
in the Beirut Daily Star
The
World Sells Out Iraq | War
Crimes Have Doomed the Occupation
Who's
Chaos is it Anyway?
(longer analysis, published on
tomdispatch.org, reprinted on znet, commondreams.org,
progressivetrail.org, warincontext.org, and other leading web news
sources around the world)
Cash
for Chaos: Mark LeVine's Spring Break in Falluja
Seeing
Iraq through the globalization lens | Chaos
Theory in Iraq
The
Chaos Theory in Action (a slightly different version of Chaos
Theory in Iraq)
America:
Shared Enemy. How Sunni and Shi'i Iraqis experienced the first year
of occupation
Failed
by their Elders
(on Muslim-Jewish tensions on college
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Transcript
of June 6/18/04 appearance by Mark LeVine on Fox News's "The
O'Reilly Factor"
The
Shiites Plan for Iraq, featured on ABC News Primetime
The
Trial of Saddam Hussein
A
Problematic Peace Plan
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The
Peace Movement Plans for the Future
Globalization
in the Middle East and North Africa: Conflicting Narratives of
Growth, Inequality and Integration
The
Shiite Factor: How Will Iraq's Persecuted Majority Behave When the
Saddam Era is Over?
How
the Peace Movement Blew It | The
Death of Rachel Corrie
'Bush
Wins': The Left's Nightmare Scenario
The
Danger of Google History in a Time of War, or Why I was Called a Liar
on National Radio
What
Our Children Are NOT Learning About Iraq at School
Where
Are the Moderate Islamists? |Peacemaking
in Irvine?
Bring
the Turtles to Ramallah | We
Are All Israelis Now
10
Things to Know About Terrorism | Waiting
for Islam in the Global Era
The
Arab Human Development Report: A Critique
Muslim
Cultural Responses to Globalization (pdf doc)
Why
Europe Can and Must Take the Lead for Peace
Why
'They' Don't Hate 'Us' | Melting
the Matrix
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Updated, January 2005, contact Mark LeVine for latest
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