Publications
الطاقة المتجدّدة لا تحقّق السلام تلقائياً
بينما تسعى دول الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا للتحول إلى مراكز للطاقة المتجددة، تظهر مشاريع جديدة تُعيد إنتاج منطق الاستعمار من خلال السيطرة على الموارد. من المغرب إلى فلسطين، تُطرح تساؤلات حول العدالة والآثار السياسية لهذه التحولات في مجال الطاقة.
© Ruveyda Yilmaz
Leaking Imperialism: Tracing gas flows sustaining the settler occupation of Palestine
TNI long read (2024): Palestinian activists push for a global energy embargo as attacks on Israel’s energy infrastructure escalate. What’s at stake?
Fighting Fire with Community: Local Initiatives Rise Up Amidst the Israeli War on Lebanon
Jadaliyya (2024): El Khazen & Eid discuss Israel's ongoing attacks on Lebanon, including the destruction and contamination of agricultural land, and local efforts at fighting back through community support.
Risks of Morocco's green hydrogen plans
SCIENCE (2024): In this letter with SCIENCE's insights section, Hussein & Schuetze discuss the risks of Morocco's green hydrogen plans.
Counter-mapping Complicity
The New Inquiry (2024): Together with Filistin İçin Bin Genç, Rose and El Khazen provide a counter-map of national resistance to Turkish complicity and flows of oil to Israel.
Elsewheres of the Unbuilt: The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects
IJURR (2024): This article delves into the intricate dynamics of global energy infrastructure through major projects such as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the Central American Electric Interconnection System (SIEPAC), and the Mediterranean Electricity Ring (MedRing).
Routes to Disruption - Supply Chain Sabotage and Israel’s War on Gaza
MERIP (2024): Aktivisten versuchen durch Sabotage von Lieferketten Israels Militäroperationen in Gaza zu stören. Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die Rolle von US-Flugzeugtreibstoff und historische Vorbilder für diese Widerstandstaktiken.
The Uneven Politics of Decarbonization in the Middle East and North Africa
MERIP (2024): Projekte für erneuerbare Energien im Nahen Osten und Nordafrika stärken bestehende Machtstrukturen. Benjamin Schützes Artikel zeigt, wie autoritäre Eliten und multinationale Konzerne profitieren, während die lokale Bevölkerung oft ausgeschlossen wird. Wichtige Projekte wie das Morocco-UK Power Project verdeutlichen wirtschaftliche Ungleichheiten und neokoloniale Abhängigkeiten.
Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies
POMEPS (2024): Schuetze discusses the criminalisation of Palestinian identity and Palestine solidarity, red lines faced by Germany-based scholars of Middle Eastern politics, and their role in upholding images of German redemption, innocence and moral authority, while also facilitating support for plausible acts of genocide.