Gilbert Achcar is Emeritus Professor at SOAS, University of London. He was born in 1951 in Senegal, grew up in Lebanon and has lived in Paris, Berlin, and London, where he has been based since 2007. His books include The Clash of Barbarisms (2002), The Arabs and the Holocaust (2010), The People Want (2013), The New Cold War (2023), and The Gaza Catastrophe (2025).
