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works at the Department for the History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2000, he published the thesis Frihet, jämlikhet, brodermord: revolution och kolonialism hos Albert Camus och Frantz Fanon (Freedom, equality, fraternicide: Revolution and colonialism in Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon). Other publications include Sartres krig: människans frihet och slutet på historien (Sartre's war: Man's freedom and the end of history, 2004), Döden i Beirut (Death in Beirut, 2007), and Vittnet (The Witness, 2008)
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Western martyrdom and the politics of memory and death
What is the connection between the mediaeval hunt for relics and the idolization of Benno Ohnesorg? Or between Cromwell and Nietzsche? Western ideologies of martyrdom are active to this day in instrumentalizing the dead for the purposes of the living, writes Michael Azar. [more]
The stranger, the mother and the Algerian revolution
A postcolonial reading of Albert Camus
The existential themes of "The Stranger" hide Camus' critique of French rule in Algeria. Yet Camus never entirely renounced the civilizing premise of colonialism. The reason lies in his relation to his mother, writes Michael Azar on the fiftieth anniversary of Camus' death. [more]
A barbarian in Beirut
Isreal's attempts to bomb Hezbollah out of Beirut has a precedent in Mossad's assassination of three PLO leaders in Beirut in 1973. Two years later, Lebanon found itself in the clutch of civil war, writes Michael Azar. [more]
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