Lebanese-Scottish publisher and former singer (born c. 1966)
Ramsey Kanaan is a Lebanese-Scottish publisher and distributor of anarchist literature. In 1987, he founded AK Press ,[ 1] named after his mother, Ann Kanaan.[ 2] In 2007, he founded PM Press ,[ 2] [ 3] where he remains the publisher.[ 4]
Kanaan is one of the founders of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair [ 5] and is a member of Bound Together Books in San Francisco , a collectively run anarchist bookstore .[ 6]
In the 1980s he was the singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum .[ 7]
^ Ramsey Kanaan, "What's Wrong with the American Anarchist Movement?" Jura Books, Sydney, 2005. Archived April 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine .
^ a b Rachel Swan, "Beyond Anarchy at PM Press" , East Bay Express , 18 February 2009. Archived 24 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 19 January 2015.
^ Tobias Carroll, "I’ve Got a Name: Music, Radical Politics, and AK Press" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 2008
^ "About - Page 2 of 2" . PM Press . Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023 .
^ Channel Zero, "Interview with Ramsey Kanaan on the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair" , 9 October 2006. Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine March 2007.
^ Jerome Gold, Obscure in the Shade of Giants , Black Heron Press, June 2001.
^ Glasper, Ian (June 1, 2014). "Political Asylum" . The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984 . PM Press . ISBN 978-1-60486-516-5 .