The Countdown to Iran’s Day Zero: A Crisis of Water, Not War
While the world debates bombs and sanctions, Iran is quietly running out of water—its land cracked, lakes vanished, and millions forced into climate migration.
Read moreDetailsSolidarity, revolution and an android in Amman: A review of Friendship’s Death
Peter Wollen’s sci-fi parable of solidarity, screened at On Strike Berlin, speaks powerfully to today’s calls for boycott and the ethical urgency of bearing witness.
Read moreDetailsWhen War Ends, What Remains? Art, Memory, and the Weight of Loss
How does one go on when their world has been erased? Through art, survivors navigate the weight of absence, transforming grief into testimony, horror into a haunting presence.
Read moreDetailsDecolonization is a pedagogical struggle: Rethinking liberal academia’s role in Palestine
Without fully embracing decolonial practices, academia’s commitment to transformative change remains superficial at best or a performative maneuver that ultimately sustains the status quo
Read moreDetailsWartime and the cartography of a heart
so, tell me. when do we mourn the living dead that we are, the muted throats that we occupy, the stones we pick and leave behind, the lives we exploit and live beside?
Read moreDetailsPhoto Story – Harvesting profit, displacing lives: The true cost of cheap vegetables
Spain’s billion-euro agriculture sector depends on undocumented migrant laborers—now evicted en masse, left homeless, and trapped in a system that profits from their exploitation.
Read moreDetailsThe Crackdown on Academic Freedom in Europe: A Conversation with Joseph Daher
As Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity, universities are increasingly complicit in suppressing critical voices—Joseph Daher’s case is just the latest in a broader pattern of repression.
Read moreDetailsThe battle for Tunisia’s water, soil and forests: Local solutions for climate resilience
Small farmers in Tunisia are reclaiming the land and —using agroforestry as a tool of resistance against climate change and exploitation.
Read moreDetailsTurkey’s anti-dam struggles and the global reach of local resistance
Anti-dam protests once halted the Yusufeli Dam in Turkey, yet, national capital co-opted these efforts into tools of displacement and control. The struggle, however, persists in new forms.
Read moreDetailsWhy did Iraq’s 2019 October revolution fail? A retrospective
More than four years after the mass uprising that shook Iraq’s political system, what remains of the movement that once filled Iraq’s streets with demands for change?
Read moreDetailsTrapped, detained, and deported: How Cyprus has been quietly deporting Syrian refugees
With €1,500 and a one-way ticket Cyprus' deportation machine, with EU backing, is pressuring Syrian refugees into ‘voluntary’ returns despite risks and legal protections.
Read moreDetailsA man with a crown and unchecked power: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund
The PIF’s rapid expansion cements Saudi Arabia’s global position but exposes human rights abuses, financial secrecy, and its role in whitewashing authoritarian rule through sports, AI, and mega-projects.
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