Foreword: Plural Archives, Cultural Practices, and Political Imaginaries in Syria and Lebanon
Preserving memory while opening new avenues for critical reflection, by documenting threatened archives, analysing artistic practices, tracing transformations in urban and cultural landscapes, or amplifying voices that have historically remained marginalised
Read moreDetailsOn and Within Water: Crossings of the Orontes River between Memory and Local Knowledge
As dams drain the Orontes and deforestation strips timber sources, Syrian and Lebanese boatmakers' traditions vanish, erasing generations of craft knowledge that shaped communities' relationship to water and land
Read moreDetailsSilenced Voices: Bedouin Lebanese Cultural Identity through Young Women’s Lenses
Six Bedouin women become co-researchers using photography to document their own identities, challenging urban stereotypes and reclaiming the right to narrate themselves against extractive research
Read moreDetailsKitchens and Group Chats Against Erasure: How Palestinian Diaspora Archives Survival
When settler-colonial states try to erase Palestinian archives, diaspora communities build their own through practices of care: in group chats, family recipes, and voice notes that assert survival
Read moreDetailsThe War Once Had a Proper Name: On Stories, Suffering, and the Distance Between Us
From Hamza Al-Khatib to Alan Kurdi, a flood of humanizing war stories has failed to close the distance between witness and audience. How suffering becomes a genre others consume and what retelling it costs the storyteller
Read moreDetailsLines of Flight: Doves, Migrants, and the Mediterranean Without Sanctuary
Turtle doves and migrants cross the Mediterranean seeking sanctuary. Europe protects one species while hunting it; lets the other drown. Both ask the same thousand-year question: where is home when borders and climate have made it impossible?
Read moreDetailsPoisoned Springs: How Sewage, Silt, and State Neglect Are Killing Life in Kashmir’s Freshwaters
Untreated sewage, plastic waste, and illegal riverbed mining are choking Kashmiri springs and ecosystems, and officials have done little more than fence off the dying water while the die-offs multiply
Read moreDetailsThe Lost Innocence of Playing: Why Games are Becoming the New Cultural Battlefield Between the Far Right and its Opponents
Steve Bannon studied World of Warcraft players before he built Breitbart's alt-right pipeline. Ten years after GamerGate, games are still where the far right recruits, and where its opponents are learning to fight back
Read moreDetailsResistance Archives: How Hezbollah’s FPV Drones Documented Israel’s Destruction of South Lebanon
Israel has destroyed over 20,000 South Lebanese homes and set up military forts. Hezbollah's insurgent media transformed destruction into a counter-archive, making occupation visible and reframing resistance
Read moreDetailsPunk, BDS, and Manga: How Palestinian Resistance Connected Japan’s Fragmented Movements
Japanese BDS campaigns forced companies to cut weapons ties with Israel. Palestinian solidarity now connects punk, feminist, anti-nuclear, and anti-colonial movements. For activists, the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes Palestine's resistance their own
Read moreDetailsThe Joke That Isn’t: Inside Egypt’s “Hahaha Jihad” Against LGBTQ+ People
Threats, tracked locations, coordinated pile-ons: this is what it costs to be visibly queer online in Egypt
Read moreDetailsIn Cyprus, Israelis are Buying up a lot of Land and Some Fear it is Another Colonisation
Thousands of people have left Israel and bought land in Cyprus, an island divided between the EU and Turkey where property has been in dispute since 1974. Meanwhile, movements and businessmen close to the Israeli far right are increasingly visible
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