Gaza, Not a Metaphor: Childhood, Memory, and the Refusal of Spectacle
A review of Abdalhadi Alijla’s Fearful in Gaza, tracing how ordinary childhood memories under siege resist abstraction and restore Gaza...
Jannis Julien Grimm is an interdisciplinary conflict researcher and the director of the research unit “Radical Spaces” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin. He holds a PhD in political science from the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies on the interrelation between social mobilisation, political violence, and state repression. His current work explores the contested meanings of civil disobedience and (non)violent resistance in Sudan, Lebanon, and Palestine, and the conditions of transnational solidarity in the context of mass violence.
A review of Abdalhadi Alijla’s Fearful in Gaza, tracing how ordinary childhood memories under siege resist abstraction and restore Gaza...
