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Words can create imagined communities, and turn a political classification into what looks like a natural description of reality

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

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

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

The recent uprisings across the Asia-Pacific region carry a quieter thread: protesters raised by absent, migrant-worker parents are refusing to inherit a future built on leaving

Behind the marches is a jobs crisis crushing the young, an exam industry built on suicides, and billionaires thriving as they erode democracy around them

Long before Kushner's resort, Rama's Albania was already clearing land of the people who lived on it: pyramid schemes, hydropower dams, tourism permits, one dispossession at a time

Western leaders are fighting over the rules of the new global order. The sports their societies love most can tell us more about what is at stake than almost anything being said at major summits

Cargill and Unilever run today's empires. From Almería's plastic greenhouses to Western Sahara's occupied phosphate mines, a new podcast maps the extraction routes feeding the Global North's supermarket shelves

Kushner didn't open Albania's coastline to capital. He walked through a door that Rama built, decorated, and defended as Renaissance

A Lebanese scholar in Berlin on carrying war in your body through a city that cannot hear it, and being asked to silence yourself to protect the memory of others who are not willing to speak up

South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed and ecologically destroyed. A documented, live-streamed erasure met with global silence

From Musk's Star Trek pitch to Pentagon generals to Palantir's Tolkien branding and terrifying manifesto, Silicon Valley has turned science fiction's radical imagination into a tool for concentrating power

The European Union breaks its own rules and international law to avoid sanctioning Israel on its crimes in Palestine and elsewhere. In the process it stokes global instability and consigns itself to irrelevance

From Epstein's island to Munich's standing ovations, colonial domination continues with impunity in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine

Which effects will the current exposure to violence have on future generations? 

An Algerian voice on colonial denial, European “realism,” and why freedom never waits for permission.

Digital platforms silence Palestinians; yet online, they archive survival, expose injustice, and demand the world bear witness.

In Palestine, journalism has never been just a profession. It is a lifeline, a form of resistance, and, too often, a last testimony before death.

From Rwanda to Myanmar, Western institutions validate atrocities only when it’s safe to do so. This politics of delayed outrage turns recognition itself into an act of racism and remembrance into complicity.

Facing arrests, bans, and brutal crackdowns, organizers in Berlin and New York persist in their fight for Palestine, exposing the hollowness of Western liberal democracies.

For Palestinians, grief is endless, compounded, and interrupted—never given space to breathe, never allowed to end.

Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.

Israel’s surprise assault sparked a brutal war that allowed Iran’s regime to pose as the nation’s protector. Yet beneath the surface, networks of care offered a different vision of survival and resistance.

Colonizers write the rules to win, and break them when they don’t. From Wounded Knee to Gaza, diplomacy with empire is a trap paved with betrayal, blood, and broken promises.

A performance of public love, radical democracy, and refusal to obey in advance united artists, farmers, doctors, and drag queens who kept the movement alive.

As wars erase homes and histories, family memory becomes resistance. From Ottoman Jabal Amel to neoliberal Beirut, this is a story of forgotten villages, exploited labor, silent women, and leftist dreams born in exile.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its blunders dismantled the state, planting the seeds of ISIS and its Syrian spillover.

Writing and archiving are emotional and political acts—a refusal to surrender memory to silence, transforming history into a living tapestry where endings become beginnings.

The archive of the revolution is both a child of hope and its creator. Through documenting their revolution and preserving their lived experiences since March 15, 2011, Syrians have managed to bridge the temporal rupture that repression sought to impose.