Politics

Decades of dispossession made drought a local catastrophe as grievances and rainfall primed the northeast to rise up in 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TÄRA's debut EP Zefiro dropped on Nakba Day. She calls her genre Arab&B, making music for Italy's unrepresented, and she's just getting started

The Albanian government embraced Israel through the genocide. Its citizens refused and across deep divides, Palestine became the cause that united them

An exhibition cancelled, a historian's devices seized, a war-crimes verdict looming over The Hague. Kosovo edges toward peace but has yet to come to terms with its past

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

Albania has handed over its land to Italian-run migrant detention. For a nation of displaced people, activists say this is both a democratic failure and a betrayal of memory

Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of Egypt feel seamless, permanent and unquestionable

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

While Europe hesitates, Albania bets on Israel. For a country desperate to belong to the Western order, Palestinian suffering is the price of admission

A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times

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

A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times

As Beirut is bombed, an academic speaks about justice and extractivism as she is caught between war at home and conversations that continue as if nothing is burning

From coffeehouse storytellers to digital archives, communities across the Arab world have long shaped and shared history in public, challenging the idea that the archive owns the past

A review of Abdalhadi Alijla’s Fearful in Gaza, tracing how ordinary childhood memories under siege resist abstraction and restore Gaza as lived home rather than political symbol

In the shadow of Gaza’s genocide, an Arab academic navigates funding, contracts, and collaboration while confronting the quiet violence of European institutions

India’s silence on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon reflects a broader shift from anti-colonial solidarity to alignment with Israel and the US driven by ethnonationalism, Islamophobia, and opportunism