The myth of Aicha Qandisha: a feminist figure to rehabilitate?
It is up to us to create our own mythology, identify with our heroines, and celebrate our saints. Qandisha's story ...
Tag: Colonialism
We need to talk about the hypocrisy of Germany’s environmental movement
There is a mutually reinforcing link between racist, colonial, and fascist tendencies at the core of much of Western environmentalism.
From Minneapolis to Palestine: cities under settler colonialism
Urbanization in Palestine, much like in the US, still relies on patterns of dispossession and violence against indigenous communities, as ...
The Muslim cemetery of Barcia: a testament to colonialism and the obscured memory of Spain’s civil war
The strange story of the abandoned Moorish cemetery in Asturias where hundreds of Moroccan soldiers who died fighting on Franco's ...
My fascist grandpa
In her project My Fascist Grandpa, the Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio focuses on Italy’s fascist and colonial history ...
Gaza between colonial trauma and genocide
In the hours following the attack of Palestinian fighters in the south of Israel, Western observers, bewildered, speculated about why ...
A never-ending urban rage: France and its banlieues
Violence and social exclusion are rooted in the history of the old colonial power's banlieues, and police repression of urban ...
