“Now You Are Part of It. Our German Guilt. Our Memory”
A Lebanese scholar in Berlin on carrying war in your body through a city that cannot hear it, and being ...
Tag: History
Building Belief: The Grand Egyptian Museum and the Architecture of State Power
Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of ...
From Hakawati to Hashtags: Making History Public in the Arab World
From coffeehouse storytellers to digital archives, communities across the Arab world have long shaped and shared history in public, challenging ...
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 ...
From Bandung to Bibi: How Modi’s India Abandoned Non-Alignment for Ethnonationalism
India’s silence on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon reflects a broader shift from anti-colonial solidarity to alignment with Israel and the ...
The Colonial Roots of Contemporary Atrocity: Why the West Can’t Stop Making War
From Epstein's island to Munich's standing ovations, colonial domination continues with impunity in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine
Between Hiroshima and Tokyo: Palestine is a Mirror
In Japan, Palestine solidarity movements may be smaller than in the West, but they are very active, and Gaza becomes ...
From Bab al-Hara to the Umayyad Dream: How Nostalgia Shapes Syria’s New Moral Order
From TV drama to self-Orientalizing political myth, Syria’s revivalist imagery performs purity, masculinity, and belonging while erasing plural histories and ...
From Algeria to Greenland: Why Colonized Peoples Recognize Each Other
An Algerian voice on colonial denial, European “realism,” and why freedom never waits for permission.
A Journey through a Swiss-German Family Archive: From Colonial Palestine to Today’s Repression of Solidarity
Through letters, photos, and memoirs, a Swiss-German artist unravels their family’s colonial legacies in Palestine and how Germany’s unprocessed guilt ...
Gaza Genocide and the Racism of Recognition: Why Justice Always Comes Too Late
From Rwanda to Myanmar, Western institutions validate atrocities only when it’s safe to do so. This politics of delayed outrage ...
Legally Speaking: Inside Germany’s Trials Against Palestine Solidarity
From Rosa Luxemburg’s century-old defense against militarism to Berlin’s student trials on Palestine, Germany’s judiciary still insists it is “handling ...
A Country of Words: Mapping Memory, Resistance, and Exile in Palestinian Literary History
In this interview, Refqa Abu-Remaileh maps a fragmented literary history shaped by exile, censorship, and resilience—offering an interactive archive that ...
A Fight for Survival: Elche’s Ancient Palm Tree Climbers Seek UNESCO Protection
Spain’s palmereros are battling EU safety laws and legal limbo to protect their centuries-old palm-climbing craft—and are now seeking UNESCO ...
Living Between Shells and Silence: How Kashmiris Endure a War Without End
From bombed border homes to courtrooms where justice never comes, Kashmiris face not just conflict—but erasure. This is the story ...
As Cruel as Anyone Else: How Italy Evades its Colonial Atrocities
From massacres in Ethiopia to camps in Yugoslavia, Italy’s dark imperial legacy remains shrouded in denial, shielded by myths of ...
The Lines That Divide: A Story of Borders and Broken Bonds in Georgia
When a border slices through Kurvaleti in Georgia, what vanishes is more than land: trust, kinship, and belonging unravel across ...
The “Dirty Work” of Empire: The War on Iran, and the Collapse of the International Order
Colonizers write the rules to win, and break them when they don’t. From Wounded Knee to Gaza, diplomacy with empire ...
A World That Was Never Ours: Three Generations between Jabal Amel and Beirut
As wars erase homes and histories, family memory becomes resistance. From Ottoman Jabal Amel to neoliberal Beirut, this is a ...
Unleashing new Demons: How the US Invasion of Iraq Fueled Syria’s Collapse
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its blunders dismantled the state, planting the seeds of ISIS and its ...
Paradise, interrupted. The archive may not end
Revolutions fade, but their magic survives in music, memories, and fragments of a collective dream—this is a tale of witnessing ...
The story of a young woman on the right side of history, in a country that keeps taking the wrong one
M. held a sign asking if Germany learned from the Holocaust. She now faces criminal charges for it.
Solidarity, revolution and an android in Amman: A review of Friendship’s Death
Peter Wollen’s sci-fi parable of solidarity, screened at On Strike Berlin, speaks powerfully to today’s calls for boycott and the ...
Heavy baggage: A German reckoning with guilt, hypocrisy and responsibility
We Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never ...
‘Our heart that burned’: Israel is wiping out centuries of heritage in southern Lebanon
In just hours, Israeli airstrikes destroyed Nabatieh’s historic market and the ancient Maloula tree.
How the world is failing Armenians again
In the past year, a new chapter of the Armenian genocide's history has been written, with more than 100.000 ethnic ...
A year-long war in Sudan: visual notes
A year has passed since the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) started a civil war in the ...
