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 ...
Tag: Identity
Diaries of an Academic of Color: On the Limits of Academic Spaces, and Life in Two Places
As Beirut is bombed, an academic speaks about justice and extractivism as she is caught between war at home and ...
Online and Offline Violence are Two Sides of the Same Coin for LGBTQI+ in Egypt
In Egypt, LGBTQI+ people face escalating abuse where online harassment, state complicity, and social hostility intersect, turning digital attacks into ...
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 ...
Diaries of an Academic of Color: All Shades of Anger – Notes from an Arab Woman in European Academia
In the shadow of Gaza’s genocide, an Arab academic navigates funding, contracts, and collaboration while confronting the quiet violence of ...
For LGBTQ+ People in Egypt, the Internet is Both a Lifeline and a Trap
Social media offers connection for queer Egyptians, but also exposes them to surveillance, entrapment, and harassment under expanding cybercrime laws
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Written in the trees, the soil, and the stones”: Stories of return to South Lebanon after the ceasefire
The act of rebuilding is deeply symbolic. In the face of destruction, it serves as a defiant assertion of belonging ...
Film review: Six Feet Over, the search for one’s belonging
The son of a former Algerian diplomat reconciles with his heritage after working at a Muslim burial house.
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 ...
Keys for ancient grief
A walk along paths interwoven between inner landscapes of grief and the outer natural landscapes of transformation, in the village ...
I must conform to domesticity as well
The author reflects on identity as a trans man, in a time where pain and anger toward the unfolding massacre ...
