“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: Lebanon
Bombed, Poisoned, and Ignored: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of South Lebanon
South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed and ecologically destroyed. A documented, live-streamed erasure met with global silence
Hiding Behind Procedure: How the EU Attempts to Sidestep Obligations on Israel – and Why They Fail
The European Union breaks its own rules and international law to avoid sanctioning Israel on its crimes in Palestine and ...
Abu Calypse, Episode 2: “Rights We Can’t Afford”
A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times
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 ...
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 ...
Abu Calypse, Episode 1: “A Complicated War”
A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times
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
The Women Not Liberated by Bombs
From Palestine to Iraq, from Lebanon to Syria and Afghanistan, seven women recount how foreign powers promised liberation—only to deliver ...
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 ...
Across War Zones, Targeting Healthcare has Become a Strategy, not an Accident
Deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law
Nasrallah, Syria and Palestine: Thinking beyond the narratives that speak us
how can we arrive at a condition in which a struggle for a democratic, inclusive and open Syrian polity and ...
“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 ...
Memory for resistance: Beirut’s battle against violence and forgetfulness
In the face of destruction and enforced forgetfulness, the madness of remembering is a weapon to reclaim Beirut’s identity and ...
Israel’s war on the United Nations: Why a ban on UNRWA sets a dangerous precedent
A law deeming the UN agency a ‘terror group’ raises global concerns over humanitarian missions.
‘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.
Our daily media catastrophe
One year after the 7th of October, four anomalies and paradoxes of our daily media experience appear evident, linking the ...
The folder of wonders: A comic on profound displacement
Passing down the knowledge about what to take and what to leave behind in times of war is something no ...
The terror we are living in for a year and a lifetime
The word terror means extreme fear, and there is no greater terror than being dehumanized by the world's most powerful ...
A year has passed
A year has passed, and the brutal machine continues to devour our bodies, moving between Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond.
Rap in times of genocide. A conversation with Bu Nasser Touffar
Music can amplify the voices of struggles and has a long history in liberation movements, says the Lebanese rapper.
A Beirut forager’s odyssey
The plants disclose their knowledge and complex histories of colonialism and migration, shifting the author's perception of the city.
Memory landscape
Walking through an other, how could we access imaginary and real landscapes of memory, grief and desire? The writer follows ...
Keys for ancient grief
A walk along paths interwoven between inner landscapes of grief and the outer natural landscapes of transformation, in the village ...
Images for the Palestinian cause. Jocelyne Saab’s early documentary film work
In the service of struggles for the self-determination of peoples. Lebanese reporter Jocelyn Saab's images reflect her commitment.
Palestinians are on the frontline of Lebanon’s economic crisis
As one of the most marginalised and voiceless communities in Lebanon, Palestinian refugees have been on the frontline of Lebanon’s ...
