To Question Memory is to Question Power: The Narrative of Violence is Shaking up Political Life in Kosovo
An exhibition cancelled, a historian's devices seized, a war-crimes verdict looming over The Hague. Kosovo edges toward peace but has ...
Tag: Memory
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 ...
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 ...
Teta’s Hair: A Story of Palestinian Women’s Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal
Across generations of women, curls become threads of survival, love, and Palestine’s unyielding memory.
Accidents, Archives, and Acts of Sabotage: A Conversation with Palestinian Film Director Kamal Aljafari
In a colonial context, reworking images is an act of liberation and reclaiming, a way to tell stories of a ...
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 ...
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 ...
A life lived without memory, yet together
In Syria, our memory, shaped by fear, mistrust, and control, has become a battleground, caught between 'trauma porn' and modern ...
