“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: Trauma
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 ...
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 ...
Trapping Dying Children: How Israel is Still Blocking Medical Evacuations from Gaza
Israel’s permit regime is not administrative dysfunction but deliberate policy, leaving thousands to die while awaiting evacuation and thousands more ...
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 ...
‘Gaza is Auschwitz with Camera’: Excerpt from Franco Berardi’s upcoming book, “Thinking After Gaza”
Which effects will the current exposure to violence have on future generations?
Video: Steps
Artwork and video on Gaza's genocide by Noura Alsouma: "Eyes sealed shut by fear, and eyes too terrified to open".
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 Chronicle of Loss and Unending Grief: Gaza’s Genocide and the Weight of Inherited Grief
For Palestinians, grief is endless, compounded, and interrupted—never given space to breathe, never allowed to end.
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 ...
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 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 ...
“I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go”: Gaza’s Endless Grief and Unknown Bodies
With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left ...
When War Ends, What Remains? Art, Memory, and the Weight of Loss
How does one go on when their world has been erased? Through art, survivors navigate the weight of absence, transforming ...
When they opened the prison doors
Hope, trauma and negligence in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the regime.
On trauma/resilience and psychological suffering: how can the Palestinians be rehumanized?
A response to the call of physicians Ghassan Abu Sitta and Rupa Marya to rehumanize Palestinians by reimagining healing, life, ...
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 ...
