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  • Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide

    Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide

    “Genocide” evokes crematoria, mountains of skulls, and mass graves. It is what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe, what the Khmer Rouge did to fellow Cambodians, what Hutu nationalists did to Tutsis in Rwanda. The term, like the practices of death and social destruction to which it refers..

  • Quick Thoughts: Elyse Semerdjian on Standing Rock

    Quick Thoughts: Elyse Semerdjian on Standing Rock

    On 4 December 2016, the operators of the North Dakota Access Pipeline were informed they no longer had permission to pursue construction plans under Lake Oahe, the main water source of the nearby Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The announcement crowned many months of activism led by the inhabit..

  • Teaching Thanksgiving

    Teaching Thanksgiving

    On Thursday millions of families and friends and colleagues will gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. Universities will be closed, and classes will be cancelled. Every year, this holiday weekend poses challenges to professors and students who are critical, and critical..

  • Thanksgiving In Beirut

    Thanksgiving In Beirut

    On November 24, people from across the United States will gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving. They will travel (on the busiest travel day of the year), they will eat turkey and pumpkin pie, and they will shop at the orgiastic sales that are a ..