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October typically marks the peak of the olive harvest season in Lebanon, a time when families across the south come together to harvest, mill, press, and refine olives into olive oil. Yet, this year, for many residents of South Lebanon, October has become a painful reminder of loss: this year is..

Nearly 12 years ago, I sat in a building along the Cola circle, a block from my own apartment, to interview a leader of the General Union of Palestinian Women in Lebanon about her movement work between 1970 and 1982 when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was headquartered in Lebanon. J..

University students across the country have sounded the alarm on the devastation of Israel’s war on Gaza, and on Palestine more generally. The campus protests have drawn public attention to the extremism of Israel’s response to the awfulness of October 7, and its designs on Palestinians’ future...

As we near the fifth month of Israel’s war on Gaza, discussions have increased over what happens the “day after” a permanent ceasefire. While it is difficult to contemplate this at the current moment, it is crucial that Palestinians and their supporters counter this and articulate a vision for w..

Saadia Mosbah, prominent black Tunisian activist and president of Association M’nemty, was arrested on 6 May 2024. According to Bassem Trifi, lawyer and president of the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), her house was searched and she was placed under police custody while the police investiga..

As members of the faculty and staff at Columbia, Barnard, and Teacher's College, we are deeply disturbed by the administrations increasingly hostile and ad-hoc treatment of students and student organizations who are actively working to raise awareness about the on-going genocide in Gaza.

For over a century, Zionist settler colonialism has continuously committed crimes of genocide against Palestinians. The Zionist project was founded on the concept of annihilating the Palestinian people and developed its colonial tools of violence as a structural piece of its colonial project fra..

On 4 October Turkey started yet another series of attacks into the Kurdish-majority region of Rojava (North and East Syria) and destroyed 80% of the civilian infrastructure, including fifty schools and two hospitals. Dozens have died so far, and millions have been left without electricity and wa..

As we write these lines, Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, with a brutality and on a scale unprecedented since 1948. The full-throated military and diplomatic support of Western governments is enabling this ethnic cleansing. The genocidal rhetoric and..

In recent days, pundits across the US and the South have swiftly moved to condemn Palestinians resisting their occupation, siege, and apartheid under Israel. Instead, they are largely lauding Israel’s killing of Palestinians by the hundreds in the days since. Far from a new story, we see this cy..

Hamas has launched an unprecedented attack against Israel, taking aim at the apartheid and colonial regime that has subjugated Palestinian for 75 years. Western reaction and media coverage of the attack has emphasized the fallibility of Israel’s military apparatus as well as Hamas’s tactics, whi..

Almost fifty years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again been caught with its pants down. On this occasion its briefs were dangling from its ankles as well. Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, as Hamas named its 7 October offensive in..

Hope – a lot of it – certainly marked the period leading up to the 2023 presidential and general elections in Turkey. Despite the commotion on social media, which I wrongly assumed was a case of an echo chamber, I was taken by surprise by the amount of hope that the mainstream opposition held fo..

bir süredir feminist metodoloji alanında hazırlanan bir yayın için kişisel tarihimizden video, belgesel film ve arşivleme pratiklerine dair deneyimlerimizi, feminist yöntemler olarak ele aldığımız sohbetlerimizi kaydediyorduk. bu sırada, yoğurtçu kadın forumu’nda derya ve birgan’ın bu dosyaya da..

Üçünüz de yıllardır Türkiye’de sınıf mücadeleleri ve bu mücadelelerin toplumsal, siyasal, ve kültürel alana tezahürleri üzerine çalışmalar yapan oldukça üretken isimlersiniz. Öncelikle Gezi’yi Türkiye’deki sınıf mücadeleleri tarihinde nasıl konumlandırdığınızı kısaca açıklayabilir misiniz?

A comprehensive assessment of the afterlives of the Gezi Park uprising is like fighting three battles at once.[1] The first of these battles has to do with “remembering what happened” at the park and other spaces to which its “spirit” spread. Given the complexity of concerns, resentment..

Electoral alliances emerged as a significant form of political representation in Turkey, particularly following the transition from the parliamentary to the presidential system in 2017. Pre-election alliances were also operationalized by different segments of political opposition to combine thei..

From 2010 onwards, the world was swept by a transnational cycle of political protests and occupy movements against dictators in North Africa and the Middle East, global capitalism in the USA, and austerity politics in different parts of Europe. Despite their short durations, the transformative p..