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Palestinian theater has long served as a profound medium for resistance, resilience, and cultural expression. Rooted in a legacy of artistic defiance, it reflects the struggles and aspirations of a people enduring decades of occupation and displacement. This essential reading list focuses on the..

Amid the fragmented realities that emerged after the collapse of the Baath Party and the Assad regime, celebrations unfolded at Fatih Mosque and later at Saraçhane Square in Istanbul's Fatih district. The soundscape, shouting at the top of their lungs—"Freedom forever, despite you, Assad!" and "..

While these pro-Zionist narratives have been developing for many years in the Iranian diaspora, most notably among monarchists, their impact has become even more problematic since October 7, 2023. Despite the dominance of this narrative, there are many Iranian-Americans who do maintain a pro-Pal..

Mainstream media silence and/or obfuscation in the face of mounting horrors committed by Israel during the past week in Gaza (particularly in Jabalia) is deafening. While this is not a new development, after 375 days of incessant killing and destruction, mainstream media in the United States and..

In this conversation, our guest, Assal Rad, deconstructs dominant media narratives in the West and the contexts from which they emerge. Assal Rad addresses the state of the Western media landscape covering Israel-Palestine, deciphers the language/terms employed, and provides examples from her no..

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..

I have worked on and written about Palestinian cultural politics for fifteen years.  And yet, over the past fifty days words have felt inconsequential in the face of Israel’s genocide. For nearly two months, live streamed on our screens, Gaza has been turned into a dystopian gallery of images th..

This teach-in examines recurring colonial myths in some detail, while simultaneously juxtaposing them against actual statements made by original founders, the historical record, and enduring policies/practices of the state of Israel. From founding myths, to settlements, to propensity for making/..

Today, 15 May 2023, is exactly 75 years since the official date used to mark the Nakba. The 15 of May, 1948, is also the date of the official declaration of the state of Israel, built on the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, the erasure and..

Ancient historians have frequently borne witness to the Amazigh people’s abundant narrative tradition, passed down orally through the generations up to the modern era, when it was virtually absorbed by modern means of communication such as school, radio, and especially television, which invaded ..

This panel marks the tenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising with a conversation among three artist-journalist-curators who participated in the exhilarating initial days of the Syrian revolution. The speakers discussed the struggle over narrativizing the revolutionary past and produc..

This panel marks the tenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising with a conversation among three artist-journalist-curators who participated in the exhilarating initial days of the Syrian revolution. The topics to be discussed include: the struggle over narrativizing the revolutionary pa..

In the summer of 2002, I started my doctoral degree at Columbia University in New York City. The atmosphere was charged with war talk. Everyone was discussing the Bush administration’s preparations to invade Iraq. The antiwar camp was strong on Columbia’s campu..

In 2015, we were seven Algerian photographers invited to a photography festival in Algiers. We were all disappointed and angry about what was presented there. It was clear to us that as individual photographers we were moving in directions that are completely different from mainstream photograph..

“Revolution is mankind's way of life today. This is the age of revolution; the 'age of indifference' is gone forever. But the latter age paved the way for today; for the great masses of mankind, while still suffering the greatest oppression and the g..

A monthly curation by Maryam al-Khasawneh and Tanya Habjouqa, the Intimate Histories series explores personal archives that situate individuals within broader dynamics and collectives. Exploring the past through such archives, whether family, individual or otherwise publicly inaccessible archive..

In the post-colonial Arab world, dictatorships have kept the people on their knees for decades, that is until the popular Arab uprisings of 2011. As a political cartoonist, the Arab uprisings changed my life. They put me and many of my fellow activists on a track toward socially-engaged work, wh..

Two new hashtags dominated our news feeds in the last week of July: #challengeaccepted and #womenempoweringwomen. What looked like a light-hearted social media challenge soon opened the floodgates of debate. Questions about the origins of the challenge have erupted, with critiques pointing out t..

For the Love of Beirut: a fundraising initiative led by Ruwa and Gulf Photo Plus in partnership with Beirut Center of Photography, In My House, and Jadaliyya to celebra..

It happened all of a sudden, a little after 6pm on 4 August 2020, the timing of the port explosion forever stamped in memory and mobile. I was on the phone arranging an ambulance ride home for my father from the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) when the line suddenl..

Wednesday, 5 August 2020, the day after the Beirut port explosion. Filmed in Achrafieh near Balamand University.