How Gaza Changes Everything
While the bombs have gone silent in Gaza, there is something that has fundamentally changed about the world as we know it, and about ourselves. The fragile assumptions on which…
Maryam Sakeenah
Language as an Instrument of the Dehumanization of Palestine
A cursory look at the history of the implantation of the Zionist state in the heart of Palestine and the events that ensued is enough to make it clear beyond…
Remembering a Genocide in the Midst of Another
This month on 11th July 2024, the UN commemorated the Srebrenica Genocide of 1995 with official statements and speeches by dignitaries, memorial services, moments of silence and designating a day…
If You Could Speak…
Little face in the rubble!If you could speakFrom your midget-coffin,If your sweet voice could carry throughYour little mouth-Cavernous and hollowed out by death,Encrusted with old blood,Stopped in its tracks between…
The Economics of an Occupation
Early in July 2023, Israel launched a massive military onslaught on the refugee camps in Jenin in the Occupied West Bank in Palestine. The attack was the biggest in…
The Case For An Intellectual Discourse On Islam
The righteous rage that boils over into lynchings, mobs, suspicions and allegations of blasphemy shows a loss of balance and rationality in our social behaviour. This is a disturbing…
Lynching of Mashal Khan: Roots of Rage
How does one move on with all this deep, searing pain over the mob lynching of a body that bore a beautiful heart and a precious mind? And with our…
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