Essays

Globalise the Indifa-duh? Infrita-tuh? Why a misspelled Brunch dish portends a dark future for free speech in Britain

Survival Is the Only Language Left: Notes on War, Memory, and Endurance in Lebanon

If the Olive Trees Knew: Art, Memory, and the Responsibility to Witness

Parallels between Lebanon and Gaza: What is the cost of looking away?

Prosfygika and the War on Communal Life: collective resistance in the age of gentrification

In Memory of Ahmad Kaabour: the sound of the land, the heartbeat of the people

Genderqueer and Here in Cairo

The Layered Grief of Leaving Dubai: open for business while being bombed

Sacred Land Made Unlivable: Ecocide as Israeli Strategy in South Lebanon and the Litani River

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A Brewmaster in Palestine: Brewing Through Blackouts and Blockades in The West Bank

Where Do We Direct Our Misplaced Lebanese Anger?

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For Lebanon's Vanina, Fashion Is Collective Resistance

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American Fault Lines: How America’s last frontier reflects the broader unraveling of the United States

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Collateral Language: I saw bombs raining over Beirut, CNN saw "crossfire"

Argentina’s Migration “Security Turn”: How Javier Milei’s Migration Policies Are Reshaping Belonging in Argentina

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Borrowed Geography: How US Bases Serve the Empire

Kurdistan and Palestine: Mapping Solidarity Beyond Colonial Borders

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Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember, I Forget

The Trump Corollary: A Warning for Latin American Sovereign

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Forced From Home: Women Living Through Lebanon’s Evacuation Zones

Weaving Palestinian Heritage with Lara Salous’ Wool Woman

Mark Zuckerberg Went to the Prada Show In Milan. It Wasn’t For Fashion

How to unpack and resist a pedophilic beauty standard: In a post-Epstein file world

To Leave, or Not to Leave? That Is the Question.

Harnessing queer and trans protest magic: How magic has become a conduit to resist and demand justice

Seeds of Chronic Hope

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Nature As the Battlefield: Ecocide in Lebanon and Corporate Empire

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ICE Attacks Are a Food Sovereignty Issue

To Grieve Together Is to Heal Together: Rituals of Care In Minneapolis

How to Resist “Organized Loneliness”: resisting isolation in the age of digital authoritarianism

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Venezuela should be neither dictatorship nor colony: An interview with union leader Eduardo Sánchez

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Against Kurdish Erasure: From the editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard

The Toll Working Multiple Jobs Takes on Young People

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Bad Bunny's Halftime Show Is About So Much More Than Symbolism

A Call to Arms

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This is America: Land of the Occupied, Home of the Capitalists

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Couture in Paris, Cuts at the 'Post'

Why We Must Bring Disability into Immigrant Liberation

From Seoul to Gaza: How a Grassroots Coalition Is Rewriting the Politics of Solidarity

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Hala Alyan: What Motherhood Taught Me About Allyship: An Invitation to Be Bound to One Another

The “Modern-Day Columbus”? Or, What Lies Behind A Bread Culture

When the Vessel Overflows: Gham and the Limits of Endurance

Beyond Left and Right: Why liberation demands abandoning inherited binaries — even our own

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Sex Workers on “hey @grok”: “It’s about humiliation”

Beyond the Noise: on exhaustion and the right to dream beyond empire

Unrest in Iran: A Feast for Vultures

The FPV Drone Pilots Behind the Ukrainian War

The OU Essay and the Christian Persecution Complex

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Theft of Existence: What goes beyond the theft of culture

Trump’s attack on Venezuela: An Exemplary Punishment

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A Lone Protester, Rain or Shine: One Man’s Daily Act of Dissent in Japan

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Sanctions are a Tool of Empire

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Dissonant Solidarity: Venezuela and the International Left

Digital Currents, Living Worlds: Ecological Resistance in a Networked Age

We are not Living in Unprecedented Times: The myth of American democracy – why U.S. intervention in Venezuela should not surprise us

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Venezuela: Beyond False Choices

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Scholasticide in Gaza: On the Systematic Destruction of Palestinian Education

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Mamdani & The Era of Possibilities

Our Era of Insecurity: How Unaffordability and Uncertainty Became Our Monoculture

On the Failures of Mainstream Media: The Rise of Independent Newsrooms

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Mercy Over Speed: Revolutionizing Our Political Imagination

Malcolm X and Islam: U.S. Islamophobia Didn’t Start with 9/11

The Billionaire Who Bought the Met Gala: What the Bezoses’ Check Means for Fashion’s Future

Communicating Palestine: A Guide for Liberation and Narrative Power

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Engineering for Genocide at MIT

Designing Possible Futures: The Book

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Zaatar Near the Border

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Education Against the End of the World: The Pedagogical Insurgency of Creative Space Beirut

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There is no future here, and yet I stay

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S is for Snails and Solidarity: On Parenting, Palestine, and Raising Kids Who Take a Stance

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Niyū Yūrk: 3 Centuries of Middle Eastern and North African Culture in New York City

The British Museum Gala and the Deep Echoes of Colonialism

Mirror Mirror on the Wall: The Art That Proves How Queer Iran Once Was

My Healing is not Found in Someone Else’s Punishment

Who is COP for, really?

The Real Test for Zohran Mamdani—and the Rest of Us

Black Liberation Views on Palestine

Honoring Indigenous Resilience

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100+ Years of Genocidal Intent in Palestine

From Sabra & Shatila to Gaza: The UN’s Century of Failure and the Rise of Alternatives

France in Revolt: Debt, Uranium, and the Costs of Macron-ism

Nothing about this Bodymind is Accidental

Love Letter to Lebanon

Let’s Be Mad: Mad World

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Indonesia at a Crossroads: Revolt, Reckoning, and Reform

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Clear Backpacks, Columbine, and the Colors of School Safety

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To Do the Greatest Harm: Cornell University’s Complicity in International Violence & Destruction

Ziad Rahbani and the Art of Creative Rebellion

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The State Cannot Hold this Kind of Love

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The Sole of Discontent: A History of Political Shoe-Throwing

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Reclaiming a Lost Imagination

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Mní On Trial: Listening to Indigenous Voices on Standing Rock

Make No Mistake: White Supremacy at The Noguchi Museum

Looking for Loud Luxury: On Color, Chromophobia, and Colonialism

Indigenous Motherhood

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Free Alaa

Uncountable

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Who’s afraid of AI? We have been living in the AI era much longer than you think

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Culture Must Be the Moral Compass That Geopolitics and Economics Will Never Be

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Socialist Girl Summer: How Capitalism Spent Billions to Demonize Socialism — And Why That Spell Is Breaking

Who’s Profiting from Genocide? What Francesca Albanese’s Report Reveals—and Why It Matters for the Climate

What Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Really Means

Zohran is for the People: and that Scares the U.S. Empire

The Wedding That Ate Venice

Urgent Appeal Concerning the Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Medical Neglect of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya by the Israeli Military

Are we at a Turning Point? Trump, Israel, and America’s Endless Wars

Heat Waves Are Not a Natural Disaster, They Are Political

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The Monster You Made: How the U.S. Engineers its Enemies

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Black Joy as Rebellion: Juneteenth, Gaza, and the Struggle for Global Liberation

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The West’s Manufactured Fear: How Media Made “The Middle-East” the Enemy

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Isamu Noguchi: A Legacy Split in Two

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The Ecosystem of Refusal: Menopause and the Power of Maroon Space

Cross-Indigenous Dialogue to Bridge Cultural Differences

Hope Without Illusion: Astrology of Liberation, June 2025

Dispatches from Gaza

Abducting Families on Occupied Land: The Shared Logic of ICE and the IDF

Protect the Citizens on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Dispatch from Gaza, June 4, 2025

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The Anger of Recognition: Witnessing Gaza and the Pain of Belated Solidarity

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Rima Hassan Onboard the Freedom Flotilla

Thom Yorke and the New Trap of Liberal Zionism

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Memory Is Political

Sustainable Fashion Is Colonial—And Silent About Palestine

Worldbuilding Amidst World Crumbling - the new Slow Factory: Algorithms of Authoritarianism vs the Media We Need Now

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Your Nervous System under Fascism: A Decolonial Polyvagal Exploration

Not a Moment of Silence: Marking 77 Years of Nakba

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The Land Testifies: Indigenous Resistance in a World on Fire

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The Land Keeps the Score

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Trump and McCarthyism: Political Deportations in Context

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Becoming a Black Feminist Explorer Under a Well Known Sun

Resistance Recipe: Pickles

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The Aesthetic of Liberation: Building a Visual Language for Liberation

Fashion (still) has a Fascism Problem: From Mussolini to Musk, the fashion industry’s troubling alliance with power persists.

The Future Belongs to the Brave: A needed approach for Academia

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The Dandy Strikes Back: The Bold Legacy of Black Elegance (and Why the 2025 Met Gala Might Be Its Riskiest Yet)

Reclaiming the Algorithm: Why We Built Everything Is Political

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Kashmir and Manufacturing Consent in Real Time

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Sustainable Resistance: 10 Ways to Counter Fascism Beyond the Streets

The Land Remembers: Reclaiming Lebanon Through Architecture and Resistance

Space Tourism Isn’t Progress. It’s Propaganda.

Israel’s Environmental Degradation in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria

A Woman is Political

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Trans Boxing: Art Project or Boxing Club?

Undocumented Rights: 12 Key Points for Rapid Response & Preparedness

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Dressing the Invisible

The Astrology of Liberation: Horoscope for March 2025

Sudan: Forgotten by whom?

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Urbicide as a Weapon: How Israel Destroys Land, Memory, & Heritage

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What Does Freedom Feel Like When You’re Miles Away From Home?

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Pleasure through Pressure is not Liberation

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DIY OR DIE/ KILL YOUR IDOLS

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Why Fascists Fear Education

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Raising the Price of Protest

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Is ICE the New Gestapo?

Is it a coup?

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On Art, Life & Activism: Nan Goldin, photographed by Mohamad Abdouni, interviewed by Céline Semaan

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Mouneh-Making in Times of War

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Middle Eastern / North African Tattoo Artists: Queering Tattoo Culture

Reimagining Ethical Fashion

In the Eye of the Storm: Resistance, Rest, and the Legacy of Oya

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Cordelia: a Story of Survival

Zifzafa: Where Sound Meets Sovereignty in the Occupied Jawlan

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Trump & Climate

A Profitless World

Memo: Designing for our Freedoms

Social Media, Censorship, and Owning our Futures

Designing for Justice: The Slow Factoryʼs Role in Amplifying Global South Voices & Narratives

Seas Remember: Black Muslim Resistance Across the Americas

The Beqaa’s Juniper Trees: A Tale of Multiple Crises

Exile to expression: how Lina Soualem’s film challenges colonial narratives

“Greater Israel”: A Not So Hidden Ambition

The Genocidal War on Tigray: Where We Are and How We Got Here

There is No Dignity in Genocide.

The Legacy of Elizabeth Street Garden & the Fight for Green Spaces

The Palestinian Ring: Boxing, women, and bombings in Gaza

Education for Our Liberation: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Summer 1964 SNCC Freedom School Program in Mississippi

Systemic Change is Difficult and Dangerous

Sudan: Civilian Rule is the Will of the People

Black Fashion: Revolution and the Somatics of Joy and Pleasure