Category: essays

Chase Strangio

Cornell 7: When “Protecting” Women is About Controlling Women

Angham Steckelberg

The Politics of Patterns: The Standardization of Clothing and Bodies

Agit Karatas

The Architecture of Peace in Kurdistan: Acronyms Dissolve While Promises Survive

Sara Lynn Younes

A Genocidal Shade of Grey: The Visual Language of Colonial Violence

Emma Cieslik

Folklore is Resistance: “De-Flock America” ties back to Halloween’s folk origins

Isabella Daou

Reclamation of Land and Body: Agricultural Resistance in Lebanon

Angham Steckelberg

The Camel in the Age of Climate Change: Rethinking resilience through a desert animal

Jwan Zreiq, Kamee Abrahamian

What Water Carries Beyond the Nakba: On Fugitive Knowledge and Palestine

adam sudewo

The Aesthetics of Sovereignty: On Flags and the Political Imagination

Kang-Chun Cheng

The Fight After the Fight: How a Kyiv jiu-jitsu club helps veterans heal

Emma Cieslik

Let not our sorrow be weaponized: On queer solidarity and resisting scapegoating

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Jill Damatac

As Goes Nepal, So Will The World

Archie Narang

Rice: A Tessera to Defeat Empire: How one seed bank is protecting India’s rice biodiversity

Ana Beatriz Reitz Gameiro

The Billionaire Problem: The ownership crisis reshaping journalism

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Ana Beatriz Reitz Gameiro

Why Fashion Is Embracing Surveillance

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Steven Donziger

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory proves that people are not buying Israel’s war crimes

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Nathalie Lozano Neira

Across Borders, We Choose Each Other: Refuge, relationality, and Indigenous feminist solidarity across Abya Yala and Turtle Island

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Saher Bajwa

Lessons on Traceability: Fashion supply-chain transparency starts with people, not tech

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Sarah Al-Baghdadi

The War on Terror Is a War on Climate: The Environmental Legacy of Military Violence

Cristina Jimenez

Menstruation Under Fire: Grassroots feminists in Lebanon are refusing to let menstrual health become another casualty of war

Timothy Ngome

It has always been us: How East African Communities Are Building Power Beyond the Ballot

Sarah Sinno

Beyond Sect: Reimagining Lebanon Through the Land

Aoife Dempsey

The Ones Who Stay: The Invisible Architecture of Migration

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Darine Hotait

The Balloons Were Not Balloons: On Chemical Weapons, Contaminated Lands, and Bodies That Remember War

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Bunny Mack

Movement Monarchy: When Bad Faith Movement Leaders Declare War on the Working Class

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Kang-Chun Cheng

Eco-Anxiety in Mauritania

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Khushboo Tejwani

Rooms that Grew Together: On Sindhi Refugees Making Home in Jalgaon

Danielly Rodríguez

The Chronology of Exhaustion: How Venezuelan Women Refuse Erasure Through Collective Resistance

Daniela Escobar

Indigenous Art and Life on the Eastern Edge of Long Island

Ana Beatriz Reitz do Valle Gameiro

Sold Out: How High Fashion Opened Its Doors to Fast Fashion

Theodosis Pipis

How Cyprus is Supporting Israel’s Expansionist Policies

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Seema Jilani

Louisiana Deserves Better than Mass Forced Displacement

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Emma Cieslik

ICE is Waging Trump’s War on Disabled Communities: And this is how you can fight back.

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Hassan Herzallaj

What Goes Unseen In Gaza's Camps

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Bianca Rothe-Nickull

Memories Growing from Grandmother’s Seeds

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Shereen Naser

Palestinian Generosity is Survival

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Ouassima Laabich

If We Remember Who We Could Be: A reflection on Muslim Futures, radical imagination and the right to dream

Nikesh Shukla, Camille Aubry

Extract from Mad Villain: Issue 1: Alerta

Qamar Refaat

Artemis II and the Politics of Space

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adam sudewo

If the Body Is a River, Who Keeps It Alive?

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Ian Schultz

Hope in the Making: Young Hungarians at a Turning Point

Agit Karatas

A Rage That Doesn’t Belong Anywhere: On the Kurdish Carceral Experience in London

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Karim Safieddine

A Lebanon Divided: How Lebanon's Two National Liberations Inform Its Politics Today

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Dimple Bangalore

Art Against Erasure: Inside the Palestine Museum in Edinburgh

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Zaakiyah Brisker

Clout Chasing Is Killing Us: How The Run Club Became a Surveillance Site

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Giacomo De Stefano

No Choice: Inside Myanmar’s Jungle Resistance

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Joél Leon

The Revolution Is Offline: Reimagining Liberation Through the Analog

Charlotte Palermino

Beauty is Political

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Louis Pisano

The Emptiness of the 2026 Met Gala

Gabriela Mesones Rojo, Andrea Paola Hernández

How Mexico’s Sex Workers are Defying the 2026 World Cup

Suha Kidwai

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

Christina Assi

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

Malak Mattar

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

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Sara Lynn Younes

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

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Camilla Donzelli

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

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Jwan Zreiq

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

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Qamar Refaat

Genderqueer and Here in Cairo

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Niama Safia Sandy

The Land Sings Of A Dream

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Nancy Uddin

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

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Sarah Sinno

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

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Catherine Tansey

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

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Chrystine Mhanna

Where Do We Direct Our Misplaced Lebanese Anger?

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Joanne Hayek and Tatiana Fayad

For Lebanon's Vanina, Fashion Is Collective Resistance

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Jordan Gale

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

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Denise Morillo

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

Marina Simonet Hernandez Jurado

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

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Jwan Zreiq

Borrowed Geography: How US Bases Serve the Empire

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Rojin Namer, Jwan Zreiq

Kurdistan and Palestine: Mapping Solidarity Beyond Colonial Borders

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Yasmine Hamdan, Céline Semaan

Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember, I Forget

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Isadora Szklo

The Trump Corollary: A Warning for Latin American Sovereign

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Sarah Sinno

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

Ayesha Le Breton

Weaving Palestinian Heritage with Lara Salous’ Wool Woman

Louis Pisano

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

Emma Cieslik

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

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Brianna Holt

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

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Emma Cieslik

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

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Corinne Jabbour

Seeds of Chronic Hope

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Sarah Sinno

Nature As the Battlefield: Ecocide in Lebanon and Corporate Empire

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Jill Damatac

ICE Attacks Are a Food Sovereignty Issue

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Joi Lee

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

Emma Cieslik

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

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Simón Rodriguez

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

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Holly Mason Badra

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

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Rainesford Stauffer

The Toll Working Multiple Jobs Takes on Young People

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Zameena Mejia

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

Jeremiah Zaeske

A Call to Arms

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Mattea Mun

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

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Louis Pisano

Couture in Paris, Cuts at the 'Post'

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Conchita Hernandez Legorreta, Qudsiya Naqui

Why We Must Bring Disability into Immigrant Liberation

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Joi Lee

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

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Hala Alyan

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

Paulina Odeth Flores Bañuelos

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

Helena Aslani

When the Vessel Overflows: Gham and the Limits of Endurance

Adam Theodor Lantz

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

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Scarlett Anderton

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

Yalda Keshavarzi

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

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Kaveh Rostamkhani

Unrest in Iran: A Feast for Vultures

Kang-Chun Cheng

The FPV Drone Pilots Behind the Ukrainian War

Emma Cieslik

The OU Essay and the Christian Persecution Complex

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Jwan Zreiq

Theft of Existence: What goes beyond the theft of culture

Venezuelans on Venezuela:

Simón Rodriguez

Trump’s attack on Venezuela: An Exemplary Punishment

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Yumiko Sakuma

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

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Collis Browne

Sanctions are a Tool of Empire

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Venezuelans on Venezuela:

Luken Ignacio Quintana

Dissonant Solidarity: Venezuela and the International Left

Taguhi Torosyan

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

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Venezuelans on Venezuela:

Mattea Mun

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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Venezuelans on Venezuela:

Caribe Lunar

Venezuela: Beyond False Choices

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Jwan Zreiq

Scholasticide in Gaza: On the Systematic Destruction of Palestinian Education

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Collis Browne, Céline Semaan, EIP Editors

Mamdani & The Era of Possibilities

Alissa Quart

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

Céline Semaan

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

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Sue Ariza

Mercy Over Speed: Revolutionizing Our Political Imagination

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Collis Browne

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

Louis Pisano

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

Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy

Communicating Palestine: A Guide for Liberation and Narrative Power

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MIT Coalition for Palestine

Engineering for Genocide at MIT

Céline Semaan

Designing Possible Futures: The Book

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Jibal, Jenny Gustafsson

Zaatar Near the Border

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Sarah Huneidi

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

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Ruwan Teodros

There is no future here, and yet I stay

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Kamee Abrahamian

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

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Hiba Abid

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

Ana Beatriz Reitz do Valle Gameiro

The British Museum Gala and the Deep Echoes of Colonialism

Aryana Goodarzi

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

Richie Reseda

My Healing is not Found in Someone Else’s Punishment

Keyah Hanwi

Who is COP for, really?

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Collis Browne, Rachel Sonis

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

EIP Editors

Black Liberation Views on Palestine

Water Protector Legal Collective

Honoring Indigenous Resilience

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Collis Browne

100+ Years of Genocidal Intent in Palestine

Collis Browne

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

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EIP Editors

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

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Sahibzada Mayed

Nothing about this Bodymind is Accidental

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Aditi Desai, Edwina Daher

Love Letter to Lebanon

Claire Touzard

Let’s Be Mad: Mad World

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EIP Editors

Indonesia at a Crossroads: Revolt, Reckoning, and Reform

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Derecka Purnell

Clear Backpacks, Columbine, and the Colors of School Safety

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Eliza Salamon & MB

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

Céline Semaan

Ziad Rahbani and the Art of Creative Rebellion

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Sahibzada Mayed

The State Cannot Hold this Kind of Love

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Lars Byrresen Petersen

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

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Najla Abdellatif Vallander

Reclaiming a Lost Imagination

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Giada Lubomirski

Mní On Trial: Listening to Indigenous Voices on Standing Rock

Noguchi Rights

Make No Mistake: White Supremacy at The Noguchi Museum

Sheena Sood

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

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Jenan A. Matari

Indigenous Motherhood

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Mona Seif

Free Alaa

Anam Raheem

Uncountable

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Collis Browne

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

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EIP Editors

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

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Céline Semaan

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

EIP Editors

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

EIP Editors

What Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Really Means

J.P. Hill

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

Louis Pisano

The Wedding That Ate Venice

EIP Editors

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

J.P. Hill

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

EIP Editors

Heat Waves Are Not a Natural Disaster, They Are Political

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Collis Browne

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

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EIP Editors

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

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Céline Semaan

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

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Noguchi Rights

Isamu Noguchi: A Legacy Split in Two

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Omisade Burney-Scott

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

Carl Lorenz Cervantes

Cross-Indigenous Dialogue to Bridge Cultural Differences

Jonathan Dent

Hope Without Illusion: Astrology of Liberation, June 2025

Mahmood Bassam

Dispatches from Gaza

Céline Semaan

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

EIP Editors

Protect the Citizens on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Mosab Abu-Toha

Dispatch from Gaza, June 4, 2025

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A Woman is a School:

Céline Semaan

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

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Céline Semaan

Rima Hassan Onboard the Freedom Flotilla

Collis Browne

Thom Yorke and the New Trap of Liberal Zionism

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Céline Semaan

Memory Is Political

A Woman is a School:

Céline Semaan

Sustainable Fashion Is Colonial—And Silent About Palestine

Collis Browne, Céline Semaan

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

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Patricia Duggan

Your Nervous System under Fascism: A Decolonial Polyvagal Exploration

Céline Semaan

Not a Moment of Silence: Marking 77 Years of Nakba

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Sarah Sinno

The Land Testifies: Indigenous Resistance in a World on Fire

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Sahibzada Mayed

The Land Keeps the Score

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maya finoh

Trump and McCarthyism: Political Deportations in Context

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Alexandra Jane

Becoming a Black Feminist Explorer Under a Well Known Sun

Nadia Irshaid Gilbert

Resistance Recipe: Pickles

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Mazen Alsafi

The Aesthetic of Liberation: Building a Visual Language for Liberation

Louis Pisano

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

Layla Saliba

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

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Louis Pisano

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

Céline Semaan

Reclaiming the Algorithm: Why We Built Everything Is Political

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Disorientalizing

Kashmir and Manufacturing Consent in Real Time

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J.P. Hill

Sustainable Resistance: 10 Ways to Counter Fascism Beyond the Streets

Slow Factory, Collective for Architecture Lebanon (CAL)

The Land Remembers: Reclaiming Lebanon Through Architecture and Resistance

Céline Semaan

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

EIP Editors

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

Céline Semaan

A Woman is Political

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Paola Arrigoni

Trans Boxing: Art Project or Boxing Club?

Yassa Almokhamad-Sarkisian

Undocumented Rights: 12 Key Points for Rapid Response & Preparedness

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Brandon Morris

Dressing the Invisible

Jonathan Dent

The Astrology of Liberation: Horoscope for March 2025

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Sudan: Forgotten by whom?

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Sarah Sinno

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

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Nour Al Ghraowi

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

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Vanessa Cuccia

Pleasure through Pressure is not Liberation

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Maya AlZaben

DIY OR DIE/ KILL YOUR IDOLS

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J.P. Hill

Why Fascists Fear Education

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Travis Nichols

Raising the Price of Protest

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J.P. Hill

Is ICE the New Gestapo?

J.P. Hill

Is it a coup?

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Nan Goldin, Mohamad Abdouni, Céline Semaan

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

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Sarah Sinno

Mouneh-Making in Times of War

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Aryana Goodarzi

Middle Eastern / North African Tattoo Artists: Queering Tattoo Culture

Natalie Garland

Reimagining Ethical Fashion

Anita Kopacz

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

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Sara Rammal

Cordelia: a Story of Survival

Earshot

Zifzafa: Where Sound Meets Sovereignty in the Occupied Jawlan

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J.P. Hill

Trump & Climate

J.P. Hill

A Profitless World

Céline Semaan

Memo: Designing for our Freedoms

J.P. Hill

Social Media, Censorship, and Owning our Futures

EIP Editors

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

Najma Sharif

Seas Remember: Black Muslim Resistance Across the Americas

Sarah Sinno

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

Céline Semaan, Lina Soualem

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

Sarah Sinno

“Greater Israel”: A Not So Hidden Ambition

Sarah Cassidy-Seyoum

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

Nevin Naeem Al-Hasanat

There is No Dignity in Genocide.

Yassa Almokhamad-Sarkisian

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

Paola Arrigoni

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

maya finoh

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

Céline Semaan

Systemic Change is Difficult and Dangerous

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Sudan: Civilian Rule is the Will of the People

Sha’Mira Covington

Black Fashion: Revolution and the Somatics of Joy and Pleasure