I am a UK-based Lebanese-Palestinian researcher, writer, journalist and podcaster specializing in cultural studies, sociology, and political science. My work focuses on issues of hauntings and memory in post-conflict societies, authoritarian temporalities, and in imagining future alternatives in response to global crises. The countries I work on are (mostly) Lebanon, Syria, Israel-Palestine, the UK and the USA.
Projects
Archives
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Framing 'Violence', from the 2025 LA protests to the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon
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Deutschlalaland: Germany Wants to Rewrite its Holocaust History
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Starry, Starry Night: Fatima Hassouna's Loud Death
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Hafez al-Assad, the Puppy Killer
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Ordo Amoris
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How Media Outlets Covered Israel's Massacre of Palestinian Medics
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How The Times, the BBC and The Guardian Responded to the Le Pen news
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Nostalgia is good, actually
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On the Financial Times' profile of Sultan Al-Jaber, oil man
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Spartacus in Palestine
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Punishing the Land
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Lebanon's Lost Communist Future
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This Moment
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Songs of the Syrian Revolution
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Destroying the Language of Power
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Merry Christmas Homs
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Forever is Over
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An Idea Called Daraya
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Checking in
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The Madness They Suffer From
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Novara Media: Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’
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In Lebanon the Face of Death is a 42 year Old Israeli Man
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My child is the age of the Gaza genocide
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972Mag: With pager blasts and airstrikes, Israel unleashes its terror on Lebanon
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Popular Front: Exploding Pagers, Carpet Bombing, and a Dead Nasrallah
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Christian Zionism is a Death Cult
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Hezbollah: 10 Things You Need To Know
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz's Prophecy for Israel
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Red Pepper: Left analyses of imperialism must stand against ‘campism’
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The Democrats Have an Israel Problem
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Blog: Borders and (the Lack of) Imagination
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Shado Mag: Condemned to be an optimist: celebrating James Baldwin
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Al Jazeera: The EU is subcontracting Lebanon’s ruling oligarchs to stop migrants
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Blog: The Capacity to Grieve
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Slingshot: We teach life
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Blog: They’re going after Syrian refugees again
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Book Chapter: Songs for Free Syria and Regional Cross-Border Solidarity
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Carnegie Middle East Center: Troubled Waters in Conflict: Gaza, Jawlan, Lebanon, the West Bank, and Yemen
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Politically Depressed Eps. 9-12
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Compendium: Troubled Waters in Conflict and a Changing Climate
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Politically Depressed Eps. 5-8
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Politically Depressed – First 4 Episodes
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Blog: When the Dust Settles
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Understanding Hamas: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives – Remastered
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L’Orient Today: Anxious in Beirut’: A surreal experience
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Commons Ukraine: The fall of Putin’s regime could lead to the collapse of Assad and the Iranian regime
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South South Movement: A view of anti-imperialism from the periphery
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Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon Special Fundraising!
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Newlines: What if We Cancel the Apocalypse?
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Al Jazeera: How the European far right coopted an Arabic letter
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Shado Mag: On Ukraine-Syria solidarity and the ‘anti-imperialism of idiots’
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Blog: anti-social media
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Hezbollah couldn’t ask for a better enemy than Israel
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Slavery continues in Lebanon
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It Could Happen Here: On The New Periphery
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Mangal Media: Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable
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Voice Messages From The Balkan Route
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The emotional case for postgrowth
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To “leftist” admirers of Assad’s Syria
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I read the names of the Beirut port explosion victims
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August 4th 2020: "It Sounded Like The World Itself Was Breaking Open" (With Lina Mounzer)
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Solarpunk, Climate Change and the New Thinkable
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The Jewish and Arab Questions, and European Fascism
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On erasures and ‘discourse’
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Special Episode: Palestine and Global Solidarity
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Syrian ‘elections’ and scapegoating in Lebanon
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Intervention: Majed Abusalama #GazaUnderAttack
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[Repost]: Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse
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Special Episode: A Conversation on Israel-Palestine, (Anti)Zionism and International Solidarity
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The Revolutionizing Nature of the Lebanese Uprising
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Bisri Valley: Understanding the Wealth of Bisri and its National Discourse
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#StopAsianHate [Repost] Sex Workers' Rights, Basebuilding and Mutual Aid (with Kate Zen)
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Hezbollah’s Resistance™ against resistance
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Memory, violence and fear: Why Lokman Slim’s murder must not be depoliticized
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Black-Palestinian Solidarity: Towards an Intersectionality of Struggles
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The Perfect Day Will Never Come: Restlessness in “A Perfect Day” and “Here Comes the Rain”
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Decay as Political Metaphor in Ely Dagher’s Waves’ 98 and Mounia Akl’s Submarine
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Twitter’s “Left” Discourse
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On Social Media
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On Collapse, Identity and History: An Interview
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Reflections on the first 50 episodes and upcoming projects
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Leftists and anti-authoritarians have a responsibility to vote out Trump
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The trans-generational climate crisis
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resilient: broken
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Lebanon’s multiple crises also expose the racist Kafala system
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The Interviews
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What it means to be black and African in Lebanon
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Intervention: Ghanaian woman on surviving slavery in Lebanon. #AbolishKafala
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Intervention: Saleem Haddad on the death of Sarah Hegazy
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‘Revolution everywhere’: A conversation between Hong Kong and Lebanese protesters
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Intervention: Street Action #BlackLivesMatter
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Israel left Lebanon 20 years ago. We’re still fighting for our liberation
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Stopping the Bisri Dam: From Local to National Contestation
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Memes and Collapse: An Alternative View of Lebanon’s October 17 Protests
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Lebanon: The Revolution Four Months In
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The People Without Cinema, by Abounaddara
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Open letter to protesters in Hong Kong’s prisons
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Syrian melancholy in Lebanon’s revolution