The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Food, Michael Fakhri, on Gaza
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TMR 53 • OUT OF OUR MINDS

The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Food, Michael Fakhri, on Gaza

Palestinian civilians wait in line for hours for the distribution that could only serve a small number of people, in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza on September 1, 2025 (photo Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty images).

5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Lina Mounzer
UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri joins TMR Senior Editor Lina Mounzer to discuss, among other things, whether international humanitarian law still has any meaning, if the UN has outlived its usefulness, why the General Assembly has still not voted Israel out, how starvation is always a political decision and what, if anything, we can do about all of this.

 

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Lina Mounzer

Lina Mounzer is a Lebanese writer and translator. She has been a contributor to many prominent publications including the Paris Review, Freeman’s, Washington Post, and The Baffler, as well as in the anthologies Tales of Two Planets (Penguin 2020), and Best American Essays 2022 (Harper Collins 2022). She is Senior Editor... Read more

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