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Laughing for Change—Activist Theatre Tours Egypt

Laughing for Change—Activist Theatre Tours Egypt

Hara TV3 harnessed interactive theatre and comedy to address gender-based violence and FGM in Egypt writes its founder...

7 JUNE 2024 • By Nada Sabet
A Small Kernel of Human Kindness: Some Notes on Solidarity and Resistance

A Small Kernel of Human Kindness: Some Notes on Solidarity and Resistance

Empathy requires knowledge and collective action to avoid blindly following the crowds, writes Nancy Kricorian.

24 MAY 2024 • By Nancy Kricorian
Postscript: Disrupting the Colonial Gaze—Gaza and Israel after October 7th

Postscript: Disrupting the Colonial Gaze—Gaza and Israel after October 7th

In which the authors argue that, "If Israel, with Western support, achieves its aims in Gaza, it will...

17 MAY 2024 • By Sara Roy
Genocide

Genocide

In her latest essay, writer Jenine Abboushi reminds us that the ethnic cleansing and destruction of Palestinian society...

17 MAY 2024 • By Jenine Abboushi
A Proustian Alexandria

A Proustian Alexandria

Claiming a past that never existed previously in the city, nostalgia overwhelms the inhabitants of Alexandria, writes Mohamed...

3 MAY 2024 • By Mohamed Gohar
Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet

Sargon Boulus Revisited: Encomium to an Assyrian Poet

Youssef Rakha revisits his fascination with Sargon Boulos who managed to live out poetic Arabness in exile as...

3 MAY 2024 • By Youssef Rakha
Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

Palestine's shrines are a part of a heritage that has been intentionally erased since the Nakba of 1948,...

3 MAY 2024 • By Gabriel Polley
Freedom—Ruminations of a Syrian Refugee

Freedom—Ruminations of a Syrian Refugee

It is obvious that we will never forget; but it is unclear how to proceed with “un-forgetting" writes...

3 MAY 2024 • By Reem Alghazzi
 
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