The People Without Cinema, by Abounaddara
“They can only testify to the events they experience by exhibiting the indignity inflicted upon them”
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Lebanese and Hongkongers are sharing protest tactics
The following are two conversations that happened on Reddit between protesters from Hong Kong and Lebanon.
Read MorePodcast: Hari Prasad and Aman Madan on India’s anti-CAB/NRC protests
I spoke to Hari Prasad (@HariPrasad91) and Aman Madan (@madan_aman_) on India’s recent anti-CAA/NRC protests, the BJP and Hindutva.
Read MorePodcast: Musa Okongwa on Brexit, Fear and What Comes Next
I spoke to @Okwonga about the 2019 UK Elections, Brexit, Fear, Empire, Englishness, Race, the Youth Movement and Intersectionality.
Read MoreSyrian melancholy in Lebanon’s revolution
“Syrians in Lebanon have concerns and fears that should be addressed at a wider popular level.”
Read MoreOpen letter to protesters in Hong Kong’s prisons
We heard of efforts to send you Christmas cards and decided to take this opportunity to send you this short letter of support and solidarity.
Read MoreLebanon: A Revolution against Sectarianism
A description of the Lebanese uprising in detail, exploring how it has undermined patriarchal structures and transcended religious divisions to bring people together against the ruling class.
Read MoreLaunch of new book of Syrian citizen journalism
A look at the Lebanon uprising through its chants
The uprising in Lebanon has unleashed a wave of creativity that continues to rock the very foundations of Lebanese politics.
Read MorePodcast: Andrew Arsan on Lebanon, Our Painfully Ordinary Country
Tripoli, Light of the Revolution
Remember and don’t forget its new name, as its light envelops the Lebanese uprising, and it illuminates the whole coast.
Read MoreElias Khoury: Letter to Samir Kassir
Rana Eid’s Panoptic: Acoustic Echoes and Resonant Soundscapes
“Eid’s personal plight, composed as an epistolary address to her deceased father, is entangled with more general symptoms of public paralysis,” writes Saadi Nikro
Read MoreRussiagate, Syria, and the Left
By Terry Burke, as part of a decentralized effort to challenge the anglophone institutional left.
Read MoreEnab Baladi: Citizen Chronicles of the Syrian Uprising (Free PDF)
Hummus For Thought is pleased to announce the release of “Enab Baladi: Citizen Chronicles of the Syrian Uprising”, available as a free PDF.
Read MoreLebanon’s militarized masculinity
“It is ‘normal’ to expect outbursts of violence in Lebanon, often coupled with grand displays of toxic masculinity and, often still, with sectarian/conservative pronouncements”
Read MoreFrom ISIS to the Abortion Wars: America We Need to Talk
“I came of age at the height and heart of the “Abortion Wars”—an all-American terrorism campaign waged in the name Christianity”
Read MoreAn idea called Daraya
Listening: The Aural Resonance of a Formless Line
Sleepless Nights: Confessing Without The Confession
“We hear many of these stories in the documentary, stories that exemplify Lebanon’s extraordinary tendency to defy whatever would seem to be in its own self-interest”
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