Reminder: The newsletter is migrating

November 4, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Hey everyone, This is a reminder that the newsletter you’ve all come to love is migrating to another website. If you’ve enjoyed it so far, no worries, you will still get it. In order to do that, please go on The Fire These Times (thefirethisti.me) and add your email in the box thingy at the […]

Hummus For Thought is retiring, (migrating to TheFireThisTi.me)

September 28, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

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Operating within normal parameters

August 24, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

Experimental Newsletter #1.

HFT Newsletter #9

June 6, 2021.Reading time 67 minutes.

Welcome to the ninth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations

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HFT Newsletter #8

May 2, 2021.Reading time 27 minutes.

Welcome to the eight newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations, curated by Joey Ayoub (hello) from Geneva, Switzerland. It comes out on every first Sunday morning of the month. Join over 4,000 subscribers by clicking here to subscribe. If you’re getting this by email, please open this page on […]

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HFT Newsletter #7

April 4, 2021.Reading time 25 minutes.

Welcome to the seventh newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations, curated by Joey Ayoub (hello) from Geneva, Switzerland. It comes out on every first Sunday morning of the month. Join over 4,000 subscribers by clicking here to subscribe. If you’re getting this by email, please open this page on […]

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HFT Newsletter #6

March 7, 2021.Reading time 18 minutes.

Welcome to the sixth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.

HFT Newsletter #5

February 7, 2021.Reading time 29 minutes.

Welcome to the fifth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.

HFT Newsletter #4

January 3, 2021.Reading time 39 minutes.

Welcome to the fourth newsletter of Hummus For Thought, a monthly collection of thoughts and recommendations.

A Special Christmas Post

December 25, 2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

Merry Christmas

The Interviews

August 22, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Starting over the next few months I will be conducting a number of bilingual interviews on Lebanon with people that I admire who live in Lebanon or who have left Lebanon. Since 1990 Lebanon has been experiencing what is misleadingly called a postwar period. The warlords that built their status and their capital (financial, symbolic, […]

What it means to be black and African in Lebanon

June 29, 2020.Reading time 22 minutes.

Raw stories from 21 black African students at the American University of Beirut

The People Without Cinema, by Abounaddara

February 4, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

“They can only testify to the events they experience by exhibiting the indignity inflicted upon them”

Launch of new book of Syrian citizen journalism

November 17, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Enab Baladi is a unique record of the Syrian people speaking without fear”

Enab Baladi: Citizen Chronicles of the Syrian Uprising (Free PDF)

May 6, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Hummus For Thought is pleased to announce the release of “Enab Baladi: Citizen Chronicles of the Syrian Uprising”, available as a free PDF.

Lebanon’s militarized masculinity

January 6, 2019.Reading time 20 minutes.

“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”

An idea called Daraya

December 22, 2018.Reading time 21 minutes.

This is the story of an idea called Daraya. It is the story of a sick world.

Sleepless Nights: Confessing Without The Confession

November 13, 2018.Reading time 16 minutes.

“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”