Author: Hummus For Thought

Open letter to protesters in Hong Kong’s prisons

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date December 12, 2019
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On the walls of Beirut, in solidarity with protesters in Iraq and Hong Kong. Photo by Joey Ayoub (creative commons)

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.

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Tripoli, Light of the Revolution

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date October 27, 2019
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Tripoli on the night of October 22nd, 2019.

Remember and don’t forget its new name, as its light envelops the Lebanese uprising, and it illuminates the whole coast.

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Elias Khoury: Letter to Samir Kassir

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date October 22, 2019
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From the heart of the October Revolution I write to you my little brother.

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Rana Eid’s Panoptic: Acoustic Echoes and Resonant Soundscapes

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date October 11, 2019
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“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

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Russiagate, Syria, and the Left

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date June 29, 2019
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By Terry Burke, as part of a decentralized effort to challenge the anglophone institutional left.

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From ISIS to the Abortion Wars: America We Need to Talk

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date December 23, 2018
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“I came of age at the height and heart of the “Abortion Wars”—an all-American terrorism campaign waged in the name Christianity”

Tags abortion wars, Amanda E. Rogers, Colgate University, extremism, isis, kansas, wichita

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Listening: The Aural Resonance of a Formless Line

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date December 17, 2018
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Drawing by John Berger. From his 'Notes on Song'. Source: Harpers.

Norman Saadi Nikro on John Berger’s encounter with a Yasmine Hamdan performance

Tags John Berger, Yasmine Hamdan

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Sarah Al-Otaibi: How Jamal Khasshogi’s murder has set new precedents

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date October 18, 2018
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Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and murder at the hands of the Saudi regime has set precedents in several ways.

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“But what about Yemen?”

“It’s rather despicable to use some corpses to bury others. And quite daring to oppose the martyrdom of Yemeni children to the plight of Syria’s.”

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Phoenician or Arab, Lebanese or Syrian: Who were the early immigrants to America?

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date August 5, 2018
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Al-Hoda Newspaper

“As these immigrants traveled across the Mediterranean and Atlantic to “Amirka” they were required to have an ethnic/national identity if they were to gain entry to the place that they hoped would make them a handsome sum of money and afford them new opportunities.”

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The New Battles of Lebanese Cinema

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date July 19, 2018
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“Clichés have thick skin. During a projection of my short film last year in Brussels, a woman came to me to tell me that she likes my film but that there wasn’t ‘enough war'”.

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Notes on Syria and the Coming Global Thanatocracy

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date July 15, 2018
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“Of course in the largely pacific global North and elsewhere many would look askance at the suggestion that Assad (and his allies) are responsible for the estimated half a million or more Syrian’s killed since 2011 as Assad certainly is.”

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“We are not racists, but”

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date July 7, 2018
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Screenshot of the video posted on 'weyn el dawleh' page showing a Lebanese man beating two Kenyan women in the north of Beirut on June 17 2018.

“Children of color, and especially poor children of color, learn one thing very well in Lebanese schools and that is to hate themselves.”

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In Memory of Razan Al-Najjar

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date June 7, 2018
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Hayat Ghunaim, from Gaza, wrote this in memory of Razan Al-Najjar, the 21 year old medic and volunteer who was murdered by the IDF while helping evacuate wounded protesters.

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Lebanon’s historic Anfeh salt marshes threatened by yet another resort

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date May 25, 2018
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Aerial photo of Anfeh. Photo by ‘Lebanon Untravelled’. Used with permission.

The historic salt marshes of the northern town of Anfeh may become the latest casualty of Lebanon’s long history of coastal privatization.

Syria and the Left

Assad or the Naked Lion

A banner with a picture of President Bashar Assad hangs on a destroyed building in the Homs neighborhood of Khaldiyeh. RFERL.

“As the regime applies its scorched earth policy and starves the population to bring it to heel, it insists on showing that in the regions it controls, life follows its natural course.”

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Beirut’s Dalieh: A Temporal Space of Refuge

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Post date May 1, 2018
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Photo by Haya Mortada.

Dalieh is “really the last hope for a natural open public park in Beirut”

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Some activists have lost their moral compass with respect to Syria

Post author By Hummus For Thought
Post date April 22, 2018
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Photo by John Lehmann/Globe and Mail. Source.

Maher Arar writes: “The inconsistency of positions taken by these activists and their cult-like stubbornness make them look closer to religious zealots than to people who are seeking the truth.”