Elias Khoury: Letter to Samir Kassir
Author: Hummus For Thought
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 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 MoreListening: The Aural Resonance of a Formless Line
Sarah Al-Otaibi: How Jamal Khasshogi’s murder has set new precedents
Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and murder at the hands of the Saudi regime has set precedents in several ways.
Read More“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.”
Read MorePodcast Episode 2: Lebanon’s Kafala System
Associated blog post of the 2nd episode: #Lebanon’s Kafala System, the racist system controlling migrant domestic workers’ lives.
#AbolishKafala
Read MorePhoenician or Arab, Lebanese or Syrian: Who were the early immigrants to America?
“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.”
Read MoreThe New Battles of Lebanese Cinema
“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'”.
Read MoreNotes on Syria and the Coming Global Thanatocracy
“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.”
Read MorePodcast Episode One: The Personal as Political
Associated blogpost to the first episode of Hummus For Thought, the Podcast: “The Personal as Political.”
Read More“We are not racists, but”
“Children of color, and especially poor children of color, learn one thing very well in Lebanese schools and that is to hate themselves.”
Read MoreIn Memory of Razan Al-Najjar
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.
Read MoreLebanon’s historic Anfeh salt marshes threatened by yet another resort
The historic salt marshes of the northern town of Anfeh may become the latest casualty of Lebanon’s long history of coastal privatization.
Read MoreAssad or the Naked Lion
“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.”
Read MoreBeirut’s Dalieh: A Temporal Space of Refuge
Some activists have lost their moral compass with respect to Syria
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.”
Read MoreRazan Zaitouneh’s “Women in The Syrian Revolution” (2013)
The Experience of Local Councils in the Syrian Revolution
“We are not less that the workers of the Paris Commune… They lasted 70 days and we are still here since a year and a half.”
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