Open letter to protesters in Hong Kong’s prisons

December 12, 2019.Reading time 21 minutes.

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.

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”

Tripoli, Light of the Revolution

October 27, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

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

Elias Khoury: Letter to Samir Kassir

October 22, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

From the heart of the October Revolution I write to you my little brother.

Rana Eid’s Panoptic: Acoustic Echoes and Resonant Soundscapes

October 11, 2019.Reading time 26 minutes.

“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

Russiagate, Syria, and the Left

June 29, 2019.Reading time 25 minutes.

By Terry Burke, as part of a decentralized effort to challenge the anglophone institutional left.

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”