Against racist blackmail on US campuses
Cornell University has been in the news for suspending the British-Gambian student Momodou Taal for his lawful involvement in protests […] The post Against racist blackmail on US…
Cornell University has been in the news for suspending the British-Gambian student Momodou Taal for his lawful involvement in protests […] The post Against racist blackmail on US…
Richard Rorty once remarked that in times of uncertainties and profound transformations, there is a tendency to turn to philosophy […] The post On the Grievability of Palestinian…
Why should anthropologists support the motion to suspend collaborations with Israeli academic institutions? And why did a group of EASA […] The post Refusing genocide and academic complicity…
This week when I went back to Stockholm University the encampment was not there anymore. All songs, music, debates, seminars, whispers, shouts, and slogans were replaced by a…
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – who participated in the 2011 revolution and are…
Not long after Tufan Al-Aqsa in October, political ecologist Andreas Malm observed in an interview the peculiar temporality of popular revolt in the Arab world. Remarking on the…
The Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University in Palestine has launched “Women’s Testimonies from Gaza”, a project aiming to amplify the voices of women in Gaza living…
The murdered is carried on the shoulders. In haste, a cadaver shrouded in white is slipped into an indoor mass grave. War’s soundtrack echoes in the background, tearing…
Since the creation of the United Nations, and in line with the civilizing mission’s rhetoric used to justify colonialism, racist arguments about the African continent as halting, obstructing,…
It is sadly nothing new to argue that oppressed and colonised people have been and are subject to epistemic violence – othering, silencing, and selective visibility – in…
Is it for a lack of knowledge? The genocide in Gaza is being livestreamed. Daily, images, videos and voice notes proliferate faster than they can be witnessed or heard…
On November 24th, 2023, a temporary ceasefire paused Israeli bombardment[1] and Hamas-led retaliation in Gaza. The pause was intended to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza, as thousands of…
Rainer Maria Rilke: Words gently end at the edge of the Unsayable… — This morning the weight of generations of violence erupted with the coffee pot in the…
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the current, ongoing attacks on academic freedom we are experiencing across Europe. We write this letter in full support of the…
“How can we ever forgive them?” I find myself asking over the past month and a half. I do not raise the possibility of forgiveness to suggest a…
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I have been relying on the social media accounts of Gazan journalists, photographers, and others (some so young they could be…
‘Is it ethical to write something ‘interesting’ about a massacre as the massacre is unfolding?’ I keep asking myself. ‘Is this not a form of exploiting the dead…
An edited talk delivered at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences on Nov 7th 2023 I spend a great deal of time researching and teaching about…
On the 31st of October 2023, professors and participants in the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action at the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies – humanitarian professionals most of…
As if he was, for the occasion of Halloween, joyfully embracing the figure of the grotesque, Hubert Aiwanger, former as well as designated minister of the economy in…
That humanitarian language, materials, and practice offer a space for politics to hide (Feldman, 2018, p. 131) can probably not be more clearly illustrated than through the fact…
The title of this statement is a direct quote from Gazan-based journalist Muhammad Smiry, who took footage of how people in Palestine recharge their phones and cameras on…
A Call from Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees to academic and cultural communities worldwide On the twenty-seventh day of the genocidal war being waged by the…
2023 will be recorded historically as the year that Palestinians stood boldly in the face of colonial fascism and screamed in defense of their homes, humanity, and lives.…