Our Anxious Questions
We constantly ask ourselves: Are we being useful? Are we having any impact, even slightly? Have we done everything we could?
Assafir Al-Arabi |
10-07-2025
At Least We Are Many: Resisting the Drums of War
Israel’s assaults on Iran are attacks from an actively genocidal nuclear state on an already oppressed people. We must oppose US involvement and calls for craven acquiescence.
Kaveh Akbar |
21-06-2025
Repression and Expression: Creativity under the Egyptian Regime
Rabab Azzam 2025-06-16
“Smuggling drugs is easier than smuggling a poem or article out of prison.”
Culture in a Time of Shrinking Political Space
Independent Media Network on the Arab World 2025-06-12
In this folder, we attempt to trace how culture interacts with the shrinking political sphere, avoiding generalizations or seeking necessarily "inspiring" models. Some texts illuminate how culture can create alternative...
Old Habits Die Hard: Egyptian Police and the Enduring Legacy of Extrajudicial Execution
Naguib Saleh 2025-05-13
In a fateful moment overseen by family elders and tribal sheikhs, two young men (17 and 18 years old) decided to surrender themselves to Egyptian authorities in a bid to...
Families returning home to bombarded areas face new health risks from war debris
People returning to places like Fallujah or Gaza work hard to rebuild their homes, clearing debris and doing rapid construction, forced to expose themselves to harmful materials that enter their...
The Land of Clipped Braids
Fouad el Hassan 2025-03-23
Palestinians wrote their children’s names on their arms, so that their bodies aren’t lost, so that they recognise them after they’re bombed. This is what we failed to do. We...
Rashid Al-Khalidi: Israel is a Unique Settler-Colonial Project
Rashid Al-Khalidi 2025-02-17
Israel was not an extension of a mother country. This is a big difference from other kinds of colonialism and even other settlers' cases throughout history.