The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian Drama’s Prescience
On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians […]
Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality in the Wake of Al-Assad’s Downfall
To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe,
Return to a Bare Land
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in
Recalibrating Syria: New Openings for Anthropological Engagement
Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . .
Their Life Has Been Taken; Their Death is Denied
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year
On Silence
On the 7th of December 2024, Damascus was up all night having a special kind of party. At 3 a.m., my siblings
At the state’s gate: The uncomplicated coexistence of ideas about rights and hospitality among Syrian refugee youths in Jordan
Introduction In the short story Before the Law, Franz Kafka writes about a man from the country who attempts to
Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy
A.J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. Miller. 2024. Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy. Philadelphia: University of
Soliciting Slaps – Notes from the Margins of Academia
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with
ANTHROKINO: STATE OF ADDRESS
Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch State of Address. The screening will be followed by