Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt: On the importance of ambiguity in an authoritarian state
In 1931, an American newspaper competition asked its readers to submit the best use of the word denial in a sentence. The winner was…
Read MoreIn 1931, an American newspaper competition asked its readers to submit the best use of the word denial in a sentence. The winner was…
Read MoreI first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were discussing the future of…
Read MoreIn the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – who participated in the…
Read MoreOn Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the Cuban head of state…
Read MoreAn edited talk delivered at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences on Nov 7th 2023 I spend a great deal of time…
Read More2023 will be recorded historically as the year that Palestinians stood boldly in the face of colonial fascism and screamed in defense of their…
Read MoreWith the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent…
Read MoreIn the central Gaza Strip, the colonial state of Israel bombed the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital and a UN-run school on Tuesday, October 17,…
Read MoreAs anthropologists, scholars, and teachers, now is our moment to act. It has always been our responsibility, as academics and citizens, to defend and…
Read MoreThe culture of fear instilled by the increasingly right-leaning structures of power that govern public spaces and our universities in the Global North have…
Read More“Police, Provocation, Politics” by Deniz Yonucu is an ambitious text that documents the long and complicated history of dissident populations and spaces in urban…
Read MoreConnect the dots between “state”, “imperialism”, and “war”. Add “leaders”, “testosterone” and “nukes”. Look at the picture and tell me anarchism was a bad…
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