Thursday, November 16, 2023

Oppenheimer and the War on Palestine

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  There is a scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer that is considered by many the master scene. It’s after the atomic bomb has been used ...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

The War on Humanity

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  A collection of tweets on Gaza I one asked a German friend to imagine that Gaza was inhabited by Jews and that those placing their city un...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Shattered Revolution

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  #Jan25. Illustration by Ann Kiernan With every passing anniversary, on the 25 th of January, we try and remember a day that shook the wor...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Rivo

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Spoiler alert, I would rather you watch Rivo than read this text because I don't review Rivo but I discuss the details which would only ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

On Civil Disobedience - Tolstoy

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From Leo Tolstoy: This year, 1896, a young man by the name of Van-der-Veer was summoned in Holland to enter the National Guard. To t...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Hani Shukrallah - A Very Remarkable Creature

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When I first heard news of Hani Shukrallah’s passing, it didn’t quite sink in. He was in and out of hospital, and in many ways I had been ...
Monday, April 27, 2020

The Missing O Key

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I write at night. Often in bed. Long before I was using a computer to write, I would read in bed and pick up my notebook and let al...
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Surviving Corona

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It's late at night and there's news of coronavirus all over the world. It's the starting sequence of a sci-fi movie, these are...
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Friday, January 03, 2020

More of..

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So much time spent in this world. So many experiences. Less time to explore now and more time to decide what I need more of. The irony is t...
Friday, November 01, 2019

Twitter's Censorhsip

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This month I was busy documenting Twitter's censorship of Arab voices. With the help of other researchers we documented a mass susp...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Dear Lydia

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This is one of the worst periods of Egypt's history. The next generation will ask us, how could you allow this. I wrote this letter ...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Fuck Their Palaces

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This is about the spaces they take from us to give themselves. Here I am with spaces all around me. In a city in Europe whose rich h...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Chocolate Cake Streets

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The streets reflect everything. They are the ripple effects of closed door meetings with decisions and actions that affect our lives. Ou...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Moving

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I woke up slowly, not rushing into any of the morning tasks that I have to do. I thought of doing a bit of work, perhaps to have...