Zakaria Ibrahim’s life saw the rise and fall of simsimiyya music in Port Said, before its reemergence in the revolution.
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Universities are once again at the centre of culture, and through it, political warfare.
True freedom can only be achieved by breaking free from settler colonialism and the nation-state.
Israel’s settler colonialism is much more than ‘violence in its natural state’.
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From May 1, 1921 to May 1, 2021, everything and nothing has changed between Israelis and Palestinians.
The forced closure of the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps would be a humanitarian and cultural catastrophe.
To recover from this pandemic, our universities need to become instruments of social welfare and justice.
On November 3, progressives will not vote for an ally or the lesser evil. They will have to vote for a preferred enemy.
The focus on the ills of neoliberalism is misplaced. The problem we face today is far more sinister.