As truth is buried and lives shattered, we refuse to be silenced—help us keep telling the whole story.
Edward Said
Palestinian, You are on Your Own – Ghassan Kanafani, Edward Said and Gaza
By Haidar Eid What would they have said about October 7 and the subsequent ongoing Genocide? How would they have positioned this particular historical moment within the world of “representation and historical narrative”? Ghassan […]
Palestinian Artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Solo Show at The Art Institute of Chicago (PHOTOS)
By Romana Rubeo ‘If Only This Mountain between us Could Be Ground to Dust’ is the first exhibition by Palestinian artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme in a major US museum. Curated by Maite […]
Who Represents Afghanistan: Genuine Activists vs ‘Native Informants’
By Ramzy Baroud Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul International Airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidating their control over the capital, raised many questions, leading amongst them: […]
The Power of Memory to Reclaim What was Lost
By Benay Blend In the article “Invention, Memory, and Place,” the late Edward Said reflects on the question of collective memory: what is remembered, how, and in what form? Both Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless […]
What Would Gramsci and Said Do? A Socialist Perspective on BDS
By Rod Such The prominent Palestinian intellectual Edward Said, author of Orientalism and The Question of Palestine, admired the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci for his views on cultural hegemony. What might have transpired if these […]
