I remember that at a certain point we began to break stuff. It’s really fun to smash up things, frankly, I think it’s a fantasy most people have—throwing a television set out the window if they only could…I found myself … Continue reading “Walking Through Walls and Scaling the Roof: Direct Action to End the Genocide in Palestine”
Before Everything Fell Apart When people outside Gaza say the war is over, nineteen-year-old Nour Al-Ajla doesn’t know what to make of it. “Maybe it’s over for them,” she says quietly, “but not for me. My war still wakes me … Continue reading “The War Is Over, But Mine Is Not: Nour’s Story”
Down to the day, fifty-five years ago, on November 19, 1970, James Baldwin wrote Angela Davis a letter now published in an online forum called History Is a Weapon. At that point in history, Davis was arrested and held in … Continue reading “Future Is a Weapon”
Students are often the first to remind the rest of the university that classrooms and campuses are not rehearsal spaces protected from a “real world” but are the very site at which to world-build against capitalism and coloniality. The current … Continue reading “Scholasticide and the Securitized State: Recontextualizing the Student Intifada”
October 4, 2025 Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, the Dan David Prize is one of many Israel-based awards that attempt to legitimize the Israeli state and its policies on a world stage. Along with the Wolf Prize, awarded to “Scientists … Continue reading “The Dan David Prize Amid a Genocide?”
Three Days of Isolation They don’t just cut the internet, they cut the thread that keeps us connected to the world— and to ourselves. No news. No messages. No way to say “I am still alive.” For three days, we … Continue reading “Three Poems”
In February 2024, I was invited by Lisa Stuckey and Alexander Damianisch to contribute a short entry to their publication Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies: Transforming Understanding—Understanding Transformation about concepts developed by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. … Continue reading “Potentializing Palestine: Gaza Bursts Open the Imperial Shutter”
Many of us are already aware of the fragmentation Palestinians have been experiencing topographically, geographically, familial-y over the past seventy-six years. Checkpoints and walls divide lovers and separate children from their parents. The arbitrary Bantustan system in the apartheid West … Continue reading “Palestine Is a Feminist Struggle”
In this important conversation and dossier about ways to enact transnational feminist solidarity with Palestinians from the perspective of women scholars from the Middle East and Asia, I share my insights on war and imperialism in Afghanistan. I comparatively explore … Continue reading “Livestreaming and Deadstreaming: On the Optics, Politics, and Effects of Violent Imagery in Comparative Perspective”
My contribution to our emerging collective conversation against neocolonialism is through the vantage of Kashmir. Kashmir is often compared to Palestine and sometimes referred to as “another Palestine.” In this essay, I highlight, revisit, and expand on a few aspects … Continue reading “Intifada: From Palestine to Kashmir”
The Palestinian liberation struggle has been a lightning rod for the Iranian left since at least the 1960s. In my book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022), I wrote about the regional and … Continue reading “Iranian Feminist Solidarity with Palestine”
Let me start by saying a few words about where I am coming from, and why we at Critical Studies of Iraq initiated this conversation among feminists reflecting and organizing from the standpoints of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Iran, and … Continue reading “Transnational Feminism from Iraq to Palestine”
Introduction We feminists are bearing witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a continuation of more than seventy-five years of Israeli settler-colonial violence against Palestinians. More than two decades into the “War on Terror,” we want to cut against the … Continue reading “Feminists for a Free Palestine: Voices from Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Iran, and Beyond”
Palestine Now Edited by Maya Mikdashi, Jasbir K. Puar, and Helga Tawil-Souri The editors of Palestine Now invite pieces on the past, present, and futures of Palestine and its expansive geographies. The question of Palestinian liberation has shaken the world … Continue reading “Palestine Now–New Call for Submissions”
This essay was my contribution to the panel Global and Transnational Approaches to Race and Racism at the Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference, 15-16 April 2024 at the London School of Economics. I am grateful to Ghada Majadli and … Continue reading “Social Theory after* Gaza? Witnessing the Transnational Circuits of Race-Making”
