In March 2025, comrades from across the San Franciso Bay Area and beyond gathered across two facilitated convergence spaces to host Nick Mirzoeff and explore his concept of “seeing in the dark,” a provocation currently in circulation through his recently … Continue reading “Visual Activism C-Map”
Tag: Palestine
Undefeated Despair
Nicholas MirzoeffHow should an anti-Zionist Jew respond to the genocide in Gaza and its ramifications? This was the subject of my book To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7 (2025). It was published on January 20, … Continue reading “Undefeated Despair”
Potentializing Palestine: Gaza Bursts Open the Imperial Shutter
Sherena RazekIn 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”
Palestine Is a Feminist Struggle
Wafaa HasanMany 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”
Livestreaming and Deadstreaming: On the Optics, Politics, and Effects of Violent Imagery in Comparative Perspective
Wazhmah OsmanIn 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”
Intifada: From Palestine to Kashmir
Ather ZiaMy 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”
Iranian Feminist Solidarity with Palestine
Manijeh MoradianThe 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”
Transnational Feminism from Iraq to Palestine
Zahra AliLet 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”
Feminists for a Free Palestine: Voices from Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Iran, and Beyond
Zahra Ali, Wafaa Hasan, Manijeh Moradian, Wazhmah Osman and Ather ZiaIntroduction 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”
Social Theory after* Gaza? Witnessing the Transnational Circuits of Race-Making
Gala RexerThis 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”
“Antisemitism” as Asymmetric Warfare: The Casualties of a Definition
Dylan RodríguezThis text is adapted from the opening plenary of the 2023 conference of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Counterinsurgency: Beyond Weaponized Definitions The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s spreading institutionalized definition of antisemitism is not merely weaponized, it … Continue reading ““Antisemitism” as Asymmetric Warfare: The Casualties of a Definition”
Gridlocks of Death, Oceans of Life
Mariam AbdelazizDear world, This letter is a reclamation. It is a prayer to the universe. It is a plea for you to bear witness. Often, writing demands to be lyrical, poetic, and beautiful. Even when we write about our struggles, there … Continue reading “Gridlocks of Death, Oceans of Life”
Pedagogy Against Genocide
Max WeissOn Monday, April 29, thirteen undergraduate students and one professor occupied Clio Hall on the campus of Princeton University in an attempt to force the administration to meet their demands for a revision of university relations with the state of … Continue reading “Pedagogy Against Genocide”
Pedagogy and Epistemics of Witness: Teaching Palestine in a Time of Genocide
Ahmed KabelI belong to the question of the victim. –Mahmoud Darwish What follows is a thread of perfunctory reflections on a course I offered in January 2024 titled Decolonizing the Study of Palestine. A course is a complex, emergent human (and … Continue reading “Pedagogy and Epistemics of Witness: Teaching Palestine in a Time of Genocide”
On Responsibility: Critique and Colonization After October 7th
Muhammed Shah Shajahanفَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمْ ۚ وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ رَمَىٰ ۚ وَلِيُبْلِىَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهُ بَلَآءً حَسَنًا ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌۭ And you do not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you … Continue reading “On Responsibility: Critique and Colonization After October 7th”