witness – Social Text

Pedagogy and Epistemics of Witness: Teaching Palestine in a Time of Genocide

Ahmed Kabel

I 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”

May 14, 2024 | Features

The Burden of Witnessing

Arpan Roy

Will Eizlini, an American artist of French Jewish descent, tells me that he has been crying every day. When not crying, he is making a series of paintings interpreting the massacres in Gaza—crimson landscapes of sea, sky, dunes, with piles … Continue reading “The Burden of Witnessing”

April 15, 2024 | Features

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