They’re going after Syrian refugees again
The Lebanese Forces seek revenge against Syrians after the killing of one of their own. They target refugees to affirm…
I have a background in human rights advocacy, journalism, writing, and podcasting. I’m the founder of The Fire These Times, a multimedia project working to uplift internationalist dialogues on human rights, climate change, and visions of bold futures. I hold a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Zurich and I am currently based in Geneva. Read more.
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The Lebanese Forces seek revenge against Syrians after the killing of one of their own. They target refugees to affirm…
The chapter in “Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies” explores the impact and adaptation of Syrian protest chants…
The Middle East and North Africa face water challenges exacerbated by climate change, armed conflict, and occupation. A panel discussion…
Transboundary Basins Across the Middle East and North Africa.
This piece was initially published on L’Orient Today on 25 July 2023.
This is an interview I did with Alona Liasheva of ‘Commons’ journal of social criticism, a left-wing Ukrainian media about…
This piece was initially published on south/south dialogues on 05 July 2023
How the aesthetic, utopian yet pragmatic movement of Solarpunk reimagines a future without a climate catastrophe
How many Leftists are failing those caught in the crossfire of oppressive regimes
I’m really good at Twitter-ing. I’ve been described as hyper-online, I’ve gathered some 31,000+ followers and I have that magic…
Migrant domestic workers do not need saving. What they do need is for us to end our complicit in their…
The environmental crisis forces us to question the way our societies are built. Within that crisis are multiple crises in…
Translation of Farouk Mardam-Bey’s article from the French
How Solarpunk can help us think about our future
The Jewish and Arab Questions, and European Fascism
This is the constant in Lebanese politics: scapegoating refugees.
Another look into the October 2019 uprising in Lebanon, from a published book chapter.
This article is an invitation to explore the links between the movement to stop the Bisri Dam project, a proposed…
it is useful to separate between Hezbollah’s narrative of being the Resistance™ and what resistance actually is, or, at the…
The forcibly disappeared and the murdered in Lebanon are killed twice. First, physically, and second, they are erased. … If…
Book chapter I wrote as part of “Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates”
This is the third excerpt of the book chapter I wrote as part of the book “The Social Life of…
Ely Dagher’s 2015 Waves ’98 and Mounia Akl’s 2016 Submarine, as unique responses to a feeling of despair brought about…
A long conversation on identity, trauma, history and the protracted now.
Biden is problematic, but he can be pushed to the left if we intensify our struggles for justice and equality.…
There is something particularly unsettling about being an almost-30 year old in 2020.
Beirut never healed. It just learned to accept its predicament. Beirut, like our parents, is not resilient. It is broken.
The term “tankies” refers to leftists who defend authoritarian regimes in non-Western countries while condemning Western ones. This flawed logic…
on the structural components behind the racialization and dehumanization of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
Lausan spoke to Lebanese activist, writer, and scholar Elia J. Ayoub about the ongoing protests, the resonances between our respective…
The Lebanese government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a controversial dam in the Bisri Valley ignoring…
Elia Ayoub explores a big dilemma facing the EU, involving a desire to dissolve borders within while promoting them without.
I spoke with Banchi Yimer, founder of Egna Legna who define themselves as “community-based feminist activists working on migrant domestic…
This piece looks at some of the attempts to address this widespread feeling of inevitable collapse.
I spoke with one of the authors of the Crimethinc piece of the same name about the ‘logic of the…
I sat down with Laura Vidal, a Paris-based Venezuelan writer and researcher. Laura recently wrote an essay in Spanish entitled…
We go back to the summer of 2018 when I sat down with Sami, a Beirut-based Ethiopian activist with, Mesewat,…
This is a conversation with JP, a Hong Kong activist with Lausan, a left-wing and decolonial group based out of…
How can an understanding of Lebanese history help us understand the situation? What can we learn from the Lebanese uprising…
“They can only testify to the events they experience by exhibiting the indignity inflicted upon them”
Syrians in Lebanon have greeted the country’s uprising with a complex blend of joy, envy, melancholy, and fear.
How is the October 17 Revolution catalysing the reclaiming of imaginaries?
According to Lebanon’s own intelligence agency, migrant domestic workers are dying at a rate of two per week.
First English-language collection of writing from revolutionary newspaper ‘Enab Baladi’
“Enab Baladi is a unique record of the Syrian people speaking without fear”
The same system that we are seeking to change is abusing hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.