April 2, 2025

On Which Side of the Screen Lies the Ghost? 

by Lamia Abukhadra

Gaza is the ghost of the world, the persistent presence that, despite all efforts to erase it, to make it disappear, remains and resists. It is Gaza that has shown us the impossible: the horrors of settler colonialism at its most extreme and brutal, the ways in which resistance is possible in the smallest of gestures, and finally, the triumphant acts of return and reunification following the now-broken ceasefire agreement. The ghost of the world has shown us the world for what it is and what...

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March 28, 2025

Review: Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

by Summer Farah

Subtlety: something I go back and forth worrying about, an oscillation between “not that deep” or “not worth it” to address, but with the knowledge that it is still cutting, cutting, cutting. 

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February 18, 2025

On the Edge of a Volcano, a Rip through a Gazan’s Heart

by Diaa Wadi

Should I tell you a secret? I’m afraid of the anguish I hold within me. Do people fear their own anguish?

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