
Omar Yaghi
It is an address to 2025 Nobel Prize winner Palestinian-American Omar Yaghi. The poet questions if his discovery has any impact on his land and its people.
It is an address to 2025 Nobel Prize winner Palestinian-American Omar Yaghi. The poet questions if his discovery has any impact on his land and its people.
It's a moving poem. It arrests the unquenchable thirst of the poet to measure the pain of the world using some notable historical and mythical figures with poetic precision.
Shlaim’s core argument is that Gaza’s suffering—especially after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack and Israel’s brutal response (Operation Swords of Iron)— is no accident. He sees Zionism as a settler-colonial project, echoing scholar Patrick Wolfe’s idea that “invasion is a structure, not an event.” Gaza’s blockade since 2007, the repeated bombings Israel calls “mowing the lawn,” and the staggering toll— over 40,000 deaths by mid-2024, mostly women and children— aren’t just security measures but steps toward elimination.
By Mohamed El Mokhtar The convergence of military occupation, corporate power, and technological advancement has created something…
Storytelling has long been a tactic in the toolbox of colonized people. For survivors of genocide, it validates their experience against those who deny that the horror ever happened.
The former UN official, Craig Mokhiber, has said that it is the job of the UN leadership to call a spade a spade, since the situation in the Gaza Strip is “not complex, it’s genocide.”
His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family and friends he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner.
Those, on that inauguration day, who refuse to sing "carolings/ Of such ecstatic sound" of ‘Jai Shri Ram” will be punished. Wait. Whys? You already know. You learn when and how after the 2024 Lok Sabha election result.
My country is heading towards hell for the non-Hindus. Ayodhya is gearing up to fulfill the long-cherished desire of the crores of Hindus on 22 January.
The problem is: How can the 13.7 million people who live in the Problem Area structure their political, economic, religious and social relationships in a manner that allows them to live in peace with each other, in a context of justice and equity for all?