zeead yaghi | زياد ياغي
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PhD in history. "keep your mind in hell and despair not.”
Beirut
Joined July 2009
The latest essay from Salvage #15 is from the outstanding Ghalya Saadawi on the art industry, genocide and the erasure of Palestine. https://t.co/8pKQ5hcPiw
salvage.zone
Art does not stand outside the mode of production that is capitalism. And if, in the broader anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist struggle, a version of contemporary art is chiselled away, this will be...
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"Deradicalizatio programs succeeded in German and Japan after World War II" let's move besides the point that denazifaction did NOT work in Germany, what NYT is saying here is that the people who are suffering from Genocide are the ones that need fixing not the ones committing it
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@IJMES1 really appreciate how materially grounded Reumert's analysis of the sex trade during the war is, cuts through the unnecessary emotional or affective fodder a lot of the writing on the war sometimes is, t keeps us anchored at what was really at stake: women's bodies, money, power
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‘If we lose contact with the boats, even for twenty minutes, we’ll shut down all of Europe’
newleftreview.org
Among the dock workers.
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"عقبال ولاد الناس كلها" الجبارة ليلى سويف.
أفرج النظام المصري ليلاً عن المعتقل السياسي #علاء_عبدالفتاح بعد أكثر من 10 سنوات في السجن. وقد أصدر الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي، أمس الاثنين، عفواً سياسياً عن علاء وخمس ناشطين آخرين، وذلك استجابةً لالتماس قدّمه المجلس القومي لحقوق الإنسان.
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This could’ve been Alaa’s fate had it not been for years of relentless campaigning on his behalf by family/supporters. There remains 10,000s of Egyptians prisoners rotting in Sisi’s jails who don’t have the kind of support Alaa has, we must fight for their release just as much.
Hundreds of bodies could have been buried at a mass grave discovered in Egypt’s Sinai, demonstrating a systematic pattern of unlawful killings by the Egyptian army and the secret burial of victims, carried out with total impunity. https://t.co/6FHqikSce5
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“probing the discrepancies between what is learned and what is witnessed can pry apart the space between sanctioned narratives and subjugated knowledges to finally confront the ghosts among us.” via @PLATFORM__space
platformspace.net
I. Confabulations On a hot August morning, I am traveling by minibus with my friend Mustafa, a local historian, to Harput from Elazığ , leaving behind a city sprawling across the plain at a scale too...
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His grand idea, as I’ve said, is to ‘clear away the obstacles of the past’, to demand of his African counterparts that they ‘turn the page’. In reality, this is an exercise in self-absolution: now that ‘we’ have acknowledged our crimes, let us stop dwelling on the past.
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In other words, it is not only a matter of history. It remains a burning issue in the present. Here lies Macron’s error. Through his memorial gimmicks, he seeks to consign to the past historical phenomena that are not, in truth, concluded.
newleftreview.org
France and Cameroon.
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there are pro palestine student protesters in jail, disappeared, and about to be deported for their free speech while liberals egged on their suppression paving the way to this now.
This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close.
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Mike Davis in his last interview:“Ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis...for the immediate future. A small group have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history,& they have no vision,no strategy, no plan” https://t.co/HPE4IuwH9q
theguardian.com
His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated
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@ArabReform_ARI this work wouldn't exist without the farmers/laborers/activists/experts I spoke with who have been working tirelessly towards a just/dignified food system in a country facing extreme conditions: climate collapse, state capitalist collusion, an Israeli war, I'm indebted to them
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excited to share something I've been working on for 9 months: a 10,000 word report about food sovereignty and security in Lebanon (or lack thereof) and how we might get there. Really grateful for @ArabReform_ARI in supporting this research
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"One veteran shaman, returning from his first experience performing at a top-dollar eco-lodge, asked the ayahuasca researcher why these people had come halfway round the world to see him when they weren’t sick. And why do they all hate their parents?"
lrb.co.uk
Traditionally, it was the shaman who swallowed or sniffed intoxicating plants as a way of gaining access to the world of...
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wanna know why so many tech start ups are founded by IDF intelligence agents/vets? Last December I wrote for @thedrift_mag about the networks of knowledge and capital that link Israeli intelligence services with tech valley companies via Wall St
thedriftmag.com
Living Through Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon
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