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Author: Joey Ayoub

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Hezbollah’s Resistance™ against resistance

February 11, 2021February 18, 2021 Joey Ayoub

it is useful to separate between Hezbollah’s narrative of being the Resistance™ and what resistance actually is, or, at the very least, should be. Since 2011, the gap between the two has widened.

Posted in lebanon, levant

Memory, violence and fear: Why Lokman Slim’s murder must not be depoliticized

February 11, 2021February 13, 2021 Joey Ayoub

The forcibly disappeared and the murdered in Lebanon are killed twice. First, physically, and second, they are erased. ... If we’re not careful, the same could happen with Lokman Slim’s assassination one week ago

Posted in lebanon, levant

Black-Palestinian Solidarity: Towards an Intersectionality of Struggles

February 8, 2021February 11, 2021 Joey Ayoub

Book chapter I wrote as part of "Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates"

Posted in levant, palestine/israel

The Perfect Day Will Never Come: Restlessness in “A Perfect Day” and “Here Comes the Rain”

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 Joey Ayoub2 Comments

This is the third excerpt of the book chapter I wrote as part of the book “The Social Life of Memory: Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco”.

Posted in cinema, lebanon, levant

Decay as Political Metaphor in Ely Dagher’s Waves’ 98 and Mounia Akl’s Submarine

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 Joey Ayoub

Ely Dagher's 2015 Waves '98 and Mounia Akl's 2016 Submarine, as unique responses to a feeling of despair brought about by the city/nation, explored through the theme of decay

Posted in cinema, lebanon

Twitter’s “Left” Discourse

December 27, 2020December 30, 2020 Joey Ayoub

Algorithmically-perceived Expectations ain't Discourse

Posted in Blog Entries

On Social Media

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 Joey Ayoub

Or: on data harvesting and manipulative behavior modification

Posted in Blog Entries, tech

On Collapse, Identity and History: An Interview

November 30, 2020 Joey Ayoub1 Comment

A long conversation on identity, trauma, history and the protracted now.

Posted in Uncategorized

Leftists and anti-authoritarians have a responsibility to vote out Trump

October 29, 2020November 26, 2020 Joey Ayoub

Biden is problematic, but he can be pushed to the left if we intensify our struggles for justice and equality.

Posted in USA

The trans-generational climate crisis

October 4, 2020 Joey Ayoub2 Comments

There is something particularly unsettling about being an almost-30 year old in 2020.

Posted in climate emergency

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