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Category: levant

Hezbollah’s Resistance™ against resistance

February 11, 2021February 18, 2021 Joey Ayoub1 Comment

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 Ayoub1 Comment

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 Ayoub4 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 Ayoub1 Comment

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

resilient: broken

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Joey Ayoub

Beirut never healed. It just learned to accept its predicament. Beirut, like our parents, is not resilient. It is broken.

Posted in lebanon, levant

Lebanon’s multiple crises also expose the racist Kafala system

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Joey Ayoub

on the structural components behind the racialization and dehumanization of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

Posted in labor/kafala, lebanon, levant

Stopping the Bisri Dam: From Local to National Contestation

April 3, 2020May 10, 2020 Joey Ayoub

The Lebanese government has decided to go ahead with the construction of a controversial dam in the Bisri Valley ignoring criticism of the project’s impact on the environment.

Posted in climate emergency, lebanon, levant

Memes and Collapse: An Alternative View of Lebanon’s October 17 Protests

March 23, 2020May 10, 2020 Joey Ayoub2 Comments

This piece looks at some of the attempts to address this widespread feeling of inevitable collapse.

Posted in lebanon, levant

Lebanon: The Revolution Four Months In

February 24, 2020May 10, 2020 Joey Ayoub

How can an understanding of Lebanese history help us understand the situation? What can we learn from the Lebanese uprising that could inform struggles against capitalism, sectarianism, and the state worldwide?

Posted in lebanon, levant

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