I spoke with Banchi Yimer, founder of Egna Legna who define themselves as “community-based feminist activists working on migrant domestic workers’ issues and general women’s issues in Lebanon and Ethiopia.”
Memes and Collapse: An Alternative View of Lebanon’s October 17 Protests
This piece looks at some of the attempts to address this widespread feeling of inevitable collapse.
Against the Logic of the Guillotine
I spoke with one of the authors of the Crimethinc piece of the same name about the ‘logic of the guillotine’, how it is used in online left-wing meme culture, why it is problematic and why we need to have a better logic than that of the guillotine if we truly believe in liberatory politics.
Venezuela and the Right to Narrate
I sat down with Laura Vidal, a Paris-based Venezuelan writer and researcher. Laura recently wrote an essay in Spanish entitled “¿Quién tiene derecho a contar nuestras historias?” (“Who has the right to narrate our stories?”)
The Kafala System is ‘Civilized’ Slavery
We go back to the summer of 2018 when I sat down with Sami, a Beirut-based Ethiopian activist with, Mesewat, a solidarity network that supports migrant workers in Lebanon and the Middle East, and Ali, an activist with the Anti-Racism Movement.
Hong Kong’s Existential Crisis
This is a conversation with JP, a Hong Kong activist with Lausan, a left-wing and decolonial group based out of Hong Kong and its diaspora.
Lebanon: The Revolution Four Months In
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?
Syrian melancholy in Lebanon’s revolution
Syrians in Lebanon have greeted the country’s uprising with a complex blend of joy, envy, melancholy, and fear.
Ghassan Halwani and the reclaiming of Lebanon’s imaginaries
How is the October 17 Revolution catalysing the reclaiming of imaginaries?
The Lebanese Revolution Must Abolish the Kafala System (Part 2)
According to Lebanon’s own intelligence agency, migrant domestic workers are dying at a rate of two per week.
J.B. Ayoub 