Sunday, February 23, 2020

‘Fed-up’, ‘sick and tired’ and ‘driven too far’: From Christchurch to Brisbane and From White to Male supremacist violence

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The Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll rightly and publicly apologised for the comments. The Queensland detective Mark Thompso...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Holocaust Denialism and Climate Denialism: on the necessity of taboos

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Taboos are a major topic in anthropology. We teach it to our students right from the start. All social groupings have a variety of thing...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

On belonging to a country that cannot keep its children

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“You've wasted the (people with) talents and given them to the foreigners" said a prominent banner in downtown Beirut on the ver...
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Hizbollah, zionism, geopolitics and democracy

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As people in the Arab world increasingly face their destructive, corrupt and incompetent ruling classes, we should have no time for anyone ...
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Friday, November 1, 2019

على شفير الهاوية /“On the brink of the abyss” (English translation follows arabic text)

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أنا عادة لا أكتب باللغة العربية. لكنني أريد أن أفعل ذلك لأن هذه القطعة مكتوبة على أنها نوع من ال 'شكراً' و 'merci كتير' للش...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Regarding the joyfulness of the Lebanese uprising

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For many years I've written, along with many others, about the way racism makes the racialised hate themselves. It just dawned on me th...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Between The Bearable and The Unbearable: The Lebanese Revolution to Come

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What is happening in Lebanon is truly special. It is special in terms of local and regional politics and it is special as a more specific i...
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