Hage Ba'a

This book was distributed to bookshops yesterday. I already knew what it was about and I’ve been waiting for it. I think I was the first per...

  Let me begin with these three anecdotes. They might appear to be unrelated to begin with. But as I will show they all take us to the issue...

During the Spanish conquest of the Americas, indigenous peoples were dispossessed and were massacred by the millions. Sometimes the indigeno...

There are certain things we take for granted, things that no one will say anymore today, when we read someone in the mainstream media discus...

‘Jimmy’ an old eastern european immigrant, who works the land right next door to me, sees me sitting having my early morning coffee. He says...

One of the many social phenomena that I thought were specific to Lebanon when I left it in the mid 1970s and that I have seen grow with a ve...

And let’s not forget the Scandinavians: Paulette and the task of post-colonial theory [1] When I was growing up in Lebanon, my father w...