Hage Ba'a

A very old and interesting debate at the interface of philosophy, sociology, linguistics and anthropology is the question of the illocutiona...

Why is it that everywhere left liberals succeed in getting elected to government they have to spend their time defending themselves against ...

I just watched Julia Gillard in my hotel room in Paris. It's not just that I think that this population stuff is just wrong, simplistic ...

I've often written about this pathology that I've called 'colonial necrophilia'. It involves loving people after you have ki...

There was and there was not I don’t write poems but, in any case, poems are not poems. Long ago, I was made to understand that Palestine was...

Has just come out of ’12 Angry Lebanese’. An unbelievably powerful film documenting the way a Lebanese female comedian and drama therapist s...

I have been writing about cultures of 'extraction' this morning. It probably has to do with the rise and rise of Australia as a Min...