Setting aside the agitation caused by raising serious feminist issues in real and virtual life, the general perception common among people is that men openly flirt with women, and women grumble about love, at times secretly and other times publicly. Men sing songs about the woman/home, whose waist is wrapped in stars and over whose breasts clouds roam. Women, in their turn, disdain poetry, and…

In a two-day ceremony held in the New Palace’s “White Hall” in Stuttgart, Southwest Germany, Al-Jumhuriya received the 57th Theodor Heuss Medal for Special Democratic Commitment.Since 1964, the Theodor Heuss Foundation has celebrated the memory of the first German Federal President, Theodor Heuss, honoring individuals and institutions committed to defending democracy, freedom and human rights in Europe and the world.For the year 2022, the Foundation…

Having lived through unimaginable horrors over the past 11 years – including the loss of my five brothers to murder and enforced disappearance – I came to believe that nothing could shock me again or open the wounds that took so long to begin to heal. But as I write this, I realize that my wounds are far from being healed, and that the brutality…

An anxious shiver, a quickening of the heart. I always wondered what the people of Gaza feel when they leave it for the first time, and here I was experiencing that. Lost in thought, and fearful of every passing stranger, a young man sat next to me, clearly weeping. He told me he bid his parents farewell, not knowing when he’d ever see them again….

Statements made by María Jamardo,a radical Galician journalist, on the bombing of Gernika by the Nazi’s in 1937 in a Telecinco ProgramTranslators’ note (TN): Telecinco is a Spanish private TV station. have caused a wave of outrage, and rightfully so: “Neither the ones who bombed were so bad, nor those who were bombed so good”, commenting on a crime recently invoked by the Ukrainian president in…

The world must heed Syrian calls for justice

As millions of Ukrainians escape from Russian invasion and receive a warm welcome by the European Union and supporters of the “refugee cause,” as well as by Afghans and Syrians who had come here as refugees who expressed a sense of both solidarity but also bewilderment. Surely, those fleeing the war in Ukraine deserve support. But doesn’t this apply to any refugee? Are Syrians and…

In recent weeks, I have had the sense that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has destabilized thinking prevalent on the Left in ways that suggest a disruption in certain higher-order social-imaginary significations (a term I explain below). This essay explores that possibility via an experiment in parallax, the observed displacements of an object caused by changing the observer’s point of view, using a juxtaposition of people,…

Up to recently, it had seemed that many people in the west think that the Russian War in Ukraine is qualitatively different from the one it has been leading for six years and a half in Syria. While one witnesses international outrage at the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and European countries are already arming Ukrainians against the invaders, not a single western country condemned Russia’s…

Dear Hassan, A friend suggested that we gather in a symbolic funeral in Paris to bid you farewell – in open air as it remains impossible to rent closed halls under the current lockdown. I thought we may have sent you off to the tunes that you loved, and just how many musical references you cited during our translation courses! I never remembered the names…