We started our conversation with my struggle to unlearn the right of the nation-state to become the adjective that defines me: “an Israeli.” This struggle cannot be detached from the one against the imperial premises of scholarship, the refusal to let institutions define what I see or expect to see, what I can say and […]
Tag Archives: Ahlam Shibli
Another day; another post. But for this one, you get a glimpse into process. Yesterday he was digging deep into settler colonial foundation narratives on site at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston. As he often does when he reposts these posts on here on Instagram (‘New post on www(dot)minusplato(dot)com’, because a while ago […]
The Arab al-Sbaih refers to the Palestinian Nakba, which is annually commemorated on May 15 – the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The image (sic) shows a shelter built in Irbid, Jordan, by the exiled sheikh of Arab al-Sbaih for the people of the neighborhood during the Israeli-Arab war of 1967.