Nobody Could Prepare You for the War: Interview with Croatian Feminist Biljana Kasic
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The War in Ukraine: Agenda for the Left
The situation on the military front is grim. Despite certain tactical achievements, high hopes for the counter-offensive were not fulfilled. Instead, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, has openly acknowledged a stalemate. The national polls indicate emerging exhaustion. The global community is losing interest, aid packages are stalled, truck haulage is blocked. Winter is here, and so […]
The Liquid Imperialism That Engulfed Syria
Syria is a country of only 71,498 square miles in area, with a population of less than 24 million, and yet two global superpowers (the United States and the Russian Federation) and three of the largest regional powers (Iran, Turkey and Israel) are present on its territory. Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since […]
The price of war for women: new roles, emerging challenges
Women around the world continue to suffer from injustice and inequality. War deepens not only existing problems of sexualized violence and burden of reproduction but also creates new challenges: displacement, unemployment, or the need to protect one's community. During wartime, women and girls become both victims of aggression, soldiers, activists, refugees, and single mothers. In […]
Beyond Russia: authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression
The war in Nagorno-Karabakh initiated by Azerbaijan, Turkey’s involvement in Syria, the authoritarian rule in Iran, and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — this incomplete yet indicative list of recent events underscores the escalating trend of imperialistic arbitrariness worldwide in the conditions of non-interference. As part of our “Dialogues of Peripheries” conference, one of the […]
Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people
?????? ??????? | українською | en français | en español | auf Deutsch | in italiano | em português | στα ελληνικ? | v ceštine | na bosanskom | in het Nederlands We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land […]
Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians
How can we look at images of Gaza and not see Mariupol or Bakhmut? As Israel’s assault on Palestine continues, apparent similarities with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grow. Israel’s “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip – cutting off water, electricity and food to more than two million inhabitants – echoes Russia’s intentional destruction of […]
Comparison and Its Discontents: on the Ethics of Post-War Reconstruction
In 2017, I organized an event at the Mansion, a cultural space in Beirut’s Zoqaq el-Blat neighborhood, on the debates surrounding the future reconstruction of Syria[1]. At the time, many architects and developers in Lebanon were looking at Syria’s reconstruction as a lucrative, exciting opportunity. They not only saw the rebuilding of Syria as a great […]
“The road of life”: how the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh live under the blockade
July 29. The 229th day of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). 68-year-old Vagif Khachatryan was evacuated by a Red Cross vehicle to Yerevan for a vital heart operation. He was detained at the Azerbaijani checkpoint near the Hakari Bridge. The Azerbaijani military took away Vagif’s passport and ordered him to enter the ward for a […]
Dana El Kurd: “Palestinians are tied to this particular place, like Ukrainians are tied to theirs”
Struggle of the people of Palestine for their freedom and independence is probably one of the ‘don’t ask – don’t tell’ topics for many Ukrainians covered under such a generalisation as the ‘Near East’, and is associated with wars in the first place. At the same time Israel is often presented as a role model […]
