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Gaza Starves: Empty Stomachs, Hollow Statements

The suffering of Gaza’s population is intensifying at an alarming pace under an ever-tightening blockade that has strangled the territory for over three months following the complete closure of border crossings and the halt of essential humanitarian aid. The situation...

Ahmad Tanani Ahmad Tanani

Macron and the Hijab: Has Islamophobia Reached Childhood?

Amid rising tensions over issues of identity and religious diversity in France, President Emmanuel Macron’s party has proposed a ban on Muslim girls under the age of 15 wearing the hijab in public spaces. The move is being justified as...

Noon Post Noon Post

History in the Colonizer’s Tongue: The “New Historians” and the Biography of the Nakba

It’s often said that history is written by the victors. It’s also said that history has two faces, and amid the swelling number of such sayings, the lines between fact and fiction blur. Readers and historians alike are left wondering...

Sujoud Awais Sujoud Awais

On the Threshold of the Nakba: The Carried Memory in the Moment of Expulsion

As Ghassan Kanafani recounts in his elegy to his people, Returning to Haifa: “Saeed was able to see many things he once considered—and still considered—his own intimate belongings, things he had always imagined as sacred, mysterious possessions that no one...

Sujoud Awais Sujoud Awais

Erasing the Refugees: How the United States Seeks to Obliterate the Memory of the Nakba

While historical accounts may not position the United States as a direct participant in the 1948 Nakba—especially when contrasted with Britain's overt colonial role—archival records from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem offer scant evidence of direct intelligence regarding Zionist militias'...

Hiba Birat Hiba Birat

Internal Exile: The Nakba as Experienced by Those Who Remained

It was my first year as a master's student at Birzeit University when our lecturer stood in the middle of the hall and asked, "Who among you is from the '48 territories?" Some of us raised our hands. He nodded,...

Sujoud Awais Sujoud Awais

Between Starvation and Security Control: A U.S. Plan to Engineer Gaza Under a Humanitarian Pretext

As warnings intensify over an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip due to siege and starvation, the U.S. administration has rushed to unveil a new aid distribution plan ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East.Although the...

Ahmad Tanani Ahmad Tanani

From Campus to Border: Trump’s Vision of a White and Loyal America

Donald Trump kept a promise he made during the height of the American campus uprisings in the spring of 2024. At that time, he vowed to deport those he labeled "terrorist sympathizers." Upon his return to the Oval Office, he...

Hiba Birat Hiba Birat

Universities Collude with Zionism: A Unified Hand Silences Students and Kills Children

As the new academic year began in September, observers noted a stark decline in student protests against Israel's genocidal war in Gaza compared to the peak demonstrations on American campuses in the spring of the previous year. The number of...

Hiba Birat Hiba Birat

Secret Camps and Ideological Agendas: SDF Recruits Youth from Minority Communities

In a controversial move, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have recently opened new camps in the city of Raqqa aimed at recruiting girls from Syria’s coastal provinces and Sweida, in parallel with propaganda campaigns promoting the concept of “decentralization” in...

Zain Al-Abdin Zain Al-Abdin