Israel Bombed My Hometown - And I Worry About a Civil War
What the strike in Ain Saadeh might mean for Lebanon
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Elia Ayoub's Picks, Part 1
Waubgeshig Rice, Srsly Wrong, Spectral Voyager, Sharon Lin, Molly Crabapple, Sally Hayden, and more.
Israel's Lebanese Ghosts
On a longstanding obsession + Some Updates
Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation
Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover
A British ICE, a concentration camp and the end of accountability
Getting "Used" to the Israeli Drone in Lebanon
It ain't normal
How Hezbollah Lost Everything
It's not just Israel
An elder is someone who is older than olive trees
Or: what breaks me
I’m Giving a Masterclass!
Hauntologies essays and articles are mostly free but some are paywalled. To gain access to all of this websites’ archives, please consider a paid subscription. By doing so, you will gain access to all the archives. Subscribe now Hey everyone. I haven’t been as active lately as I’ve
The Revolutionizing Nature of the 2019 Lebanese Uprising
Part of the book ‘A Region in Revolt: Mapping the Recent Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia‘
Going to the Peacehaven Mosque
Some reflections following the 4 October terrorist attack
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Speech: What Trump's UK Visit Means
Trump Not Welcome, 17 September 2025 Protest, London
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The Stories We Tell
Tech oligarchs are coopting fictional universes to sell us a false story of their inevitability. To defeat them we need to reclaim the power of fiction to imagine a world beyond their grasp.
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Break the Dam, Release the River
Set the questions free
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Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
This essay does not end like it begins. I considered dividing it in two but ultimately decided to keep it as is. It starts with a discussion of what Assadism sought to do with the Palestinian cause, and it then goes into a broader exploration of the normalisation of fascism
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The Génocidaires Can Never Rest
We must haunt them and confront them wherever they go
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Talk about bupkes! Kibitzing with Elia Ayoub
Bupkes for your ears: From the mountains of Lebanon to a Hebrew-Yiddish throwdown
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Framing 'Violence', from the 2025 LA protests to the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon
On how 'violence' is reported on, from the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon to the 2025 LA protests
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Deutschlalaland: Germany Wants to Rewrite its Holocaust History
Hauntologies essays and articles are mostly free but some are paywalled. To gain access to all of this websites’ archives, please consider a paid subscription. By doing so, you will gain access to all the archives. Subscribe now 1. If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything
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Starry, Starry Night: Fatima Hassouna's Loud Death
A loud death means doing the memory work against forgetfulness, not in some distant future, but right here, right now.
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Hafez al-Assad, the Puppy Killer
That One Footage of the Syrian Army, And Why I Can't Get Over It
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Ordo Amoris
A Call for Dangerous Unselfishness
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How Media Outlets Covered Israel's Massacre of Palestinian Medics
A look at how the BBC, NPR, NYT and AP News covered Israel's execution of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in Gaza on 23 March 2025