العدد الحالي
الدعوة الحالية
الأخبار
كتابات زمن الحَجْر الغاضبة لسحاقيّة عابرة مسلمة غَضوبٌ ومحزونة
قصائد كتبتها في غرفة الحَجْر
ألا إنّ دكّ هذه الحيطان،
ابتداعٌ لا يُضاهى لموعدٍ غرامي ثانٍ،
ألا توافقني الرأي؟
تخيّل الحضور إلى هنا وكفى،
بلا أغلال المعاصم هذه،
بل كما البشر، أحرار.
لَعَمري، إنّ الحرّية شرط الإنسانيّة.
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the working of institutions which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked so that one can fight them.
– Michel Foucault, The Chomsky-Foucault debate (1971).
This article emerged from a seminar led by Catherine Konig Pralong in the spring of 2023, with reflections on positionality further refined during the CEFRES-EHESS Annual PhD Workshop titled “Dynamics of Political Participation: Disciplinary Knowledge through the Prism of ‘Area Studies’.” Though I initially planned to publish it shortly thereafter, the genocidal war on Gaza and its devastating toll on Palestinians – both within Gaza and across the diaspora – made publishing a critique of a Palestinian scholar’s work feel unconscionable, regardless of its subject m