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reading the el salvador ice horror stories is giving me real anxiety now
stuff like this is really funny bc it implies that teachers can overcome structural violence “examining” & “unpacking” not by collective dismantlement.
idk if it’s still the case but 3rd grade test scores determined how many cells were gonna be “needed” 10yrs later. it’s a whole intricate system that teachers that teachers are often passively engaged in.
It’s just funny that when trump is dismantling the doe all the anarcho-losers come out saying stuff like this. there is a thing to horseshoe theory but it’s ultras/anarcos not commies tbh
this all started with “ACAB includes teachers.” ACAB is a slogan not a politics. everything can’t be C. you’re mad at how capitalism corrupted teachers which coerces them to collude with C.
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out of curiosity why didn’t you like on becoming a guinea fowl?
i don’t think it earns its tonal shifts. everything seems discrete. the surreal comedic elements of the characters’ experience with sa vis the more grounded “real” elements concerning the social/political commentary on sa. like i thought i was watching a Buñuel-esque waiting for godot structured story and then it turned fairly straight forward with minor slips into a character’s mental state.
also the conceit of what a guinea fowl represents kind of implodes bc of how the narrative plays out. & to me it came off as muddled, not an intentional undermining of the symbol.
i think parts are interesting especially the women who “would always protect you” but then so cruelly beret uncle fred’s widow. having to feed the men of the house while looking for the cousin. the absurdity of crawling on the knees. The dad’s epiphany. but it just doesn’t congeal for me.
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recommended resources on Lebanese resistance and its context
this has been in my drafts for a long time bc I wanted to find more audio resources but in light of recent events I'm posting as is, and will add more later. pdfs for texts without links can be found on libgen ⭐ = start with these 📺 = video resource 🎧 = audio resource Hizballah ⭐ Lara Deeb, "Hizballah and Its Civilian Constituencies," in The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
⭐🎧 Electronic Intifada Podcast with Rania Khalek, "Why Hizballah would deal Israel a deadly blow" (2024)
⭐🎧 Electronic Intifada Podcast with Amal Saad, "How Hizballah Aims to Deter Israel" (2024)
📺 Rania Khalek, Interview with Hezbollah's Second-in-Command Sheikh Naim Qassem (2023)
🎧 Rania Khalek and Julia Kassem, "The Hybrid War on Lebanon is All About Weakening Hezbollah" (2022)
Hassan Nasrallah, "Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah," ed. Nicholas Noe (2007)
Judith Harik, "Hizballah's Public and Social Services and Iran," in Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 years (2006) Sarah Marusek, Faith and Resistance: The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon (2018)
Abed T. Kanaaneh, Understanding Hezbollah: The Hegemony of Resistance (2021)
Karim Makdisi, "The Oct. 8 War: Lebanon's Southern Front" (2024) Political theory ⭐ Ussama Makdisi, "Understanding Sectarianism," in The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
⭐ Rula Juri Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists (2014)
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 (2010) Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline S. Ismael, The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon (1998) 2006 war ⭐ Gilbert Achcar and Michel Warschawski, The 33-Day War: Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences (2007)
The Electronic Intifada with Dahr Jamail, "The world just sat by" (2006)
The Electronic Intifada with Bilal El-Amine, "Lebanon in Context" (2006) The War on Lebanon: A Reader, eds. Nubar Hovsepian and Rashid Khalidi (2007)
Civil war and 1982 invasion ⭐📺 Up to the South, dir. Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra'ad (1993)
⭐📺 Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon, dir. Mai Masri and Jean Khalil Chamoun (1987)
⭐ Souha Bechara, Resistance: My Life for Lebanon (2003)
Jean Said Makdisi, Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (1990)
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, Sabra and Shatila, September 1982 (2004) Ottoman era Charles Al-Hayek, "How, then, did you try to rebel?"
Lebanon Unsettled, "Lebanon's Popular Uprisings"
Axel Havemann, "The Impact of Peasant Resistance on Nineteenth Century Mount Lebanon," in Peasants and Politics in the Modern Middle East (1991) Ussama Makdisi, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (2000)
Peter Hill, "How Global was the Age of Revolutions? The Case of Mount Lebanon, 1821" (2020) Mark Farha, "From Anti-imperial Dissent to National Consent: the First World War and the Formation of a Trans-sectarian National Consciousness in Lebanon" (2015) French mandate era ⭐ Kais Firro, Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate (2002) Sana Tannoury-Karam, "Founding the Lebanese Left: From Colonial Rule to Independence" (2021) Idir Ouahes, Syria and Lebanon Under the French Mandate: Cultural Imperialism and the Workings of Empire (2018)
Malek Abisaab, Militant Women of a Fragile Nation (2009) Misc ⭐📺 Leila and the Wolves, dir. Heiny Srour and Sabah Jabbour (1984)
⭐ Fawwaz Traboulsi, A History of Modern Lebanon (2007)
Karim Makdisi, "Lebanon's October 2019 Uprising" (2021)
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if i’m reading this correctly….then the brits who supported the soviet union suppressing the Hungarian revolution of 1956 were correct bc….it turns out the Hungarian freedom fighters were “agency sponsored”agency of course meaning CIA
so tankie is not a insult to claim that commies are authoritarian. it’s a label that denotes one’s ability to discern color revolutions.
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I genuinely feel ashamed that all I can do is write words while more and more Arab people die - but momentum for fundraisers is one of very few things any of us can do at the moment
Please donate to the Sameer Project. They are doing amazing work on the ground. Try to do while you can. Sharing and donating as little as 5 dollars can culminate into a big difference. I have enough of a following to know that we can make a truly big difference if this didn’t simply go ignored bc people decided they’re bored now
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one thing that i think is difficult for ppl to grasp is compounding factors or multiple things being true (or possible) at once. & everybody stakes claim that their pet politics is thee most universal & moral and therefore correct.
it’s why you have anti-imperialists cheering NATO, why decolonial ppl parroted zionist hasbara, why kholes blame dearborn and not precious smolbean biden smh