Essays & Interviews
‘A Productive Language’: On Western Intellectual Paradigms and Refaat al-Areer
Placing Refaat Al-Areer's life alongside the likes of Hanna Mikhail and Fathi al-Shiqaqi as examples of Amilcar Cabral's class suicide in action, Ameed Faleh assesses the way that Palestinian intellectuals have sought to advance the Palestinian liberation struggle through their work, battling against attempts to foreclose it through normalisation and peace talks.
October 7th: The Permanent Death of the Oslo Accords
Hamas’ surprise military assault on Israeli settlements on October 7th shocked everyone, forcefully breaking Gaza’s 16-year siege and with it the peace dividend that been established to subdue the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Ameed Faleh, a Palestinian student, writes that the death of the Oslo Accords marks the end of an era of pseudo-state building – with an age of liberation on the horizon.