Authors

Mahmood Jrere Mahmood Jrere

Mahmood Jrere is a founding member of the foundational Palestinian hip hop group DAM. Born and raised in Lydd, he is also an independent artist, music entrepreneur, and cofounder o…

May 26, 2021

Tamer Nafar Tamer Nafar

Tamer Nafar is a musician, actor, screenwriter, and social activist. Born in the city of Lydd, he discovered hip-hop as a teenager and became the world’s first Palestinian ra…

May 26, 2021

Udi Aloni Udi Aloni

Udi Aloni is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work focuses on the interrelations between art, politics, and theology in Israeli-Palestinian history. He is well known for his f…

May 26, 2021

Chelsea Szendi Schieder Chelsea Szendi Schieder

Chelsea Szendi Schieder is a professor in the Faculty of Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and the author of Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanes…

May 25, 2021

Hira Nabi Hira Nabi

Hira Nabi is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Lahore.

May 25, 2021

Frank Wilderson Frank Wilderson

Frank B. Wilderson III is Chancellors Professor and Chair of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Afropessimism.

May 25, 2021

Abir Kopty Abir Kopty

Abir Kopty is a Palestinian journalist, writer, and policy analyst with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Institute for Media and…

May 25, 2021

Phillip Williams Phillip Williams

May 24, 2021

Ellie Langford Ellie Langford

Ellie Langford was formerly Research Director at NARAL Pro-Choice America, where her team worked to understand the Radical Right’s efforts to chip away at reproductive freedo…

May 24, 2021

Akash Mehta Akash Mehta

Akash Mehta is the editor of New York Focus, an investigative news site on New York state and city politics.

May 22, 2021

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