Hidden Cities

Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine How state violence and market coercion have devastated the social, ecological, and economic fabric of rural life in the West Bank.

New in @hidden-cities.com: Paul Kohlbry on how Israel's occupation, together with market coercion under the Palestinian Authority, have devastated the social, ecological, and economic fabric of rural life in the West Bank. www.hidden-cities.com/p/agrarian-a...

Why the Struggle for Palestine Is a Struggle Against ‘Fossil Capitalism’ By Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah

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Why the Struggle for Palestine Is a Struggle Against ‘Fossil Capitalism’ By Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah

“Palestine is at its core a struggle against fossil capitalism.”

Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah on why “the battle for survival waged by Palestinians today, in Gaza and beyond, is inseparable from the fight for the future of the planet.” www.hidden-cities.com/p/why-the-st...

An Elegy for the Iran I Knew Iran’s metamorphosis is that of a country estranged from its identity, deluded about its present, confused about its future, and detached from its past.

“The Iran we knew couldn’t be conveniently minimized to caricatures and platitudes about its present and past.”

Kourosh Ziabari mourns a lost Iran, where social cohesion, civil dialogue, and collective identity have cratered under state repression. www.hidden-cities.com/p/an-elegy-f...

An Elegy for the Iran I Knew Iran’s metamorphosis is that of a country estranged from its identity, deluded about its present, confused about its future, and detached from its past.

“The Iran we knew couldn’t be conveniently minimized to caricatures and platitudes about its present and past.”

Kourosh Ziabari mourns a lost Iran, where social cohesion, civil dialogue, and collective identity have cratered under state repression. www.hidden-cities.com/p/an-elegy-f...

An Elegy for the Iran I Knew Iran’s metamorphosis is that of a country estranged from its identity, deluded about its present, confused about its future, and detached from its past.

"Iran’s metamorphosis is that of a country estranged from its identity, deluded about its present, confused about its future, and detached from its past."

A new essay by Kourosh Ziabari, mourning a lost Iran: www.hidden-cities.com/p/an-elegy-f...

Omar El Akkad: 'One Day There Will Be No More Looking Away.' An excerpt from One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

"One day there will be no more looking away... One day there will be an accounting."

A powerful excerpt from Omar El Akkad's searing book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," in my new publication, Hidden Cities.

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The Ancient, Enduring Wisdom of Egyptian Aphorisms A Lineage of Brief Counsel From Ptahhotep to Ibn ʿAṭā’ Allāh

“Egypt has always trusted in the afterlife of words—that brief counsel, well-shaped, can outlast stone.”

A lyrical journey by @ysl.bsky.social from ancient Egypt to medieval Cairo, finding comfort and clarity in the humble aphorism. hiddencities.substack.com/p/the-ancien...

"I Wish I Had a Leg" Ten-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis that killed his mother and brother. Rateb's right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. "I wish I had a leg so I could play with my friends." "I want to return to our home and have my mom my dad and my leg with me."

“I Wish I Had a Leg,” a new poem in Hidden Cities by Vaheed Ramazani. hiddencities.substack.com/p/i-wish-i-h...

What the fall of Baghdad, the occupation, sectarianism, and callous American adventurism could not erase: a sense of humor, of food, of hospitality and humanity. hiddencities.substack.com/p/playing-ch...

The Ancient, Enduring Wisdom of Egyptian Aphorisms A Lineage of Brief Counsel From Ptahhotep to Ibn ʿAṭā’ Allāh

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Who Will Syria Be Rebuilt For? Although free from the Assad regime, Syrians still don't have enough say in plans for their country's reconstruction.

New from me in Hidden Cities: Assad is gone, along with the regime cronies who were behind an authoritarian vision of Syria's reconstruction, if it could even be called reconstruction at all. Yet Syrians still don't have enough say in how their country might be rebuilt under Ahmed al-Sharaa.

“The current crisis isn’t just about bread and jobs, it’s about who decides what Iran stands for.”

Kamran Talattof in Hidden Cities on why Iran’s protests go deeper than economic frustration alone. @us.theconversation.com

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Why Tiny Jordan Is a Microcosm for Understanding the Entire Middle East However accidental its historical genesis, Jordan has become a crucible of knowledge about how power and geopolitics operate in the region.

“Jordan cannot be reduced to the banalities of orientalist folklore, much less the other tropes that have long garbled how the Western media describe the kingdom.”

@seanyom.bsky.social in Hidden Cities on what Jordan’s history reveals about the Middle East: www.hidden-cities.com/p/why-tiny-j...