Afkar-e-taza! From Imperial OverKill to Decolonial OverLife: the Ground Zero of Palestinian and Iranian Resistance and a Feminism that Embraces Life

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

“Is that you again? Didn’t I kill you?

I said…you killed me…and I forgot, like you, to die.”

– Mahmoud Darwish, “In Jerusalem”

My esteemed colleague, the beautiful human being named Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian Armenian scholar from Jerusalem, reviled and chased out of her tenured full professor position at Hebrew University for daring to call the genocide of Gazans by its proper name, and who has been a Visiting Professor...