Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.
Joelle M. Abi-Rached is the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of ‘Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East.
Israel's attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.
In the wake of the devastating explosion, civil society has shown the way forward—filling the void of a nonexistent and incapacitated state.
A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more about our mission
We publish leading scholars, activists, and writers on the most pressing political debates of our time.
But as a small nonprofit, we rely on reader support. Will you help support bold thinking about a more just world?
That’s what sociologist Alondra Nelson says of Boston Review. Independent and nonprofit, we believe in the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
That’s why there are no paywalls on our website, but we can’t do it without the support of our readers. Will you make a tax-deductible contribution today?