Joelle M. Abi-Rached
Joelle M. Abi-Rached is Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut. She is author of Asfuriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East and coeditor of Lebanon: Anatomy of a Collapse, a forthcoming collection of essays on Lebanese politics and society.
Millenarian Fantasies
In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.
Occupying Hospitals
From Gaza to Minneapolis, attacks on health care turn spaces of refuge into sites of state violence.
Gaza and the End of History
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
Syria’s “Human Debris”
The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.
