What building a digital archive taught me about the power of public space as a site of resistance
Text: The Palestinian Youth MovementImage: Heedayah Lockman
To understand why western politicians are refusing to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, we need to understand both the historical and contemporary legacy of Western imperialism
Text: Dalia IsmailImage: Aude Abou Nasr
Commemorating courage, abandoning it today
20 years on, the campaign is more urgent than ever
@shado.mag Sara breaks down what was happening in Gaza before October 7th 2023. It’s important for us to recognise that in a way the scale of the violence we’ve seen was bound to happen as it’s an escalation of a process that has been ongoing for decades. We didn’t do...
@shado.mag On Palestine EP 9: Why is it unhelpful to present the causes of the genocide as a religious conflict? The so-called Israel-Palestine ‘conflict’ is often seen as a religious conflict between Muslim and Jews. In this episode Sara unpacks why it is both wrong and unhelpful to view and...
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Text: Darío Karim Pomar AzarImage: Natasha Phang Lee
KKR, cultural capital and the movements challenging the corporate festival machine
Text: Sara KhanImage: Aude Abou Nasr
How Israeli Apartheid Week and the understanding of settler colonialism can reframe our resistance
@shado.mag In response to events of the last couple of weeks in Gaza many have been rushing to denounce all violence against “innocent civilians” whether Israeli or Palestinian. But what does this language do and why is it biased? It paints a picture of a war between two sides but...
On personal survival and political responsibility
Reflections from theatre shows Application 39 and Return to Palestine
We must historicise and contextualise the Palestinian prisoners struggle in order to understand the significance of the release of Palestinian prisoners and this watershed moment in the Palestinian liberation struggle.