The fact that we can understand Odysseus’ nostalgia, that painful longing for a lost home (nostos), seems to show that few of us really feel at home anywhere. It is like we want to go to some imaginary Ithaka, as if we are all refugees from our essence. The obstacles on Odysseus’ quest to get home are states of mind he needs to overcome for home to really be home.
Read MoreUncle Tom’s Cabin does not walk into the classroom alone; it drags behind a century and a half of moral certainty, caricature, and secondhand knowledge.
Read MoreIDM gave White boys the power to feel superior by repairing their broken egos against the Black LGBTQI+ community, the original creators of house music.
Read MoreI taught myself to play the piano at twelve… to impress my father, whose approval I’ve always chased.
Read MorePalestinian textiles are dragged along a dark, violent path to museums. The pieces acquired during the British occupation of Palestine come from times of scarcity and need. If a Palestinian is parting with a heavily embroidered piece, it is because they have no other choice.
Read MoreThe likelihood of an artist from the Middle East coming to Berlin being seen through a non-orientalist lens is almost nonexistent.
Read MoreFor the urban/modern/civilised gaze, the source of rising fascism and racism are the inferior animalistic masses who must be repressed. It serves no purpose besides codifying townsfolk who are defined through their proximity to nature as lower life forms enslaved by their savage instincts and civilization as its’ superior antithesis.
Read MoreArt, history and culture are also our resistance against the Israeli state because it represents a future for the Palestinian people. Documenting the past, and creating new culture and art means that there is something for Palestinians to continue building in the future.
Read MoreWe saw it happen to other people, to Bojack, to Diane, and we looked on in fear and awe, hoping we wouldn’t have to go through the same. We did, of course. Later on, we did.
Read MoreFrom experimental artists, musicians and DJs, to skateboarders and analog video enthusiasts; a new cultural trend -one favoring an independent and experimental approach- is making waves across the local and regional art scene.
Read MoreThere is something to food beyond the sustenance it provides. There has to be because what compels me to spend a copious amount of money at an Asian restaurant for some rice and a viand just to taste something reminiscent of home?
Read MoreThere is a cloud of doubt over us that can scare us from suggesting things we love to others, even sometimes to people we love. I hate that cloud. I should be able to drag someone to something I like and explain why I do so if necessary.
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