reflections from a Palestinian Princeton alumna | To my fellow Palestinian Princeton alumni, I wrote this piece, hoping to inspire you to share your experiences. As a people who are constantly erased, Palestinians have a right and a responsibility to share their stories in every space they are in. I can’t wait to read your…

Basel did not call on us to be resistance fighters. Nor did he call on us to be revolutionaries. Basel told us to be true, that is all. If you are true, you will be revolutionaries and resistance fighters. — Khaled Oudatallah in a eulogy for Basel al-Araj in al-Walajah, March 8, 2017 (Basel al-Araj,…

I often hear people in my parents’ and grandparents’ generations lament about how we are living during a time when Arab and Muslim culture has regressed from its former glory. They mourn the age when our society was at the apex of civilization—producing major breakthroughs in math, science, and philosophy—before the Middle East became a…

We aim to agitate, not as an end in itself, as the bad-faith use of the term implies, but rather to agitate readers to defy and deconstruct. The political education practice of deconstruction, after all, is also a process of constructing anew.

University-sponsored research in technology and innovation has deep connections, both indirect and direct, with Israel’s systems of apartheid.

As the movement for Palestinian liberation has burgeoned across campuses, the Popular University lays bare the university as an institution complicit by design.

Language has historically been and remains another front of the Zionist movement’s assault. From the policing of chants to the weaponization of antisemitism to the monopolization of ‘genocide,’ we have witnessed lexical machinery.

Coverage of recent protests appear eager to emphasize oblivious, Princetonian distance, if not business “as usual.”