5LL #343: Jena, Political Prisoners, Joshua Clover, Strategy, Quneitra
Mahmoud Khalil, Biding Time in Jena
Shayoni Mitra, n+1
In a facility that prides itself on the basics of bare life, people bide their time each in their own way.
Why I Had to Flee the United States
Abdelrahman ElGendy, The Nation
I was a political prisoner in Egypt. I didn’t want to become one again in America.
‘People Struggle Where They Are’: Joshua Clover on Riots, Strikes and Communes That Are Already Here
Ronja Mälström, Turning Point
Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings was the book that made Joshua Clover one of the leading contemporary thinkers on riots as methods of political struggle.
All Together Now
Alyssa Battistoni, Lux
What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis by the writer, organizer, and general rabble-rouser Malcolm Harris is a climate book that starts where most end: with the political challenges and possibilities before us, presented not by way of tired gestures to optimism or pessimism but clear-eyed assessment of their prospects.
I Wish You’d Known the City: On The Films of Mohammad Malas
Séamus Malekafzali, Protean
Buried beneath the already buried stories of Palestinians are the stories of the other Arabs who have also been the victims of Israel’s campaigns of brutality, displacement, and ethnic cleansing.