Ruby Hamad: Critics and Exiles
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Ana Kasparian, the Nelk Boys, and the Failures of ‘Objectivity’
The Nelk Boys are ‘new media’ darlings but their Netanyahu interview drinks from legacy media’s poisoned ‘objectivity’ chalice. It is The Young Turks…
Jul 28
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June 2025
On Zohran Mamdani, Antoinette Lattouf, and the Slow Turning of the Tide
(Or how the antisemitism slur is losing its power to silence)
Jun 27
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March 2025
On 'Assad Remnants'
In Syria, the instinct of minorities to survive is being framed as 'loyalty' to the ousted president. Here's why this is Dehumanisation 101.
Mar 12
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July 2024
On the Liberal "Left," Political Purity, and Palestine.
Every now and then it hits home just how abstract the lives of Arabs are for many people in the West.
Jul 28, 2024
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The Presidential Debate Was Terrible; the Liberal Responses Were Even Worse
Sometimes I feel guilty for being a writer.
Jul 1, 2024
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May 2024
On Projection, Orientalism, and the West's Dislocation From Itself
In Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, a spiteful elderly man finally reveals why he has long hated a certain person.
May 21, 2024
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On Criticism, Zadie Smith, and the Abuse of Language
In The World, the Text, and the Critic, literary professor Edward Said espouses the importance of criticism.
May 13, 2024
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