Beneath the Dust
The illusion of justice
Some weeks ago, I stumbled upon a story that hasn’t left me since. It was late. I was half scrolling, half thinking, trying to shake off the static of the [...]
The cage and the jump
Let me tell you a story about cages — both visible and invisible. In the late 1960s, then–graduate student Martin Seligman and colleagues ran experiments that would come to define [...]
Wells of exile
Last week, I sat curled on my couch, reading Ilan Pappé’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. My daughter was asleep beside me, her tiny fingers still sticky from the banana, [...]
Trail of Tears to Palestine
• The colonist makes history. His life is an epic, an odyssey. He is invested with the very beginning: “We made this land.” He is the guarantor of its existence: [...]
Author
Miral Askar, born in Egypt, raised in Cairo and Germany, is a tech industry Product Owner and an advocate for justice, anti-colonialism, and human rights. When not building products or resurrecting suppressed narratives, she is most likely debating the ethics of empire.