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  • Health Sovereignty in Palestine: A Conversation Between Mary Turfah and Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah

    Health Sovereignty in Palestine: A Conversation Between Mary Turfah and Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah

    In this long conversation, Mary Turfah talks with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah about health sovereignty in Palestine, the coloniality of Western NGOs, the centrality of healthcare to the genocide in Palestine, and much more.

  • Peace From Our Point of View

    Peace From Our Point of View

    Israel’s unsettled borders, writes Mary Turfah, are not “a bug… but a feature of the Zionist state,” allowing it to justify endless war in the name of an intentionally elusive “peace.” This essay appears in Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps.

  • This Is What They Call It Now

    This Is What They Call It Now

    Mary Turfah shares “This is What They Call it Now”—on her ancestors’ town of Salha in Southern Lebanon between Northern Palestine, where, during the Nakba, Israeli forces massacred dozens, then razed, rebuilt, and renamed. How are ideological histories constructed in such a way to elide these truths? Whose accounts are deemed credible?