Protean Magazine – Latest Articles

Through the eyes of its organizers, Raechel Anne Jolie looks back on the lessons and failures of ‘00s anti-war activism—on direct action and peaceful protest, co-optation, and the forgotten histories of a formative movement.

Innocent Chizaram Ilo writes on his childhood in southern Nigeria, where the influence of conservative Christianity, intermingled with the traditional practices of the Igbo people, has created a receptivity to anti-Palestinian beliefs.

Italian philosopher Marcello Tarì examines the tension between everyday revolutionary acts and the impending sense of catastrophe that marks our current moment. Excerpted from an introduction to Tarì’s book, There is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution.

Palestinian music scholar Rami Soudah compiles a chronology of Palestine’s resistance music. Poets and musicians in Palestine have long expressed their depths of loss and nostalgia through verse and song, and artists in the broader Arab world have joined them, producing music of solidarity.