Thrilled that "Lebanon Anatomy of a Collapse" which I co-edited w @joelleabirached.bsky.social will be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social in 2026.The book traces the unravelling of Lebanon including riveting-if unsettling-chapters by inspiring contributors. hurstpublishers.com/book/lebanon-3

🗣️ [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS] Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice. 🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-... #TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds

Deeply honored that my essay “Trauma after Gaza” was selected as the centerpiece of this timely special issue …

🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online. Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

"By underwriting Israel’s genocidal onslaught—financially, materially, and ideologically—Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the rules-based legal order that the West itself developed in the wreckage of World War II" www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...

If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)! #histmed #histstm #sts

Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and of its victims’ recourse to human rights and international law as a final forum of appeal for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the “wretched of the earth,” whoever and wherever they may be. @joelleabirached.bsky.social

The word is capacious

'Petro thus spoke in Bogotá of the need both to condemn prevailing “barbarism” and to give real meaning to the principles now being betrayed—to keep alive, that is, “the possibility of another kind of humanity, one that can love and think collectively.”'

Our 50th anniversary issue heads to the printer soon. Featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide, w/ @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, & @martinoneill.bsky.social. To get it, subscribe now (link below):

"We can’t allow ‘healthocide’ to become the norm, in Gaza or elsewhere" -Andre Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... I also wrote on attacks on medical facilities👇 There must be consequences: Accountability for war crimes can help stop attacks on hospitals justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/02/t...

'Targeting medics and hospitals in acts of war should be called “healthocide”, academics have urged, amid an increase in such attacks in recent years.' Link to original comment in BMJ Global Health: gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

It took a year to get this paper out after earlier versions, incl. one in Nov 2023, were rejected without peer review given the astounding silence of US journals. Medical neutrality is collapsing, yet it remains the last shield for health workers in war zones #healthocide gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Honoured to see our new BMJ Global Health article on the deliberate destruction of health systems in war — what we call "healthocide" or “sanicidio” in Spanish — profiled today by Agencia SINC, the news agency of the Spanish Foundation for Science & Technology. www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Exp...

“Health” is of Germanic origin and means “whole” ..by “healthocide” we mean the destruction of the right to health and healthcare of an entire population. Gaza today is the paragon of healthocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"[Gaza] exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life, whatever their beliefs, skin color, or religious affiliation." thank you @joelleabirached.bsky.social for this painful but essential piece

Thank you for telling this story, a forceful yet surgical account that resists simplification while confronting the enormity of the horror.

• @joelleabirached.bsky.social on Gaza and the discrediting of the liberal international order • @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on Mamdani’s triumph and the future of the Democratic Party • @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social on memoirs of the Arab Jewish world destroyed by colonialism

“Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and its victims’ recourse to human rights as a final forum for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the wretched of the earth, whoever and wherever they may be. The consequences cannot be overstated.” @joelleabirached.bsky.social

By underwriting Israel’s genocidal onslaught so flagrantly, Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the legal order the West itself developed after World War II. @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...

Painful to write—born of disappointment. I call for critical engagement with the West, not bashing its epistemic frameworks: expose its racism and double standards while salvaging and advancing the universal human‑rights framework forged after WWII. Perhaps the baton now rests w/ the ‘Global South.’

One word: criminals www.naharnet.com/stories/en/3...

Disconcerting. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Now that measles is on the rise again in the US, along with bird flu becoming 'endemic', it is worth pondering the question once again: Do pandemics ever end? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.” Virchow

When Trump speaks of turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” he draws on a deep reservoir of American imperial myths and reflects the increasingly naked and brazen imperatives of today’s hyper-capitalism. @joelleabirached.bsky.social on the Rivierization of the world:

When Trump spoke of turning Gaza into the most beautiful “Riviera of the Middle East,” he was drawing on a deep reservoir of imperial myths and reflecting the increasingly naked and brazen imperatives of today’s hyper-capitalism. @joelleabirached.bsky.social

American sociologist George Ritzer once wrote of the “McDonaldization of society,” the process whereby the logic of consumerism became a totalizing form of social control. Now, it seems the “Rivierization of the world” will supplant it. @joelleabirached.bsky.social on Trump’s plans for Gaza:

From the editors: introducing TRUMP’S RETURN, our new issue. Featuring @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social @morefius.bsky.social @econmarshall.bsky.social @joelleabirached.bsky.social @mschmitt9.bsky.social @janicefinewjl.bsky.social @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social Noura Erakat, Robin D. G. Kelley, & more

Brilliant @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social : www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I wrote this several months ago when Jared Kushner’s unsettling suggestion went largely unnoticed. Now, it’s no longer just a misstep—it’s becoming policy.

“Are Gaza and the West Bank merely the targets of a grand real estate project, as Jared Kushner unashamedly confessed during a conversation at the Harvard Kennedy School earlier this year?” @joelleabirached.bsky.social

Edited by @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Contributions from us along with @ctimmermann.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, Lidia Hellou, Eric Carter, Laurence Monnais, @hanspols.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, Per Haave, Scott Podolsky, David Jones, Sebastian Fonseca...

On another matter, I see Medicine on a Larger Scale has a webpage now. You could pre-order the paperback but I advise waiting till June 2025 to get it all open access #histSTM #STS #histmed #globalhealth

Delighted to have a chapter in this important forthcoming book. Mine, co-authored with Lidia Helou, explores the genealogy of social medicine in the Arab world and the colonial roots of a concept we take for granted today.

Our next issue, TRUMP’S RETURN, is coming soon—featuring @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on Trump’s coalition, Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang, Robin Kelley on fighting back, and much more. Subscribe now—use code RETURN20 for 20% off—to be on the first shipment: bostonreview.net/memberships

Delighted to be included in this special issue on neotrumpism, resistance, political violence, and its lingering traumatic sequelae.

"Are Gaza and the West Bank merely the targets of a grand real estate project, as Jared Kushner unashamedly confessed during a conversation at the Harvard Kennedy School?" @joelleabirached.bsky.social

A must read paper. #Syria « Are we doomed to repeat the traumas of the past? Will trauma beget more traumas? What kind of reconciliation can Syrians pursue while embracing the imperative of Holocaust survivors to “forgive but not forget,” making remembrance a moral and historical duty? »

Can we ever heal from deep historical traumas? Or are we doomed to reenact the traumas of the past? Are we irremediable, “human debris” as Ben-Gurion qualified Shoah survivors? My latest on #Syria in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...

How will the Syrian people, who have endured so much suffering, find a path to healing? How do we think about the deep traumas inflicted on populations where violence and fear served as the currency of the ruling political class?

Hello, @bsky.app. My first post will be on the lingering effects of historical traumas. Overcoming these morbid symptoms may be Syria’s greatest challenge. My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...

"How do we think about the deep traumas inflicted on populations where violence and fear serve as the currency of the ruling political class and its security apparatus?" @joelleabirached.bsky.social on Syria's coming reckoning, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...

Hello, @bsky.app. My first post will be on the lingering effects of historical traumas. Overcoming these morbid symptoms may be Syria’s greatest challenge. My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...

The rebels’ victory has exposed the barbaric nature of the Assad regime. The task of rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of such unfathomable state violence may prove to be their greatest challenge. Joelle M. Abi-Rached on the Syrian transition: