Colonialism

• A Billionaire Wore Your History as a Joke. Now What? (27 Jan 2026)
  Why does 'Carthage must be destroyed' still provoke a reaction today? From Zuckerberg’s shirt to city maps, this essay questions memory, erasure, and whether Carthage’s return could quietly change how we see Tunisia.


• The Graveyard Managers: On Decline, Identity, and the Privatization of History (08 Jan 2026)
  Explore how insecurity transforms civic belonging into tribal identity. A comparative look at the Arab Golden Age, the modern West, and the policing of the past.


• The War After the War (05 Jan 2026)
  The war doesn’t end with treaties. It moves into archives, language, and schools. On history, power, and the cruelty of narrative monopoly.


• Why the Apologies Never Come (17 Dec 2025)
  Why did the world punish the Nazis but ignore colonial crimes? This essay argues that accountability is a function of power, not morality. From the missing archives to the Thiaroye massacre, discover why the colonial bill remains unpaid.


• From Dido to the Fall of Rome: A Tunisian Fable (08 Dec 2025)
  How Dido's curse was fulfilled not by Hannibal, but by the Vandals. A Tunisian story of prophecy, adoption, and the sack of Rome in 455 CE.


• Inherited Curricula: A Call for Intellectual Self‑Respect (28 Nov 2025)
  Why teaching Kant and Hume without their racism is amnesia. A call to place European thinkers alongside Ibn Khaldun, Zera Yacob, and others.


• Citizens of the Library (27 Nov 2025)
  How Latinization erased the origins of Ibn Sina, Al-Khwarizmi, and Ibn Rushd. Medieval translation as assimilation and identity erasure.


• The Architecture of Survival (26 Nov 2025)
  How Tunisian proverbs formed a counter-machinery to colonial decrees. The colonizer had laws; the colonized had sentences passed through generations.


• The Irony of the Savior (07 Nov 2025)
  The paradox of Western civilization awaiting a Savior who would likely come to dismantle it. Where would a return actually happen?


• The Imperial Boomerang (05 Nov 2025)
  How techniques of domination tested abroad eventually return home. The normalization of violence at the periphery sets domestic precedents.


• Western is a Status, Not a Geography (02 Nov 2025)
  Why 'Western civilization' has no fixed borders. Examining how the label expands to include conquered territories while demanding assimilation.


• The Sarcasm of Repetition (25 Oct 2025)
  When history repeats itself, is it prophecy or a schedule? Examining how the 'cycle of violence' narrative absolves oppressors of choice.