History

• 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.


• The Imported Identity: Why Berber is Not Just Amazigh (25 Dec 2025)
  Why replacing Berber with Amazigh in Tunisia imports a purity myth that erases our complex history of contact, mixture, and coastal continuity.


• 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.


• What Comes After Islamophobia? (30 Nov 2025)
  From Judeophobia to antisemitism to the camps. Why 'Islamophobia' follows the same trajectory that once failed to protect Jews.


• 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.