Identity

• 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 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.


• The Gradient Ladder (23 Dec 2025)
  We didn’t dissolve the racial ranking; we refined it. From the history of European assimilation to the biased lens of social media algorithms, explore how society traded a theory of bloodlines for a theory of gradients and why the 'drawbridge' of privilege remains as guarded as ever.


• The Victim Stance and the Problem of Closure (19 Dec 2025)
  An analytical essay on the victim stance: how pain becomes currency, how it spreads across politics and private life, and why the refusal of closure corrodes justice, redemption, and accountability.


• When Discrimination Becomes an Alibi (15 Dec 2025)
  When a file is pushed up or buried, the harm is procedural. So why do we treat suspected racism like a psychological mystery instead of auditing the deviation and fixing the queue?


• From Distance to Friction: Rethinking How Inequality Is Produced (14 Dec 2025)
  The privilege walk produces guilt, not change. Inequality isn’t about where you start, but the friction built into the system.


• Are We Living Inside a Prisoner’s Dilemma? A Thought Experiment on Trust and Society (10 Dec 2025)
  Why does modern life feel so transactional? This essay examines the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a social pattern and how our systems quietly erode cooperation.


• The Homeless Mind (03 Dec 2025)
  The curse of the polyglot: speaking three languages means being a refugee in all of them. On linguistic colonization and intellectual homelessness.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• Fuck your darija. We speak Tunisian. (16 Oct 2025)
  Why Tunisian is a language, not a dialect. Deconstructing the politics of 'darija' and the case for official recognition of Tunisia's native tongue.