Identity

• Expats, Immigrants, and the Privilege of Declared Intention (31 Jan 2026)
  A provocation about the fake neutrality of words like “expat” and “immigrant.” It starts with the myth that the difference is just “intention,” then shows how “intention” gets weaponized. It goes back to Europe’s Gastarbeiter era, and ends with the uncomfortable role of the “expat” collaborator as an alibi for the hierarchy.


• 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.


• Mass Deportations Are Inevitable: Are We Ready? (07 Dec 2025)
  Mass deportations are coming to Europe. The difference between crisis and opportunity is timing. A strategy for the Tunisian diaspora.


• 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.


• The Bureaucratic Hallucination of Migrationshintergrund (24 Nov 2025)
  Germany's unstable definition of 'migration background' varies by state and year. Once applied, the label calcifies even as definitions change.


• 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.


• How Made in Germany Became Made by Someone We Won't Hire (20 Oct 2025)
  The hidden labor behind German engineering. How Werkverträge and temp agencies exploit skilled workers while corporations claim innovation.


• 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.