Essays in criticism and culture, some drawn from the weekly column in Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
When criticism becomes a set of procedures applied to texts, it loses its first function: the production of knowledge. A case for recovering criticism as thinking rather than technique.
When ordinary speech fails to carry catastrophe, literature invents a poetics of its own — one that arises from damage rather than from wholeness.
Against an official story that seeks to erase the witness, the literature of diaspora builds a counter-narrative that restores the exile's voice.
Between an imported theory and a cultural field carrying its own wounds, the encounter remains possible — but conditioned on critical awareness rather than ready-made borrowing.
Meaning is not handed ready-made from the text to the reader; it is made in the encounter between them, where the reader becomes a partner rather than a recipient.