Ussama’s Substack
Ussama MakdisiMy personal Substack
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The "Morning After" the Lebanon"Agreement"
There was a nineteenth-century orientalist traveler and diplomat by the name of David Urquhart who said about (Mount) Lebanon that “Never was a country for which God has done so much, nor a people who could do less for themselves.” Such a d...
"All of Lebanon should burn" and IHRA
The United Nations Human Rights Council states that “Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in t...
The Day After and Before
How does one keep count? A snapshot of a chronicle of depravity: just yesterday, an Israeli solider shot and killed a 7-month-old boy in the West Bank by the name of Sam Abu Haykal, the day before an Israeli drone attack on a Gaza tent hous...
"Death to the Arabs": 21st-century state-sponsored supremacy on full display
It is remarkable to think that in 2026, Israeli supremacists march openly across Jerusalem chanting “Death to the Arabs” and other ghastly things. If ever there was a an indication of the anachronism of settler-colonialism today, it is this...
Israel is Weaponizing Lebanon's Diversity
Here it is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/opinion/israel-exploits-lebanon-sectarian-divides.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dFA.BQRX.-PzK6Isdyj1y&smid=url-share
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Professor of History and co-host of Makdisi Street podcast
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