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Ussama Makdisi

  • Co-Host, Makdisi Street
  • Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair, University of California, Berkeley
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Against erasure: The artists preserving south Lebanon’s stories

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By David Hearst Verified, Ussama Makdisi, Rita Kabalan
| Middle East Eye Verified
Beit Beirut holds an exhibition where villages are remembered through photography, film and personal archives Rawan Mazeh documents the story of Muhammad Saeed (pictured) and his elderly parents who were detained and tortured in the notorious Israeli-run Khiam prison in south Lebanon in 1998 (Rita Kabalan/MEE) 14 July 2026 12:14 BST ago On the intersection of Independence Street and Damascus Street sits Beit Beirut, a museum stoically standing, part preserved by its original architecture and...
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The Gaza genocide has killed liberal Zionism

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By Ussama Makdisi
| Middle East Eye Verified
6 July 2026 07:54 BST ago As Israel's destruction of Gaza horrifies global public opinion, liberal Zionists are struggling to reconcile professed democratic values with a Jewish supremacist state in Palestine New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York Governor Kathy Hochul march in the Israel Day parade in New York City on 31 May 2026 (Janet Mayer/Cover Images via Reuters) The Gaza genocide has destroyed the remnants of liberal Zionism.
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Shameful Israel-Lebanon 'agreement' evokes the Oslo disaster

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By Ussama Makdisi
| Middle East Eye Verified
There was a 19th-century Orientalist traveller and diplomat by the name of David Urquhart, who said about (Mount) Lebanon that there “never was a country for which God has done so much, nor a people who could do less for themselves”. Such a description was unfair and stereotypical. But Urquhart was writing just as Lebanon was becoming a central node in both European imperialism and the Ottoman attempt to stymie that imperialism.
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