Joelle Abi-Rached
@joelleabirached.bsky.social
Working on the politics of life and death. Harvard Radcliffe Fellow (2023-2024); Associate Professor of Medicine @AUB; Associate @Harvard (History of Science)
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Through the disasters of this year, our writers delivered fearless analysis and creative resilience—refusing to compromise on fundamental values of justice and humanity in the face of brazen cruelty and democratic decline.
Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:
Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:
Our Most-Loved Pieces of 2025 - Boston Review
Revisit the writing from this year that readers turned to the most.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Through the disasters of this year, our writers delivered fearless analysis and creative resilience—refusing to compromise on fundamental values of justice and humanity in the face of brazen cruelty and democratic decline.
Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:
Revisit the writing readers turned to the most:
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Join us this Tuesday for a book talk with Catherine Conybeare on her beautiful new biography, Augustine the African.
December 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Join us this Tuesday for a book talk with Catherine Conybeare on her beautiful new biography, Augustine the African.
Join us this Tuesday for a book talk with Catherine Conybeare on her beautiful new biography, Augustine the African.
December 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Join us this Tuesday for a book talk with Catherine Conybeare on her beautiful new biography, Augustine the African.
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Congratulations to contributors @joelleabirached.bsky.social and @samklug.bsky.social, whose 2024 essays “The View from Besieged Beirut” & “Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?” are recognized as notable essays in the Best American Essays 2025, edited by Jia Tolentino and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Congratulations to contributors @joelleabirached.bsky.social and @samklug.bsky.social, whose 2024 essays “The View from Besieged Beirut” & “Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?” are recognized as notable essays in the Best American Essays 2025, edited by Jia Tolentino and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.
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Thrilled that "Lebanon Anatomy of a Collapse" which I co-edited w @joelleabirached.bsky.social will be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social in 2026.The book traces the unravelling of Lebanon including riveting-if unsettling-chapters by inspiring contributors. hurstpublishers.com/book/lebanon-3
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Thrilled that "Lebanon Anatomy of a Collapse" which I co-edited w @joelleabirached.bsky.social will be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social in 2026.The book traces the unravelling of Lebanon including riveting-if unsettling-chapters by inspiring contributors. hurstpublishers.com/book/lebanon-3
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🗣️ [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]
Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds
Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds
September 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🗣️ [TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS]
Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds
Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice.
🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds
Deeply honored that my essay “Trauma after Gaza” was selected as the centerpiece of this timely special issue …
📣 NEW ISSUE: TMR 53 #OutofOurMinds is live today!
Join us in embracing vulnerability and collective care in these uncertain times.
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/tmr-53-out-of...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutofOurMinds
Join us in embracing vulnerability and collective care in these uncertain times.
🔗 Read now: bit.ly/tmr-53-out-of...
#TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutofOurMinds
September 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Deeply honored that my essay “Trauma after Gaza” was selected as the centerpiece of this timely special issue …
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🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.
September 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.
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The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.
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"By underwriting Israel’s genocidal onslaught—financially, materially, and ideologically—Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the rules-based legal order that the West itself developed in the wreckage of World War II" www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
August 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"By underwriting Israel’s genocidal onslaught—financially, materially, and ideologically—Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the rules-based legal order that the West itself developed in the wreckage of World War II" www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...
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Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and of its victims’ recourse to human rights and international law as a final forum of appeal for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the “wretched of the earth,” whoever and wherever they may be. @joelleabirached.bsky.social
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and of its victims’ recourse to human rights and international law as a final forum of appeal for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the “wretched of the earth,” whoever and wherever they may be. @joelleabirached.bsky.social
The word is capacious
I'd save "healthocide" for what RFK Jr. will bring.
August 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The word is capacious
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'Petro thus spoke in Bogotá of the need both to condemn prevailing “barbarism” and to give real meaning to the principles now being betrayed—to keep alive, that is, “the possibility of another kind of humanity, one that can love and think collectively.”'
Some heartbreaking details about and cogent analysis of what is happening in Gaza.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
August 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
'Petro thus spoke in Bogotá of the need both to condemn prevailing “barbarism” and to give real meaning to the principles now being betrayed—to keep alive, that is, “the possibility of another kind of humanity, one that can love and think collectively.”'
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Our 50th anniversary issue heads to the printer soon.
Featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide, w/ @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, & @martinoneill.bsky.social.
To get it, subscribe now (link below):
Featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide, w/ @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, & @martinoneill.bsky.social.
To get it, subscribe now (link below):
August 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our 50th anniversary issue heads to the printer soon.
Featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide, w/ @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, & @martinoneill.bsky.social.
To get it, subscribe now (link below):
Featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide, w/ @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, & @martinoneill.bsky.social.
To get it, subscribe now (link below):
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"We can’t allow ‘healthocide’ to become the norm, in Gaza or elsewhere" -Andre Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
I also wrote on attacks on medical facilities👇
There must be consequences: Accountability for war crimes can help stop attacks on hospitals justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/02/t...
I also wrote on attacks on medical facilities👇
There must be consequences: Accountability for war crimes can help stop attacks on hospitals justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/02/t...
Opinion: Even in war, attacking medical facilities must remain off limits
Disregard for the policy of ‘medical neutrality’ in war – outlined in treaties like the Geneva Conventions - has given rise to a new term: healthocide
theglobeandmail.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"We can’t allow ‘healthocide’ to become the norm, in Gaza or elsewhere" -Andre Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
I also wrote on attacks on medical facilities👇
There must be consequences: Accountability for war crimes can help stop attacks on hospitals justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/02/t...
I also wrote on attacks on medical facilities👇
There must be consequences: Accountability for war crimes can help stop attacks on hospitals justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/02/t...
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'Targeting medics and hospitals in acts of war should be called “healthocide”, academics have urged, amid an increase in such attacks in recent years.'
Link to original comment in BMJ Global Health: gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Link to original comment in BMJ Global Health: gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
‘Healthocide’: experts warn of rise in targeting of health services in conflict
Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
'Targeting medics and hospitals in acts of war should be called “healthocide”, academics have urged, amid an increase in such attacks in recent years.'
Link to original comment in BMJ Global Health: gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Link to original comment in BMJ Global Health: gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
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Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection
Six million people live in Lebanon, including 1.5 million Syrian and 500 000 Palestinian refugees. Israel has attacked Lebanon multiple times, most recently from 8 October until 27 November 2024, when...
gh.bmj.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
It took a year to get this paper out after earlier versions, incl. one in Nov 2023, were rejected without peer review given the astounding silence of US journals. Medical neutrality is collapsing, yet it remains the last shield for health workers in war zones #healthocide gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection
Six million people live in Lebanon, including 1.5 million Syrian and 500 000 Palestinian refugees. Israel has attacked Lebanon multiple times, most recently from 8 October until 27 November 2024, when...
gh.bmj.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It took a year to get this paper out after earlier versions, incl. one in Nov 2023, were rejected without peer review given the astounding silence of US journals. Medical neutrality is collapsing, yet it remains the last shield for health workers in war zones #healthocide gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection
Six million people live in Lebanon, including 1.5 million Syrian and 500 000 Palestinian refugees. Israel has attacked Lebanon multiple times, most recently from 8 October until 27 November 2024, when...
gh.bmj.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Honoured to see our new BMJ Global Health article on the deliberate destruction of health systems in war — what we call "healthocide" or “sanicidio” in Spanish — profiled today by Agencia SINC, the news agency of the Spanish Foundation for Science & Technology. www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Exp...
Expertos proponen denominar ‘sanicidio’ a la destrucción intencionada de la sanidad en guerras
La revista BMJ Global Health ha publicado un artículo de opinión que acuña este término para definir la destrucción intencionada de sistemas sanitarios como táctica de guerra. Los autores denuncian la instrumentalización de la atención médica en conflictos como el de Gaza y piden a la comunidad médica internacional que se pronuncie ante esta forma de violencia.
www.agenciasinc.es
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Honoured to see our new BMJ Global Health article on the deliberate destruction of health systems in war — what we call "healthocide" or “sanicidio” in Spanish — profiled today by Agencia SINC, the news agency of the Spanish Foundation for Science & Technology. www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Exp...
“Health” is of Germanic origin and means “whole” ..by “healthocide” we mean the destruction of the right to health and healthcare of an entire population. Gaza today is the paragon of healthocide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Healthocide’: experts warn of rise in targeting of health services in conflict
Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“Health” is of Germanic origin and means “whole” ..by “healthocide” we mean the destruction of the right to health and healthcare of an entire population. Gaza today is the paragon of healthocide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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"[Gaza] exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life, whatever their beliefs, skin color, or religious affiliation."
thank you @joelleabirached.bsky.social for this painful but essential piece
thank you @joelleabirached.bsky.social for this painful but essential piece
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
August 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"[Gaza] exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life, whatever their beliefs, skin color, or religious affiliation."
thank you @joelleabirached.bsky.social for this painful but essential piece
thank you @joelleabirached.bsky.social for this painful but essential piece
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Thank you for telling this story, a forceful yet surgical account that resists simplification while confronting the enormity of the horror.
August 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Thank you for telling this story, a forceful yet surgical account that resists simplification while confronting the enormity of the horror.