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About Zahi Zalloua

Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a professor of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist. His most recent work includes The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (2024), Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality (2023), Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (2021), Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future (2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017).
Latest Posts | By Zahi Zalloua
Fascism from the Standpoint of Its Racialized Victims
2 months ago

Fascism from the Standpoint of Its Racialized Victims

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What does fascism look like from the standpoint of its racialized victims? My question here is inspired by Edward Said’s key 1979 essay, “Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims,” …
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The Palestinian Problem as a Problem of Being
7 months ago

The Palestinian Problem as a Problem of Being

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In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois famously meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?”[i] This is …
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Framing Palestine
1 year ago

Framing Palestine

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The title of my essay, “Framing Palestine,” has a double meaning. First, I’m using “framing” to describe the ways we try to make sense of Palestine—more specifically, how we make …
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