160 x 230mm, 8 pages, Black & white printing, Staple bound, Softcover, 2026

Connecting Ghassan Kanafani’s reflections on Palestinian existence as a dwelling in “a world not ours” to Battaile’s political vision of “brining down into the world” the rigid, transcendent, forms of life reproduced by sovereignty1; Abdaljawad Omar’s thinking critically draws from a tradition of pariah politics—a politics lived at the cross-roads of exile, abjection, emplacement and revolt. Confronting Arendt’s crippling injunction for the pariah to sacrifice its belongings to the resistance in order to “appear” in the sanctified realm of a common worldliness; Omar’s letter for Dabartis is an appeal to stand with a movement that defies commensuration through the boundless affects of love, hatred, and militant action. 

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