Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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This urgent conversation, facilitated by Ashira Darwish and rooted in Haidar Eid’s new book Banging on the Walls of the Tank, moves through the fractured present of Gaza, bringing forth a chorus of resistance, mourning, refusal, and clarity.
This is a dispatch from within the rubble, the classroom, the lull between airstrikes. Together. Eid and Darwish hold the line inside the unbearable: the grief of ongoing genocide and the insistence on liberation; the impossibility of hope and the necessity of imagining otherwise.
Their conversation refuses erasure, insists on dignity, and carries the clarity of those living under siege with purpose and memory intact.
Themes include:
· The historical arc of resistance and refusal in Palestine
· The racialized machinery of extermination and its global complicities
· The limits of international law and the failures of “humanitarian” frameworks
· Anti-normalization, cultural boycott, and the politics of refusal
· The endurance of poetic, revolutionary, and academic commitment under siege
This conversation carries the vibration of Gaza’s resistance outward, inviting listeners not just to witness, but to respond.
Art by Gazan Nursing student & artist, Aya Shaqalean
Haidar Eid is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature. He has published papers on cultural Studies and literature in a number of journals and books. He has also written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is also a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network and on the advisory board of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Associate Professor Haidar Eid received his MA in postcolonial literature from Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus. After teaching in Northern Cyprus, he went on to earn his PhD in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Johannesburg. With Ph.D. in hand, he took a series of positions, as Senior lecturer at Vista University — Soweto; assistant professor at Al-Quds Open university in Gaza/Palestine; visiting professor in the department of foreign languages of The North China University of Science and Technology; co-ordinator of the Language Institute at Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE and assistant professor at Mazoon College in Oman.
Ashira Ali Darwish worked for 15 years as a TV & Radio journalist and researcher in Palestine for the BBC, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. She is the founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, a trauma therapy project pioneering a type of Sufi active meditation which draws its roots from ancestral and Indigenous knowledge. Her personal healing journey from full body paralysis with a severed spinal cord in 2012 has given her a deep insight into the process of recovery and healing. In 2021, she received the “ISABS Honours” from the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science for her contribution to positive societal transformation.
Science and Nonduality (SAND) contemplates and reveres the beauty, complexity, pain, and great mystery that weave the infinite cycles of existence. We explore beyond ultimate truths, binary thinking, and individual awakening while acknowledging humanity as a mere part of the intricate web of life.
You can watch all our videos at scienceandnonduality.com
This urgent conversation, facilitated by Ashira Darwish and rooted in Haidar Eid’s new book Banging on the Walls of the Tank, moves through the fractured present of Gaza, bringing forth a chorus of resistance, mourning, refusal, and clarity.
This is a dispatch from within the rubble, the classroom, the lull between airstrikes. Together. Eid and Darwish hold the line inside the unbearable: the grief of ongoing genocide and the insistence on liberation; the impossibility of hope and the necessity of imagining otherwise.
Their conversation refuses erasure, insists on dignity, and carries the clarity of those living under siege with purpose and memory intact.
Themes include:
· The historical arc of resistance and refusal in Palestine
· The racialized machinery of extermination and its global complicities
· The limits of international law and the failures of “humanitarian” frameworks
· Anti-normalization, cultural boycott, and the politics of refusal
· The endurance of poetic, revolutionary, and academic commitment under siege
This conversation carries the vibration of Gaza’s resistance outward, inviting listeners not just to witness, but to respond.
Art by Gazan Nursing student & artist, Aya Shaqalean
Haidar Eid is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature. He has published papers on cultural Studies and literature in a number of journals and books. He has also written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is also a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network and on the advisory board of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Associate Professor Haidar Eid received his MA in postcolonial literature from Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus. After teaching in Northern Cyprus, he went on to earn his PhD in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Johannesburg. With Ph.D. in hand, he took a series of positions, as Senior lecturer at Vista University — Soweto; assistant professor at Al-Quds Open university in Gaza/Palestine; visiting professor in the department of foreign languages of The North China University of Science and Technology; co-ordinator of the Language Institute at Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE and assistant professor at Mazoon College in Oman.
Ashira Ali Darwish worked for 15 years as a TV & Radio journalist and researcher in Palestine for the BBC, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. She is the founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, a trauma therapy project pioneering a type of Sufi active meditation which draws its roots from ancestral and Indigenous knowledge. Her personal healing journey from full body paralysis with a severed spinal cord in 2012 has given her a deep insight into the process of recovery and healing. In 2021, she received the “ISABS Honours” from the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science for her contribution to positive societal transformation.
Science and Nonduality (SAND) contemplates and reveres the beauty, complexity, pain, and great mystery that weave the infinite cycles of existence. We explore beyond ultimate truths, binary thinking, and individual awakening while acknowledging humanity as a mere part of the intricate web of life.
