"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto Yesterday, I read that two million Indonesians gathered in protest for Palestine. In the same … Continue reading Free Palestine can be a global post-capitalist movement
Post-module assignment written for Environmental Law with Dr. Rosalind Malcolm. Spring 2022, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey (MSc) Grade: 70% (distinction) As per the feedback of my professor, and for the purpose of avoiding spreading misinformation, there are two important things to note when you read through: - my analysis of the … Continue reading A Critique of Neoliberalism in Environmental Law – Case Studies in Biodiversity and Conservation in the UK
the Gods are Life personifieda conceited pursuitof an objectified Earthwe called her Motherand in celebration, in worshipwe covet, devourwe mourn, cursewe plough, pick, punishwe perusefor millenniafor millenniawe called her Woman,and named her Aphroditeso she gifts Love and Lifeso she is plunged into amorphous memoryyet Women endureEarth does tooso do the shallow whims of Manand I'm … Continue reading Amorphous
what sets apart the moonthat hangs over a stream of streetlights?through my eyes, i see its cratersthrough the lens of a camerait takes the shape of childhood -like drawings of the sunthrough glass panes, vision blurred,my glasses hanging off my chest?marking an ending, a beginning. . . it's a distinct white crescentwhite like bleached coralsunder … Continue reading Bus blues
Post-module assignment written for Ecological Economics with Dr. Tim Jackson. Spring 2021, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey (MSc) Grade: 82% (distinction) *** “The colonist is above all an artificial consumer, created overseas from nothing by a capitalism which is seeking new markets” -Jean-Paul Sartre, 1956 Introduction The economic and social repercussions … Continue reading Why devising a fair and green economic recovery from the global pandemic necessitates reframing neoliberal capitalism as neocolonialism
Final paper written for PHI 309: The Anthropocene: Ethics and the Environment with Dr. Arianne Conty. Fall 2018, American University of Sharjah (BSc). Grade: B+ *** The dichotomy of mind and matter as separate entities within one being is one example of the prominent Cartesian view of our world. Notwithstanding, the concept of dualism has … Continue reading Alternatives to a Dualistic World-View and Their Implications on Environmental Crises
Final research paper written for ENG 221: Peer Tutoring in Writing with Dr. Lynne Ronesi. Spring 2017, American University of Sharjah (BSc). Grade: 95% *** Introduction “What makes us human? What separates man from the beasts? […] Is it walking upright? But orangutans walk upright. Is it language?” –Harlan Lane, Secret of the Wild Child, … Continue reading On the Origin of Language and English as a Global Language
this isn't an ode to life; though it had felt that way for a time. for the many celebrations of the moon's passings day after day, the cricket's croons, mynah's songs, and the sweet morning purrs. the quiet daybreaks, headaches eased by caffeinated bevs tackling it all head-on, with prowess and perseverance. come no soul, … Continue reading Ode to Life
small yearnings accompany a curious mind in the throwaway hours of a less than ordinary life like the time I had my nose in a book in the twilight, starless and dusty, and uncomfortably warm when I learned of the perpetual hums of the river: the meaning of life then when I sung that song … Continue reading Hums/hymns
Sink your teeth in I'll rendezvous to where you ask: a hidden place, illuminated with perfect smiles like the clay vases atop the shelves mold me, smoothen out these crevaces and shape my softened shell with your callous fingers Then carry me into your roaring fires, passionate furnace. Now paint me, observe me: beautiful and … Continue reading Dreams, desires
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