To be an intellectual is to be in the fray (mushtabik). If you refuse the struggle, you and your culture amount to nothing.” (Bassel Al-A’raj)
My work explores what it means to resist and exist in an age of absurdity—an age defined by financial capitalism, Big Tech, and new forms of fascism.
My work synthesizes radical theology, decolonial thought, critical theory, and existentialism to ask: How do we think, act, and live otherwise when existence itself is under assault? When faced with the question of living under the conditions of absurdity, Albert Camus declared, I rebel, therefore, I am. My work asks, what does it mean to rebel under the conditions of our contemporary absurdity?
I’m the author of Against the World: Towards an Islamic Liberation Philosophy (2023), write the newsletter “In the Fray,” and teach seminars on liberatory thought. I hold an MA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut.
Lsh05@mail.aub.edu
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