Rapporti, riflessioni, presentazioni

Editorial: They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds

The phrase ‘They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds’, attributed to the Greek poet…

When education saves lives

Roma Tre University, which I have the honour of leading, has joined the UNICORE (University COrridors for REfugees)…

The principle of nonviolence in education

The article explores the principle of nonviolence as a pedagogical perspective, necessary in a present marked by the…

Altruism or Barbarism. Or, Si vis pacem… nurture peace. A tribute to Juliano Mer Khamis and Vittorio Arrigoni

In a time like the present, once again marked by widespread recourse to war, by genocides, by the killing of tens of…

Genocide in Gaza and the Crisis of International Law

The word genocide, in addition to its legal meaning, also has a symbolic value. The legal notion of genocide, which as…

Genocide and the Global Sumūd Flotilla: Pedagogical Reflections for the Formation of Critical Subjectivities

The article examines the genocidal apparatus and the actions of the Global Sumūd Flotilla (GSF) in the face of the…

When words fall silent. Gaza, educide and the link between critical pedagogy and politics

This contribution examines the war in Gaza as an extreme case to explore the relationship between critical pedagogy and…

Remaining Human in Dehumanizing Contexts: Sumūd as an Educational and Political Practice

The article analyzes Sumūd as an educational and political practice within the dehumanizing context of Palestine,…

Historical-educational training courses exploring history, memories, and conflicts. The Shoah between crystallization and relationship with the present

This article offers a reflection on the historical-educational processes related to the Jewish Holocaust and its…

War and Peace: Stories of Educational Resistance and Female Sumūd

War (conceived and largely carried out by men), as well as forms of education aligned with the ideologies that usually…

Sumūd: when resistance is feminist

From a critical, decolonial and intersectional feminist perspective, this contribution analyses the ways in which…

Together in Our Grief, Imagining a Shared Future: rehearsal for a ‘Third Narrative’ in Israel-Palestine

This paper explores a possible third narrative in the Israel-Palestine context, focusing on spatial perspective and…

The Tree and the Thread: Narrating Palestine Between Memory and Future

Is it possible to construct a narrative on Palestine that restores dignity and memory to the history of a people and…

Staying, Crossing, Remembering. Sumūd as a Civic, Pedagogical, and Poetic Stance

This article investigates ṣumūd as an ethical, political, and pedagogical practice articulated through the movements…

Funūn: resisting artistically

The essay provides an overview of the dynamics within the Palestinian art scene, suspended between native territories…

Responses to scholasticide: between art, school and the right to study

In recent years, we have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of minors involved in war contexts, and the…

Sumūd as a response to scholasticide: the report of Operazione Colomba and a Palestinian student

This article analyzes the phenomenon of scholasticide in Palestine. Through dialogue with a Palestinian student and…

Recensioni

Recensione di Traverso E. (2024). La linea del colore è una rappresentazione mentale. Gaza davanti alla storia. Bari-Roma: Editori Laterza

Come afferma lo stesso Traverso parafrasando Sartre, Gaza davanti alla storia è scritto en situation. Un testo che non…

Recensione di Jebral, R. (2025). Genocidio. Quello che rimane di noi nell’era neo-imperiale. Milano: Mondadori

Questo libro non racconta la storia così come lo fanno i mass-media o la maggioranza del discorso politico. Quella in…

Recensione di Bashir, B. & Goldberg, A. (2023). Olocausto e Nakba. Narrazioni tra storia e trauma. Bologna: Zikkaron

I curatori del volume sono Bashir Bashir e Amos Goldberg: Bashir Bashir è docente di sociologia, scienze politiche e…

Interviste

A life for a Free Palestine: an interview with Luisa Morgantini

When we speak of Gaza, there is a before and after 7 October 2023. More than two years have passed since that terrible…

Educating in the Rupture: The Holocaust and the Nakba as Memories to Be Reconnected. Interview with Nadim Khoury

Two scholars in educational sciences engage in a dialogue with the Palestinian political philosopher Nadim Khoury on the…

Living Through Conflict in Rondine’s Transformative Approach: The Testimony of a Friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian

The contribution explores the transformative approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the analysis of a…