Against the Colonial Partition of ‘self’ and ‘other’ Muhannad Ayyash

Muhannad Ayyash was born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds, before immigrating to Canada, where he is now Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University. He is the author of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties (Columbia University Press, 2025) and A Hermeneutics of Violence (UTP, 2019), and co-editor of Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine (University of Alberta Press, 2023). He has published articles in journals such as Interventions, the European Journal of International Relations, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the European Journal of Social Theory. He has written opinion pieces for Al-Jazeera, The Baffler, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss, The Breach, and Middle East Monitor.