Adalya Nash Hussein

Oct 13, 2024 | overland.org.au | Jeff Sparrow |Neil Vallelly |Adalya Nash Hussein

If you want to understand the dismal state of Australian politics, consider the phrase “social cohesion”. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (and, honestly, who could blame you), you’ll have heard politicians deploy the slogan repeatedly against protests in solidarity with Palestine. “It is not a time to raise the temperature,” explained Anthony Albanese.

Oct 6, 2024 | overland.org.au | Neil Vallelly |Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen

The standard refrain about Israel is that “it is the only democracy in the Middle East”. Some stand by this claim; others reject it. Many argue that Benjamin Netanyahu has been eroding democratic values in Israel over the last decade; others insist that so-called Israeli democracy is premised on the oppression and killing of Palestinians, which thus undermines the universalist principles of liberal democracy.

Sep 19, 2024 | overland.org.au | Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen |Alda Balthrop-Lewis

It has been a turbulent time for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. At a solo recital programmed by MSO on August 11, pianist Jayson Gillham introduced his premiere of Connor D’Netto’s Witness, a work dedicated to the journalists of Gaza, by saying:Over the last 10 months, Israel has killed more than one hundred Palestinian journalists. A number of these have been targeted assassinations of prominent journalists as they were travelling in marked press vehicles or wearing their press jackets.

Jun 14, 2023 | liminalmag.com | Adalya Nash Hussein

You’ve talked a bit about how your awareness of and relationship to Islamophobia have changed over the years. I want to ask a kind of similar question around solidarity with Indigenous people, because I know that’s something you try to foreground in your work now, especially through collaborations with Eugenia Flynn.