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This site is organised around a body of work that spans three languages, multiple publication platforms, and two parallel intellectual tracks: contemporary geopolitical analysis and long-term archival research into Palestinian legal and institutional history.

If you are arriving for the first time, this page is a guide to how the work is structured.

The two tracks

The first track is analytical. It engages with current structures of power: the political economy of the Middle East, the mechanics of international law, the architecture of war, and the procedural systems through which states claim and contest legitimacy. This work appears in English, Arabic, and Italian across the publications listed on the About page.

The second track is archival. It examines the documentary record of Palestinian legal and civic life under Ottoman administration and the British Mandate, and traces the continuities between that record and the present. This material appears in the Archive section of this site and in select long-form essays.

The two tracks are not separate. The archival research provides the evidentiary foundation for the analytical argument. A critique of international procedure gains a different weight when it is grounded in a specific, documented history.

Recurring concepts

Across the essays, several concepts recur in different registers and languages:

Recognisability — the conditions under which a claim, a people, or a legal argument becomes legible to international institutions, and the structural reasons why some claims are made systematically illegible.
Classification — how naming, categorisation, and institutional language function as instruments of power, and how that power is contested.
Administrative legibility — the Ottoman and Mandate-era systems through which Palestinian civic and legal identity was registered, and what survives of that registration in the current record.
Procedural legitimacy — the gap between legal form and political reality, and what it means to argue within a system that is structurally weighted against the argument.
Narrative infrastructure — the organised production of silence, and the counter-structures that documentary evidence and independent analysis can build against it.

The sequences

Rather than reading chronologically, the work is best understood through conceptual sequences. The Sequences section of this site organises the essays into thematic clusters that cut across language, platform, and date.

Where to begin

For geopolitical analysis: start with the English or Arabic archives, or browse by topic.

For the archival and legal history: start with the Archive section.

For the conceptual framework: the essays on classification, language, and recognisability — including the Elaph trilogy from May 2026 — are the clearest entry point into the underlying argument.