I’m a Palestinian refugee researcher born and raised in Lebanon. I’m researching surveillance in academia and anti-colonial knowledge production for my PHD. My work focuses on surveillance, tech fascism and AI geopolitics.

My playlist offers a gathering of words, ideas, and images—fragments that have lit the way in moments of absolute apocalypse. When the world splits open, when it feels like there’s no ground left to stand on, these have been reminders that the only way is forward.

Palestine is a thread that pulls us together, no matter where we are, because it encompasses everything and summarizes our everyday struggle. Palestine means resistance, it means life refusing to be snuffed out. It means a determination to dream, to hold on, to fight for a better world for all.

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Mixtape no.1 - Research and Explainers

### **New circuitries of apartheid: politically analysing hostile technology** How is tech a tool of imperialist circuits? This is an important resource that shows how tech tied itself to extraction, exploitation, and erasure into a seamless infrastructure of global oppression. https://revsoc21.uk/2024/11/14/new-circuitries-of-apartheid-politically… Alt text: Unmanned aerial vehicle. Photo by US Army Material Command.

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Mixtape no.1 - Research and Explainers

### **Beyond Techwashing: The UAE’s AI Industrial Policy as a Security Regime** Forgive the shameless self-promotion, but this is about more than any single report; it’s about seeing the interconnectedness of not only our struggles but the systems of oppressions that circulate us all around, and how tech finds itself becoming the very fabric of modern warfare. https://ainowinstitute.org/publication/beyond-techwashing-the-uaes-ai-i… Alt text: An illustration of two men in hats intensely engaged in operating machinery.

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Mixtape no.2 - In Their Own Words

### **Day 187: High-tech genocide** In Gaza, artificial intelligence became an accomplice in US-sponsored annihilation, its algorithms mapping entire communities as targets, justifying the consistent bombing of lives, homes, and history. This "high-tech genocide," as Antony Loewenstein exposes, transforms Gaza into a lab where the weapons used were then celebrated in arms exhibitions in the world, tech-facilitated genocide means that destruction becomes a product, and its machinery is exported to a complicit global market. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/day-187-high… Alt text: The Electronic Intifada Podcast Day 187 Roundtable: High-tech Genocide

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Mixtape no.2 - In Their Own Words

### **No Tech for Apartheid - Webinar** This webinar shows us the geopolitical dimension of tech in context of war and violence - facial recognition systems that fragment and surveil, internet shutdowns that silence, and social media platforms that suppress resistance while amplifying dehumanization, are all parts of geopolitical projects - how the UAE used the Abraham Accords as a way to build its surveillance system via tech exchange with Israel. The tools designed to connect us are being wielded to isolate and oppress, with Gaza as a testing ground and its violence exported globally. https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/NoTechForApartheid/ Alt text: A screen showing four people in a webinar: Marwa Fatafta, Mona Shtaya, Matt Mahmoudi and Timnit Gebru. On the left side is text: #NoTechForApartheid

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Mixtape no.2 - In Their Own Words

### **Protesters Take to Apple Stores Worldwide on iPhone 16 Launch Day** Congo, Palestine, Iphone 16? Yes - people have protested Apple’s new iphone - this protest show us how lives made invisible so we can scroll through ours, where resistance often stops at hashtags and outrage is packaged as a feature. Apple’s empire, with its stores branded as havens of consumption, demands that we marvel at its sleek surfaces while ignoring the violence etched deep in the raw materials. But in protests outside these consumption spaces, there’s a call to see—not just the devices in our hands but the devastation that built them, and how they are used to target, surveil and kill our people. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-store-protests-gaza-congo-iphone-16-l… Alt text: Demonstrators hold Palestinian and Congo flags during a protest outside the Apple Omotesando store on September 20, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.

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Mixtape no.2 - In Their Own Words

### **STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory firings of workers:** These tools, the ones we scroll through in our restless hours, are the same ones scripting the lives of the dispossessed everywhere, and especially Palestine and the region. Tech doesn’t just enable genocide—it rebrands it, hiding beneath the glossy promises of innovation while it maps, surveils, and targets those who dare to live, to resist, to exist despite it all. What we consume every day—our ads, our feeds, our curated lives—is complicit, a quiet co-conspirator in systems of oppression that demand silence as a form of allegiance. No Tech for Apartheid and protest movements against Project Nimbus show us that resistance and solidarity are costly, and they must be, in order to fight these systems. https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-from-google-workers-wi… Alt text: A group of people protesting, holding up signs with text like: "No more genocide for profit" "Stop silencing workers" "Googlers against genocide" "No cloud for apartheid!!!" "Thomas Kurian: Drop Nimbus"

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Mixtape no.2 - In Their Own Words

### **No Feminist Struggle Without Gaza, No Future Without Gaza** A statement written by the Gaza Group - this statement remains a call to action for everyone, we cannot speak about anything else before recognizing that there can be no future in which Gaza does not exist, no future in which Lebanon's resistance does not exist, no future in which Palestine does not exist. https://x.com/Gazagroup_/status/1763606091147968550 Alt text: Plain image with a flower on the bottom right. Text: Let this day be an escalation in the struggle against the genocidal war on Gaza and the Zionist settler colonial project in Palestine. There can be no feminist struggle without the women of Gaza. NO FEMINIST STRUGGLE WITHOUT GAZA. NO FUTURE WITHOUT GAZA

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Mixtape no.3 - Making Plans

### **Take the Student Pledge** This pledge is a call to refuse complicity, asking students to turn their backs on tech companies that profit from genocide. It reminds us that reclaiming our labor: unionising, resisting, returns the struggle to its simplest, most powerful truth: my labor will not be a weapon. https://notechforapartheid.com/students

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Mixtape no.3 - Making Plans

### **Palestinian Digital Rights in the Context of Genocide and Big Tech Accountability One Year After the War on Gaza** There are no digital rights under the shadow of war and settler colonialism, as technology becomes both a weapon and a censor, targeting Palestinians while silencing their resistance. The 7amleh report lays bare the complicity of Big Tech, from platforms profiting off incitement and propaganda to the weaponization of AI and surveillance systems that deepen the violence in Gaza. Accountability for digital platforms is impossible without dismantling the machinery of oppression that fuels their violations. Protecting digital rights demands not just regulation but the end of war itself, where justice replaces the algorithms of destruction. https://7amleh.org/2024/09/15/report-on-palestinian-digital-rights-in-t… Alt text: Two hands holding up a signboard with the text "Palestinian Digital Rights in the Context of Genocide and Big Tech Accountability One Year After the War on Gaza"

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Mixtape no.4 - Little Wonders

### **Pro Palestine activist confronts Israeli weapons maker at US arms expo** There is nothing that can give you wellbeing in times of war except confronting and fighting back. What we need to understand at this pivotal moment in history is that tech and arms are almost inseparable now - we have a duty of confronting, of reclaiming and of building networks of solidarity and liberation https://www.youtube.com/shorts/us_V8sTkIFM Alt text: Three old white men are shown on the screen, with the background of an arms expo. Text on the screen, captioning text being spoken, says: This is the baby killing technology.