Crawling Out from Under the Rubble: On Becoming Iconoclasts

"How and why did we let ourselves be continuously buried under the rubble? Without implicating ourselves in entrenching the Orientalist caricatures of Southwestern Asian societies as incapable of self-government, there are questions to be asked about quietist and conformist tendencies, about the ostrich-like behavior, and the zombie attitude. These questions do not lend themselves to easy answers. But engaging with them may facilitate critical assessment of the prospects for sustainable change..."  This episode is of a text by Dr. Pamela Chrabieh that was first published following the Beirut port blast in August 2020, then re-published in April 2021. It is also available as a blog post: http://pamelachrabiehblog.com/2021/04/13/crawling-out-from-under-the-rubble-on-becoming-iconoclasts/