Norman Saadi Nikro
Norman Saadi Nikro has Australian and Lebanese backgrounds. He is a former Australian Volunteer Abroad, serving in the West Bank of Palestine in 1998-99. His books include The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style,and Civil War in Lebanon (2012); Milieus of ReMemory: Relationalities of Violence, Trauma, andVoice (2019); and Nafssiya: Edward Saids Affective Phenomenology of Racism (2024). Since July 2024 he resides in Sydney as an independent scholar and writer.
Recent articles by Norman Saadi Nikro
21 March 2025
Gazan Ark: Reproductive violence and the right to life and death
While the biblical story of Noah’s Ark is certainly not the only ancient account of a devastating flood (the preceding Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, includes a story of the gods sending a great flood on earth), its basic plot of wrath, punishment, ethnic cleansing, and reproductive means of survival provides a compelling framework by which to reflect on Israel’s genocidal efforts in Gaza since at least 7 October 2023.
7 February 2025
The return North, through the durée of the Palestinian Nakba
Al Jazeera’s reporter Hind Khoudary has in the last few days posted a report documenting her journey back to her home in northern Gaza.
29 December 2024
Humiliation and gratuitous violence: The racial logic of Israel’s right to unaccountability
When we hear of so many incidents in which Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank detain Palestinians and gratuitously ransack their homes (if not completely destroy their homes), one tries to understand what role humiliation plays in the way in which the soldiers orient themselves to their victims.