M Muhannad Ayyash
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Muhannad Ayyash |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Muhannad |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayyash |
| SIGNATURE | AYYASH M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Royal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9618-8711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Genocide of the Palestinians and the Future of Social Theory
This article argues that the genocide in Gaza should raise foundational questions for social theory, engendering a radical re-evaluation of fundamental questions about knowledge, the age of colonial modernity, and decolonization. Drawing on decolonial theorists and studies, I focus on what lived realities of Palestinians can teach social theory about the defining features of this stage in the age of colonial modernity, as well as the contours of …
The Palestinian’s Will to Resist Still Remains
In his book, Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel, Dr. Muhannad Ayyash theorizes structures of violence that lie at the root of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and Israeli settler colonialism. Dr. Ayyash’s aim is not to theorize for the sake of theory but to theorize and develop conceptual tools that are useful for scholars and scholar activists in understanding the relationship between people and land, land and life, oppression an…
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession of Palestinians. Chapters reflect on community politics and activism, migration, orientalism, and critical race theory. Among its unique contributions, the volume provide…
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation
The Toxic Other
This article explores an important feature of anti-Palestinian racism (APR) that is salient in the North American and European academic landscape: the expulsion of the Palestinian critique of Zionism and Israel from rational and even anti-racist discourse. This expulsion takes place through the toxification of the Palestinian other whereby Palestinian epistemology is to be mistrusted and shunned because it is allegedly rooted in an antisemitic di…
Vaccine apartheid and settler colonial sovereign violence
This article examines the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine both in Palestine and globally through a decolonial lens. In dominant Euro-American discourse, the invention, production, and distribution of the vaccine is largely judged as an indicator of sophisticated and advanced health care systems and economies. The underlying premise being that the advanced, wealthy, and capable nation-states have endogenously earned the position of power and …
Violence and Revolutionary Change
A Pandemic in an Age of Omnipresent Sovereign Power
The essay focuses on three features of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine, each highlighting one of the interconnected dimensions of settler colonial sovereign power. First is the governance of life, where every aspect of Palestinian life is governed through population lockdowns. Second is the control over death, where the infected Palestinian body is disposed and discarded away from the Israeli scene. Third is the rule across life and death, whe…
An Assemblage of Decoloniality? Palestinian Fellahin Resistance and the Space-Place Relation
This paper examines how fellahin resistance beginning in the early parts of the 20thcentury interacted with the Zionist settler-colonial project, focusing on how this resistance operated on a complex understanding of the relation between the fixity of place and flux of space. Thinking this resistance alongside theories of colonial occupation as well as Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of assemblage and the smooth-striated mixture of space, I argue t…
Protests and Generations
The aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and thei…
Rethinking the Social–Political through Ibn Khaldûn and Aristotle
Contemporary social theory largely operates on the assumption that the question of the social–political is endogenous to a European socio-historical trajectory, which misses alternative ways of thinking about the social–political relationship. The essay argues that juxtaposing Ibn Khaldûn’s Muqaddimah with Aristotle’s Politics presents such an alternative reading. The analysis of the texts reveals a relationship between the social and political a…
Carrying the Burden of Past Violences
Through a comparative study of two Palestinian transnational youth movements, this article seeks to understand how the transnational sphere traverses not just space but also time. I analyze how the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Gaza Youth Breaks Out movement understand themselves as carrying the burden of past violences in their promise to continue the Palestinian struggle and lead it toward a just and peaceful solution. Particularly, I am i…
The paradox of political violence
This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the difficulty of separating politics and violence, and the improbability of formulating a harmonious relationship between them. Engaging with some of Michel Foucault's work on power and violence, the article begins …
Edward Said
In reading Edward Said, particularly works such as Out of Place and Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, one is left wondering about the peculiar position that Said, the “exile,” holds in relation to writing. In this essay, I examine this relation by following and exploring the figure of exile that permeates Said's many writings. The heart of Said's peculiarity, as I see it, stems from a seemingly simple question: can we say that Said is writin…
Hamas and the Israeli state
Through an analysis of Hamas’s suicide missions and Israel’s strategy of ‘shock and awe’, this article advances a concept of ‘violent dialogue.’ Drawing on Gadamer’s work, as well as some of the points that emerge out of the Gadamer—Derrida encounter, this concept is meant to explicate how acts of political violence create a certain type of communion between those engaged in violent conflict. It will suggest that the appearance of political viole…
The Appearance of War in Discourse
Hamas and the Israeli state
Through an analysis of Hamas’s suicide missions and Israel’s strategy of ‘shock and awe’, this article advances a concept of ‘violent dialogue.’ Drawing on Gadamer’s work, as well as some of the points that emerge out of the Gadamer—Derrida encounter, this concept is meant to explicate how acts of political violence create a certain type of communion between those engaged in violent conflict. It will suggest that the appearance of political viole…
Vaccine apartheid and settler colonial sovereign violence
This article examines the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine both in Palestine and globally through a decolonial lens. In dominant Euro-American discourse, the invention, production, and distribution of the vaccine is largely judged as an indicator of sophisticated and advanced health care systems and economies. The underlying premise being that the advanced, wealthy, and capable nation-states have endogenously earned the position of power and …
An Assemblage of Decoloniality? Palestinian Fellahin Resistance and the Space-Place Relation
This paper examines how fellahin resistance beginning in the early parts of the 20thcentury interacted with the Zionist settler-colonial project, focusing on how this resistance operated on a complex understanding of the relation between the fixity of place and flux of space. Thinking this resistance alongside theories of colonial occupation as well as Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of assemblage and the smooth-striated mixture of space, I argue t…
The paradox of political violence
This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the difficulty of separating politics and violence, and the improbability of formulating a harmonious relationship between them. Engaging with some of Michel Foucault's work on power and violence, the article begins …
The Appearance of War in Discourse
The Toxic Other
This article explores an important feature of anti-Palestinian racism (APR) that is salient in the North American and European academic landscape: the expulsion of the Palestinian critique of Zionism and Israel from rational and even anti-racist discourse. This expulsion takes place through the toxification of the Palestinian other whereby Palestinian epistemology is to be mistrusted and shunned because it is allegedly rooted in an antisemitic di…
Violence and Revolutionary Change
Edward Said
In reading Edward Said, particularly works such as Out of Place and Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, one is left wondering about the peculiar position that Said, the “exile,” holds in relation to writing. In this essay, I examine this relation by following and exploring the figure of exile that permeates Said's many writings. The heart of Said's peculiarity, as I see it, stems from a seemingly simple question: can we say that Said is writin…
The Appearance of War in Discourse
Edward Said
In reading Edward Said, particularly works such as Out of Place and Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, one is left wondering about the peculiar position that Said, the “exile,” holds in relation to writing. In this essay, I examine this relation by following and exploring the figure of exile that permeates Said's many writings. The heart of Said's peculiarity, as I see it, stems from a seemingly simple question: can we say that Said is writin…
Hamas and the Israeli state
Through an analysis of Hamas’s suicide missions and Israel’s strategy of ‘shock and awe’, this article advances a concept of ‘violent dialogue.’ Drawing on Gadamer’s work, as well as some of the points that emerge out of the Gadamer—Derrida encounter, this concept is meant to explicate how acts of political violence create a certain type of communion between those engaged in violent conflict. It will suggest that the appearance of political viole…
Carrying the Burden of Past Violences
Through a comparative study of two Palestinian transnational youth movements, this article seeks to understand how the transnational sphere traverses not just space but also time. I analyze how the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Gaza Youth Breaks Out movement understand themselves as carrying the burden of past violences in their promise to continue the Palestinian struggle and lead it toward a just and peaceful solution. Particularly, I am i…
The paradox of political violence
This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the difficulty of separating politics and violence, and the improbability of formulating a harmonious relationship between them. Engaging with some of Michel Foucault's work on power and violence, the article begins …
Protests and Generations
The aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and thei…
Rethinking the Social–Political through Ibn Khaldûn and Aristotle
Contemporary social theory largely operates on the assumption that the question of the social–political is endogenous to a European socio-historical trajectory, which misses alternative ways of thinking about the social–political relationship. The essay argues that juxtaposing Ibn Khaldûn’s Muqaddimah with Aristotle’s Politics presents such an alternative reading. The analysis of the texts reveals a relationship between the social and political a…
An Assemblage of Decoloniality? Palestinian Fellahin Resistance and the Space-Place Relation
This paper examines how fellahin resistance beginning in the early parts of the 20thcentury interacted with the Zionist settler-colonial project, focusing on how this resistance operated on a complex understanding of the relation between the fixity of place and flux of space. Thinking this resistance alongside theories of colonial occupation as well as Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of assemblage and the smooth-striated mixture of space, I argue t…
A Pandemic in an Age of Omnipresent Sovereign Power
The essay focuses on three features of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine, each highlighting one of the interconnected dimensions of settler colonial sovereign power. First is the governance of life, where every aspect of Palestinian life is governed through population lockdowns. Second is the control over death, where the infected Palestinian body is disposed and discarded away from the Israeli scene. Third is the rule across life and death, whe…
Violence and Revolutionary Change
Vaccine apartheid and settler colonial sovereign violence
This article examines the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine both in Palestine and globally through a decolonial lens. In dominant Euro-American discourse, the invention, production, and distribution of the vaccine is largely judged as an indicator of sophisticated and advanced health care systems and economies. The underlying premise being that the advanced, wealthy, and capable nation-states have endogenously earned the position of power and …
The Toxic Other
This article explores an important feature of anti-Palestinian racism (APR) that is salient in the North American and European academic landscape: the expulsion of the Palestinian critique of Zionism and Israel from rational and even anti-racist discourse. This expulsion takes place through the toxification of the Palestinian other whereby Palestinian epistemology is to be mistrusted and shunned because it is allegedly rooted in an antisemitic di…
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada’s settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession of Palestinians. Chapters reflect on community politics and activism, migration, orientalism, and critical race theory. Among its unique contributions, the volume provide…
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation
The Palestinian’s Will to Resist Still Remains
In his book, Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel, Dr. Muhannad Ayyash theorizes structures of violence that lie at the root of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and Israeli settler colonialism. Dr. Ayyash’s aim is not to theorize for the sake of theory but to theorize and develop conceptual tools that are useful for scholars and scholar activists in understanding the relationship between people and land, land and life, oppression an…
The Genocide of the Palestinians and the Future of Social Theory
This article argues that the genocide in Gaza should raise foundational questions for social theory, engendering a radical re-evaluation of fundamental questions about knowledge, the age of colonial modernity, and decolonization. Drawing on decolonial theorists and studies, I focus on what lived realities of Palestinians can teach social theory about the defining features of this stage in the age of colonial modernity, as well as the contours of …
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Criminology (5 works)