Elia Ayoub

Elia Ayoub is a writer, journalist, podcaster and researcher. He is the founder of The Fire These Times podcast and co-founder of From the Periphery media collective. He holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Zurich and is an Affiliate Fellow of the Post Growth Institute. He blogs at https://iwritestuff.blog/.

Recent Articles
Israeli soldiers wave a tattered Hezbollah flag as they return from fighting around the southern Lebanese village of Marun Al-Ras, July 27, 2006. (Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)
Hezbollah couldn’t ask for a better enemy than Israel
Through a war of words, Israel and Hezbollah have created a symbiotic relationship that plays into each other's ambitions for political hegemony.
By Elia Ayoub January 18, 2022
Protestors during anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong, July 1, 2018.
Why are ‘anti-imperialists’ defending dictators?
By echoing the narratives of repressive regimes, left-wing 'tankies' are forcing targeted activists to spend energy combating smears and disinformation.
By Elia Ayoub September 16, 2020
Israeli soldiers pass through the city of Sidon southward during the Lebanon War, April 9, 1983. (GPO)
Israel left Lebanon 20 years ago. We’re still fighting for our liberation
Hezbollah were viewed as heroes for forcing the Israeli army out of southern Lebanon. Today, they are responsible for killing countless Syrians and Palestinians. Reflections by a Lebanese Palestinian on 'Liberation Day.'
By Elia Ayoub May 25, 2020
Most Read
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Israel razes entire Bedouin village to expand a highway
  3. ‘The scenes of the Nakba are repeating’: Rafah in panic as Israeli invasion begins
  4. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  5. We’ve shown Gaza’s suffering for over 200 days. Don’t look away now
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. ‘The scenes of the Nakba are repeating’: Rafah in panic as Israeli invasion begins
  3. Israel razes entire Bedouin village to expand a highway
  4. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  5. We’ve shown Gaza’s suffering for over 200 days. Don’t look away now
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  3. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  4. Israeli media’s inevitable hysteria over U.S. campus protests
  5. ‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank