Malaka Shwaikh

Dr. Malaka Shwaikh is a Palestinian academic based in Scotland. Her research is at the intersection of prison resistance, focusing on hunger strikes, prison abolition and decoloniality.

Articles from author

Starving for dignity in Israeli prisons

For decades, Palestinian prisoners have used hunger strikes as a means of reclaiming power and control, turning the body into a weapon.

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Colonial surveillance: Palestinians already live in a tech dystopia

For Israel, the basic human rights of colonised Palestinians, such as the right to privacy, are irrelevant.

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Colonial surveillance: Palestinians already live in a tech dystopia

What the Galboa prison break symbolises for Palestinians

For Palestinian prisoners, prison break is a resistance method that seizes the power of life and death — and the power of release — from the Israeli state.

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What the Galboa prison break symbolises for Palestinians