This 2-part study program explores the political, historical, and revolutionary entanglements between Cyprus and the broader region, with a focus on the Palestinian struggle. It examines Cyprus’s role as both an imperial outpost and a revolutionary crossroads in the Eastern Mediterranean. From counterinsurgency operations against Cypriot and Palestinian fighters, to the island’s place within the logistical networks of the Palestinian resistance, to its current entanglement in a regional architecture of settler-colonial violence, Cyprus has long functioned as both a node of imperial control and a site of insurgent possibility. It stands at a fault line between domination and revolt.

Over 2 sessions, we move from the archive to the present geopolitical landscape, tracing histories of insurgency, maritime defiance, and anti-colonial solidarity that remain urgent in the context of ongoing regional struggles. Through archival materials, essays, firsthand testimony, and field recordings, participants will interrogate the island’s role in regional resistance movements and consider how its history might inform solidarities in the present.

Joud Al-Tamimi is a cultural worker and researcher whose work engages anticolonial imaginaries, insurgent economics, and psychoanalysis. From 2019-2021, she worked at Darat al Funun, where she directed The Lab program and curated the trilogy: Internet of Things: Another World is Possible, Measuring Life: Notes Toward an Impossible Exchange, and Postcolonial Ecologies. Most recently, she founded Asphalt, a platform for self-organised study & publishing.