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Zahi Zalloua

Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA, and Editor of The Comparatist. His recent teaching and scholarship engage Critical Black Studies, the Posthuman, and the Palestinian Question. His current book project, titled Anti-Zionism Is Not a Luxury, articulates and embraces an “affirmative anti-Zionism,” casting it as a collective, universalist response to an unjust world. His most recent publications include To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being PalestinianFanon, Žižek and the Violence of Resistance; The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment; and Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality.

Essays

Beginning with Negation, Or Practicing Politics and Critical Theory Otherwise

Zahi Zalloua responds to Benjamin Davis’s review of his new book, To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian (2026)

Another Humanity, or a Plea for the Death Drive

Zahi Zalloua reviews Benjamin Davis’s new book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025).