In Nablus, every street seems to have a men’s hair salon. There are literally thousands of them. Most stay open until at least 2 at night; often other than mosques they’re the only places lit up and open at two at night; and it seems any time you pass by one, there are likely to be four or five nicely coiffed young men clustered inside, watching someone get a haircut.

The Japanese translation of "Hostile Intelligence: Reflections from a Visit to the West Bank" by Tatsuhiko Haga

Since David’s death in 2020, much of my life has been entwined with his vast archive of published and unpublished texts, hundreds of notebooks, audio and video recordings, and correspondences. David once said that the real care for a “great man” begins after his death, and is almost always done by women. Now I know what he meant.

On the juxtaposition of the Nuit Debout movement in France and the Panama Paper revelations.

For David Graeber, the social movement La Nuit Debout and the revelations made by the Panama Papers are the latest episode in a global struggle which pitts the oposing movements of the elite and powerful against the popular and revolutionary.