Abdaljawad Omar is a writer, analyst, and lecturer based in Ramallah, Palestine. He has lectured in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University and writes extensively in Arabic. In English Abboud has contributed to Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, and Ebb Magazine among other outlets. Omar holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences from Birzeit University where he focused on the formations of Palestinian resistance in the Great Intifadas, 1987-2015. Omar has a forthcoming book titled “Freeing Palestine: The Making of the Palestinian Resistance,” through Verso Palestine Pamphlets due out Spring 2025.
Aside from all his writings and interviews below, you can follow more of his academic writing on Academia.edu or read some of his other writings over on Aboud Hamayel blogspot.
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Academic articles
- Abdaljawad Omar; Bleeding Forms: Beyond the Intifada. Critical Times 2024
Arabic writings
- (2024) كيف يقتل العَلَم الفلسطيني المحتل جسدياً ورمزياً؟ (How the occupied Palestinian flag is physically and symbolically killed?)
- (2024) الشغل الصحّ مقال BYعبد الجواد عمر (The Right Work)
- (2023)رهان المقاومة: نشأة الفضاءات السيادية الكاتب/ة: عبد الجواد عمر (Resistance Bet: The Origin of Sovereign Spaces)
- (2023) وحدة الساحات: عن الحدود التي تخترقها المقاومة, (The unity of the squares: about the limits that the resistance penetrates), Abdul-Jawad Omar
- (October 25, 2022) من جنين إلى نابلس: انبعاث المقاومة المنظمة (From Jenin to Nablus: The Resurgence of Organized Resistance), Abdul-Jawad Omar
- (September 28, 2017) نمر الجمل: العامل الفلسطيني مقاتلاً (Nimr al-Gamal: The Palestinian worker is a fighter), Abdul-Jawad Omar
- (October 3, 2017) حرب البراغيث: هزيمة أمريكا في فيتنام (Flea War: America’s Defeat in Vietnam), Abdul-Jawad Omar
More from Abdul-Jawad Omar.
Online articles
- Omar, A. (2024, December). Bassem Saad interviews Abdaljawad Omar. Runway Journal, Issue 48: Groundswell, guest Edited by Maya Hodge. Established in 2002, Runway Journal is an open-access digital publishing platform that commissions, cultivates and preserves experimental practices.
- Omar, A. (2024, December 10). The fall of Assad and the ‘Axis of Resistance’? Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2024, November 27). Ceasefire in Lebanon, and the future of resistance to Israel. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2024, November 25). The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2024, October 21). It was only their machines: on Yahya Sinwar’s last stand. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2024, October 3). Israel’s forever war and what comes next. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2024, September 4). Testing the boundaries for ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2024, September 2). Shock without awe: Zionism and its horror. Radical Philosophy.
- Omar, A. (2024, July 31). The real reason Israel is assassinating Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, and why it won’t stop the resistance. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2024, May 31). The question of Hamas and the left. Mondoweiss. SPANISH VERSION on Vientro Sur. (2024, June 5).
- al-Botmeh, S., Farraj, B., Nimer, F., & Omar, A. (2024, March 29). The West Bank: Settler colonial spillover of the Gaza genocide. Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
- Omar, A. (2023, December 15). Crosshairs. Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.
- Omar, A. (2023, November 29).‘Army and Arabs’: truth, play, and illusions in the West Bank. Mondoweiss.
- Omar A. (2023, November 27); Can the Palestinian Mourn?. Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.
- Omar, A. (2023, November 8). Hopeful pathologies in the war for Palestine: a reply to Adam Shatz. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2023, November 3). Could the war in Palestine potentially undermine the U.S.-Israeli strategic partnership? Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2023, October 23). Gaza is showing the rest of Palestine the truth of struggle. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2023, October 14). Biden’s rhetoric is reigniting the Question of Palestine. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2023, October 13). How and why Israel’s disinformation campaign is enabling its massacre in Gaza. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2022, July 6). Jenin: the fight over the capacity to resist. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2022, November 16). A decade of a hesitant “We”: A homage to friendship. Mondoweiss.
- Omar, A. (2022, October 26). The politics of slow unbinding. The Electronic Intifada.
- Omar A. (2022, October 18). The desire for international legitimacy has limited the Palestinian imagination. Mondoweiss.
- Omar A. (2021, July 21). How the Palestinian Authority manages dissent. The Electronic Intifada.
Interviews
- Angel, Arielle. “Resistance Through a Realist Lens” Palestinian writer Abdaljawad Omar discusses the left’s relationship to Hamas and armed resistance. Jewish Currents. November 5, 2024.
- From Gaza to Beirut: Abdaljawad Omar on the ripple effects of Israel’s attack on Lebanon, Mondoweiss. September 27, 2024.
- Abdaljawad Omar: Resistance vs Terrorism, a Matter of Definitions, Palestine Uncensored. June 24, 2024.
- The ‘Hamas question’ and the Left with Abdaljawad Omar, Mondoweiss. June 10, 2024.
- An Incurable Disease Called Hope’: an interview with Abdaljawad Omar. Article within Material, Issue #2 (2024). This is a great Marxist-Leninist-Maoist journal for contending schools of revolutionary thought. You can purchase a copy here.
- “Turning Grief Into Defiance” Abdaljawad Omar on Resistance & Possibility in Palestine, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (2023)
- ‘An unyielding will to continue’: An Interview with Abdaljawad Omar on October 7th and the Palestinian Resistance, Ebb Magazine (2023); you can purchase a copy here.
Millennials Art Killing Capitalism Live! – Videos
- Palestine, Heroism, and the Post-Heroic Genocidal Machine With Abdaljawad Omar. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, October 31, 2024
- US Empire, Israeli Settler Colonialism & “Reconfiguring” the Region? – Fathi Nimer & Abdaljawad Omar. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, October 11, 2024
- The Perpetual War: The Israeli Wager on Time with Abdaljawad Omar. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, September 12, 2024
- 10 months & 100 years Resisting Genocide in Palestine with Abdaljawad Omar. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, July 28, 2024
- The Question of Hamas and the Left with Abdaljawad Omar. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, June 10, 2024
- The War on Palestinians Continues with Abdaljawad Omar. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, May 9, 2024
- A Deformed Colonialism? with Abdaljawad Omar, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, March 24, 2024
- The Gaza War 140 Days In with Abdaljawad Omar, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, February 26, 2024
- Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the West Bank with Abdaljawad Omar, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, January 31, 2024
- The Making of Palestinian Resistance with Abdaljawad Omar, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, January 11, 2024
- The Sniper’s Gaze with Abdaljawad Omar, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, December 19, 2023
- Resistance and Hope in Palestine with Abdaljawad Omar, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!, November 21, 2023
Electronic Intifada – videos (Abdaljawad Omar is also a contributor on Electronic Intifada where he gives great analysis)
- Breaking news and analysis on day 418 of Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Flood | The Electronic Intifada Podcast | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2024)
- Breaking news and analysis on day 285 of Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Flood | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2024)
- How the arc of history bends towards a free Palestine, with Abdaljawad Omar | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2023)
- Breaking news and analysis on day 173 of Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Flood | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2024)
- Podcast episode 85: Zionism, Germany, and the politics of debt with Abdaljawad Omar, the Electronic Intifada (2023)
- Breaking news and analysis on day 69 of Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Flood | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2023)
- How Israel weaponizes Palestinian masculinity, with Abdaljawad Omar | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2023)
- Israel is lying about the number of its casualties in Gaza, with Jon Elmer and Abdaljawad Omar | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2023)
- Is Israel’s strategy to flood tunnels feasible? With Jon Elmer and Abdaljawad Omar | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2023)
- A look inside Jenin’s guerrilla resistance tactics with Abdaljawad Omar & Jon Elmer | EI Podcast (2023)
- Has the Palestinian Authority pacified resistance in the occupied West Bank? With Abdaljawad Omar | The Electronic Intifada Podcast (2023)
- New generation of resistance does not fear Israel, with Abdaljawad Omar | EI Podcast (2023)
Other video interviews & talks
- هل تتحمل المقاومة مسؤولية الكارثة في غزة؟ بودكاست جديد مع عبد الجواد حمايل – Shorfat Palestine. November 19, 2024
- The Politics of Resistance with Abdaljawad Omar | Kalam Podcast. November 1, 2024.
- A Century of Ruptures: The History and Practices of Palestinian Resistances, with Abdaljawad Omar | Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers’ Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Caucus. October 11, 2024
- On Martyrdom and Life: Conversation with Palestinian writer Abdaljawad Omar | Palestine Committee Zurich and Kollektiv Doykait. July 7, 2024.
- Palestinian Resistance and the Path to Liberation | People’s Conference for Palestine. May 25, 2024.
- The Martyrdom of Walid Daqqa w/ Rana Barakat and Abdaljawad Omar. The East is a Podcast, May 2024
- Abboud Hamayel interrogates the perpetual state of war Israel imposes on Palestinians, Pretty Heady Stuff podcast, March 17, 2024
- جنون المستعمرة – بودكاست الكرمل مع الباحث عبد الجواد عمر
الكرمل – AlCarmel (2023) - A Time of Build-Up: Knowledge-Production Initiatives for Palestine… A Roundtable on the Occasion of the Launch of Maktabat Sabil, September 25, 2023.
