Basil Farraj
Basil Farraj
Basil Farraj completed his PhD in Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Basil’s work focuses on political prisoners, carceral violence, and prisoners’ confrontation practices against carceral regimes. Basil's work also investigates the circulation of knowledge and practices across various carceral regimes. His research addresses the intersections of memory, resistance, and art by prisoners and others subjected to violence. Basil has conducted fieldwork in a number of countries including Chile, Colombia, and Palestine.
Farraj, Basil. 2024. "How Israeli Prisons Terrorize Palestinians - Inside and Outside Their Walls." Sapiens: Anthropology Magazine. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/palestinian-prisoners-carceral-policies/
Farraj, Basil. 2023. "'We don't want to recieve them as martyrs': The Red Cross is failing in its duty to Palestinian prisoners." The New Arab. https://www.newarab.com/opinion/red-cross-failing-its-duty-palestinian-prisoners
Farraj, Basil. 2023. "Colombia's Shifting Military Ties: Moving Away From Decades Of Israeli Sponsored Violence." Security in Context. https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/colombias-shifting-military-ties-moving-away-from-decades-of-israeli-sponsored-violence
Farraj, Basil. 2023. Op-ed: "Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons are hostages, too". The New Arab. https://www.newarab.com/opinion/palestinians-detained-israeli-prisons-are-hostages-too
Farraj, Basil. 2023. Op-ed: "The War on Palestinian Political Prisoners." The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/war-on-palestinian-political-prisoners/
Farraj, Basil. 2023. Book review of The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine, by Irit Katz, and The Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience, by Julie M. Norman, The Journal of Palestine Studies. http://bitly.ws/IyL9.
Farraj, Basil. 2022. “The Prison Intifada: Supporting Palestinian Administrative Detainees.” Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. https://bit.ly/3Lxinc6.
Farraj, Basil. 2022. “Defying Carcerality: Prisoners Writing Behind Bars.” The Institute of Palestine Studies Blog. https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1652754
Farraj, Basil and Hasheem Abu Shama. 2022. “Parallel Time: Cultural Productions from the Small Prison to the Large Prison.” Jadaliyya. https://bit.ly/3kSHpG3
Farraj, Basil. 2022. “Breaking the Safe Open: From Gilboa to other Prisons.” Jadaliyya. https://bit.ly/3waT7Be
Farraj, Basil. 2021. “Understanding Israeli Torture: Containing the Ever-Present Threat.” Global-e 14, no. 6. https://bit.ly/3KWl98E
Farraj, Basil. 2020. “Israeli Prisons and the Invisibility of Modern Torture.” Il Ponte 76, no.1: 88 – 99 [in Italian].
Farraj, Basil. 2019. “Beyond Ruins: Borgoño’s Barracks and the Struggle Over Memory in Today’s Chile.” In Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World, edited by Laura A Macaluso, 99-108. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Farraj, Basil. 2016. “How Palestinian Hunger Strikers Counter Israel’s Monopoly on Violence?” Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. https://bit.ly/3so74dP
