Dispatches Through the Rubble: Haidar Eid & Ashira Darwish

From a recent SAND Community Gathering (December 2025). This urgent conversation, facilitated by Ashira Darwish and rooted in Haidar Eid’s new book Banging on the Walls of the Tank, moves through the fractured present of Gaza, bringing forth a chorus of resistance, mourning, refusal, and clarity.

 

This is a dispatch from within the rubble, the classroom, the lull between airstrikes. Together. Eid and Darwish hold the line inside the unbearable: the grief of ongoing genocide and the insistence on liberation; the impossibility of hope and the necessity of imagining otherwise.

 

Their conversation refuses erasure, insists on dignity, and carries the clarity of those living under siege with purpose and memory intact.

 

This conversation carries the vibration of Gaza’s resistance outward, inviting listeners not just to witness, but to respond.

Topics

• 00:00 Introduction and Opening Remarks
• 00:58 Context of the Gaza Genocide
• 02:23 Introducing Haidar Eid and Ashira Darwish
• 02:32 Haidar Eid's Background and Experience
• 03:19 Ashira Darwish's Introduction and Role
• 05:42 Haidar Eid's Personal Account of the Genocide
• 07:17 The Impact of the Genocide on Haidar's Life
• 09:51 Tribute to Fallen Colleagues and Students
• 11:55 The Importance of Palestinian Narratives
• 14:57 Historical Context and Ongoing Genocide
• 27:34 The Human Cost and Personal Stories
• 29:00 Protecting Stories and Dignity
• 29:40 Understanding Israeli Society and Zionism
• 32:33 The Role of International Support
• 34:08 The BDS Movement and Palestinian Civil Society
• 35:47 The Call for Global Solidarity
• 43:18 Banging on the Walls of the Tank
• 53:12 A Shift in the Global Narrative
• 58:17 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

Resources

• Project Hope Palestine
• Catharsis Holistic Healing Palestine
• BDS Movement
• Ashira Darwish’s Website

 

• Where Olive Trees Weep

 

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