You Must Be Engaged

Arabic translation: (large text) You want to be an intellectual? You must be engaged. (small text) The martyr Bassel al Araj _____________ Context: “If you want to be an intellectual, you have to be engaged,” Bassel said in one of the oral history tours he directed in Jenin, a city in the northern occupied West Bank. “If you don’t want to be engaged – if you don’t want to confront oppression – your role as an intellectual is pointless.” Source: Electronic Intifada