Haidar Eid is a South-African-Palestinian author and academic in literature and cultural studies. He used to teach at the Al Aqsa University in Gaza, Palestine, before it was turned to rubble. He obtained a PhD from the University of Johannesburg and is an associate professor at the University of Pretoria.
His latest book, Banging on the Walls of the Tank, is a collection of essays and articles he wrote and published during the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the “hermetic blockade” that was imposed on it since 2007. It follows his 2023 book, Decolonising the Palestinian Mind, and his 2017 publication, Worlding Post-modernism.
He draws on the South African experience with apartheid to inform his framework of Israel’s system of oppression of Palestinians, which he said has reached new heights of injustice and dehumanisation.
“Occupation is only one form of oppression of the Palestinian — you have occupation, you have apartheid and you have settler colonialism, and now you have genocide.”
