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Bilingual online magazine hosting critical debates about local, regional, and global issues

A bilingual online magazine run by a transnational editorial team and hosting critical debates about local, regional, and global issues that characterize our interconnected world. Launched in the summer of 2023, UntoldMag is a collective initiative, born out of a group of colleagues and friends. UntoldMag makes available knowledge developed by scholars and experts alongside knowledge developed by

those whose voices are often excluded and opinions dismissed for lack of credentials. Our ambition is to decentralize the production of knowledge and to create multi-centered and Global South-based perspectives to challenge the hegemony of a unilateral knowledge production stemming from the Global North.

24/07/2025

As Israel continues its genocidal war on Gaza, Big Tech is not on the sidelines.
It’s embedded.
In her latest investigation, journalist Reem Almasri exposes the structural ties between Silicon Valley and the Israeli war machine.

Google’s admiration for Israel’s so-called “miracle state” runs deep, through billions in acquisitions, cloud contracts, and surveillance infrastructure.
This includes:
– The $1.2B Project Nimbus contract, providing cloud services to Israel’s military
– The $32B acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli cybersecurity firm founded by Unit 8200 veterans
– AI tools like “Lavender”, used to generate automated kill lists in Gaza
– Former soldiers embedded as directors inside Google Cloud

These aren’t isolated cases.
They reflect a deeper reality, where corporate expansionism meets settler colonialism, and where tech infrastructure becomes infrastructure for occupation.

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Versions of this article were first published in Arabic on 7iber and English on Tech for Palestine. This edited version is published on UntoldMag with permission.

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22/07/2025

Iran’s regime seized on the crisis to revive its old playbook:
projecting itself as the masculine guardian of the nation,
even as it failed to prevent Israeli drones from striking deep inside Iranian cities.
Amid nationalist fervor, Tehran cracked down hard,
executing Kurdish prisoners on flimsy espionage charges,
deporting thousands of Afghans without due process,
and scapegoating Jews and Baha’is as internal “fifth columns.”

A familiar tactic to mask failure and suppress dissent.
But something else stirred beneath the spectacle.
The spirit of the 2022 Jina Revolution- “Women, Life, Freedom”- returned.
Not in mass protest,
but in quiet acts of care:
sharing food, housing the displaced, helping the vulnerable survive the war.
This is not just a story of bombs and blame.
It’s a story of dignity, solidarity, and the refusal to surrender to death-driven narratives.

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21/07/2025

The stories we publish don’t just inform.
They refuse silence.

From Gaza to Dhaka, Naples to São Paulo, we center voices excluded from mainstream media and connect struggles across borders.But this work can’t continue without you.

At UntoldMag, we reclaim journalism as collective labor, politically conscious, grounded in memory, complexity, and resistance.In a media ecosystem built to erase, your support keeps our stories alive, independent, and accessible.
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19/07/2025

In this interview, legal investigator Khalil Dewan explains how drone warfare, biometric surveillance, and AI systems are reshaping the battlefield, placing civilians, not armies, in the crosshairs.

Gaza, he says, has become a testing ground for these technologies.
“Palestinians are among the most surveilled communities in the world, and we’re seeing biometric submission weaponised during a humanitarian crisis.”

Dewan calls this the individualisation of warfare:
“We’re going after people- often civilians- based on predictive targeting.”
He warns that states like Israel and the US “operate under an enabling posture,” striking with or without legal clarity, while “algorithmic bias is now baked into the technology itself.”
What we’re witnessing is a convergence of AI, autonomy, targeted killing, and the erosion of legal norms.
Not just in Gaza, but globally.

A part of Investigating the Kill Cloud in collaboration with Disruption Network Lab
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17/07/2025

Filmmaker Kamal Aljafari does not simply document what was lost, he rewrites the visual language of exile.

In a new interview with UntoldMag, Aljafari reflects on how his films confront erasure: by manipulating archival footage, removing colonial figures, and reassembling Palestinian cities from fragments of others’ images.

His latest film, With Hasan in Gaza, premieres in the International Competition at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival. Shot in Arabic, and produced across Palestine, Germany, France, and Qatar, the film continues his longstanding cinematic resistance, one that spans from Jaffa’s erased streets to Gaza’s haunted presence.

📍 From exile to screen, from loss to re-claiming, Aljafari’s cinema turns absence into an active political act.

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14/07/2025

What happens when war stops being a matter of geopolitics or diplomacy,
and becomes a tech product?

In this article, political theorist Elke Schwarz unpacks how venture capital logics, speed, scale, risk-taking, and error tolerance are now shaping the future of warfare. Military AI projects like JADC2 aim to coordinate global operations in real-time, drawing inspiration from Uber and driven by the idea that war is just a software problem.

AI-enabled weapons, built on flawed and biased data, are already being tested in real-world conflicts like Gaza and Ukraine, turning war zones into live laboratories.

What was once driven by state deliberation and legal frameworks is now developed like a startup:
AI weapon systems are launched with minimal testing, battlefield data is treated as R&D input, and accountability is postponed, sometimes indefinitely.
Schwarz traces this shift back to the Manhattan Project, which instead of being treated as a cautionary tale, is being used as a blueprint for how innovation and destruction were fused as policy.

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🌀 Part of our dossier: Investigating the Kill Cloud in collaboration with Disruption Network Lab

11/07/2025

In this article, seven women, activists, journalists, survivors, share their stories. They remember burned bodies, bombed homes, broken promises.
But also: rebuilding, resisting, caring for communities while carrying the burden of destruction others left behind.

What unites their testimonies is one urgent message:
Liberation is not dropped from fighter jets. It is built, daily, by those living through war, not by those who use their pain to justify it.

This article by Elahe Mohammadi was originally published in Ham-Mihan (Farsi) and translated with permission.

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Translated by Firoozeh Farvardin

05/07/2025

What is the Kill Cloud, and how is it changing war as we know it?

In this interview, whistleblower Lisa Ling unpacks the hidden architecture of modern warfare:
a system of AI, cloud infrastructure, surveillance, and autonomous weapons designed to enable targeted killing with minimal human involvement and even less accountability.

The Kill Cloud shifts war from soldiers to sensors, from borders to networks, embedding military power in everyday civilian systems, without public scrutiny.

This conversation is part of the editorial series Investigating the Kill Cloud, in collaboration with Disruption Network Lab , a research programme (2023–2024) bringing together whistleblowers, researchers, and artists to interrogate the future of conflict and the role of AI in military operations.

Edited by Walid el Houri
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03/07/2025

Law No. 14 of 2025 expands precarious contracts, weakens wage protections, and criminalizes most strikes, especially those outside state-aligned unions. It allows employers to bypass wage hikes during vaguely defined “economic emergencies,” with no real worker consultation.

As Egypt positions itself as a hub for cheap, “flexible” labor to attract foreign capital, the law serves as a tool of neoliberal despotism, not justice. It erodes labor protections under the guise of modernization and stability.

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01/07/2025

What does it mean when a revolutionary anthem resurfaces on a Berlin dancefloor?

In Paradise, interrupted, Veronica Ferreri follows the strange afterlife of Janna Janna, a protest song reappearing in exile, in remix, in motion.
It’s about how memory shifts.
How revolutionary symbols like Sarout reappear out of context,
fragmented, remixed, and yet still viscerally present.
How a lemon tree, a sound, or a dance might archive something the revolution left behind.

🌀 Part of Eternity Unwoven, a collaborative dossier by UntoldMag, Arabpop, and ARCHIVWAR (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
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27/11/2024

In the face of destruction and enforced forgetfulness, the madness of remembering is a weapon to reclaim Beirut’s identity and resist a world order built on erasure and imperial dominance.

✍️ Article by Ghida Ismail
🎨 Illustration by Zena El Abdalla

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