We are building something new — and today, we are ready to share it for the first time.
Kulna is the public media and community platform of the Kawaakibi Foundation. It grows out of years of research, organising, and hard-won experience — shaped by political struggle, exile, repression, and renewal. And it grows out of a conviction we have held for a long time: that the way we talk about power, resistance, and the future is broken, and that fixing it matters.
The world is changing at breakneck pace. Authoritarian populism, technological disruption, economic centralisation, and geopolitical conflict are not separate crises — they are interlocking forces, compounding one another, driving the instability we see everywhere. And yet most of what is written about these things is trapped in the present tense. It reacts. It moves at the speed of crisis. It serves those who already hold power.
Kulna is our answer to that. An editorial platform for long thinking about power, resistance, and what comes next. We are rooted in the MENA region, its histories and its struggles, but the forces we write about are global, and so is our scope. Running through everything we publish is a simple conviction: that human life and human dignity are not negotiable — not a variable, not a casualty of realpolitik.
Kulna means all of us — كلنا. Nobody achieves liberation alone. That belief is not just a value we hold. It is the architecture of what we are building.
We are launching today with our first piece; a lens on the US-Iran moment, not as breaking news, but as an attempt to understand the deeper forces at work and what they mean for the years ahead. It is the kind of writing we intend to do: grounded in the present, reaching toward something larger.
Ahmed Gatnash
If this is the kind of thinking you have been looking for, we would love for you to be part of it from the beginning.