In the volatile and dynamic context of the Arab countries, Ebla’s research is a space for exploring the possibilities and collective imaginaries at a moment of becoming and transformation. Our research gives voice to the priorities and concerns of people, particularly in the absence of democratic processes, bringing people together across spaces where divisions and antagonism are rife.
Ebla is an alternative space for knowledge production locally oriented to:
Understanding and documenting
To provide space and resources to understand the malaise of living in unequal societies, the mechanisms of oppression – and the many forms of resistance – particularly in turbulent and obscure moments.
Envisioning
To support a learning process that captures alternative possibilities and collective imaginaries of a way forward, emerging from everyday lived realities.
Engaging
To provide research that is both accessible and responsive. Accessible through publications in local languages and multiple forms (including social media, visuals, podcasts, etc.) Responsive to the emergent realities of our communities; by dialoguing with practitioners, policy makers, and activists at all stages of work.
Theorizing
To contribute to theory that emerges from ‘below’, from the empirical, and engages in discussion within the global south, but also speaks to the dominant theoretical tropes in the global North.