Kulna: for systems change and collective liberation
Kulna - كلنا, all of us in Arabic - is an editorial platform for long thinking about power, resistance, and what comes next. For those who refuse to mistake the news cycle for history.
The Problem With Now
The world is changing at breakneck pace. The rise of authoritarian populism, technological disruption, economic centralisation, and geopolitical conflict are not separate crises. They are interlocking forces, compounding one another over time, 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 describes. It moves at the speed of crisis, and crisis, by its nature, belongs to those who already hold power.
If all of us are in the news cycle, and nobody is thinking in generations, we are not solving the crisis. We are deepening it.
Kulna exists to change that.
What Kulna Is
Kulna is the public media and community platform of the Kawaakibi Foundation. It translates our long-term research, power analysis, and systems-change work into shared narrative, serious conversation, and collective space.
We don't do news. We do what comes before and after the news: the systems, the histories, the forces that explain why things happen, and what they make possible. Kulna grows out of lived experience - shaped by political struggle, exile, repression, and renewal. It is not abstract commentary. It is a response to a historical moment in which old paradigms are breaking down and many institutions are no longer capable of making sense of the crises they manage.
We are rooted in the MENA region - its histories, its struggles, its possible futures. But the forces we write about are global, and so is our scope. We sit at the intersection of geopolitics and culture, of technology and resistance, of economics and movement-building, tracing how power operates and where it can be challenged. We zoom out, without losing sight of what is happening on the ground today.
Running through everything we do is a simple conviction: that human life and human dignity are not negotiable - not a variable, not a casualty of realpolitik. It is the lens through which we analyse, and the standard against which we measure.
Who We Are
Kulna is the publishing home of Kawaakibi Foundation.
Our team spans activists, educators, artists, researchers, and entrepreneurs from across the MENA region, its diasporas, and beyond. We are diverse in almost everything: background, discipline, perspective, form. What unites us is a shared insistence on the primacy of human dignity, and a belief that liberation is not something any of us achieves alone.
That's what Kulna means. All of us. كلنا
Nobody is free until all of us are free.
Kulna is just beginning, and we are looking for the people who understand why this work matters before the world catches up.
A founding membership is a one-time payment of $300 for two years of full access: our complete published work, all future paywalled content, and a place at the table as this platform grows.
We're not offering this widely or for long. If you've read this far and felt seen by what we're building, this is your invitation.