Occupiers’ plans shape where resistance organizes, including refuge cities

Evidence

Our meeting, and its sublime locale, was a rebellion itself against the western and eastern conduits of Islamophobia that spurred our convening. In “Algeria Unveiled,” postcolonial giant Frantz Fanon wrote, “[It is] the plans of the occupier that determine the centres of resistance around which a people’s will to survive become organized.” Not on this night in Istanbul, which provided intellectual oasis and physical exodus from the Islamophobic hegemony that trapped us. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1222

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon’s formulation frames how Islamophobic hegemony determines where free expression becomes possible.
• XREF: Connects to Fanon’s decolonial canon and to the exile/hub logic shared with other nationalist movements.