Edwin Nasr and Lama El-Khatib are writers and cultural workers from Beirut, both currently living and working in Berlin. Edwin is currently completing a short book on the intellectual debates of the Lebanese left in the aftermath of the 1975–90 civil wars. His recent writings have appeared in Afterall Journal, N+1, Mousse Magazine, Bidoun and e-flux Criticism. Lama’s research and practice focus on questions and histories of labor and property, relations of debt and inheritance, and the intellectual and political legacies of abolition.