Researcher Mai Taha, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics, has recently published a new article in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Volume 59, Issue 1 of 2022, titled: “The Comic and the Absurd: On Colonial Law in Revolutionary Palestine.” The main focus of the article is on a colonial literary artifact that reveals historical tension between both colonialism and revolution, as well as the traces of those ties in the present. The artifact represents an interesting literary journey by a British colonial-era judge in Palestine titled, “Palestine Parodies.” The article situates the artifact in context of the Arab revolt in Palestine (1936-1939). It gives a full explanation of a number of images obtained from this document, while arguing that breaking down these “humorous” drawings from a different time period allows us to create two opposing stories. One story portrays colonial legal structures as a comedy, and is put together with a second story which talks about the history of struggle, refusal, and resistance. For further details, click here .