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Tear gas and transnational solidarity: a letter to Asma, the defiant customs worker at the Port of Suez.

By Mariangela Beccoi Apr 29, 2022 Dear Asma, I have been looking for you but, despite our hyperconnected world, I could not reach you. I tried to picture how our encounter would take place. A Zoom meeting? A phone call? An email exchange? I still hope that our paths will eventually cross, but in the meantime, I have decided to write you a letter. My name is Mariangela, and I’m an Italian design researcher exploring the intersections of design, art practice and politics. I first encountered your name in Anne Feigenbaum’s compelling book Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Stre

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