A global pandemic, brutal repression of non-violent protesters standing against racialized state violence, the shockingly exploitative system of academic labor falling apart before our eyes: it feel like the end of the world is here, but as Ayça Çubukçu insisted in a recent article, “Another End of the World of Possible.” Those of us in Middle East studies have been witness to a lot of apocalyptic scenarios over the past couple of decades: “shock and awe,” Operation Infinite Justice, Operation Cast Lead—even Turkey’s so-called “Operation Olive Branch” in Syria has a deeply dystopian, nightmarish ring to it. In this presentation, I hope to begin a discussion about how we can draw on this experience, as well as the field’s commitment to a critical internationalism, in order to bring our field out of its often-elite academic niche so that it can better inform ongoing popular struggles against racial capitalism, economic austerity, state violence, and climate change—against, that is, the end of the world.