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leilaessai.bsky.social
assistant professor of comparative literature at utrecht uni. projects on post-partition lit & authorial politics. current research and writing at https://intervention.sites.uu.nl/. she/her.
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This is devastating - solidarity with @hebagowayed.bsky.social and our colleagues at CUNY

Terrible news out of new york; solidarity with the people who worked so hard for these posts.

In einem @taz.de vorliegenden Brief fordern 222 Autor*innen und Kulturschaffende die Hanauer Koalition auf, ihre Aussagen öffentlich zu korrigieren und sich bei Emiş Gürbüz und der Initiative 19. Februar zu entschuldigen. @maxczollek.bsky.social @asaldardan.bsky.social taz.de/Offener-Brie...

Ibtisam Azem’s ‘Book of Disappearance’ Makes 2025 International Booker Longlist FEBRUARY 25, 2025 -- Ibtisam Azem's Book of Disappearance, translated by Sinan Antoon has made the thirteen-book longlist for the 2025 International Booker. Azem's Book of Disappearance was published in Antoon's…

it has been two days and the cdu/csu are coming, among others, for correctiv - the medium whose reporting on the afd's "remigration" plans had sparked the nation-wide protests lasts year

CDU/CSU haben druckfrisch eine "kleine Anfrage" an die amtierende Regierung mit über 500 Fragen gestellt. Tatsächlich handelt es sich um einen Rundumschlag-Angriff auf die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft, von Omas gegen Rechts, Campact, BUND, Netzwerk Recherche etc dip.bundestag.de/vorgang/poli...

I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/

omg innocently singing die tasse kaffee at my desk and being informed of this original which arguably slaps much harder m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Abv...

finally learning Arabic as German courts decide it's okay to ban it 🫡 www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... new phd post in my research program, please share!

waking up to 4.97% for her, feeling moisturised, in my lane, focused, flourishing

every time they emphasise that the cdu didn't do as well as it predicted on tv my power grows

ashamed to say i missed jameson reading group over the election after all BUT i was mainly thinking of die linke 🥰

It’s here. ♥️ There will be a little book party in Amsterdam at San Seriffe, 8 March, 18:00, with Rietlanden Women’s Office. Please join us. 🙏 to dream publisher #BelladonnaCollaborative 🌹#festival

Not very fun fact: thousands of Jewish immigrants with whose presence Germany has decorated itself, my parents included, are not voting today b/c they don’t have a path to citizenship, despite living there for two decades or more. www.juedische-allgemeine.de/gemeinden/ke...

I already voted as one of the maybe five people outside of Germany whose postal vote actually made it on time - but what am I supposed to do with myself today

finally saw soundtrack to a coup d’etat and you were all correct

I think of @emilydische.bsky.social words on Hanau often, but today especially.

SPD, CDU and FDP politicians punishing the families of the Hanau victims and accusing them of hatred - Germany 2025

an actually heartwarming guardian blind date between all other news - we give thanks

Die Hanauer Kommunalpolitiker, die in einem inakzeptablen Statement Respekt von einer Hinterbliebenen eines Terroropfers einfordern, schreiben tatsächlich: „Warum sie bei einer derartigen Gefühlslage die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft beantrage, bleibt wohl ihr Geheimnis." taz.de/Hanau-Gedenk...

“Last year was not the first time writers boycotted Hay over its sponsors. In 2019 Hay ended a five-year sponsorship with Tata after protests from writers including Arundhati Roy. In 2002 writers boycotted Hay over Nestlé’s sponsorship” www.thebookseller.com/comment/on-s...

and tomorrow, a few days before we remember hanau there, the afd will gather in this migrant neighbourhood under the banner “remigration creates living space”. there’s a counter protest at 10.55, oberbilker markt

Diesem Aufruf bitte folgen: Heute 19 Uhr Odeonsplatz, München. "Heute ist in München ein Auto in eine Streikkundgebung der Gewerkschaften gefahren. Wir sind Betroffene, Freund:innen von Betroffenen und Gewerkschafter:innen. Viele von uns waren heute auf der Streikundgebung anwesend.

"Activists and civil society are the antibodies of healthy societies." - Francesca Albanese, Amsterdam

Disgraceful. All the more glad that Francesca Albanese will speak at Utrecht University on Friday (www.uu.nl/en/events/pu...). Says a lot that Germany continues to beat the Netherlands in academic repression even though NL are the ones with the far right government in power

Today in news from democratic Germany: Mayor of Berlin asks the President of my university to cancel a lecture with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for alleged antisemitic remarks. Israeli Ambassador talks of Freie Universität as a "Hamas training camp" www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/eine-...

just received my postal vote AND signed up for the jameson reading group…. i will spend sunday 23rd thinking about fredric 🫡 not friedrich 😤

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We’re alarmed and outraged that two of our key partners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna, have been arrested in Jerusalem for the crime of selling books.

february always comes with a heaviness. this year - five years after the racist terror of hanau - will be the first time i can join a protest in my hometown, in my neighbourhood, where the march starts every year www.demokrateam.org/aktionen/5-j...

Something strange in reading German media coverage of the US these days. Outlets scream about the latest Trump outrages (ban on gender affirming care, DEI, border stuff, trans athletes ban, ethnic cleansing) even though many of them have called for very similar stuff over the last few years.

Tonight staff of Utrecht University who came together to discuss new actions against the budget cuts to higher education, have decided that there will be a strike on Tuesday 11 March. At this moment, a preparation action-comittee is being formed, coordinated by the Union FNV. >

On February 23 @versobooks.bsky.social’s Jameson Reading Group is BACK and we’re tackling the big one: POSTMODERNISM. Guests include @katewagner.bsky.social and @ranjodhdhaliwal.com! Do not miss it. Sign up here: forms.gle/6wfxDVj1VDsT...

two things: 1) i’d promised to write a funny essay, but once again my high school teacher was right when he said, “farah, you know you don’t need to be funny in writing?” 2) i’ve, since writing this, solved the mystery of who left me the ferrante novel. mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/h...