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Our latest from activist translator Bokani Hart Who Has the Right to Translate? How human rights activism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo taught me to value translation medium.com/global-liter...

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Embroidered map of Palestine, received from friends in Gaza. It’s an honor to hang this on my wall and inscribe it onto my heart.

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Thrilled to be reading (and reviewing) the extraordinary memoir of life in Gaza before 2023. Pre-order it now! (and thanks to @orbooks.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention)

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Genocide scholar Taner Akcam on Gaza. “For those of us working on the Armenian Genocide, the discourse around Gaza feels like déjà vu. There is not a single argument offered today by Israel & its defenders that was not already deployed by the Ottoman-Turkish state more than a century ago.”

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"Palestinian Women Filmmakers & the Cinema of Liberation" My keynote lecture for Radical Traditions: The Role of Contemporary Arab Women in Revolutionising Arab Patriarchal Society @Warwick U. in 10/2024. Forthcoming as a book chapter but you can read it now! open.substack.com/pub/rgould/p...

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"Palestinian Women Filmmakers & the Cinema of Liberation" My keynote lecture for Radical Traditions: The Role of Contemporary Arab Women in Revolutionising Arab Patriarchal Society @Warwick U. in 10/2024. Forthcoming as a book chapter but you can read it now! open.substack.com/pub/rgould/p...

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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

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Israel’s FM Gideon Saar cut short his visit to the UK, a day after a rights groups formally submitted a request to apply for his arrest warrant, says Global Legal Action Network (GLAN). 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oxmyxk

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Palantir, a US spy tech company that enables Israel's genocide in Gaza, has been awarded a contract to develop a platform to manage NHS patient medical data. Sign the petition to demand the contract is cancelled and the roll-out is stopped: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/palantirnhs

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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

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Most media outlets don’t show the maps that the IDF puts out daily to terrorise the people of Gaza. If you add them all up over 18 months you’ll see that the Israelis have constantly forced civilians to be on the move - what’s more, they regularly bomb the places they tell people to flee to.

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Kayvan Tahmasebian & I were awarded the 2025 @ncsascholars.bsky.social Article Prize for “The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran” We show how Iranian readers incorporated Bronte's novel into their understandings of love.

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I’m again fucking begging anglo media to stop using „Caucasian” to mean „white” ESPECIALLY in any context involving Russia where oppression of actual Caucasians, as in people from ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus, is a real ongoing issue.

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The Urban Political SWANA Research Network invites applications for its inaugural Winter Institute — a space for critical scholarship, mentorship, and collaborative writing. We're especially excited to hear from scholars of and from the SWANA region. Deadline 28 April. Details: tinyurl.com/47taxh8f

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We just published Calvin Stevens's insightful critique of Doris Lessing’s writing about Africa: "Anti-colonial but not Anti-racist: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and the problem of the white gaze in African literature" medium.com/global-liter...

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Kayvan Tahmasebian & I were awarded the 2025 @ncsascholars.bsky.social Article Prize for “The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran” We show how Iranian readers incorporated Bronte's novel into their understandings of love.

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In this clip my @greenparty.org.uk @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social MP Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social wears a burgundy shawl w/ embroidery (tatreez) by my friend Lujayn in Gaza. Thank you for speaking out & for this sign of solidarity! Lujayn's birthday is tomorrow. 1/

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When we learn about the Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the dehumanization, the total domination and the exercise of arbitrary violence. We feel the terror in our bones. And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every single day.

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Last night I published this. My friend's fate is still unknown. Rafah is occupied and under attack. Where is the outrage? This invasion is no less lethal than last May, when there was nonstop media coverage, at least in some places. All eyes on Rafah! rgould.substack.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

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Drop Site contributor Rhana Natour breaks down Israel’s use of AI in its war on Gaza, and explores the future of AI-driven warfare. Part 1:

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Last night I published this. My friend's fate is still unknown. Rafah is occupied and under attack. Where is the outrage? This invasion is no less lethal than last May, when there was nonstop media coverage, at least in some places. All eyes on Rafah! rgould.substack.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

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“Students & remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken internet lines, & a lack of safe spaces—making education & work nearly impossible.” This is only escalating. I hope academics chip in & share to sustain this free service for students. chuffed.org/project/spar...

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The Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone has a community day of action on Sat! There's a rally (2.15pm Easton Community Centre), a mass canvassing session talking to local ppl about the boycott, & Palestinian meal together (5pm St Werburghs Community Centre). Come when you can - info here! hdfst.uk/e126166

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A precise, powerful, and principled critique. "The most urgent need today, as the Columbia case shows, is to create a new social contract on boards of trustees, who have become too craven to be watchdogs and too self-interested to be trusted. This change will require hard community-based activism."

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د 'افغانستان +۱۰۰' نوې ټولګه هغه کیسې لټوي چې په ۲۱۰۱ کال کې، د امریکا له یرغل څخه یوه پیړۍ وروسته رامنځته شوې دي. 💬 کومې ژبې چې منل شوې وي ⭐ غوره شوي کیسې به تاوان ترلاسه کړي 🗓️ د می تر لومړۍ نیټې پورې د بریښنالیک له لارې وسپارئ نور جزییات👇 drive.google.com/file/d/131s8...

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United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

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Palestinian artist and community organizer Dorgham Bassam Qreiqea, 28, was killed in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City amid the onslaught of Israeli airstrikes last Tuesday, March 18.

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The Cornell-based journal Diacritics @diacritics.bsky.social has released a special open access issue on the student encampments in support of Palestine: "Encamped - The Unliberated University" Including contributions by myself, Eman Ghanayem, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali ... muse.jhu.edu/issue/54493

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Just published in the Journal of the British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social : Avi Shlaim, "Scholasticide in Gaza" journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/admin/backen... "Zionist attacks on Palestinian educational institutions go back to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948."

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Hossam Shabat, a 23 year old journalist who documented the genocide of his people left a final message. shared by his team.

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"Who fired that lethal bullet at Malak? Why did they kill her? Was she a threat to the soldiers while she slept? Did they fear her dreams of returning to Ramla?" As children, we dreamed of our futures. Then an Israeli bullet took Malak’s ⤵️

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A great example for other universities to follow: "the University has decided to suspend all institutional collaboration with universities or organisations that repeatedly support or are directly involved in serious violations of international law or human rights."

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The APSA-MENA Program is pleased to announce a Call for Applications for scholars who would like to participate in a workshop addressing the issues of decolonization and extractivism in academic research in the MENA. Deadline to apply: Apr. 27. More info: pomeps.org/apsa-call-fo...

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Failed by Columbia's faculty, the responsibility of upholding Edward Said's legacy now falls to students like Mahmoud Khalil, writes @rrgould.bsky.social 👇

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I shared this testimony with a friend in Gaza and asked if it matches what he sees. He confirmed it did and wrote: “yes, the weapons being used on us are somehow different this round. The testimony you shared is correct. I can add to it that the destruction power & shock waves are bigger…”

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On 8 January 2025, shortly before the short-lived ceasefire, Lujayn's best friend Malak was killed by an Israeli bullet, "martyred at dawn by a bullet while she was sleeping in our tent.” Why did they killed Malak? Lujayn tells her friend's story on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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Palestinian students in Gaza call on solidarity movements to escalate #IAW2025 actions and remind us that "Israel would not be able to further entrench apartheid and continue to carry out genocide if it was not for the complicity of states, institutions, and corporations around the world."

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Steven Salaita was the first professor whose tenure was not denied, but revoked. Rasmea Odeh had her citizenship revoked — not her green card, her citizenship. The Holy Land Foundation were subject to trials w secret evidence against them, a violation of the 6th Amendment. All of them, Palestinians.

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