Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com
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Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com
rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, translator, and Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics at SOAS University of London. Her interests range across the Caucasus, Comparative Literature, Islam, Islamic Law, Islamic Studies, Persian literature, poetry, and poetics. Her PhD dissertation focused on Persian prison poetry, and was published in revised form as The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021). Her articles and translations have received awards from English PEN, the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize, the Modern Language Association’s Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship, and the British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize. Gould's work also deals with legal theory and the theory of racism, and she is a critic of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Working Definition of Antisemitism. .. more
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Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4
hope you enjoy it too. Was very impacted and posted a quotation from the end (no spoilers:) here:. substack.com/@rgould/note...
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Proposals are welcomed for papers & panels on the subject of Palestine & its relation with American Studies. It will take place 9th May.
Deadline: 6th February 2026
Reposted by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Book launch event: 'Archiving Gaza in the Present': Art, Memory, Erasure'
Co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter.
📍 SOAS Gallery
📅 21 January, 6 to 7.30pm
For further information and registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...