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Rebecca Ruth Gould
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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
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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

Political science 66%
Sociology 13%
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Honored to share this brilliant story from my friend Lujayn in Gaza in @thenation.com "this war isn't just a war against Gaza. It is a war against the very essence of humanity, one that every person w/a conscience is enduring & fighting in every corner of the earth"
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
October 7, One Year Later
Palestinians and Israelis on 365 days of slaughter, devastation, grief, and resistance.
www.thenation.com

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Bearing Light: A Poem From Gaza
post by @451book.bsky.social
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Bearing Light: A Poem From Gaza
By Ayesha, translated from Arabic by her sister
medium.com

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BREAKING: Major Insurers drop Elbit Systems

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

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I just finished this amazing book! I
hope you enjoy it too. Was very impacted and posted a quotation from the end (no spoilers:) here:. substack.com/@rgould/note...
Rebecca Ruth Gould (@rgould)
My favorite passage from Kaveh Akbar’s must-read novel, Martyr!  “the first artifact of civilization wasn’t a hammer or arrowhead, but a human femur—discovered in Madagascar— that showed signs of hav...
substack.com

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Urgent call for educators! Please add your names to an open letter in solidarity with the hunger strikers for Palestine and student activists victimised & arrested for protesting against genocide. Over 500 health professionals signed a similar letter announced today
actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Open letter from educators: solidarity with the hunger strikes, stop police censorship and state repression
Activists who have not been convicted of any crime are on hunger strike to highlight the denial of their basic rights. This open letter from educators highlights how students such as Qesser Zuhrah who...
actionnetwork.org

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Little-known history about one of my favorite writers (among the dozens I've interviewed):
themarkaz.org/the-friend-o...
The Friend of the Fallen: James Baldwin in Istanbul
James Baldwin's Turkish exile, a lesser-told chapter in his life, offered safety, privacy, and most importantly, a creative rebirth.
themarkaz.org

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#cfp UK American Studies Against the Genocide! A symposium on Palestine and American Studies in the UK 🇵🇸

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
CFP: UK American Studies Against the Genocide! A symposium on Palestine and American Studies in the UK 9 May 2025 - British Association for American Studies
The genocidal war in Gaza alongside the acceleration of ethnic cleansing of the West Bank could not occur without full US and UK support. And yet American Studies in the UK has been largely silent.…
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What does archiving mean during genocide and erasure?
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/...
'Archiving Gaza in the Present': Art, Memory, Erasure
This event will mark the publication of the book 'Archiving Gaza in the Present', co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter.
www.soas.ac.uk

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