Basma Hajir
basmahajir.bsky.social
Basma Hajir
@basmahajir.bsky.social
How can higher education contribute to peacebuilding and recovery in post-dictatorship Syria? My thoughts in this @ukfiet.bsky.social blog:

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https://www.ukfiet.org/2025/a-historic-opportunity-the-role-of-higher-education-in-syrias-post-dictatorship/
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February 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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In light of the AHA's unconscionable veto of the members' vote, it's worth reading this excellent & prescient article by Hajir & Qato on how scholasticide operates (precisely via such institutional silences & silencing):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I’m still stunned by this. “…‘scholasticidal tendencies’ that extend to the USA, UK, and European academies: silence, the suppression of solidarity, ‘complex’ or ‘nuanced’ arguments, and the threat posed by certain theories.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities
This essay takes up Edward Said’s insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of...
www.tandfonline.com
January 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM