(Mar)Chella Ward
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(Mar)Chella Ward
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Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
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I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻

Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
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5 days ago, the Collège de France advertised the very conference they subsequently, and cowardly, canceled due to tantrums thrown by anti-Palestinian racists who condone a genocidal, settler colonial project 👇
Make it make sense 3/
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#Histoire #MoyenOrient
🇵🇸🇪🇺 "La #Palestine et l’#Europe : poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Henry Laurens, titulaire de la chaire Histoire contemporaine du monde arabe, et le @carepparis.bsky.social.
⏰ Les 13 et 14 novembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/396t3rft
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Don’t forget the second one of these is coming up this week iA!👇🏻
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month in the UK and the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s Tackling Islamophobia Working Group have some events in store for you! 🌙 All welcome - please use the email on the poster to sign up.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Nous pleurons la disparition de #SionAssidon, icône indomptable de la gauche révolutionnaire marocaine, ancien prisonnier politique et militant infatigable de la lutte antisioniste et anticoloniale.

Communiqué du PIR

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Sion Assidon, un frère de lutte est parti | Indigènes de la République
Nous pleurons la disparition de Sion Assidon, icône indomptable de la gauche révolutionnaire marocaine, ancien prisonnier politique et militant infatigable de la lutte antisioniste et anticoloniale.Ar...
indigenes-republique.fr
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The year is 2035. The Civil Rights Act has been ruled unconstitutional. My university’s main source of external research funding is Silicon Valley. I am once again reported to the DEI office for hate speech after identifying LLM hallucination in a student paper.
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
From Sudan, to Palestine, genocide is a crime! 🇸🇩🇵🇸
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Omar, Omar, le peuple est avec toi! 🥳🇵🇸
From the river to the sea !

🌊🇵🇸🌊

✌️✌️✌️

#UrgencePalestine
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s Friday again so time for a new episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ! 🎙️ In this one we talked to Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress. 🌙

You can listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 💚
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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✊ OMAR ALSOUMI DOIT ÊTRE LIBÉRÉ ! Omar est toujours détenu et sera déféré ce vendredi au tribunal.

📣 Rassemblement vendredi 7 novembre à 14h

Nous ne nous tairons pas ! Libération immédiate et sans condition !

#LibérezOmarAlsoumi #JusticePourOmar #UrgencePalestine

@urgencepalestine.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Nous sommes Omar 🇵🇸
Notre frère Omar Alsoumi a été perquisitionné et mis en garde à vue ce matin.

Rassemblement aujourd’hui 5 Novembre à 18h devant le commissariat de Meaux

Libérez Omar !

#UrgencePalestine
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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@bdsmovement.bsky.social have published a statement on #isac2025 Warsaw and the organisation’s normalisation of Israel’s ongoing apartheid and genocide against Palestinians bdsmovement.net/news/palesti... #🏺
Palestinians Urge Boycott of 2025 Islamic Archaeology Conference Normalizing Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Once again, the Islamic Archaeology Conference is in violation of the BDS movement’s anti-normalization guidelines. Furthermore, it includes speakers from Israeli institutions illegally based on occup...
bdsmovement.net
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
November is Islamophobia Awareness Month in the UK and the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s Tackling Islamophobia Working Group have some events in store for you! 🌙 All welcome - please use the email on the poster to sign up.
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Stop au génocide à El Fasher !

Rassemblement Place de la Bastille Samedi 1er Novembre à 15h place de la Bastille pour dénoncer le massacre commis par les Forces de Soutien Rapide à El-Fasher, et la guerre coloniale au #Soudan soutenue par les Émirats Arabes Unis et la France
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Nearly 21,000 children were “sacrificed” to gun violence in the settler colonial project known as the USA between 2013 and 2023. And this guy thinks he has some kind of moral high ground to tell ahistorical stories about indigenous and First Nations people?!
The event occurred at a university. Ole Miss should lose its accreditation for hosting this.
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
For this week’s episode of Radio ReOrient (from @reorient.bsky.social ) we spoke to Hatem Bazian and Ismail Patel about the mechanics of resistance. 🇵🇸 Why do we protest? To find out, listen in via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social wherever you get your podcasts.🎙️

Jummah Mubarak from Radio ReOrient! 💚🌙
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is excellent because @nevillemorley.bsky.social is very funny and I had a cathartic chuckle about AI / the Sparta bros every 3 words or so.

I especially liked “If this had been written by a human, it would be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read” which describes 100% of AI outputs.
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It’s Black History Month for us at @reorient.bsky.social too and I’m really excited for this talk tonight, ‘Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas’ all about the influence of West African anti-colonial/jihadist movements on the enslaved Muslims of the New World at the Iqbal Centre. 🌙
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Sorry but this has the same vibes as that time when a peer reviewer for a respected classics journal told me I could not open my article with the phrase “it is a truth universally acknowledged” because it was obvious I secretly meant that classicists were both prideful and prejudiced 😅
She’s Lost Control.

No shark has ever been more jumped, no bow more longer drawn.

Joy Derision.

Something apparently so clearly inappropriate it took them 5 days to say so. (Or more accurately 45 years to say so, given how long #JoyDivision shirts have been worn for).

Disorder
October 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Zied et Bouna, Lamary et Mouhsin, n’ont commis aucun délit. Comme tant d’autres avant eux, ils sont morts parce qu’ils étaient Noirs et Arabes. Un Noir ou un Arabe ne commet pas de délits ; sa seule existence est déjà un délit.

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October 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This is the first time that I have even seen a death toll for Sudan.
“More than 150,000 people have died across the country and about 12 million have fled their homes, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises.”

This is a genocide in Sudan.
El-Fasher: Rebel group claims capture of key city in Sudan
The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforces a de facto split in the nation.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM