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Omer Al Tijani on documenting Sudanese cuisine as an act of resistance
In a country ravaged by war and where hunger has been weaponized in extreme ways, The Sudanese Kitchen cookbook works against invisibility and erasure.
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Omer Al Tijani on documenting Sudanese cuisine as an act of resistance. In a country ravaged by war and where hunger has been weaponized in extreme ways, The Sudanese Kitchen cookbook works against invisibility and erasure.
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/omer-al-ti...
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Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour's prison memoir ("written inside the walls of the Israeli prisons where Abu Srour spent 33 years") wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe. @oliviasnaije.bsky.social for @arablit.bsky.social
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Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour Wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe
The awards ceremony for the 2025 Prix de la littérature arabe — held at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on November 18 — was an emotionally charged affair.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour's prison memoir ("written inside the walls of the Israeli prisons where Abu Srour spent 33 years") wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe. @oliviasnaije.bsky.social for @arablit.bsky.social
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'To fully contextualize the current man-made hunger crisis in Sudan and to recognize that it has been decades in the making,
we must turn to history." writes Nisrin Elamin. Accompanied by paintings by the legendary Ibrahim El-Salahi
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
we must turn to history." writes Nisrin Elamin. Accompanied by paintings by the legendary Ibrahim El-Salahi
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The Politics of Hunger in Sudan – Transition Magazine
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November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
'To fully contextualize the current man-made hunger crisis in Sudan and to recognize that it has been decades in the making,
we must turn to history." writes Nisrin Elamin. Accompanied by paintings by the legendary Ibrahim El-Salahi
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
we must turn to history." writes Nisrin Elamin. Accompanied by paintings by the legendary Ibrahim El-Salahi
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
Omer Al Tijani on documenting Sudanese cuisine as an act of resistance. In a country ravaged by war and where hunger has been weaponized in extreme ways, The Sudanese Kitchen cookbook works against invisibility and erasure.
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/omer-al-ti...
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/omer-al-ti...
Omer Al Tijani on documenting Sudanese cuisine as an act of resistance
In a country ravaged by war and where hunger has been weaponized in extreme ways, The Sudanese Kitchen cookbook works against invisibility and erasure.
www.radicalbookscollective.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Omer Al Tijani on documenting Sudanese cuisine as an act of resistance. In a country ravaged by war and where hunger has been weaponized in extreme ways, The Sudanese Kitchen cookbook works against invisibility and erasure.
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/omer-al-ti...
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/omer-al-ti...
Read Palestine Week is seven days when people around the world read – publicly and in community – as part of the global resistance to the genocide of the Palestinian people.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Read Palestine Week is seven days when people around the world read – publicly and in community – as part of the global resistance to the genocide of the Palestinian people.
publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/11/j...
publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/11/j...
Nov 30, 2025: Reading Palestine 5 - We Are Not Numbers: Voices of Gaza's Youth
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Nov 30, 2025: Reading Palestine 5 - We Are Not Numbers: Voices of Gaza's Youth
We continue to engage with the fight for Palestinian liberation by turning to the words of Palestinian writers themselves.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Nov 30, 2025: Reading Palestine 5 - We Are Not Numbers: Voices of Gaza's Youth
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Just learned that the interviewer here is the wonderful Bhakti Shringarpure of @radicalbooks.bsky.social, full interview here www.warscapes.com/conversation...
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just learned that the interviewer here is the wonderful Bhakti Shringarpure of @radicalbooks.bsky.social, full interview here www.warscapes.com/conversation...
This conversation being shared like crazy since Zohran Mamdani's win 💕
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In Conversation with Mahmood Mamdani
It is in his bittersweet and touching book on the Asian expulsion from Uganda that one can trace the beginnings of author and intellectual Mahmood Mamdani’s world-view. He captures the terrifying expe...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This conversation being shared like crazy since Zohran Mamdani's win 💕
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17. Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/17-undoing...
17. Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh
Writer, scholar, and educator Sunny Singh explains that everything she does “centers around finding ways to undo empire.” The world we have inherited is “an ongoing colonial project” and thus “the war...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
17. Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/17-undoing...
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This is big. A South African court has ruled that anti-apartheid leader & 1961 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Luthuli was murdered by the apartheid state's security forces & that the inquiry into his death was a cover-up -- as many had asserted all along. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Court declares apartheid cover-up of ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli’s murder
Delivering a historic judgment in the Chief Albert Luthuli inquest, the Pietermaritzburg high court revealed how the law was systematically used as a tool to enforce apartheid and how even magistrates...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is big. A South African court has ruled that anti-apartheid leader & 1961 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Luthuli was murdered by the apartheid state's security forces & that the inquiry into his death was a cover-up -- as many had asserted all along. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Uncovering histories of targeting and policing Muslims in Kenya
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Policing, surveillance, and the targeting of Muslims in Kenya
A conversation with scholar Samar Al-Bulushi about her powerful book "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, United States and the War on Terror."
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October 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Uncovering histories of targeting and policing Muslims in Kenya
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"The people of Gaza did not give up, they did not surrender." - Haidar Eid
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"The people of Gaza did not give up, they did not surrender." - Haidar Eid
A conversation Haidar Eid, author of "Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind" and "Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza."
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October 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"The people of Gaza did not give up, they did not surrender." - Haidar Eid
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-people...
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-people...
Palestine has made radical solidarities possible:
"The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation on hope and solidarity with writer Sisonke Msimang traversing Australia, South Africa and Palestine."
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"The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation on hope and solidarity with writer Sisonke Msimang traversing Australia, South Africa and Palestine."
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Palestine has made radical solidarities possible
By Bhakti Shringarpure. The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation with Sisonke Msimang by way of Australia, South Africa and Palestine.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Palestine has made radical solidarities possible:
"The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation on hope and solidarity with writer Sisonke Msimang traversing Australia, South Africa and Palestine."
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/palestine-...
"The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation on hope and solidarity with writer Sisonke Msimang traversing Australia, South Africa and Palestine."
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/palestine-...
Palestine, Black & African Solidarities, and the Perils of Online Activism: Featuring Sisonke Msimang
new episode of the Radical Futures #podcast
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/14-palesti...
new episode of the Radical Futures #podcast
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14. Palestine, Black & African Solidarities, and the Perils of Online Activism: Featuring Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang is clear that she is, first and foremost, an African.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Palestine, Black & African Solidarities, and the Perils of Online Activism: Featuring Sisonke Msimang
new episode of the Radical Futures #podcast
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/14-palesti...
new episode of the Radical Futures #podcast
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What a perturbing program -- This is about the institutionalization of activism thus dismantling critique of power. Imagine activists getting off the streets sitting around reflecting, giving talks, attending wine receptions, probably brainstorming an undergrad major in activism
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
What a perturbing program -- This is about the institutionalization of activism thus dismantling critique of power. Imagine activists getting off the streets sitting around reflecting, giving talks, attending wine receptions, probably brainstorming an undergrad major in activism
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ICYMI
Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
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Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
By Bhakti Shringarpure. A conversation with writer Omar El Akkad, a massive solidarity concert for Palestine in London and seeking the smallest of signs that the tide may be turning for Palestine.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
ICYMI
Horrifying state of things
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Who Wants to Join ICE? We Went to Utah to Find Out.
At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.
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September 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Horrifying state of things
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theintercept.com/2025/09/24/d...
Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/why-the-wo...
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/why-the-wo...
Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
By Bhakti Shringarpure. A conversation with writer Omar El Akkad, a massive solidarity concert for Palestine in London and seeking the smallest of signs that the tide may be turning for Palestine.
www.radicalbookscollective.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
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If you're shocked about Ezra Klein's op-ed fawning over Charlie Kirk, please know that this is a long liberal tradition of op-ed writing. From out podcast archives, the deep dive into the genre of the op-ed itself.
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If Op-Eds Could Kill
The hosts turn their lens on the insidious, galvanizing power of the opinion column.
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September 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
If you're shocked about Ezra Klein's op-ed fawning over Charlie Kirk, please know that this is a long liberal tradition of op-ed writing. From out podcast archives, the deep dive into the genre of the op-ed itself.
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-op-eds-...
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-op-eds-...
Today, on the 24th anniversary of 9/11, this podcast with Somali scholar Maxamed Abumaye offers fitting reflections on the wave of militarism, policing, surveillance and totalizing violence unleashed by the West's War on Terror.
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Episode 12. Black Muslim Refugee Resistance to US Militarism and Policing: Featuring Maxamed Abumaye
Listen now |
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September 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Today, on the 24th anniversary of 9/11, this podcast with Somali scholar Maxamed Abumaye offers fitting reflections on the wave of militarism, policing, surveillance and totalizing violence unleashed by the West's War on Terror.
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/black-musl...
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“Offers radical insights into how the past, present and future is made and re-made through statues and monuments in the public spheres.”
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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September 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“Offers radical insights into how the past, present and future is made and re-made through statues and monuments in the public spheres.”
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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“Statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with institutionally constructed histories.”
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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August 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“Statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with institutionally constructed histories.”
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen
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"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen
By Bhakti Shringarpure.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen
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“Movements centered on either dismantling or building statues have become critical for understanding charged debates around history and memory today.”
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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10. On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with…
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August 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“Movements centered on either dismantling or building statues have become critical for understanding charged debates around history and memory today.”
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...