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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.
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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
June 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Thanks to The Daily Show for showing us the receipts 😡
June 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thanks to The Daily Show for showing us the receipts 😡
Thank you @hararereview.bsky.social for including me in this tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o for @thecontinent.org
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June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thank you @hararereview.bsky.social for including me in this tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o for @thecontinent.org
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We need @arablit.bsky.social more than ever today!
Support the ArabLit Quarterly's work in 2025-26 by buying one of their beautacious back-issues! This will fund their Gaza Translation Workshop, a Syria issue, May Ziadeh collection and more. Find all 18 issues + backlist books at arablit.org/shop
Support the ArabLit Quarterly's work in 2025-26 by buying one of their beautacious back-issues! This will fund their Gaza Translation Workshop, a Syria issue, May Ziadeh collection and more. Find all 18 issues + backlist books at arablit.org/shop
June 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We need @arablit.bsky.social more than ever today!
Support the ArabLit Quarterly's work in 2025-26 by buying one of their beautacious back-issues! This will fund their Gaza Translation Workshop, a Syria issue, May Ziadeh collection and more. Find all 18 issues + backlist books at arablit.org/shop
Support the ArabLit Quarterly's work in 2025-26 by buying one of their beautacious back-issues! This will fund their Gaza Translation Workshop, a Syria issue, May Ziadeh collection and more. Find all 18 issues + backlist books at arablit.org/shop
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) From the Warscapes archives, a radiant event from 2015 in New York City.
"African Literature...Says Who? The Last 50 Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o"
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"African Literature...Says Who? The Last 50 Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o"
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May 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) From the Warscapes archives, a radiant event from 2015 in New York City.
"African Literature...Says Who? The Last 50 Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o"
youtu.be/DifumRke9eQ
"African Literature...Says Who? The Last 50 Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o"
youtu.be/DifumRke9eQ
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) a true giant of literature has passed away. We are at a loss of words even though he blessed our world with so many. May he rest in peace and power ❤️🌻✊🏿
May 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) a true giant of literature has passed away. We are at a loss of words even though he blessed our world with so many. May he rest in peace and power ❤️🌻✊🏿
370 people detained by ICE in Worcester, Massachusetts after a violent terror raid. ICE has released a statement calling them all gang members and violent illegals.
May 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
370 people detained by ICE in Worcester, Massachusetts after a violent terror raid. ICE has released a statement calling them all gang members and violent illegals.
an amazing achievement that India’s warmongering, killings, Islamophobia and jingoism will be feminist this time around 🤬‼️🤬
May 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
an amazing achievement that India’s warmongering, killings, Islamophobia and jingoism will be feminist this time around 🤬‼️🤬
Indian media is high on bloodthirsty, racist propaganda and are reporting straight-up lies. Of course, The Guardian, Le Monde and other western outlets are copycat publishing NDTV stories
May 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Indian media is high on bloodthirsty, racist propaganda and are reporting straight-up lies. Of course, The Guardian, Le Monde and other western outlets are copycat publishing NDTV stories
“Targeting doctors, hospitals and healthcare workers in Gaza is pure evil. It is necropolitics.”
— Muna Khalidi (co-director, A State of Passion)
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— Muna Khalidi (co-director, A State of Passion)
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May 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Targeting doctors, hospitals and healthcare workers in Gaza is pure evil. It is necropolitics.”
— Muna Khalidi (co-director, A State of Passion)
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— Muna Khalidi (co-director, A State of Passion)
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Mohammed El-Kurd's "Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal" is a powerful indictment of all structures & institutions that deliberately work to erase, censor and criminalize Palestinians and Palestine. Our book club meets this Sunday, May 4th. Join us: radicalbookscollective.com/products/per...
May 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Mohammed El-Kurd's "Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal" is a powerful indictment of all structures & institutions that deliberately work to erase, censor and criminalize Palestinians and Palestine. Our book club meets this Sunday, May 4th. Join us: radicalbookscollective.com/products/per...
Beautiful mail today from The Palfest Bookshelf @palfest.bsky.social
Two books about Ghassan Kanafani. So grateful to have Anni Kanafani’s lovely book about her husband who was taken too soon & too brutslly, its been out of print. And bonus, a small print of artwork by Ghassan Kanafani himself ❤️✊🏾🇵🇸
Two books about Ghassan Kanafani. So grateful to have Anni Kanafani’s lovely book about her husband who was taken too soon & too brutslly, its been out of print. And bonus, a small print of artwork by Ghassan Kanafani himself ❤️✊🏾🇵🇸
April 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Beautiful mail today from The Palfest Bookshelf @palfest.bsky.social
Two books about Ghassan Kanafani. So grateful to have Anni Kanafani’s lovely book about her husband who was taken too soon & too brutslly, its been out of print. And bonus, a small print of artwork by Ghassan Kanafani himself ❤️✊🏾🇵🇸
Two books about Ghassan Kanafani. So grateful to have Anni Kanafani’s lovely book about her husband who was taken too soon & too brutslly, its been out of print. And bonus, a small print of artwork by Ghassan Kanafani himself ❤️✊🏾🇵🇸
because publishing definitely needs to be more MAGA…🙄
“New independent press to focus on male writers”
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“New independent press to focus on male writers”
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April 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
because publishing definitely needs to be more MAGA…🙄
“New independent press to focus on male writers”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
“New independent press to focus on male writers”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Had the honor to record the first interview with filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi about their powerful documentary State of Passion about the extraordinary Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and about Gaza itself.
April 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Had the honor to record the first interview with filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi about their powerful documentary State of Passion about the extraordinary Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and about Gaza itself.
I've been doing interviews for years now, its a generative and stimulating genre for me. Been lucky to start out with Mana Neyestani, Fatma El-Mehdi, Mahmood Mamdani, Shobasakthi and more. Will make it official now w/ my podcast Radical Futures for @WARSCAPES & @project_polis
April 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I've been doing interviews for years now, its a generative and stimulating genre for me. Been lucky to start out with Mana Neyestani, Fatma El-Mehdi, Mahmood Mamdani, Shobasakthi and more. Will make it official now w/ my podcast Radical Futures for @WARSCAPES & @project_polis
From an article on Women'sPrize longlist in yr 2000. So confounding was theme of migration in the novels that judge Polly Toynbee said: "After reading them all, you look at mothers begging with babies in their laps-Romanians or whatever-and you think, those kids are going to write a book some day”
April 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
From an article on Women'sPrize longlist in yr 2000. So confounding was theme of migration in the novels that judge Polly Toynbee said: "After reading them all, you look at mothers begging with babies in their laps-Romanians or whatever-and you think, those kids are going to write a book some day”
Two Africas.
Two of biggest names in African literature have dropped their books at the same time. And they could not be more different from ont other. Double review coming soon….
Two of biggest names in African literature have dropped their books at the same time. And they could not be more different from ont other. Double review coming soon….
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Two Africas.
Two of biggest names in African literature have dropped their books at the same time. And they could not be more different from ont other. Double review coming soon….
Two of biggest names in African literature have dropped their books at the same time. And they could not be more different from ont other. Double review coming soon….
As the crackdown on immigration and violent deportations explode across the US, the hosts are joined by journalist @tanvi.bsky.social to peel back the bureaucratic spectacle of American border regimes.
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April 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
As the crackdown on immigration and violent deportations explode across the US, the hosts are joined by journalist @tanvi.bsky.social to peel back the bureaucratic spectacle of American border regimes.
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"In this explosive episode, we take apart how elite liberal media platforms use their opinion sections to manufacture consent, launder imperial narratives, and uphold empire. These aren’t just “takes.” These are weapons. And they’re aimed at you."
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April 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"In this explosive episode, we take apart how elite liberal media platforms use their opinion sections to manufacture consent, launder imperial narratives, and uphold empire. These aren’t just “takes.” These are weapons. And they’re aimed at you."
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mediapodcast.substack.com/p/op-eds-are...
We meet in two weeks, March 29, to celebrate Otoniya J. Okot Bitek’s novel “We, The Kindling” a story of friendship and war set in Iganda. The author will be joining us to discuss her work🤩💖
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March 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We meet in two weeks, March 29, to celebrate Otoniya J. Okot Bitek’s novel “We, The Kindling” a story of friendship and war set in Iganda. The author will be joining us to discuss her work🤩💖
Sign up, it’s all online
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Carceral academia
“For many, American universities relentlessly calling cops on their own students might seem like a new development stemming from the last sixteen months of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. But academia has always been a place where carceral logic is front and centre”
“For many, American universities relentlessly calling cops on their own students might seem like a new development stemming from the last sixteen months of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. But academia has always been a place where carceral logic is front and centre”
March 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Carceral academia
“For many, American universities relentlessly calling cops on their own students might seem like a new development stemming from the last sixteen months of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. But academia has always been a place where carceral logic is front and centre”
“For many, American universities relentlessly calling cops on their own students might seem like a new development stemming from the last sixteen months of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. But academia has always been a place where carceral logic is front and centre”
bell hooks on love as an anchor of “visionary feminism”
January 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
bell hooks on love as an anchor of “visionary feminism”