Mariam
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PhDing on politics and production of popularised and folkloric marginalised Iraqi dance forms
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Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
spectrejournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
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also adding a link to Sudan Solidarity Collective, civil society and mutual aid groups on the ground in the parts of Sudan worst affected
sudansolidarity.com
sudansolidarity.com
December 22, 2024 at 3:42 AM
also adding a link to Sudan Solidarity Collective, civil society and mutual aid groups on the ground in the parts of Sudan worst affected
sudansolidarity.com
sudansolidarity.com
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What's that phrase about there being a thin line between incompetence and purposeful malice? Should be a priority to bring the Home Office up to the standards of other departments and make sure they have accountability to the new DSIT team.
Exclusive: Home Office errors and “inefficiencies” are exacerbating a surge in homeless refugees
Documents arriving late or going to the wrong address, spelling mistakes and database issues are leaving them without proof of the right to rent or work
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Documents arriving late or going to the wrong address, spelling mistakes and database issues are leaving them without proof of the right to rent or work
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
How ‘insane’ Home Office errors helped create a new asylum-seeker homeless problem
Spelling mistakes, botched data and lack of coordination between officials all contribute to a spike in rough sleeping
inews.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 9:14 AM
What's that phrase about there being a thin line between incompetence and purposeful malice? Should be a priority to bring the Home Office up to the standards of other departments and make sure they have accountability to the new DSIT team.
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In the Novel Dialogue season finale, Annie McClanahan chats with Jordy Rosenberg about his 2018 novel “Confessions of the Fox” and how the messy early history of the novel offers a stage for rethinking resistance and utopian possibility.
“I love a dialectical reader, and best is a dialectical reader who cries”: Jordy Rosenberg and Annie McClanahan
“I really just wanted to write a novel—I guess to me, this feels very queer—but a novel that was about tenderness and militancy.”
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December 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
In the Novel Dialogue season finale, Annie McClanahan chats with Jordy Rosenberg about his 2018 novel “Confessions of the Fox” and how the messy early history of the novel offers a stage for rethinking resistance and utopian possibility.
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BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
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This fascinating Sufi brotherhood music from northeastern Morocco, featuring sung poetry carried by two spellbinding flutes weaving eerie sonorities and trance-like rhythms, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/03/moro...
#Maroc #sufi
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/03/moro...
#Maroc #sufi
December 17, 2024 at 10:07 PM
This fascinating Sufi brotherhood music from northeastern Morocco, featuring sung poetry carried by two spellbinding flutes weaving eerie sonorities and trance-like rhythms, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/03/moro...
#Maroc #sufi
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/03/moro...
#Maroc #sufi
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Paraphrasing the great Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous, in a morose mood during an interview in his hospital bed during his last days, referring to the Arab despots: ‘they managed to use the question of Palestine to rule us.’
The butchers are no friends of liberation and never were.
The butchers are no friends of liberation and never were.
December 8, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Paraphrasing the great Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous, in a morose mood during an interview in his hospital bed during his last days, referring to the Arab despots: ‘they managed to use the question of Palestine to rule us.’
The butchers are no friends of liberation and never were.
The butchers are no friends of liberation and never were.