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‘I can hear footsteps approaching my door well before the guards appear, which gives me enough time to hide my papers under the mattress. But even if they were discovered, they would just think I had gone mad.’ #ijaam #aniraqirhapsody #sinanantoon
March 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
‘I can hear footsteps approaching my door well before the guards appear, which gives me enough time to hide my papers under the mattress. But even if they were discovered, they would just think I had gone mad.’ #ijaam #aniraqirhapsody #sinanantoon
‘A past has been demolished — universities, places of worship, writers, educators, journalists, little children, elderly people who remember the Nakba of 1948 — and a future has been demolished. What future? you might ask.
March 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
‘A past has been demolished — universities, places of worship, writers, educators, journalists, little children, elderly people who remember the Nakba of 1948 — and a future has been demolished. What future? you might ask.
January 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
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December 29, 2024 at 9:54 AM
C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review
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De-linking is…the only realistic response to the liberal utopia.
#re-readingthepostwarperiod #samiramin #criticaldevelopmentstudies #development
#re-readingthepostwarperiod #samiramin #criticaldevelopmentstudies #development
December 24, 2024 at 7:24 AM
De-linking is…the only realistic response to the liberal utopia.
#re-readingthepostwarperiod #samiramin #criticaldevelopmentstudies #development
#re-readingthepostwarperiod #samiramin #criticaldevelopmentstudies #development
‘This book focuses on figures for whom the intellectual domain itself had to be undone in order to know something about the world around us.’
#ofblackstudy @plutopress #webdubois #sylviawynter #jacobcarruthers #cedricrobinson #tonicadebambara #joshuamyers
#ofblackstudy @plutopress #webdubois #sylviawynter #jacobcarruthers #cedricrobinson #tonicadebambara #joshuamyers
December 23, 2024 at 7:08 AM
‘This book focuses on figures for whom the intellectual domain itself had to be undone in order to know something about the world around us.’
#ofblackstudy @plutopress #webdubois #sylviawynter #jacobcarruthers #cedricrobinson #tonicadebambara #joshuamyers
#ofblackstudy @plutopress #webdubois #sylviawynter #jacobcarruthers #cedricrobinson #tonicadebambara #joshuamyers
‘We rise, and I began to feel a strange elation, one of thousands, moving at the same time, bowing at the same time, rising at the same time. It did not matter who or what I was. I was present.’
#enterghost #isabellahammad #hamlet #palestine
#enterghost #isabellahammad #hamlet #palestine
December 20, 2024 at 9:42 AM
‘We rise, and I began to feel a strange elation, one of thousands, moving at the same time, bowing at the same time, rising at the same time. It did not matter who or what I was. I was present.’
#enterghost #isabellahammad #hamlet #palestine
#enterghost #isabellahammad #hamlet #palestine
‘[Eurocentrism] constitutes one dimension of the culture and ideology of the modern capitalist world.’ #eurocentrism #samiramin #otherarchives #otherarchivesexist
December 20, 2024 at 9:30 AM
‘[Eurocentrism] constitutes one dimension of the culture and ideology of the modern capitalist world.’ #eurocentrism #samiramin #otherarchives #otherarchivesexist
‘What is the purpose of the mind in heaven?’
#scatteredsouls #shahnazbashir @shahnazbashir.official #kashmir #shortstories
#scatteredsouls #shahnazbashir @shahnazbashir.official #kashmir #shortstories
December 20, 2024 at 7:56 AM
‘What is the purpose of the mind in heaven?’
#scatteredsouls #shahnazbashir @shahnazbashir.official #kashmir #shortstories
#scatteredsouls #shahnazbashir @shahnazbashir.official #kashmir #shortstories
‘A poem is not just words placed on a line. It’s a cloth.’
‘[Poems are] works that document the lives of those authors and the places they lived.’
‘They are inviting me to live their experience.’
#thingsyoumayfindhiddeninmyear #mosababutoha #gaza #palestine
‘[Poems are] works that document the lives of those authors and the places they lived.’
‘They are inviting me to live their experience.’
#thingsyoumayfindhiddeninmyear #mosababutoha #gaza #palestine
December 10, 2024 at 12:20 PM
‘A poem is not just words placed on a line. It’s a cloth.’
‘[Poems are] works that document the lives of those authors and the places they lived.’
‘They are inviting me to live their experience.’
#thingsyoumayfindhiddeninmyear #mosababutoha #gaza #palestine
‘[Poems are] works that document the lives of those authors and the places they lived.’
‘They are inviting me to live their experience.’
#thingsyoumayfindhiddeninmyear #mosababutoha #gaza #palestine
‘If you pointed out something uncomfortable or too “real,” they asked you for proof. But no proof was ever good enough for them, especially if it was inconvenient for them to acknowledge.’
#tilt #intergenerationaltrauma #rowmanandlittlefield #meghanavnayak
#tilt #intergenerationaltrauma #rowmanandlittlefield #meghanavnayak
December 2, 2024 at 5:37 PM
‘If you pointed out something uncomfortable or too “real,” they asked you for proof. But no proof was ever good enough for them, especially if it was inconvenient for them to acknowledge.’
#tilt #intergenerationaltrauma #rowmanandlittlefield #meghanavnayak
#tilt #intergenerationaltrauma #rowmanandlittlefield #meghanavnayak
‘Do you think I have no insides?’
#theparisian #isabellahammad #exquisiteprose #palestine #palestinenovels
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#theparisian #isabellahammad #exquisiteprose #palestine #palestinenovels
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November 28, 2024 at 4:06 PM
‘Do you think I have no insides?’
#theparisian #isabellahammad #exquisiteprose #palestine #palestinenovels
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
#theparisian #isabellahammad #exquisiteprose #palestine #palestinenovels
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
‘Technology and media pretend to provide a world that is internetted — all they deliver is a world of shadows.’
#anamcara #abookofcelticwisdom #johnodonohue
#anamcara #abookofcelticwisdom #johnodonohue
September 7, 2024 at 1:14 AM
‘Technology and media pretend to provide a world that is internetted — all they deliver is a world of shadows.’
#anamcara #abookofcelticwisdom #johnodonohue
#anamcara #abookofcelticwisdom #johnodonohue
‘A terrorised society will behave like an unthinking, submissive mob for a long time. Feeding it is enough to make it obey. Provided with amusements, it’s happy. The rather small arsenal of tricks has not changed in millennia.’
#theshahofshahs #ryszardkapuściński #crevicemoments
#theshahofshahs #ryszardkapuściński #crevicemoments
August 17, 2024 at 2:27 PM
‘A terrorised society will behave like an unthinking, submissive mob for a long time. Feeding it is enough to make it obey. Provided with amusements, it’s happy. The rather small arsenal of tricks has not changed in millennia.’
#theshahofshahs #ryszardkapuściński #crevicemoments
#theshahofshahs #ryszardkapuściński #crevicemoments
‘The revolution — in its essence and its substance [and] its local leadership — was a peasant revolt.’
‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’
‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’
August 14, 2024 at 10:09 AM
‘The revolution — in its essence and its substance [and] its local leadership — was a peasant revolt.’
‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’
‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’
‘I’m the slant-eyed sniper in the trees.
I’m the saboteur in the shrubs.
I’m the stranger at the gate.
I’m the traitor in your own backyard.
I’m your houseboy.
I’m your cook.
I’m your gardener.
I’m the saboteur in the shrubs.
I’m the stranger at the gate.
I’m the traitor in your own backyard.
I’m your houseboy.
I’m your cook.
I’m your gardener.
August 13, 2024 at 2:25 PM
‘I’m the slant-eyed sniper in the trees.
I’m the saboteur in the shrubs.
I’m the stranger at the gate.
I’m the traitor in your own backyard.
I’m your houseboy.
I’m your cook.
I’m your gardener.
I’m the saboteur in the shrubs.
I’m the stranger at the gate.
I’m the traitor in your own backyard.
I’m your houseboy.
I’m your cook.
I’m your gardener.
‘Common challenges: to consistently justify its opposition to social integration and to explain, in an infinitesimally precise manner, the process of turning Judaism into a state and a nation.’
#kanafani #onzionistliterature #literarycriticism
#kanafani #onzionistliterature #literarycriticism
July 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM
‘Common challenges: to consistently justify its opposition to social integration and to explain, in an infinitesimally precise manner, the process of turning Judaism into a state and a nation.’
#kanafani #onzionistliterature #literarycriticism
#kanafani #onzionistliterature #literarycriticism
‘Zamzam walked back through a town that was beginning to bloom as a new capital in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela
July 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
‘Zamzam walked back through a town that was beginning to bloom as a new capital in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela
‘What if we took advantage of racism to invent new political horizons? What if we took advantage of “the failure of integration”? Our oppressors’ territory is itself shifting.’
#whitesjewsandus #houriabouteldja @houriabouteldja #towardsapoliticsofrevolutionarylove
#whitesjewsandus #houriabouteldja @houriabouteldja #towardsapoliticsofrevolutionarylove
July 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM
‘What if we took advantage of racism to invent new political horizons? What if we took advantage of “the failure of integration”? Our oppressors’ territory is itself shifting.’
#whitesjewsandus #houriabouteldja @houriabouteldja #towardsapoliticsofrevolutionarylove
#whitesjewsandus #houriabouteldja @houriabouteldja #towardsapoliticsofrevolutionarylove
‘the assumptions and narratives that underlie the judgement of Western strategists are very far from being clear-eyed assessments of what the future holds. They are…products of an “imperial optic”.’
#thenutmegscurse #parablesforaplanetincrisis @amitav.bsky.social
#thenutmegscurse #parablesforaplanetincrisis @amitav.bsky.social
May 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM
‘the assumptions and narratives that underlie the judgement of Western strategists are very far from being clear-eyed assessments of what the future holds. They are…products of an “imperial optic”.’
#thenutmegscurse #parablesforaplanetincrisis @amitav.bsky.social
#thenutmegscurse #parablesforaplanetincrisis @amitav.bsky.social
‘The Resistance Struggle against a criminal regime must be accorded its rightful place in our history, so that a new generation can believe in itself and in its future.’
#solidarityandtreason #lisafittko
#solidarityandtreason #lisafittko
May 5, 2024 at 2:56 PM
‘The Resistance Struggle against a criminal regime must be accorded its rightful place in our history, so that a new generation can believe in itself and in its future.’
#solidarityandtreason #lisafittko
#solidarityandtreason #lisafittko
‘If there was a past that taught them anything, it was that the attempt to own life destroyed it, brutalised the earth, and ran roughshod over everything on God’s creation for a dollar.’
‘…the matter of life returns as an open question.’
#saidiyahartman #waywardlivesbeautifulexperiments
‘…the matter of life returns as an open question.’
#saidiyahartman #waywardlivesbeautifulexperiments
April 27, 2024 at 6:40 AM
‘If there was a past that taught them anything, it was that the attempt to own life destroyed it, brutalised the earth, and ran roughshod over everything on God’s creation for a dollar.’
‘…the matter of life returns as an open question.’
#saidiyahartman #waywardlivesbeautifulexperiments
‘…the matter of life returns as an open question.’
#saidiyahartman #waywardlivesbeautifulexperiments
‘Fascism. It’s the worst colonialism. …. Not only Africa is a cursed land. Every land can be like it - Europe, America, any place.’
#thesoccerwar #ryszardkapuściński #poetics
#thesoccerwar #ryszardkapuściński #poetics
April 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM
‘Fascism. It’s the worst colonialism. …. Not only Africa is a cursed land. Every land can be like it - Europe, America, any place.’
#thesoccerwar #ryszardkapuściński #poetics
#thesoccerwar #ryszardkapuściński #poetics
‘Sometimes I would hear people use wars instead of years to refer to time.
I bought this pair of shoes before the first war,
Or
I graduated right after the last war,
— stand-ins for 2008 and 2014. Time…was measured through loss and grief.’
#sambacbeneathunlikelyskies #palestinewrites
#hebahayek
I bought this pair of shoes before the first war,
Or
I graduated right after the last war,
— stand-ins for 2008 and 2014. Time…was measured through loss and grief.’
#sambacbeneathunlikelyskies #palestinewrites
#hebahayek
February 17, 2024 at 7:16 PM
‘Sometimes I would hear people use wars instead of years to refer to time.
I bought this pair of shoes before the first war,
Or
I graduated right after the last war,
— stand-ins for 2008 and 2014. Time…was measured through loss and grief.’
#sambacbeneathunlikelyskies #palestinewrites
#hebahayek
I bought this pair of shoes before the first war,
Or
I graduated right after the last war,
— stand-ins for 2008 and 2014. Time…was measured through loss and grief.’
#sambacbeneathunlikelyskies #palestinewrites
#hebahayek