Viviane Saglier
vvnsag.bsky.social
Viviane Saglier
@vvnsag.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film Studies. Palestinian and Arab cinema, film infrastructures, anticolonialism, and transnational solidarity. WIP.

Scotland - Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) - France
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A wonderful historical resource on the Palestinian national liberation movement, seen through a UK-based magazine that appeared 1968-1984:

“Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution”, revolutionarypapers.org/teaching-too...
Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution
Free Palestine was a monthly magazine published in Britain from 1968 until 1984, after which it moved to Australia from where it continued publication until 1992. The magazine, little known by activis...
revolutionarypapers.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The war took my home, my classroom, and my childhood. But it didn’t take my hope. I’m Hamza from Gaza, dreaming to become a pediatric doctor. Please donate, even small help brings me closer to protecting my parents. 💔🙏
gogetfunding.com/Helphamza/
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"Far from being “anti Israel”, the BBC’s Gaza coverage has failed to hold Israel to account."
www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...
I was a BBC journalist. Here's why the Prescott memo Gaza bias claims are wrong
Former BBC adviser Michael Prescott’s internal memo was leaked to The Telegraph last week – resulting, shockingly enough, in the resignations of…
www.thenational.scot
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities?

MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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‘We’ll appease the far right by taking inspo from the actual Nazis’ is an odd way to try and justify a policy but what do I know I’m not an overpaid consultant

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
10-11 | 2025 Revolutionary Cinemas
Au croisement de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie et des film studies, ce double numéro thématique analyse les généalogies et incarnations multiples des cinémas révolutionnaires africains, du Maghre...
journals.openedition.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton (@rosiehampton.bsky.social)
Where is the left?
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.
newint.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.

The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies...

Image: Anera
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
What an incredible online exhibition of Arabic book art spearheaded by Zeina Maasri. "It reveals how the aesthetic concerns & political commitments of a generation of Arab artists & graphic designers transformed the Arabic book in its content, form, & very conception." www.decolonizingthepage.com/en
Decolonizing the Page - Decolonizing the page
www.decolonizingthepage.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Solidarity!
Very strong turnout this morning on the first of our five days strike.

On Friday, in a meeting with the interim Principal, he confirmed his ideology is to cut as many jobs as possible.

Support our action to save jobs and save the University!

#SaveHE #SaveDundeeUni #WeAreTheUniversity
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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One of the most important articles you will read this year. Esmat Elhalaby, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies. @esmat.bsky.social 🗃️
Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza
This essay, parts of which were initially delivered at the annual Indigenous art gathering aabaakwad in December 2024 at the University of Toronto, offers three contributions to the historiography ...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thanks so much @takeoneaction.bsky.social for the wonderful screening of Red Skirts on Clydeside followed by an invigorating workshop with Living Rent Dundee
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The UK’s first trans judge has launched a case against the UK Government in the European Court of Human Rights over the Supreme Court's gender ruling
UK’s first transgender judge launches case against Supreme Court sex ruling
www.thenational.scot
August 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Please sign the open letter asking the Edinburgh International Festival to end its relatonship with Baillie Gilford docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Arts Workers for Palestine Scotland explains how EIF engages in artwashing and supports genocide: "Programming Palestinian artists while taking money from companies profiting from the deaths of other Palestinians puts those artists in an impossible and deeply cruel position."
August 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Staff and students at St Andrews - sign the open letter calling on the university to end links with Hebrew University www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...
August 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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SCMSSP is now asking for ppl to pledge to boycott the conference by filling out this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jb6...
Pledge to Join SCMSSP's Boycott of SCMS 2026
Scholars of Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (SCMSSP), formerly Palestine Solidarity Working Group (PSWG), calls for a boycott of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2026 ann...
docs.google.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM