We need Palestine more than Palestine needs us. The annihilation of Palestine is the evisceration of our very humanity. There’s no coming back from this.

Listen up. Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century. This is what the first real signal of this new century looks like, out in the open, clear for all to see. 1/

This is powerful. #GazaGenocide

📢JUST ANNOUNCED! Cambridge Educators for a Free Palestine 20 January 1pm GMT In collaboration with Centre for Lebanese Studies UCU National Education Union Discussing: Life under occupation, curriculum, working with unions & schools, etc. Register here to join in person or online: CambridgeEducators.eventbrite.co.uk

Join over 2000 scholars from around the world that have signed onto the sawporg petition calling for an immediate & permanent #ceasefire, ending Israel’s siege on #Gaza, & ending attacks on 🇵🇸educational & health institutions Sign & share the petition scholarsagainstwar.org/statement/holi…

Avi Shlaim is one of the most high integrity Jewish intellectuals of his generation. This piece is a required read by all of us so torn by the events since October 7th prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel/6…

Promoted to Associate Professr of Edu & Int Development. Grateful to amazing colleagues, mentors, students & collaborators at Department of Education at Bath & beyond who generously contribute towards my learning & achievements. Looking forward to the future with greater optimism & ambition.

This is a must-read. A powerful critique of mainstream economics coming from Angus Deaton, a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics who has spent most of his career within the mainstream. He highlights five major deficiencies of mainstream economics, and they are spot on: the

A bold, thought provoking piece on a controversial issue. Upholding academic standards in British universities requires a proper conversation on the key drivers and consequences of exploiting Chinese tuition fee rather than shying away from it.

Does education offer equal oprtunities for social mobility in rural Southern contexts? Some insights into the role of local power relation in mediating life chances in rural Punjab: bit.ly/4bILllp Department of Education at Bath Centre for Development Studies RSS UKFIET IPR BAICE

Excellent new paper by Arif Naveed on structural inequality, power relations and the limits of education for social mobility in the Global South doi.org/10.1111/ruso.1…

The paper on mass schooling, social closure and social mobility is trending!

This month's issue of Re Education asks why scaling education success depends on a hope and a prayer ? Also shout-outs for Arif Naveed Jessica Leight BRAC Charmaghz Save the Children Global Media Ken Opalo tinyurl.com/Re-Education-h… Subscribe for free

Those interested in the issues of minoritisation, religion, caste and gender in South Asia, join this exciting event (in person or remotely) at Kellogg College, Oxford, on June 27-28. I am looking forward to being part of the conversation.

Today is #PublicServiceDay! The Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC), which includes our organisation, has issued a statement on reclaiming public education 📚 for all. Access it here: bit.ly/3vKU7zn

With Joe Devine, Akbar Zaidi S Akbar Zaidi & Ajmal Khan, at ‘Minoritisation in South Asia’ conference Kellogg College, University of Oxford . I spoke on educational strategies & livelihood trajectories of disadvantaged families in rural Punjab in the backdrop of a rigid exclusionary social closure.

‘Mr Naveed, I’m calling to let you know that you have an unremarkable brain.’ Hadn’t I known this all along? Much of my life’s struggle has been to escape being told this. But what a relief it was to hear it from the radiologist - cancer hadn’t metastasised to the brain!

The image of Chinese doctoral supervisors in Western academia is riddled with stereotypes. I analyse 450 Zhihu comments & derive 3 images : (1) ambitious and supportive, (2) sneaky and exploitative, and (3) colonised. Read my critical analysis: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

On poverty traps, and Pakistan Poverty is a terrible thing - but it always comes with a silver lining. Poor people are willing to work for less, and knowledge they can use to be more productive is already out there. If only a government can help harness this natural advantage,