Within a week in Germany, Nancy Fraser was stripped off her professorship for signing a letter, Ghassan Abu Sitta was denied entry at the airport to give a lecture, and Helen Fares lost her journalist job for promoting non-violent boycott as a means of protest.

New article out, dm me if you'd like a pdf! Short summary: 'Religion' is a modern-colonial category which has been used in similar ways to 'race' to justify the colonial project and to sort people into racial/civilisational hierarchies. This means..1/3 doi.org/10.1163/157006…

A vitally important step. A cross party group of Senedd members led by Peredur Owen Griffiths AS/MS and including John Griffiths MS Darren Millar MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Jane Dodds AS/MS 🔶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 called on the UK government to do the same. record.senedd.wales/StatementOfOpi… Ask your MS to support the statement if they haven't done so.

112 years ago today, Franz Kafka captured the academic experience

“What is so scary about Palestinians having the right to narrate their own realities?” Rabea Eghbariah's interview with The Guardian on the weeklong censorship controversy surrounding his "Toward the Nakba as a Legal Concept" article published on Columbia Law Review ow.ly/ycXW50Se229

Our roundtable 'Where is Palestine in Critical Terrorism Studies?' Is out! Feat. lisa stampnitzky 🤦🏻‍♀️ Free Gaza 🔻 Somdeep Sen Sophie Haspeslagh PREVENT Watch UK & Akram Salhab Dr Amna Kaleem Dr Rabea M. Khan Alice Ella Finden 🏳️‍🌈 Thanks BRISMES Richard Jackson for your support! tandfonline.com/eprint/YMDYWP6…

I think this paper should be a recommended reading for anyone thinking of writing positionality statements or who have been asked "to declare their positionality in their work" & any discussion involving reflexivity & positionality. Such a thought-provoking and informative paper.

In August we celebrated #WomenInTranslationMonth at IES! Here are our top 5 recommended reads🧵 #WomenInTranslation #BookRecommendations

🚨 FULL ROUTE ANNOUNCED - National March for Palestine ⏰️ Sat 7 September 📍Regent Street, St James, London to Israeli Embassy The full route has been announced for the march for Palestine. Join us as we march from Regent Street, St James near Pall Mall to the Israeli Embassy

Our special issue for Critical Studies on Terrorism, edited by Sarah Gharib and I over the past year, is finally complete. A 🧵of the articles in this special issue, ‘Decoloniality, Criticality, and Abolition - Can Critical Terrorism Studies remain ‘critical’? ’ ⬇️

Taught Masters are basically glorified reading lists

A friend of mine is hosting an Iftar dinner for Dclin trainees, please share and let me know if you’d be interested in attending ❤️ will be a really nice evening insha’Allah

My sister, an F1 doctor, went to Central Oxford Mosque Society after a long shift, and was denied iftar because she is a woman. This is disgusting behaviour from Oxford mosque during this holy month. Shameful.

Update: The mosque had posted this on their IG but deleted it when someone tagged a local news outlet. This is the most backward, unislamic thing I’ve seen in a while. MCB The British Board of Scholars & Imams (BBSI) A M A L I A H EverydayMuslim

I would appreciate if you could voice your feelings about this matter directly with Central Oxford Mosque. Email: [email protected] Phone: 01865 245547 Hopefully the mosque takes accountability, apologises to the women, and reverses this decision. Iftar should be for everyone.

This week, a group of women and children were denied Iftar at a local Oxford mosque. We hope to bring the people affected and the concerned mosque together to discuss how to learn, change, and grow. There is no more sweeping issues, big or small, under the carpet. This