Reda Rafei
@rafeireda
Historian of women and children, Ottoman Arab Land, Eighteenth Century, Middle East
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25-03-2021 15:20:16
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Omar, the opera, just won a #Pulitzer! A thousand congratulations to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels on this wonderful accomplishment! I cannot wait to see Omar on a stage one day and to dive into Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst’s forthcoming book on Omar ibn Said with UNC Press.
Palestinian children in Gaza hold a press conference outside Al Shifa hospital, speaking English so the world cannot pretend not to understand them: “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace… we want to live as the other children live.”
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s right-wing prime minister, said yesterday that Israel would oversee Gaza’s security for “an indefinite period” after the war. Really? Should US funds support a long-term military occupation over an already battered & impoverished people? I think not.
Powerful segment by Democracy Now! on censorship of Palestinian artist Samia Halaby by her own Alma Mater. Chilling for obvious reasons. Inspiring for a different reason: recall that these tactics are not new. Edward Said had a lecture of his cancelled on Freud in Vienna decades
Very excited this is out! Very grateful for Lucia Carminati and Ella Fratantuono 🙏🏻