We urge everyone to read this thread& to get educated about the ethnic cleansing that's happening RIGHT NOW. Remember that the Nakba in 48 begun w/ few villages no one paid attnetion to. They were opening act to a mass expulsion that's still ongoing. Don't let this happen again.

Devastating. The Khouri house stood among the remains of al-Bassa for decades. It survived so much& bore witness to the ongoing Nakba. To stop this path of death and destruction we must imagine & build a future of return & justice. Sorry Elias & the Koury family

When Michal Huss comes to Kolkata, we go and explore with Rangan Datta to understand how the city evolved. From temples to churches, synangogues and graveyards, memoryscapes of a thick landscape.

With hope for the end of the genocide and for decolonization, I am pleased to share this feature that my dear colleague Michal Huss and I wrote about Gaza and Bi’r as-Sab’a>>

By illuminating the connections between these two places, as well as their histories and geographies of spatial violence, we aimed to confront and dismantle the colonial divide between them. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Pleased that my article for Antipode on city walking tours of Jaffa, which unpacks the connections between settler colonialism and neoliberal urbanism, has now received over 1,000 views... Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an… #ViewsMilestone

Off University's 2024/25 Winter Semester Courses have officially kicked off with amazing participation! We’re thrilled to see the interest in our courses and enthusiastic participants. 🙌 Don’t worry, it’s not too late to join in! You can still enroll ➡ offuniversity.org/current-course…

Inspiring guest talk by Konstantinos Pittas for my MA course The MSA

💫 OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! "Bulldozer Politics" (November–December 2024) examines the precise political order contained in the apparent chaos of rubble in Palestine, India, Colombia, Brazil, the US, France, Egypt, and Cambodia. ORDER YOUR COPY HERE: thefunambulist.net/shop/56-bulldo…

Watch: Israeli authorities demolish the mosque in the Bedouin village of Um Al Hiram in the Negev/ Naqab as they evict the entire village in order to build a Hewish village on the lands

1/ In yet another episode of displacement, the people of Um Al-Hiran in the Naqab awaken to the sight of their homes reduced to rubble. Another day begins, and once again, Israel pushes forward with its plan to erase our indigenous villages from the map

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/research/…

It was such a privilege to speak today at the Ways of Remembering Seminar for @off_university, a self-organization of politically persecuted scholars, who seeks new strategies to uphold academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes.

‘If the Bauhaus was only semi-coherent, how did it become so influential? Crucial here is the way it was reduced to a style, which circulated in newspapers, magazines, books and shows.’ Hal Foster on the Bauhaus, in Germany and beyond: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Great read: Whatever happened to the Liverpool middle class?, by David Swift open.substack.com/pub/liverpoolp…

Now it has a front cover I'm very happy to say SCOUSE REPUBLIC will be out on 27 March - please get the pre-orders in now, much appreciated! In the words of Paul Du Noyer: "Swift's superb analysis gets to the scarred heart of this troubled, beautiful and spirited city."

I spoke to איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh about the attempts to remove him from the Knesset, and wrote in the The New Statesman about the deteriorating situation for Palestinian citizens of Israel

With Christmas approaching, if you're wondering what to buy the history/Liverpool lover in your life – look no further than SCOUSE REPUBLIC, the definitive account of the city's rise, fall and resurgence.