Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
Join us at #BRISMES2026 for a special screening of The Phoenix of Gaza and a live Q&A with filmmaker @YousefAlhelou.
📅 25 June, 16:00 (UK)
📍 SOAS Brunei Gallery Theatre, London
Free for conference delegates. Non-delegates can purchase tickets here: bit.ly/PoGaza
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
Hurry up! Deadline approaching (14th of February) to apply for the Summer School @ceu "Thinking with Islamic Manuscripts" in Vienna next June 30th to July 11th.
Fellowships available!
More information on the course and how to apply here:
summeruniversity.ceu.edu/cou…
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
#ceusummer course on Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools in Islamic Studies Apply by February 14! Course details: summeruniversity.ceu.edu/202…
Financial aid is available, in limited numbers.
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
🛑 Anthropologists, historians, and intellectuals, including many jews and holocaust survivors, are comparing now the atrocities committed by the Apartheid regime of Israel during the ongoing Genocide, with 1940s Germany, regarding especially 10 horrific simultaneous premeditated acts done in just 7 months:
1- Dehumanizing propaganda and lies (example of the fake 30 babies story on October 7 investigated and uncovered by CNN and debunked by Israeli press themselves among others).
2- The killing, burning, or burying alive of 15 000 of real babies and children, with in addition using prohibited chemical weapons like white phosphorus, and drones playing crying baby sound…
3- Starvation and extermination of people based on their ethnicity, skin color or religion, while they were putted into a concentration camp, which is Gaza, with a totally controlled siege and illegal blockade for years (open-air prison).
4- Theft of native people's land and homes and selling them to US & EU settlers, colonization, domination, ethnic cleansing, racism, violence, discrimination, forced displacement, inhumane treatment of detainees, armed checkpoints, and obvious complete destruction of infrastructure and facilities.
5- Unprecedented mass executions by dropping thousands of tons of bombs and missiles on such concentrated population, causing permanent damage to the injured, such as deformities and disabilities, along with the environmental risks resulting from the release of toxic radiation, and the presence of graves with clear signs of torture.
6- Flour Massacres targeting unarmed palestinians seeking food, and shootings on innocents with white flag or in declared « safe zones ».
7- Intentional targeting and killing of international aid workers, ambulances (shocking example of the assassination of 6-year-old Hind Rajab and the rescue team that she called), doctors, 143 journalists, and annihilation of healthcare system, note that experienced war surgeons are reporting apalling injuries unseen before.
8- Disregard for all the global authorities, conventions, human rights and laws.
9- Pillaging or destroying homes, hospitals, universities, schools, churches, mosques, cultural sites heritage, and even UN buildings, with recorded mockery by the IDF.
10- Extensive worldwide documentation, proof, videos, images, articles, interviews, testimonies, names, and online live streaming of all these indisputable facts that the whole world is witnessing !
Don't be distracted. Don't look away. Let's stick to these evidence. We will never forget. We will never stop sharing. It’s not a political or religious question here, it’s a matter of HUMANITY & FREEDOM. Never again means never again for anyone.
And always remember that Palestinians have a recognized right under international law to resist Israeli occupation under Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions. This right is affirmed in the context of the right of self-determination of all peoples under foreign and colonial rule.
#JusticeForPalestine #NeverAgain #ICJ #ICC #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IsraeliApartheid #HumanRights #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
BRISMES stands against the #scholasticide in #Gaza. We are appalled by the way that the destruction of Gaza’s education system is being celebrated by Israeli soldiers.
Israeli sergeants walking through the now blown up & destroyed Al-Azhar University mock #scholasticide, suggesting that a new academic semester in Gaza is never to start again.
From the ruins of Azhar their genocidal intent is yet again live-streamed
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
We have just sent out the 3rd circular containing the Programme for the 45th Annual Conference of Melcom International, that will be hosted by the @AgaKhanLibrary on 14-15-16 May.
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
The @AgaKhanLibrary is hosting the 45th MELCom International Conference on May 14-17, 2024.
Save this page for more information: agakhanlibrary.org/45th-melc…
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
We're adding more to our Free Palestine Books list every day. Thanks to participating publishers, we now have ebooks in 6 languages: Palestinian fiction, poetry, memoir, politics, culture, history, solidarity & more.
📚List will go live Nov 29. More:
publishersforpalestine.org/
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
Heartfelt, moving & honest. Listen carefully.
"Your carpet explanations for your carpet bombing will not fly!"
State of Palestine representative at the UN demolishes the genocidal rhetoric of Israeli politicians, exposing their genocidal intent for all the UN to see.
Now it's time for Palestine to #InvokeGenocideConvention at the International Court of Justice (NOT ICC).
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
Gilles Devers is one of the most veteran lawyers in France, who in just 10 days gathered an army of lawyers from all the continents of the world to prosecute Israel for its war crimes against the Palestinians.
Lawyer Giles Devers is promising the Israeli occupation with a dark fate and says to the Palestinians: "You did not have anyone to defend you, but now you have an army to defend you in international and national courts."
#Gaza_Genocide
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
I'm appalled by how many otherwise decent people see nothing wrong with this mediaeval slaughter of a trapped and penned civilian population- even as both the IDF and the Biden administration say that the actual casualties are likely far higher than the 10,000+ dead posted by the the Gaza Health Authority.
"Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats” - Gaza @AP
To obsess about Pro-Ceasefire protesters using a phrase "from the River to the Sea" that also exists in the Likud Founding Charter, and which has been used for half a century as the justification for a programme of illegal Israeli settlements which are now making a just peace almost impossible, but at the same time to remain completely sanguine, and silent, about the actual hour by hour, block by block massacre of innocent children, surely represents a total loss of all moral bearings.
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
Israel has spent a month pounding Gaza into rubble and filling the streets with children's blood. With European and American weapons, and European and American support. Still @vonderleyen cannot even say the word: "ceasefire." This isn't just Israel's genocide. It's Europe's too.
Follow my speech at the European Parliament plenary ↓ nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1rmxPMdLM…
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
My name is Clare Daly and I´m an MEP from #Ireland. I'm appalled by the silence regarding war crimes committed by Israel in #Gaza. I, and many with me, demand a ceasefire and the provision of immediate humanitarian aid, water, food and medicine to Gaza now! #politiciansforpeace
A historic crime is unfolding in Gaza & the EU is in it up to its neck. MEPs sit & watch the slaughter & cannot even condemn it, calling it a "humanitarian crisis," as if it was caused by the weather.
Infamy. EU will never live down the shame of today's resolution. #LongLiveGaza
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
Bookmark this, share this, keep it as a handy reference for the next time someone denies genocide, or claims the Israeli government isn’t trying to wipe Gaza off the map.
Compilation of genocidal statements from Israeli leaders & officials.
One day this will be evidence in a court of law. The genocidal intent is crystal clear.
via @5Pillarsuk
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
I have written to the Prime Minister to express my growing distress over his continued refusal to call for a ceasefire.
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
مقابل شيطنة صورة غزة لتبرير الهجوم على الفلسطينيين. هذه صور من الذاكرة، يوم كانت تعج بالحياة
To counter #thedemonisation of Gaza taking place to justify the attack on its Palestinians, here are some #PHOTOSdocumenting Gaza’s collective memory, from when it was teeming with life
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
Join us tomorrow for a conversation in Arabic with Konrad Hirschler and Said Aljoumani about their new book "Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem: The Library of Burhan al-Din". 5 July, 6:15pm CET!
Link: uni-erfurt.webex.com/meet/ve…
@CSMC_Hamburg
@unierfurt
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
With a collection spanning thousands of years of human thought, we're always making new discoveries!
Read all about a 900-year-old language lesson in the handwriting of legendary #Jewish philosopher #Maimonides.
loom.ly/2Wlg0Dg
#LibraryTwitter
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb retweeted
I just heard Professor Wilferd Madelung has passed away. Professor Madelung was beyond a shadow of a doubt the most erudite scholar of academic Islamic studies in the last century or so. His versatility in history, theology, philosophy, philology, and manuscripts is unsurpassed.
So looking forward to this #MELComInternational Conference! And honored to have been invited to talk about the fascinating story of these 500 manuscripts taken from East Anatolia during WWI, sold in Tiflis in 1920 and shipped to London before getting dispersed across the world.








































