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Highly edited but the points are there: Yeay scholars here but oh geez it could have been better
Opinion: UK support for Gaza’s students needs better planning.
Scholarships are valuable, but rushed implementation has left universities scrambling, says Nora Parr.
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"Even if they had pounded on the tank with all their strength, even if their fists had cracked the metal, even if their cries had reached every corner of the desert — the result would have been the same. No one would have come." arablit.org/2025/05/23/we-kn…
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After blocking food aid from Gaza for more than two weeks (since Ramadan's second day), the Israelis just bombed the house of Dr. Ayman Abu Teir, director of the Nasser Hospital's Nutrition Department. Ten martyrs were recovered from the house and four remain under the rubble.
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Israel's massacre of Gaza last night was 1 of the biggest single day death tolls over the past 17 months: 404 killed—the majority of them children.
According to Dr. Zaher Al-Wahidi, Dir. of Information Unit at Ministry of Health in Gaza:
174 children
89 women
32 elderly
109 men
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A crazy, bloody, and terrifying night has passed!
Oh Lord, we have no strength to endure the return of war.
Oh Lord, grant Gaza peace and safety.
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Hamas has affirmed that the Israeli occupation has “violated the ceasefire agreement, evading its obligations and continuing to commit massacres” against Palestinians in Gaza, “while the international community remains shamefully silent.”
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Hamas said the “claims made by the occupation regarding preparations by the resistance to attack its forces are completely false. These are mere pretexts to justify its decision to resume the war and escalate its brutal aggression.”
“The occupation is attempting to mislead public opinion and fabricate false justifications to cover its pre-determined decision to continue the genocide against innocent civilians, showing no regard for any commitments it made.”
“Hamas remained committed to the agreement until the very last moment, working hard to ensure its continuation. However, Netanyahu, seeking a way out of his internal crises, chose to reignite the war at the expense of our people's blood.”
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#Employment The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Associate position with a focus on Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine, and/or Palestine/Israel.
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POSTDOC IN PALESTINE STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO @PalestineUofT
Due 6 January 2025
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Pleased to join Adania Shibli in Dalston to continue discission of her #MinorDetail next week. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/202…
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Exciting opportunity for writers from Gaza! A new newsletter, Refaat Writes Back, is launching soon and is looking for talented writers to contribute to its first edition. Whether you write fiction, poetry, personal essays, or criticism essays, this is your chance to have your voice heard and support a great initiative. Pseudonyms are welcome if you’d prefer to write anonymously.
If you or anyone you know would be interested, feel free to DM me or @LaGazawiyya for more details ! Let’s keep Refaat’s legacy alive by sharing our stories.
#GazaWriters #PalestinianVoices #SupportGazanWriters
An essay on the gross psychlogist in Jabra's _Walid Masoud_. Thanks to eds Maryam Ghodrati and Rachel Dale, in _Embodied Testimonies, Gendered Memories, and the Poetics of Trauma_ from @VernonPress
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X Users: I am collecting evidence of the use of risk (as in safe and health risk, etc.) to silence pro-Palestinian voices and clampdown on Pro-Palestine activism such as encampments, events, teaching, etc. Please email or DM if you have evidence to share.
As the semester approaches & final touches are put on syllabi, I’m posting texts from/on Gaza. Gaza texts are not just for classes on Palestine or ‘conflict’! Consider on post/colonialism, gender, history, short story, poetry, genocide, resistance, transnationalism, biography etc
Teaching on 'the nation'? Read Ibrahim Nasrallah's _Gaza Weddings_ and chapter 2 of my (sorry) _Novel Palestine_ to think about how spaces can be connected and national without the apparatus of the state luminosoa.org/site/books/10.…
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Teaching the women's writing course or on constructions of gender? Lucky you, you get to teach Heba Hayek's _Sambak beneath unlikely skies_ on growing up, gender, love, sexuality, and occupation, hajarpress.com/books/sambac-…
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