Mira Al Hussein

Sudanese paramilitary drone attack kills 50, including 33 children, doctor group says Thursday's attack is the latest in the fighting between the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the RSF, and the Sudanese military, who have been at war for over two years.

Thursday's attack is the latest in the fighting between the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the RSF, and the Sudanese military, who have been at war for over two years. n.pr/3Mlijkg

Israel allowing exists from Gaza but no reentry is ethnic cleansing & history repeating. It’s the script of the Nakba — massacre people & then leave them with the awful decision between their children’s lives & their land and then lie that those who chose the former voluntarily departed.

So sick.

Bill Bragin on Instagram: "Day 2 of XP Music Futures went from Al-Qatar’s Arabian Fuzz (see them in Jan at both globalFEST in NY and Tamaas Fest at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi), to bailefunk via ... 8 likes, 0 comments - activecultures on December 6, 2025: "Day 2 of XP Music Futures went from Al-Qatar’s Arabian Fuzz (see them in Jan at both globalFEST in NY and Tamaas Fest at The Arts Center at N...

I’m in Riyadh at the XP Music Futures conference / Festival. I think many of my friends in the West don’t understand the nature of the changes happening in Saudi Arabia. Grassroots energy feels like OG CMJ/New Music Seminar/SXSW. Video from my IG may give a sense. www.instagram.com/p/DR69SinCNq...

Now it is out! My book, "Fearful in Gaza" is out. What if the place you called home could disappear overnight, and the world simply looked away? In Fearful in Gaza, I answer this question not with abstractions or ideology, but through the voices of memory: his own, and those of his mother.

On an aside, the Friday sermon today across the UAE is on the “blessing of Artificial Intelligence.”

I don’t suppose they’ll speak to its use in conflict zones though.

Literary scholar with a spine!
"The most disturbing failure displayed by the Executive Council was the failure to consider Palestine worthy of discussion -- the cleaving, once again, to the “Palestine exception to free speech,”...
- Liron Mor declines MLA 2025 Prize for comparative literary studies.

For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:

spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

200 leading global artists, writers and actors are calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti.

An impressive list here.

freemarwan.org/public-figur...

Amnesty’s report on the carnage at the hands of the RSF at Zamzam, April 2025:

Sudan: “A Refuge Destroyed”: RSF Violations in Darfur’s Zamzam Camp for Internally Displaced Persons

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire: Analysts Analysts and a human rights group say Israel's genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire.

Analysts told me that they agree with @amnesty.org in that Israel's genocide in Gaza is not over.

The mass killing has slowed but the conditions for life & society have been destroyed and are not being allowed to be rebuilt.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Photo of a book entitled Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History. The title is written in blue all caps along golden bands and swirl over the cover. The book is set against a navy blue backdrop

I wrote Between Two Rivers to share something I love in a way that anyone — whatever their work, prior knowledge, or exhaustion levels — could enjoy.

So many writers have done this for me on topics I’d never have time for a deep dive on (trees, the ocean, eels), and I wanted to do this for others❣️

RF Kuang, author of Babel and Yellowface, pulls out of Emirates Litfest amid BDS boycott call She apologised to fans hoping to see her at the event but said she would be stepping back given the mass atrocities in Sudan.

Call to BDS the UAE over Sudan has not been as successful as BDS efforts against Israel. The UAE also has a lower tolerance for negative PR.

"Treacherous travels: Sudanese movements to and from Egypt", by Elena Habersky - United Against Inhumanity The armed conflict in Sudan has uprooted millions of people, some of whom have taken refuge in neighbouring Egypt. As this blog explains, the journey is a difficult and dangerous one, not only for tho...

My latest on Sudanese transnational movements b/t Egypt & Sudan in time of conflict w/ little legal migratory pathways. Thanks to @jfcrisp.bsky.social for the invitation to write this.

“Treacherous travels: Sudanese movements to and from Egypt”, by Elena Habersky #KeepEyesonSudan 🇸🇩

For speaking out against the abuses of the SAF and RSF alike, my dear friend and former colleague @mohanedelnour.bsky.social was assaulted. My solidarity goes out to him and to countless other Sudanese who reject the rule of armed actors and who continue to demand a civilian-led Sudan.

Sudan in Perspective: The Conflict, Its Drivers and the International Community | Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World | Literatures Languages and Culture We are joined by Hamid Khalafallah (University of Manchester), who will trace the genealogy of the current conflict in Sudan and shed light on the geopolitical entanglements that continue to fuel it. ...

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Closing term with a final event, the Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to host @hamidmkk.bsky.social and @matnashed.bsky.social for a virtual talk on Sudan — the first of many to come, insha’Allah.

Registration link in comment.

An archaeologist is racing to preserve Sudan's heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past Archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo is working to create an online database of Sudan’s archaeological sites and museum collections

“But, unlike similar cultural emergencies that followed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, “#Sudan has not benefited from strong media coverage denouncing the degradation and plundering of its cultural heritage,’’ according to researcher Meryam Amarir.”

I think so? 😬 at least that’s how the Saudi bots are interpreting it.

Newshour’s Nick Schifrin says Saudi wants the US to impose secondary sanctions on the UAE over its support for the RSF in Sudan.

Sounds far-fetched, but explains the fallout between both countries’ bots and trolls, and the coded threats posted by one UAE propagandist on X.

BRISMES welcomes the news that Dr Jassim Aljezza, whose case we have recently supported, has been granted release on bail. While this development offers renewed hope, we continue to stand in solidarity with all those unjustly detained for exercising their freedom of opinion.

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Cover art by Sara Qaed

Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

EU rethinks UAE trade deal over alleged arms sales to Sudan – DW – 11/26/2025 Members of the European Parliament demand that the EU end talks with the UAE over a trade deal. The UAE is suspected of sending arms to a Sudanese paramilitary accused of war crimes, which the Emirati...

I don’t believe this will amount to anything, but if I know my government, they will regard this as double-dealing by the EU. It won’t go unpunished.

All the while, the Sudanese people bear the lethal brunt of each party’s political calculus.

Drone just blew up a UAE-operated oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan

Beinart just posted an apology on X/Twitter for not heeding the calls of Palestinians/allies to not violate BDS guidelines.

Doubly disappointing. He had ample time to cancel.

The talk took place yesterday. I didn’t think ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This’ would be the very next day.

Image of Esmat Elhalaby. Brown-skinned Palestinian person with short brown hair, clear glasses and facial hair looking to the side. Poster is green and yellow. Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonizaton. Wednesday December 3rd, 12-2 pm. Zoom.

We are honoured to announce our upcoming workshop4sudan on December 3 from 12-2 pm
with the amazing
@thaqafatalhind

You can sign up below:
chuffed.org/project/work...

This Thurs 27 Nov at LSE: "Palestine & the Limits of Liberal Freedom"
Speaker: Hanna Al-Taher (TU Dresden)

Register below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...

Whether Israel apologists accept it or not, dynamics have shifted and there’s no going back to accepting the pittance of abstract, mañana peace that such coalitions and allyships promise.

“Secondary victims” of Israel don’t get to dictate what its primary victims determine as necessary and moral.