Esmat Elhalaby

Parting Gifts of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Esmat Elhalaby by Disha Karnad Jani

Disha Karnad Jani interviews Esmat Elhalaby about his book, "Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization." Their conversation charts the relationship between Arab and Indian intellectuals during the era of decolonization.
@esmat.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

This Wednesday @anotherstoryto.bsky.social!

I'll be speaking about @jamhoor.org's special issue, alongside @esmat.bsky.social, who'll be discussing his awesome new book, and Aparna Sundar.

Toronto: join us @anotherstoryto.bsky.social for a joint launch of our special issue + @esmat.bsky.social's Parting Gifts of Empire ( @ucpress.bsky.social )

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Photo of Esmat Elhalaby with text of workshop title, Elhalaby’s bio, and event time/location information

Text: title of Elhalaby’s book, his bio, and a brief description of the book.

my left hand, a copy of Elhalaby’s book, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization. The book’s cover image is Zainul Abedin’s Palestine Guerilla (1970)

Sudan Solidarity Collective logo on the left (designed by the Sudanese artist Galal Yousif Goly). On the right, two fundraising trackers: one featuring my individual goal of $1000 and the other showing donor matches for $1000 for meeting my personal goal.

On Wed, Dec 3, I’m honored to moderate a conversation with @esmat.bsky.social on his brilliant new book, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization.

Workshops 4 Sudan fundraise for @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social. My goal: raise $1000; donor match doubles it.

Sign up today for this Workshop4Sudan coming up on December 3rd to support @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.

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Colonial and Anti-Colonial Ideas at Columbia University (1970) David Farhi and Edward Said. From The Spectator .  Recently I had the pleasure of sharing my work and meeting people at an exciting event on...

A bit of history from @esmat.bsky.social on Columbia's legacy of hosting colonial administrators on campus.

Colonial and Anti-Colonial Ideas at Columbia University (1970) David Farhi and Edward Said. From The Spectator .  Recently I had the pleasure of sharing my work and meeting people at an exciting event on...

Colonial and Anti-Colonial Ideas at Columbia University (1970). pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2025/11/colo...

Cover of A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War by Anjali Nath. Features a textured background in shades of pink, orange, and green with faint abstract floral and geometric patterns. The title is prominently displayed in bold black letters on a lighter background. Below it, the subtitle is similarly presented with black bars suggesting redaction. The author's name appears at the bottom in black letters on a lighter background.

Save 50% on #NewBook "A Thousand Paper Cuts" by Anjali Nath, which considers the paper worlds made and destroyed by US imperialism, offering a pre-history of the redacted visions of the Homeland Security age.
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Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza This essay, parts of which were initially delivered at the annual Indigenous art gathering aabaakwad in December 2024 at the University of Toronto, offers three contributions to the historiography ...

One of the most important articles you will read this year. Esmat Elhalaby, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies. @esmat.bsky.social 🗃️

Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza This essay, parts of which were initially delivered at the annual Indigenous art gathering aabaakwad in December 2024 at the University of Toronto, offers three contributions to the historiography ...

My latest article, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," was just published in the Journal of Palestine Studies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4MBPN...

LtoR: Marissa Moorman, Jessica Namakkal, Esmat Elhalaby, Manan Ahmed

Loved hosting @esmat.bsky.social for his book launch alongside @jecca.bsky.social and Marissa Moorman (for our Radical Histories of Decolonization issue).

Grateful to all those in attendance for our inaugural New Books in Palestinian Studies series featuring a discussion of “Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine & India at the Dawn of Decolonization” by Dr. @esmat.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

On November 7th, I will be speaking about my new book, The Future That Was, at the University of Toronto at 10 am, followed by a lecture by @makdisi.bsky.social

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I will be in conversation with @esmat.bsky.social about his brilliant book, The Parting Gifts of Empire, on November 6th at the University of Toronto with @makdisi.bsky.social

10/27: Book launch discussion of "Parting Gifts of Empire" by Dr. @esmat.bsky.social!

🗓️ MON 10/27/25
⏰ 5-6:30 PM
📍 3335 Dwinelle (Level C) UC Berkeley
📚 Copies will be available 4 purchase

This free & inperson event is Cosponsored by: History, CMES, & ISAS UCB

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I've been looking forward to the publication of this book for a while.

By @esmat.bsky.social via @ucpress.bsky.social

Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization by @esmat.bsky.social

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received @esmat.bsky.social’s book in the mail on its launch day, and could not be more excited. there has been no other book i have been suggested over and over again to sharpen and aid my own thinking (also got my uni to buy an e-copy!) 🍉

out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

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Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

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Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.

SOAS Walter Rodney Collective: Seminar Series, Fall 2025 Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic 5-7pm, SOAS (unless otherwise specified_ Convenors: Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, Lisa Tilley, and Samia Khatun Thursday 9 October Esmat Elhalaby, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (2025) Thursday 16 October Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) Tuesday 28 October Omar Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2025) Thursday 30 October (12:30pm) Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa Thursday 13 November Tithi Bhattacharya, Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (2024) Thursday 20 November Françoise Verges, Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism (2024) Thursday 4 December Hafsa Kanjwak, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023) Department of Politics and International Studies, Department of Development Studies, and School of History, Religions and Philosophies

The Histories of Capitalism and Race series
@soasuni.bsky.social is back with a stellar line-up! Join us for exciting book discussions with @esmat.bsky.social, Catherine Hall, @omarcheta.bsky.social, Nicky Falkof, Tithi Bhattacharya, Françoise Verges, and Hafsa Kanjwal.

bahut shukriya ustaz

PARTING GIFTS OF EMPIRE PALESTINE AND INDIA AT THE DAWN OF DECOLONIZATION by ESMAT ELHALABY

Acknowledgments More than 410 days into a genocide in Gaza, I must acknowledge-at the outset-that this work is not particularly urgent. This book is about ideas and writing, and the social conditions, or social history, of intellectuals in the colonized world. Those conditions today are being transformed. For hundreds of intellectuals in Gaza, their condition now is simply a shallow grave or rotting beneath the rubble of their own homes. It is impossible to account for the family, friends, and colleagues killed by Israel. There is not, probably, enough paper in the world. But I cannot begin to thank all the people who made this book possible without first acknowledging at least those in my immediate family who were recently murdered by the Israeli state in Gaza: Sahar Abushaban, Mohammad Abushaban, Rana Abushaban, Nabila Elhalaby, Hani Ageela, Ashraf Abushaban, Essam Abushaban, Adly Elhalaby, and Basheer Alashi. Until liberation.

It is the *greatest* (perhaps only) affirmation when a student publishes their book but holding @esmat.bsky.social brilliant *Parting Gifts of Empire* is a special privilege all its own. Until liberation.

Cover of A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War by Anjali Nath. Features a textured background in shades of pink, orange, and green with faint abstract floral and geometric patterns. The title is prominently displayed in bold black letters on a lighter background. Below it, the subtitle is similarly presented with black bars suggesting redaction. The author's name appears at the bottom in black letters on a lighter background.

Read the introduction to Anjali Nath's "A Thousand Paper Cuts," which offers a pre-history of the redacted visions of the Homeland Security age. buff.ly/liHKmoZ

so looking forward thinking with the extraordinary @esmat.bsky.social at the launch of his new book, Parting Gifts of Empire, from @ucpress.bsky.social @makdisi.bsky.social at the University of Toronto November 6, 2025

proofs 😭

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