Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ)

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

Oh thank you 🙏!!

The struggle is real! Had to get my head around this when I went freelance. Not going to get those days back that’s for sure!

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Super excited about your show!! 💜

New podcast coming soon, hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social! I have already recorded two with them: one on Xenophon and one on the Spartan Mirage.

I don't have the spoons to talk about this now, but I'll most definitely be unpacking this in my upcoming @anihoproject.bsky.social article on the American far-right and their love affair with Maximus...

Still have your book on my list! I’m sure it will be informative to the work x

Awww that makes my day! Now to actually finish it without further contribution from world events! Christ almighty.

Awww thank you 🙏 xx

✨ One step closer to the dream ✨
Elated to be represented by the illustrious @robertcaskie ! Just in time for the London Book Fair!

I’m writing a book for our times- tracing the perilous journeys of #refugees & #asylumseekers from #myth & #ancienthistory to the modern world.

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’ A leading vice-chancellor has questioned whether students without A-levels should be eligible for government-backed student loans, as part of an effort to solve England’s university funding crisis. Adam Tickell, vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham, said universities face an “almost existential challenge” and falling public support that requires a radical review of higher education funding. Continue reading...

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels

My sexual freedom odyssey: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today By speaking to women across the continent, I discovered how reclaiming pre-colonial rites and rituals can help us find joy in our bodies

Nana & I share the same agent (the wonderful Robert Caskie) & spent a lovely few days together in France a couple of years ago. She's an absolutely inspirational writer & activist, & awesome human. Her new book is published in the US today. Check out this article about it in today's @theguardian.com

*blush* 💜

All hail our Nubian Queen! X

Oh my! Thanks so much! I also wanted to say how your previous newsletter, which came out the day before my birthday, gave me so much joy 🤩!

The Optimism of Uncertainty - Howard Zinn By Howard Zinn. Article. ZCommunications. September 30, 2004. The Nation. September 20, 2004. In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those w...

… Ian Kuijt, Rita Freed, Isabelle Torrance, Ferdia Lennon, James Zainaldin, @flintdibble.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social , Jane Masséglia, Brent Shaw, Rose MacLean, Frantz Grenet, Hannah Čulík-Baird, Elke Nash, and many more. Thank you. 🙏 www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...

Thanks to @acls1919.bsky.social Joy Connolly & Stephanie Wong for edits and aid this week! Shout outs to: Marie-Lan Nguyen, Barbara Rossi, Tony Fitzpatrick, Whitney Bradshaw, Paul D’Amato, Dawoud Bey, Matthew Girson, Alice Tippit, Hans-Josef Klauck, Howard Zinn, Margaret Atwood, Russell McCutcheon…

Then, an open access book on mummy portraits, a newly discovered Arabic document may confirm the existence of the Nubian King Qashqash, recovering the psychedelic fungi likely used for the Eleusinian Mysteries, new ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more. Let's get to it

Pasts Imperfect (3.5.26) Across the world—from the United States to Canada to Australia—departments and museums within higher education are closing. This week, ancient historian Geoffrey Greatrex discusses the suspension of t...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out, focused on the closing of humanities depts. & museums. @otavano.bsky.social discusses the U. of Ottawa, @mokersel.bsky.social on the DePaul Art Museum, @meirazk.bsky.social & @vox-magica.bsky.social on shuttering religious studies depts, & Justin Vorhis on U. Iowa.

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

WCC and Me - Dr Irene Salvo - WCC-UK As part of our tenth anniversary celebrations, we are writing a series of blog posts in which members tell us about their experiences with the WCC UK. Our first interviewee is Dr Irene Salvo. Irene Sa...

As part of our 10th anniversary celebrations we are starting a new series called “WCC and Me” where members share their experiences with the WCC UK over the years 🏛️
The first one is now live! Check it out below!!

wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/20/w...

Guns, Germs and Steel in Africa: Jared Diamond and the limits of Geographic Determinism “African prehistory is a puzzle on a grand scale, still only partly solved.”

The terms ‘Khoe-San’ and ‘Bantu’ are both artificial words coined by linguists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to classify African languages

They were later institutionalized and racialized through colonial administration in South Africa
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/guns-germs...

Massive hats off to everyone who dedicated their energy in the months after October 7th to attacking the UNRWA, discrediting the UN, and dismissing, sanctioning, intimidating the ICJ and ICC. Amazing work.

This isn't a board of peace, it's a legion of doom.

Nervous rex: the Davos elite brace for Trump and his dinosaur diplomacy Leaders of EU, France and Canada stake out positions on Greenland ahead of US president’s speech to World Economic Forum

This was our overnight piece on the mood here in Davos as we await Trump - props to the headline writer 🦖 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Speech by President von der Leyen at the EP Plenary debate on the conclusions of the European Council meeting of 18 December 2025 and a stronger and more sovereign Europe amid rising geopolitical tens... “Check against delivery” \n \nThank you, Madam President, dear Roberta,\nPresident Costa, dear António,\nHonourable Members,\nLet me start by conveying my deepest condolences to the families and frien...

absolutely seismic shifts, with von der leyen also declaring the old world order dead
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Mark Carney's speech boils down to "we always knew but we never said it out loud because it served us well too, until it doesn't"
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It will be fun to see them print Nigel or Boris tomorrow saying "Actually, can we just kneel down comfortably and..."

Membership is invitation-only, states don't get in through equal process. The term limits are three years, unless a state drops $1 billion in year one. The voting provisions are basically theatre.