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Iain Michael Chambers

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A writer and independent researcher. Formerly a teacher of cultural, postcolonial and Mediterranean studies at the University of Naples, Orientale. Writes regularly for the Italian daily il Manifesto.

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Thank you, for this atrocious testimony.

25.11.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to puncture prevalent European understandings of the Mediterranean? The colonizing impulse inscribed in Western historiography can't be undone by adding previously repressed & unacknowledged histories.

THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION: new coordinates for another Mediterranean.

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24.09.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Insisting that present knowledge is sustained in asymmetrical relations of power, THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION casts a critical light on the deeper African & Asian Mediterranean(s) that have been obscured in Western histories & archives.

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!

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17.09.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York City β€œFrom Gaza to the World” at Recess in Brooklyn, the show's first North American stop, brings together works by 28 Palestinian artists.

A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York CityΒ  hyperallergic.com/1041355/a-de...

15.09.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is ridiculous. You mean, like many of us, that she is anti-Zionist.

12.09.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So ridiculous. You mean, like many of us, she is anti-Zionist.

12.09.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s β€œArtistic Freedom” The consensus of the German art world is aligned with the status quo of the State of Israel: Anything goes, except Palestine.

The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s β€œArtistic Freedom” hyperallergic.com/1040816/the-...

12.09.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Insisting that present knowledge is sustained in asymmetrical relations of power, THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION casts a critical light on the deeper African & Asian Mediterranean(s) that have been obscured in Western histories & archives.

OUT TODAY #OpenAccess:

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11.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
She Left Me for a Man With Shoes - Willie Crowder (1933 Lost Delta Blues | Remastered)
YouTube video by Dumpster Grooves She Left Me for a Man With Shoes - Willie Crowder (1933 Lost Delta Blues | Remastered)

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10.09.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

Simply put, Palestinians do not have the right to exist.

10.09.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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06.09.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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06.09.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Iain Chambers, Lampedusa/Gaza. L’orologio coloniale e i linguaggi interrotti Questo libro esplora le intersezioni tra migrazione, arte e colonialismo, interrogando il Mediterraneo e Gaza come uno spaziotempo plasmato...

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01.09.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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