Sana Murrani

This was so much fun! Making was a creative act of selfcare today and here is my square/map. Thank you Laura and co.

You could set up a 24/7 hourly shuttle service and the overall number of people wanting to seek asylum in the UK would hardly change, I know you know this. Those making out that absolutely everyone wants to come to the UK are deluded.

Crackdown on Channel crossing social media adverts The offence of promoting illegal crossings online would carry a sentence of up to five years in prison.

Desperate, desperate stuff once again.
✅ legitimises far-right obsession with small boats
✅ bound to disappoint target audience as goes nowhere near the “solutions” they’d be impressed by
✅ drives them to Reform, or worse
✅ unlikely to have any effect on anyone’s behaviour
✅ alienates everyone else

A new paper 'Ruptured Atlas' documents the complex spatial and lived experiences of the #Yazidis in the aftermath of the 2014 genocide.

📝 by @sanamurrani.bsky.social, Kimbal Bumstead, Zoé Paris, Ghazi Ismael, Jameela Rasho & Omeed Joqey.

eprints.lse.ac.uk/128743/

Starmer says plan to airdrop Gaza aid and evacuate ill children will go ahead Leaders of UK, France and Germany call for lifting of aid restrictions and immediate ceasefire after holding talks

It looks like Starmer will do anything apart from serious condemnation, disarming and sanctioning. Mind blowing levels of complicity www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

ICYMI: The Sociological Review magazine’s new issue includes:

‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs & building solidarity
Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps & refuge
Interview with lecturer turned TV writer Jayshree Patel
...and much more

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"Drawing on a two-decades-long study of refuge place-making in Iraq, she talks to curator and fellow architect George Kalivis about the rupturing of geographies during and after war, highlights parallels with the Palestinian genocide, and discusses the making of deep maps as a research method."

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s latest issue. Featuring:

Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge and rupture
‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses and building solidarity
Illustration by Tim Marrs
...and much more.

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Ah here comes @cnn.com with the bullshit straight out of 2003

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Absolutely this! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry

How on earth is this slaughter still allowed to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry

Let’s not forget this. Still killing people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

If the UK government wants to defend Israel militarily, put it to a vote in Parliament.

Let the country see which MPs support a genocidal state.

Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza Critics of war will be more reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv

F**k right off! Both the unnecessary war and the genocide have to end! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Words have lost their meaning. We live in an Orwellian world in which war is peace and love is hate.

Keir Starmer, once again, beating the imperial bullsh*t drum like few others.

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s June issue. Featuring:

Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge + rupture
‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses + building solidarity
Illustration by Tim Marrs
...and much more.

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“Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” — Elton John (1976)

Thank you to the Image-Maker in Residence team at @thesociologicalreview.org for my interview: Towards an Alternative Spatial Practice: Deep mapping off the map. It is about my book, Rupturing Architecture, and my mapping practice.
thesociologicalreview.org/image-maker-...

Israeli forces take control of Gaza aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg British-flagged yacht operated by pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition was making symbolic attempt to deliver aid

To watch the entire West back Israel's non-existent 'right' to board a vessel in international waters and abduct its crew and passengers on the might-is-right principle is to witness the Death of International Law - again! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

They called it a “Humanitarian” agency, they changed the core meaning of what it is to be humanitarian… shame on all governments around the world for allowing war crimes to unfold every day.

Review: Rupturing Architecture by Sana Murrani Review Frazer Macdonald Hay : Rupturing Architecture by Sana Murrani .....A Call to Reimagine Refuge(Arabic)I devoured this book. Sana Murrani’s Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in ...

An amazing review of my Rupturing Architecture has just dropped. Thanks to Frazer Macdonald Hay for taking the time and for his exceptionally beautiful words! 🙏

www.uniformnovember.com/single-post/...

14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?

Omg, they just pulled their finger! About effing time of not too late.

“UN relief chief Tom Fletcher said a joint plan by the United States and Israel to replace international aid mechanisms in Gaza was a “waste of time” as more than 160,000 pallets of aid are “ready to move” at the border, but blocked by Israel.” @tomfletcherun.bsky.social

Israel accused of ethnic cleansing after more than 140 killed in Gaza in 24 hours Israel says intensified bombings are part of campaign expansion to ‘achieve all of the war goals in Gaza’

Some of us will never forget that the world stood watching while genocide and ethnic cleansing took place again and again and yet again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Also part of the calculations of slow, severe torture visiting everyone desperately trying to get aid in as we watch in horrified accompaniment of parents seeing their children become malnourished, emaciated, knowing that under starvation conditions children die first

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

Ooh you can review my book…

I wrote a blog post for @bordercrim.bsky.social about that ridiculous Home Office video of a deportation : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...