Nicola Pratt 🇵🇸✌️

The BRISMES Committee on #AcademicFreedom has published a statement on academic #boycotts. These can be consistent with—and even necessary for—upholding academic freedom and fundamental human rights, particularly in contexts of systemic injustice.

Read the statement in full: bit.ly/CAF_Boycotts...

On 1 July, following the #BRISMES2025 keynote lecture by Dr Rana Barakat, BRISMES members and conference participants stood in solidarity with all those affected by Israeli bombardments. #StopArmingIsrael #EndTheGenocide

Thank you to everyone who attended the plenary “Ruins and Rebuilding: Academic and Activist Solidarities Across Borders” at #BRISMES2025. Our heartfelt thanks to our invited speakers Muna Dajani, Jasmine Gani, Golam Khiabany, Aya Nassar and Hala Shoman for their time and words.

🙏🏾Thanks @brismes.bsky.social for an inspiring & empowering conference in Newcastle. I wish German scholarly associations such as DAVO, DVPW would aim to create such solidarity & community amongst scholars.
Also a big thanks to BRISMES members for electing me into the Committee for Academic Freedom.

On 2 July, following the BRISMES Annual General Meeting at #BRISMES2025, members and conference participants stood in solidarity with Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Leila Soueif. #FreeAlaa #SaveLaila #FreeThemAll

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at #BRISMES2025 — to our plenary and keynote speakers, our conference organising team and student volunteers, and to our amazing hosts at Newcastle University, including the support staff who made the event possible.

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📢 Call for Papers

Join SARN UK's AHRC-funded First International Conference at the University of Sussex, Brighton.

🗓️ 18–19 Sept 2025 | 📍University of Sussex

Theme: Rebuilding Syria: Reflections, Innovations & Collaborations

📝 Submit by 20 June 2025

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#BRISMES2025 | Registration for non-speaking delegates for our 2025 BRISMES conference “Destruction, Loss, and Recovery in the Middle East” is now open!

📅 Register by 12 June 2025

More information & registration: shorturl.at/2Xf4S

#AcademicFreedom | With utmost urgency BRISMES CAF demands that the Prime Minister’s Office immediately intervene and lobby the Egyptian government for the immediate and unconditional release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

Read our letter: shorturl.at/SALSt (1/3)

#FreeAlaa

The BRISMES Committee on #AcademicFreedom has published a response to the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) report on #studentencampments and #Palestine solidarity.

Read the statement in full: bit.ly/CAF_04062025

Please share widely.

🎓 MENACS Talk 🎓
🗓️ 4.00pm; 13 Jun 25
📍 MAH Resource Centre, Sussex University, Campus, Brighton
🕰️ Chaired by Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social

Join SARN UK's member Reem Noureddin's talk on:
'The Gendered Impact of Conflict & Crisis: Syrian Girls’ Education & the Pathway to Recovery’

KCL UCU Encampment Solidarity Statement KCL UCU sends its solidarity to the students who have, since Monday evening, re-occupied King’s Strand campus quad to protest our university’s continued complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and opp...

KCL UCU sends its solidarity to the students who have, since Monday evening, re-occupied King’s Strand campus quad to protest our university’s continued complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and oppression of the Palestinian people. Our full statement ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein detailing the sensitive Palestine documents destroyed by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.

Israel is targeting Palestinian prisoners as revenge Palestinian ex-prisoner of almost 30 years Wael El Gaube details Israel’s horrifying treatment of detainees as revenge following the October 7 2023 attacks.

Palestinian ex-prisoner of almost 30 years Wael El Gaube details Israel's horrifying treatment of detainees as revenge following the October 7 2023 attacks

UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University A police attack on a documentary film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning.

A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.

BREAKING: Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri to be Released From ICE Detention The release strikes another blow to the Trump administration following the release of Mohsen Mahdawi and Rumeysa Ozturk.

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention.

Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago.

Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

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Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

"The ICC's chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. Some NGOs have stopped working with the ICC" after Trump sanctioned the court. apnews.com/article/icc-...

Gazans Once Escaped To Rafah. Now Israel Is Razing It. (Gift Article) In the last few weeks, Israel has demolished extensive areas of Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.

Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

University of Warwick staff & students stand with Palestine 🇵🇸 #workplacedayofaction #nakba77 # EndTheGenocide @pscupdates.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Hope to see colleagues at Warwick Uni at this day of events for Palestine #Nakba77 #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hadi. Hadi and his wife Manal’s little girl Ayla needed several hip surgeries to make sure she could walk correctly (including one at 2 where she wore a cast for 6 months). Ayla was scheduled for another surgery and hasn’t been able to get it

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Heartbreaking and enraging. #StopBombingYemen

Today the ICJ will start a 5 day case on whether Israel is meeting its humanitarian obligations in the occupied Palestinian territory as the occupying power. Israel will of course ignore its ruling.

Rory Challands reporting