Mezna Qato

Creating Refugee Archives How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?

Today is World Refugee Day.

✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.

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Prompted by the wonderful editors and with Edward Said as guide, Basma and I write about the scholasticidal tendencies within universities, and invite education scholars in particular to consider their politics and practices over the last year. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The Palestine Lectures: Raymond Geuss on solidarity. All welcome.

Such beautiful direction, at times stunning!

The International Institute of Social History has digitized all of Lebanese structural marxist Mahdi Amel’s notebooks, with the help of his family search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH0.... Can’t wait to book a weekend and dive into this archive.

'The Arabs: A Living History' (1979-1983) is an incredible 10 part series. Spearheaded by Basim Musallam, thematic episodes (gender, economy, urbanism) are led by Khalida Said, Abdallah Hammoudi, Galal Amin, Nadia Hijab, Edward Said, etc. Finally online: www.mckinnonfilms.com/portfolio-it...

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Are you a Palestinian woman pursuing a PhD in the social sciences or humanities anywhere in the world? Apply to the Tanya Baker-Asad (funded by Talal Asad) Scholarship at the wonderful Palestinian American Research Center.

www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

The UAW Strike Matters for the Entire US Working Class The United Auto Workers, headed by a new reform leadership, are set to strike the Big Three automakers at midnight tonight. The entire working class will be watching to see if autoworkers can claw bac...

It’s official: the UAW is on strike at all of the Big 3. Three plants are now out thus far (roughly 13,000 workers) and more can be called out at any moment.

Truly the weirdest campus...

Palestinians grant no quarter to antisemitism, no matter who espouses it. A letter condemning PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s latest comments. sites.google.com/view/palesti...

The second article of Kjersti Berg and I's special issue of the Journal for Refugee Studies on histories of encampment is out! Laura Robson argues for an end to the bifurcation of histories of the UNHCR and UNRWA (and why it matters). academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

I can’t get over the evil of the chapati part.

There is a sick irony, almost certainly lost on her, that Antoinette Sandbach invokes the “right to be forgotten” to disassociate herself from the legacy of her slaveholder ancestors: slaveholders or erased the personhood of 1000s in the name of profit, who worked to render their stories forgotten.

Whoa, ordered!