Fatima Ahdash

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act.

“The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.

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Working, especially teaching, when you’re grieving is unbearably difficult. Couldn’t have understood it until this week: how hard it is to battle and suppress a sob whilst teaching adverse possession

“He was a very good friend, a fine scholar and a principled activist. He will be deeply missed.”

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One of my favourite photos of Conor during his visit to Doha earlier this year . He was always able to be so informative whilst making everyone laugh. I’m going to miss you so much, mentor and friend. May you rest blessed and in peace.

I met Conor Gearty more than 20 years ago, when I was a PhD student at LSE and have been fortunate to work with him in one way or the other all these years. A hugely intelligent critical thinker… | Vi... I met Conor Gearty more than 20 years ago, when I was a PhD student at LSE and have been fortunate to work with him in one way or the other all these years. A hugely intelligent critical thinker, gene...

We will miss you greatly, our brilliant, charismatic friend.

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This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

Huge, huge loss

I don’t have any words. I’m just devastated

Looking at Law and Legal Phenomena through the Lens of Arab Cinema and Drama - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Fatima Ahdash (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) about looking at law through the lens of Arab cinema and drama.

Had a great time talking to Linda Mulchay of Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies about Law, Arab Drama and Translation
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Thank you!!

Looking at Law and Legal Phenomena through the Lens of Arab Cinema and Drama - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Fatima Ahdash (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) about looking at law through the lens of Arab cinema and drama.

Had a great time talking to Linda Mulchay of Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies about Law, Arab Drama and Translation
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Scary day in Doha 🫠

The Metropolitan Police have released updated figures for yesterday's protest by people holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

857 people were arrested "for showing support for Palestine Action" and 33 for other offences, including 17 for assaults on police officers

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK site in Bristol was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribed An Israeli arms manufacturer’s facility in Bristol which was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action appears to have closed unexpectedly. The Elbit Systems UK site in the Aztec West business park was the subject of dozens of protests by Palestine Action, including on 1 July, days before the direct action group was banned under the Terrorism Act. Continue reading...

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector - Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Legal Studies -

In this piece entitled “The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector,” Fatima Ahdash reflects on the orientalism and racism underpinning Western human rights organisations, arguing that a complete overhaul of the sector is urgently necessary. Read (for free) here:

I start by talking a lot about how I did not want to become a Libyan Penelope- a female relative of a Libyan dissident activist, silent and mourning, and how human rights activism proved the worst route out, forcing on me even more silence and mourning

The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector - Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Legal Studies -

A short reflection on my decade of working in the human rights sector and the daily anti-Arab racisms i had to navigate, kindly published by Feminist Legal Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

More solidarity from Irish artists. Incredible people

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan is boarding a flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, has announced that she will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Dublin writer and activist Dolan—t…

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

I seriously don’t believe that criminalisation is good or that we can achieve liberation through law, much less criminal law. But just imagine the expressive significance of something like this? Would it mitigate the draconianness of counter-terrorism laws? Hmmm

Imagine if international criminal law was taken seriously by domestic legal systems? Imagine if there was a separate crime: supporting a genocide? Or supporting a war crime?

This government is so disgusting

A few of us have been working to set up a research network of legal scholars innovating in the teaching of race, colonialism & empire. We have received provisional approval as a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of the Law and Society Association (LSA)!

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Yes! And the difference between people who see these as ‘research topic opportunities’ and the ones actually living them is as stark as ever

A lot of the people doing the heavy lifting in terms of Palestine solidarity are Irish artists. A lot of the lawyers involved in defending Palestinian solidarity are Irish lawyers. Needs further ethnographic study, beyond the obvious reasons re this level of artistic and lawyerly solidarity.

Counterterrorism and the Question of Palestine: contemporary delegitimisation, historical erasure and the redundancy of international humanitarian law Abstract. The role that Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and Palestinian resistance to that occupation, have played in shaping counterterrorism regimes in

Why the insistence on using counterterrorism legislation to deal with pro- Palestine solidarities? That is the question I explore here, contending that the anti-Palestinian roots of global counterterrorism inform the biases of the domestic counterterrorism system academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

Thank you for your kind words🙏

In the current moment, understanding the counter-terrorism framework beyond liberal handwringing and/or a pure fixation on civil liberties is so important and @fatimaahdash.bsky.social makes a big contribution to that mission here.

Counterterrorism and the Question of Palestine: contemporary delegitimisation, historical erasure and the redundancy of international humanitarian law Abstract. The role that Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and Palestinian resistance to that occupation, have played in shaping counterterrorism regimes in

Why the insistence on using counterterrorism legislation to deal with pro- Palestine solidarities? That is the question I explore here, contending that the anti-Palestinian roots of global counterterrorism inform the biases of the domestic counterterrorism system academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

Counterterrorism and the Question of Palestine: contemporary delegitimisation, historical erasure and the redundancy of international humanitarian law Abstract. The role that Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and Palestinian resistance to that occupation, have played in shaping counterterrorism regimes in

Really excited that this fab piece by @fatimaahdash.bsky.social and Safaa Jaber is out in S3 of LRIL now. It’s super timely as it offers insight into how counterterrorism legislation has been used to suppress Palestine solidarity historically.

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