Fatima Rajina

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AFP statement saying their journalists face death by starvation

read this carefully—the AFP was founded in 1944. they’ve just issued a statement saying that for the first time in history, their journalists face death by starvation #Gaza

At least 90 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

The crackdown on civil liberties continue in the UK with at least 90 people arrested in London for opposing the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Courtesy of Labour

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I survived the 7/7 London bombings, but as a British Muslim I still grew up being called a terrorist Four years on from the attacks on 9/11 - this was a time when, in the minds of many, Muslims were already associated with terrorism.

20 years on from surviving 7/7 - my experience as a British Muslim
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With thanks to my editor @averyanapol.bsky.social

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Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest’ after tenfold rise in nuisance law arrests FoI requests also reveal that since 2019 less than 3% of those held under law in London were prosecuted

'Police in London have been accused of abusing their powers to curb protest after research found that less than 3% of arrests . . . resulted in a prosecution.'
Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest'.

#FascismOnTheRise

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If universities are going to push and promise employability to students and their parents, they should probably treat their employees better. Exploitation, insecurity and redundancies are not a model or marketing strategy.

Kolapata and Hajji Nanna Biryani are superb. The latter has the best kachchi biryani. Both on Whitechapel Road and totally worth it. On Brick Lane, I’d recommend Amar Gaon or Cafe Grill - they mostly have Bengali dishes.

I was at @britishacademy.bsky.social’s Summer Showcase private viewing yesterday. Had many beautiful conversations. Do come along today from 5pm! I will be there by my exhibition!

Book tickets here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

The British Academy Summer Showcase Every year we throw open our doors for the British Academy’s annual Summer Showcase, a free festival of ideas for curious minds. Meet the researchers shaping our world through their pioneering social ...

This was the first of many highlights at the Summer Showcase - the British Academy's free festival of ideas.

Discover our full programme through the link below:

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

I think it's so cool that we let this obviously deranged person both run a school and be granted a national platform to scream whatever far-right nonsense has infested her brain.

The political erasure of Indian Muslims INDIA IS HOME to 200 million Muslim people. More Muslims live here than in any other country in the world barring Indonesia and Pakistan.  Yet in 2023, the

Indian Muslims have been rendered electorally dispensable and therefore politically irrelevant; some might even go further and regard them a political liability, writes Harsh Mander:

‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.

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That’d be lovely!

I will be there on the 20th, so pop along to see the Jummah Aesthetics exhibition!

Link for booking tickets is below.

Join us at the British Academy for our Summer Showcase 2025 on 20-21 June.

See our funded researchers share their innovative social sciences and humanities research that is shaping the society we live in – and informing the one we want to create.

Book your free tickets here:

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Join us tomorrow for 'Dislocation & Diaspora: East Asian Poets in Conversation', a panel discussion with Theophilus Kwek and Suji Kwock Kim, chaired by poet @jennywcreative.

Thurs, 12 June, 7-8.30pm
BLOC Theatre, Queen Mary University London
£5 (£3 concessions available)

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French left leader slams government silence over Israel's detention of MEP Rima Hassan <article data-history-node-id="423760" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-left-leader-accuses-french-government-tacitly-supporting-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-left-leader-accuses-french-government-tacitly-supporting-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">French left leader slams government silence over Israel's detention of MEP Rima Hassan</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI), has condemned the "ineffectiveness and impotence" of the French government over its silence about the detention of French-Palestinian Member of European Parliament Rima Hassan and three other French citizens by Israeli forces.</p> <p>Hassan was detained along with other members of the Madleen aid boat carrying international activists attempting to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday.</p> <p>"By attacking the LFI, Macron's minister&nbsp;effectively signalled support for Netanyahu, who is illegally detaining Rima Hassan and three members of the Madleen crew," Mélenchon <a href="https://x.com/JLMelenchon/status/1932684868262977996">said</a> on social media.</p> <p>"Fifty hours of detention of a European MP have passed without action or condemnation from Europe," he added, saying that&nbsp;the vessel was intercepted 100 nautical miles off the Palestinian coast, in international waters.</p> <p>Baptiste Andre, a French doctor who returned on Tuesday, described "acts of mistreatment", including "sleep deprivation" and "difficulty accessing water and food." Journalist Omar Faiad, also released, reported physical threats against Hassan during detention.</p> <p>Melenchon called for the Israeli ambassador in Paris to be summoned "to explain himself", and said public mobilisation remained the only available pressure point as protests demanding the release of the Madleen crew&nbsp;continue in Paris.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="LFI's Jean-Luc Melenchon (center), Rima Hassan (right), and Manon Aubry (left) during a demonstration calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in Paris, 9 March (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="33898f45-9fbb-44b2-96b0-bec28e8981a6" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/France-Unbowed-LFI-Melenchon-Hassan-Aubry-Gaza-Paris-9-March-2024-Dunand-AFP.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="LFI's Jean-Luc Melenchon (center), Rima Hassan (right), and Manon Aubry (left) during a demonstration calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in Paris, 9 March (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>LFI's Jean-Luc Melenchon (center), Rima Hassan (right), and Manon Aubry (left) during a demonstration calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in Paris, 9 March (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

French left leader slams government silence over Israel's detention of MEP Rima Hassan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-left-leader-accuses-french-government-tacitly-supporting-israel

What a brilliant day. Thanks to all the teachers from the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust schools in Leicestershire who attended our Teaching to Transform workshop at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre last week. Your input to the conversation about racial literacy in schools was invaluable.

The four ICC judges sanctioned by the US for Palestine and Afghanistan work Top jurists from Benin, Peru, Slovenia and Uganda are the subject of the latest sanctions imposed by the Trump administration

The four ICC judges sanctioned by the US for Palestine and Afghanistan work - https://www.middleeasteye.net/profile/four-icc-judges-sanctioned-trump

Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings

The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.

The exhibition on Jummah Aesthetics has been selected for the British Academy Summer Showcase 2025 this June! If you are interested in attending, then book your tickets here:

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

@britishacademy.bsky.social

Former Arsenal kit man sues for wrongful dismissal over pro-Palestine posts Mark Bonnick was accused of bringing the club into disrepute over tweets criticising Israel's treatment of Palestinians and its actions in Gaza

Former Arsenal kit man sues for wrongful dismissal over pro-Palestine posts

“But on 24 December last year, Bonnick was fired from his job, with the club informing him that pro-Palestine posts he had written on social media had brought the club into disrepute.”

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“It’s easier to not be identified when you’re wearing a turban because people don’t know what you are. You feel safer.” – Fawzia, UK

Katherine Appleford, @frajina.bsky.social and Sonya Sharma @sriucl.bsky.social on the white gaze, palatability and the “hijabista”.

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Decolonial Methodologies workshop University of St Andrews 25 April. Keynote Speech: Jasmine Gani (LSE)

Honoured to be giving the keynote speech tomorrow (25 Apr) at the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference at St Andrews. I'll be speaking about our intellectual and ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide
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Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

Sickening. The government must legislate to tackle the ongoing holding, display and collection of human remains acquired through enslavement and colonisation.

Today is Stephen Lawrence Day - a day to reflect, honour and celebrate the legacy of his life.

Let us support the Stephen Lawrence Foundation @sldayfdn and all the wonderful work they do to improve the lives of young people.

#Wewillneveforgetstephenlawrence

Femonationalism, gendered anti-Muslim racism and reproductive anxiety: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Germany - Christy Kulz, Naaz Rashid, 2025 Focussing on two different Western European nation states, the United Kingdom and Germany, we explore the apparent paradox of liberal feminist support for right...

*new publication* in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social Finally, this article I wrote with Dr Christy Kulz is out
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Sadiah Qureshi in conversation with David Olusoga about extinction Manchester Histories presents an 'In Conversation' event marking the launch of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' (Penguin 2025)

Book launch tickets on sale today at 10! Absolutely delighted to be in conversation with David Olusoga at Manchester Museum on 6 June, 6-8:30pm. Join us for a launch celebration among amazing ways of being!

Free, but limited places so register here. Pls share.

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Photograph of the Manchester University Press conference stand at the ASA 2025, displaying a selection of sociology, anthropology and geography books as well as posters and marketing materials for their key book series.

Calling all Sociologists!

We're excited to be in Birmingham this week for the Association of Social Anthropologists 2025 conference #ASA2025

Pop by the MUP stand to chat with @lauramswift.bsky.social and browse a selection of our latest academic and trade titles🗨️

Brown University could become fifth university to lose federal funding All the schools that have had their federal funding slashed so far are Ivy League institutions

Brown University could become fifth university to lose federal funding - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/brown-university-could-become-fifth-university-to-lose-federal-funding