Fadia Dakka

I entrust you with Palestine-the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls. I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

Last night I sobbed as I heard Israel had murdered Anas Al-Sharif & his colleagues from Al Jazeera. We cannot begin to understand their bravery in resisting the genocidal occupation through filming, speech, truth.

“Be bridges toward the liberation of the land & its people” x.com/anasalsharif...

A happy book says: I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you! A smiling drink says: And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read! A gleeful phone adds: Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!! Hours later... The drink and book lie untouched. The phone is out of view but a bubble reads: Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll The book says “I hate that guy.”

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading

Will do.

Keir Starmer once stood up for protesters. Now he calls them terrorists As a human rights lawyer, Starmer defended direct action on grounds of conscience. But the world is now a much less forgiving place

“Civil disobedience on conscientious grounds has a long and honourable history in this country” -a law Lord jn a case defended by Keir Starmer in 2006. Now look. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/70319/...

Interesting vibe.

Going to return to this list of original, relevant, creative social sciences & humanities new research every time I'm asked to defend SHAPE research this year. Look at them!

Congratulations to new @britishacademy.bsky.social post-doc fellows.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

UK HE shrinking a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

And @qmucu.bsky.social is now getting emails directly from universities' press offices to say how many people they're planning to make redundant.

Appreciate the recognition that our page remains a source of info about the mess that is the sector. Bit of a mindfuck though.

Go get them, @rosieisaholt.bsky.social 🤣

🌟Our CFP is now open to all PhDs and ECRs based in and around the Midlands! So if you live or work close by and work on phenomenology, lived experience and mental health, please do submit an abstract!

Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope Some thoughts

My latest

www.hauntologies.net/p/notes-on-a...

Azzeramento pressione ✅️

So much backdating going on. Really hard to stomach

Research culture element of REF 2029 set to be shrunk - Research Professional News New ‘4-star plus’ research rating also being considered by Research Excellence Framework team, briefings suggest

A lot of REF news here from @chrisjparr.bsky.social:

* People, Culture and Environment weighting to be scaled back
* PCE to move closer to 2021 environment statements
* REF team considering creating a new ‘4-star plus’ rating

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Fab stuff:)

@franekkra.bsky.social
published a paper on interpreting discussion on centers and periheries through critical cycle! Check out how philosophy, high ed studies, and ideas for alternative organization of science comes together

Work of our group is also present in the book reviews!

1 Un tizio chiede a un altro tizio: “E tu cosa fai, nella vita?” Il tizio risponde sorridendo: “Oh! Oh! Cosa faccio nella vita? Vuoi una lista?” 2 L’altro tizio risponde serio: “Sì.” Il tizio lo guarda sorpreso dalla risposta seria. 3 Il tizio allora entra come in uno stato di depressione e inizia a elencare la sua giornata: “Dormo, mi sveglio, mangio, bevo, respiro, lavoro fino a che non ho sonno e dormo di nuovo.” L’altro tizio è soddisfatto: “Bello! Anche un mio amico!” 4 FINE

Non si chiede è da maleducati

Il lancio aereo di aiuti non fermerà la carestia a Gaza Serve molto più a rassicurare l’opinione pubblica che ad alleviare davvero le sofferenze della popolazione palestinese, spiega lo storico Jean-Pierre Filiu. Leggi

Serve molto più a rassicurare l’opinione pubblica che ad alleviare davvero le sofferenze della popolazione palestinese, spiega lo storico Jean-Pierre Filiu. intern.az/1NPO

Toxic Positivity and Epistemic Injustice

New post on the #projectepic blog: Shené de Rijk on toxic positivity and #epistemicinjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/08/toxi... #philsky #philpsy

a woman speaking into a microphone with the words ma roba da matti on the bottom ALT: a woman speaking into a microphone with the words ma roba da matti on the bottom

#labersagliera

Eh 😂

a drawing of a woman holding a baby with the words nuestra señora de las nieves above ALT: a drawing of a woman holding a baby with the words nuestra señora de las nieves above

Sto già lavorativamente indietro. Madonna della neve pensaci tu

“We now see that the university only recognizes one way of being Jewish in this world: loyal to Israel no matter what—to the point of explicitly denying its crimes against humanity and genocide”: Marianne Hirsch

Mary Oliver, always ❤️‍🩹

Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery.”

The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”

Casa😊

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma In Gaza, where displaced children play a game called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

‘“People say they don’t feel anything anymore. They can’t cry. They can’t love.” No one talks about recovery, not even those of us who made it out. The mind is just trying to stay in the body’

The psychic wounds Israel has inflicted will tumble down generations www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Our group does not stops in developing marxist critique of higher education. You are all welcome to read Luis' critique of the theory of knowledge rents #marxism #highereducation

Shows like “The Bear” and “The Pitt” have taken hold of viewers and critics despite—or perhaps because of—how stressful they can be to watch, Shirley Li argues. https://theatln.tc/wGhWcsKF

The TIMED project www.timed-europe.net reveals: The more we live in the online world, and the more we enjoy and benefit from that immersion, the more quickly life seems to speed by. The good news? This effect is relatively small—but measurable: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Fady Joudah’s latest poem