Diasporic State-Building by Oula Kadhum
What role did the Iraqi diaspora play in Iraq's state-building process post-2003, and what has been the legacy of their involvement?
📚 https://cup.org/44JXvcq
Books as Breath: Gaza’s Living Story
Salah and Abdullah's small bookshop in Nuseirat is a testament to the power of literature. A model of Palestinian endurance.
Information about the book, part of Cambridge's Global Middle East series, can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
So pleased to see that Crystal Ennis's (@crystalennis.bsky.social) book, MILLENIAL DREAMS IN OIL ECONOMIES: JOB SEEKING AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR IN OMAN is the winner of this year's AGAPS Book Award
The Frederick Douglass Book Prize finalists have been announced and I'm so pleased to see that Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré's book with Cambridge, SLAVERY, RESISTANCE, AND IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN WEST AFRICA is on the list.
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
As the world recognizes Palestinian state, Israel's plan to bury it.“It’s performative diplomacy.You’re recognizing the Palestinian state,but at the same time,your actions are aiding and abetting the very system that is destroying that state.” www.972mag.com/palestinian-...
The second element in our new series "Elements in Middle East Politics" has published: Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures - www.cambridge.org/core/element...
@gaza40.bsky.social
More than 40 students trapped in #Gaza with scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come & study. Over 4,800 UK university staff urge the UK Home Office & FCDO to allow biometric visa deferrals & open a safe route.
Read the letter: bit.ly/3IYjqVl
Publishing this month: Ethan Sanders' book in the African Identities series: BUILDING THE AFRICAN NATION - www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
Over 400 writers, publishers and booksellers — including figures across the literary world — have signed an open letter warning that a proposed ban on protest group Palestine Action represents a serious threat to free expression and civil liberties.
@theguardian.com
North Gaza: Food, Water & other Distributions by The Sameer Project - chuffed.org/project/help...
Poem, Famine by Design by Taqwa Al Wawi
From the account Gaza Poets Society over in that other place: Famine by Design by Taqwa Al Wawi
A template for writing to your local representative: Stop UK's Complicity in Israel's Atrocities: www.map.org.uk/campaigns/st...
Publishing this month: OCCUPIER AND OCCUPIED by Chloe Skinner - www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
Publishing this week: THE RULE OF LAW IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, edited by Hadi Enayat and Mirjam Künkler - www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Happy to see this finally out. Featuring my chapter on labour rights. Thanks to Hadi Enayat and Mirjam Künkler for their hard work www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist
Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous
dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
Publishing in February: Nicki Kindersley's NEW SUDANS: Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum, part of Cambridge's African Studies series www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
Open Letter on the University of Cambridge’s application for an injunction to prevent protests for Palestine at Senate House. Open to employees of CUP&A and any alumnus/a: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Front cover of the book: What is the Middle East by Marc Lynch
The first in the brand new series Elements in Middle East Politics is now available online. So pleased to see this launch with such an important topic, thank you @abuaardvark.bsky.social
TEHRAN'S BORDERLINES publishing this week. This book by Jaleh Jalili is a fascinating look at how urban development in Iran's capital city has affected public spaces and the people that use them - www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation
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"Not just path-breaking; it’s shapeshifting. Presents a bold argument that spatial inequality & regional economic differences, not ethnic identities, shape local and national political dynamics across Africa."
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa by Catherine Boone
cup.org/4hxZu7A
I am also glad you like the cover, which features a Klein bottle inspired by the Mobius strip. I chose this image because, as illustrated in the Mobius strip, I argue in the book that authoritarianism and securitisation are inextricably linked.
Striking covers, as usual, from The Global Middle East series: the latest from @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social is CIVIC DEATH IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY
Today's American Historical Association veto supports scholasticide. May 22, 2021, Samir Mansour stood on the rubble of his destroyed bookshop.
Historians For Palestine's response to the AHA Council veto:
1. Today's American Historical Association veto supports scholasticide.
I am beginning with the case of @sanaabdlarhim.bsky.social who is collaborating with me on this series, to tell her own story and those of others. She’s a 35 year old single mother who lives in Belgium and who is fundraising for her family of 11. Find her fundraiser here: gofund.me/dd137898
Any current or former MLA members who can help spread the word about these campaigns, let’s connect. We would love to run a matching campaign for Sameer Project or organize an @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social gift certificate drive like this: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...
Publishing this week in the Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization series is Mohammad Sadegh Ansari's The Science of Music - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
