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Basma Hajir

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/12/2025

During a fierce storm I could hear the panicked screams of children in tents outside. This is Christmas in Gaza

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During a fierce storm I could hear the panicked screams of children in tents outside. This is Christmas in Gaza

This time of year is the true beginning of winter: the 40 coldest and harshest days of the season. One resident of Gaza City describes the reality for Palestinians living with little shelter and no electricity or heating

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Basma Hajir @basmahajir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

How can higher education contribute to peacebuilding and recovery in post-dictatorship Syria? My thoughts in this @ukfiet.bsky.social blog: t.co/yNIZ8ri863 @chet-bristol.bsky.social @soebrisresearch.bsky.social

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https://www.ukfiet.org/2025/a-historic-opportunity-the-role-of-higher-education-in-syrias-post-dictatorship/

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In light of the AHA's unconscionable veto of the members' vote, it's worth reading this excellent & prescient article by Hajir & Qato on how scholasticide operates (precisely via such institutional silences & silencing): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Article title: Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities by Basma Hajir & Mezna Qato

ABSTRACT
This essay takes up Edward Said’s insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of the university complicities; conditions continuous with, and connected to, the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We establish the legal resonance of ‘scholasticide’ and use the term as an explanatory tool to unpack four key ‘scholasticidal tendencies’ that extend to the USA, UK, and European academies: silence, the suppression of solidarity, ‘complex’ or ‘nuanced’ arguments, and the threat posed by certain theories. We critique these tendencies and highlight their deflections, obfuscations, contradictions, and moral failings. We gesture to possibilities beyond them and towards justice as an answer to the ‘question of Palestine’.

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I’m still stunned by this. “…‘scholasticidal tendencies’ that extend to the USA, UK, and European academies: silence, the suppression of solidarity, ‘complex’ or ‘nuanced’ arguments, and the threat posed by certain theories. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities

This essay takes up Edward Said’s insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of...

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