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PeterSloane.bsky.social

@drpetersloane.bsky.social
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I teach literature at the University of Buckingham and write on Kazuo Ishiguro, refugee writing, and migration studies.

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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'Your Struggle Is Our Struggle' Says Hasidic Anti-Zionist Rabbi Facing ICE Deportation Over Pro-Palestinian Protest | Common Dreams
A lawyer for 35-year-old Yehonatan Ovadia said his arrest by ICE demonstrates how "equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism produces absurd results."
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now under contract with Liverpool UP with Katie Brown and Kritish Rajbhandari to put together the 500,000 word Liverpool Handbook of Literature and Migration. This will be a huge project that covers literary explorations of migration from the pre-classical to present.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anti-Zionist Jewish protesters joined a mass demonstration outside the United Nations in New York, declaring that Israeli war criminal Netanyahu was not welcome in the city.
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⭐️ RAVEN @sunnydaze27.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interesting how the right is always bashing Mamdani, saying the Jews don't feel safe in NY because he's the mayor. This protest paints a different picture 🤔 NY is the true melting pot.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday.
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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Next month! A few tickets still available. THE CRADLE & THE GRAVE: Grief and Terror in Victorian Child Bereavement w. Dr Jen Baker, Sat 17th Oct, 1:30pm Brompton Cemetery, London. Tickets £13.50 inc a gin cocktail 🍸 & 20% donation to Brompton Cemetery: londonmonthofthedead.com/tickets.html
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Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just out: me and my co-editor Jo Hofer-Robinson discussing our edition of The Plays of Charles Dickens which cane out earlier this year. My hope is the plays are revived for the stage, because who doesn’t love strange gentlemen and lamplighters in the frozen deep? www.buzzsprout.com/1897197/epis...
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The Plays of Charles Dickens: Joanna Hofer-Robinson & Pete Orford - Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥
Dominic is joined by the inimitable Dr. Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Dr. Pete Orford, for a lively discussion on their new publication The Plays of Charles Dickens .This is the first ever critical editio...
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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
CFP 📢📢📢 *New Approaches to Teaching the Gothic*, co-edited by myself & @factorygothic.bsky.social Critical practice; pedaogical reflections; case studies; particularly in a relation to these times/spaces of crisis. VERY broad cfp. Qus welcome 👇👇👇 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Now on to Sulaiman Addonia's most recent work, The Seers. Addonia is a singular writer, a refugee author like no other. His best is probably Silence is My Mother Tongue, but I'm excited for this. A writer of great sensuality, even (literary) erotica, this book is a single 136 page paragraph ....
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Finished Menestu's 4th and most recent novel, Someone Like Us. Recurring interests in exile and migration of course, Mengestu himself a refugee. Deliberately disorienting narrative structure which can be patchy, clear influence of DeLillo. His best is still All Our Names, but this is important work.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
WATCH — Rep. @rokhanna.bsky.social on being detained: “The arrogance in the eyes of those settlers… the arrogance of those IDF soldiers that my tax dollars are funding… the arrogance of power, and no accountability. Total impunity.” (From @mintpressnews.bsky.social )
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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Guardian piece on Exeter! 🤩 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts
Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fast becoming my favourite novelist. Gurnah's prose is rhythmic and intoxicating, very deliberately at odds with his stories. He writes poetically about multiform cruelties and squalor both material and ethical. Another great global British author.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/06/2026
Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds
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Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds
Report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children. Continue reading...
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
PEN America’s New President, Novelist Dinaw Mengestu, on Books, Literary Culture, Free Expression, and Censorship in This Moment pen.org/dinaw-menges...
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PEN America’s New President, Novelist Dinaw Mengestu, on Books, Literary Culture, Free Expression, and Censorship in This Moment
New president of PEN America, novelist Dinaw Mengestu, speaks with striking clarity about the intertwined fates of literature and liberty.
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A truly remarkable novel by Mengestu, All Our Names, possibly his best. He is a rising star in US fiction, and with Gurnah perhaps one of the most acclaimed refugee authors writing today. If you are yet to try, start with this.
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My most recent ed collection with the brilliant Katie Brown (Exeter). Lots of amazing work in here across so many different arts.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2026
Dina Nayeri : Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding
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Dina Nayeri : Marjane Satrapi brought Iranian women like me out of hiding
The Persepolis author understood us and translated us for the world. We have lost our most eloquent spokesperson
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Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Dr Peter Sloane ( ‪ @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social) reminds us why refugee narratives matter in an interview for @jstordaily.bsky.social. In 2024, there were over 120 million displaced people worldwide (www.unhcr.org/refugee-stat...). They have important stories to tell us. bsky.app/profile/livu...
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PeterSloane.bsky.social @drpetersloane.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
To celebrate 50 years since the charter, Buckingham is offering reduced fee programmes. Ours, English Literature with Creative Writing, is £7,800 per year for a two year degree. Come and join us! www.buckingham.ac.uk/same-degree-...
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Same Degree Less Debt
We're reaffirming our mission of offering students a more affordable route to an undergraduate degree, without compromise.
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