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Jecca Namakkal

@jecca.bsky.social
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Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her

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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
a solidarity poem from Durham to Minneapolis: “raised fist and Minnesota nice gloves given between shouting curses at the monsters directions toward the tear gas phrased as a memory of a happy day in the city we are so nice that we are fucking angry at wrongness” - @thepoetryfox
“raised fist
and Minnesota nice

gloves given 
between shouting curses 
at the monsters

directions 
toward the tear gas
phrased as
a memory
of a happy day
in the city

we are so nice
that we are fucking angry
at wrongness”

- @thepoetryfoxa photo of a man standing and a man seated in front of a chalkboard that says “angry poems”
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
For the evening crowd:
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Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🔥The Abusable Past is collaborating with the Pedagogy Lan and Center for Feminist Futures to publish original art and lesson plans that question and critique the deployment of executive power. Check out the call for submissions and two sample lesson plans up at the Abusable Past now !! 👇🏽
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Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It would be an understatement to say 2025 so far has been difficult in the midst of political uncertainty and mounting assaults against our most vulnerable. Throughout this time, the Digital Collective has remained steadfast in our commitment to publish critical work and offers these pieces… /1
A slide with a red background and white text that reads “Luigi Mangione, Giuseppe Zangara, and the Forgotten History of Italian American Radicalism by Sonia C. Gomez” with a short description that reads “Tracing the long 20th century history of Italian American radicalism through Giuseppe Zangarw and Luigi Mangione, Gomez illuminates their connections through their twinned disillusionment with capitalism and political resistance borne from chronic pain.” Accompanied by a black-and-white collage from left to right Giuseppe Zangara in prisoner uniform, Luigi Mangione in prisoner uniform surrounded by police escorts, and a Giuseppe Zangara portrait with three other men and a looping white arrow behind to point at the body text.A slide with a red background and a photograph from the Black Freedom Studies speaker series at Schomburg Center with four people seated on stage in the center with audience members in the foreground. The white text reads “State Violence and the Black Freedom Struggle by Lucien Baskin” and description “As part of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lucien Baskin interviews Mary Frances Phillips, Françoise Hamlin, and Orisabmi Burton for an event on State Violence: Prisons, Police, Politics.”A slide with a red background and a poster in red, gray, white, and black depicting a woman with her arms in chains breaking free surrounded by other revolutionary women and text reading “Hail To the Working and Struggling Women of the World.” The white text on the slide below reads “Radical Iranian Theory and Praxis Microsyllabus by Tagereh Aghdasifar, Arash Davari, Alexander Jabbari, Amira Jarmakani, and Goonar Nikpour” and a description reading “Spanning Iranian revolutions and revolutionary thought, carcerality, sociality, movement building, and the development of critical SWANA studies/Ethnic Studies, this micro syllabus facilitates engagement with radical Iranian thought instead of provincializing such work as area studies or even “counter-terrorism” studies.”A slide with a red background and a color photograph depicting a line of NYPD amassing to crack down on the International Women’s Day Global Strike for Gaza standing along the shoulder of a city street as passerby walk in front of them. Below, white text reads “Policing Solidarity: Lessons from the Drug War by Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot” and a short summary ”By linking drug policing to the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement in Turtle Island, Eisenberg-Guyot enumerates how the specific mechanisms and tactics of the drug war inform and reify U.S. settler-colonial, imperialist, and racial capitalist interests domestically and abroad.”
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Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
From a digital or analog collage, photo, drawing, blackout poem, video, or anything else, select artworks will be incorporated into openly licensed teaching materials. See more info about Executive Dis/Order at abusablepast.org/call-for-sub.... More questions can be directed to thepedlab@gmail.com.
A slide with a white box and dark text reading “example” below an excerpt of the White House’s Executive Order “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” accompanied by a poem titled “[record of transfer]”:

instructions:
remain solvent. 
comply with terms,
as outlined in the policy,
as amended without notice,
as interpreted by the holder. 

where self-direction exceeds design, 
debt may be used to re-establish form:
• debt to structure. 
• debt to discipline. 
• debt to contain. 

used to be, 
you could name 
what you owed
and to whom. 

our instructions: 
remain solvent,
stay still. please,
submit your forms again
to ensure proper processing.A slide with a white box and dark text reading “example” above an excerpt of a White House Executive Order title amended to “Expanding Migrant *Carceral Quarantine at Imperial Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Racist Xenophobic Capacity” *a place where people are kept between life and death for an indefinite period (Paik 113). Below is an amended memorandum alongside learning goals for a lesson plan adapted from this artwork.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/05/2025
Check out the latest episode of the AAUP Presents special series, "Academic Freedom on the Line." In this episode, host Vineeta Singh speak with a coalition of student leaders actively organizing against state-level DEI bans in Texas and Kentucky. Listen and subscribe: www.aaup.org/news/our-pod...
Text: Students on the Line, Academic Freedom on the Line, a special series, AAUP Presents. Image of a crowd and icon of a podcast microphone. Color palette: yellow, red and white.
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Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...
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Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia. macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mo...
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Modern South Asia Workshop
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
personally I would just skip the whole "your economic opinions boil down to which countries you stan" deal and go for the whole "because of capitalism I could have bananas every day" sort of rhetorical strategy. but I suppose you should take my Third World ass opinions with a grain of salt
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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Recordings of the "The Anti-Zioinst Idea: History, Theory, & Politics" are now available www.theantizionistidea.com/recordings
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Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My six favourite European Mr Men character names... 6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso 5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel 4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing 3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo 2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs 1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump
A cover of Herr Dumpidump by Roger Hargreaves that says "Herr Dumpidump by Roger Hargreaves" and with an illustration of Herr Dumpidump looking especially dumpidumpish (forgive me but I can't stop repeating the word dumpidump... DUMPIDUMP!)
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Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Was looking for scholars engaged in postcolonial history on @bsky.app Please add others and yourself go.bsky.app/CXWu64P
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
The Incarcerated Modern by @golnarnikpour.bsky.social traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today. www.sup.org/books/title/...
Red square featuring the book cover for The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran by GOLNAR NIKPOUR
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Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Check out a new interview with activist Kipp Dawson AND explore a piece from Jessie Ramey and Catherine Evans on Dawson's papers at the University of Pittsburgh. The Radical History Review article is free to view for a limited time. abusablepast.org/challenging-...
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Challenging and Documenting State Violence: A Conversation with Activist Kipp Dawson – The Abusable Past
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories. Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me. Papers are due 15 Aug 2024. Please share!!
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lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale Applications now Open americanstudies.yale.edu/news/henry-r... The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) invites applications for the 2024/25 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian & Indigenous Studies.
Henry Roe Cloud photo
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
In my latest for @abusablepast.bsky.social, I draw comparisons between the Second Red Scare and the ongoing efforts to silence and smear pro-Palestine activism. Check it out here: abusablepast.org/the-myth-of-...
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Today, on Columbia's first day, we remember our fallen colleagues in Gaza 🇵🇸
University Faculty & Staff Killed in Gaza by Israel 10/7/23-1/7/24Statement by Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia/Barnard/TC
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
This is very good. Quotes Aimé Césaire, no less. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/o...
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Opinion | Art’s Colonial Legacy: ‘It Would Have Been Better Not to Have Needed Museums.’
In this short film, Congolese artworks voice poet and author Aimé Césaire’s words: “Colonization is thingification.”
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
who was taught by June Jordan? I am trying to compile a list of her students—especially, but not only, those who have gone on to teach writing or art, and those who are still writing poetry.
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Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
What better day than Haitian Independence Day to remind y’all that there is one more week to submit abstracts for the Radical Histories of Decolonization issue of Radical History Review! 🇭🇹🇵🇸 #thestrugglecontinues cc: @golnarnikpour.bsky.social @sepoy.bsky.social
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Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Omg I have been shouting about this scam tongue-tie-lactation industrial complex and how it preys on the anxieties of new mothers and insurance loopholes to every person I know for the last three years, this is why I wear a tinfoil hat www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/h...
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Inside the Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues
Dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new mothers struggling to breastfeed.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Post-doc in policing and carceral studies at U of Minnesota, connected to a Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives on the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement, 2024/25 Applications due: 1/15/24 Details: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/359...
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Sawyer Seminar: Just Policing | Institute for Advanced Study
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Here is the bit that really struck me:
SR: "And yet, you say you feel the need togo right back to the beginning, to explain the whole history ofPalestine in order to unmake Sharon Churcher’s lie and show that..."this is in fact genuinely popular Palestinian dress. Doesn’t thisneed to go back again and again over the same story becometiring?
ES: It does, but you do it anyway. It is like trying to find the magi‐cal moment when everything starts, as in
Midnight’s Children
. Youknow midnight, and so you go back. But it is very hard to do thatbecause you have to work out everything and get past a lot of ques‐tions in the daily press about why Palestinians don’t just staywhere they are and stop causing trouble. That immediatelylaunches you into a tremendous harangue, as you explain to peo‐ple: ‘My mother was born in Nazareth, my father was born inJerusalem . . . ’ The interesting thing is that there seems to benothing in the world which sustains the story: unless you go ontelling it, it will just drop and disappear.
SR: The need to be perpetually told.
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Yale Ethnography Hub @yaleethnography.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
EVENT 11/30: On alternative visions and radical solidarities stretching from Palestine and Iraq to South Asia and Bosnia! With @abubanda.bsky.social Esmat ElHalaby and Zainab Saleh
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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
The Israeli Bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in 1956 (and After) pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-...
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The Israeli Bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in 1956 (and After)
1951 Survey of Israel map based on 1946 British Survey of Palestine Map. Via Palestine Open Maps . In his 1979 study of the Gaza Strip, th...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
In "Stay Black and Die," I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture from the 19th century to the contemporary moment. Read a free sample now! www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
Cover of Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius by I. Augustus Durham. Cover has a black background. In the center of the image is a portrait of a man, staring stoicly at the viewer. The face is portrayed in shades of gray and black.The artist overlays the simple portrait with sketches in pastel shades of yellow, pink, and blue.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Good morning and solidarity to the Duke students responsible for this
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
when buzzfeed news folded i was worried no one would let me be insane on the internet again but slate let me use the term "scum-shot" in the first hundred words of this so yes, i DO believe in life after love. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I’m South Asian. I’ve Already Met a Thousand Vivek Ramaswamys.
He’s playing a very particular model minority card.
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
New essay on "Marx, Critique, & Abolition: Higher Education as Infrastructure"!! I co-wrote this with @abbieboggs.bsky.social, Nick Mitchell, & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein. We put the Marxist tradition in conversation with abolitionist approaches to higher education. www.academia.edu/108991210/Ma...
Text: Marx, Critique, & Abolition: Higher Education as Infrastructure
Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein 
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First Online: 08 November 2023
Part of the Marxism and Education book series (MAED)

Abstract
This chapter puts the Marxist tradition in conversation with abolitionist approaches to higher education. We emphasize the centrality of accumulation to understanding the university as an historical object, particularly by reading the university as an infrastructure for capitalism. We start by exploring Marx’s own relationship to the university, to nineteenth-century disciplinary formation, and to critique as institutional infrastructure. Next, we analyze W. E. B. Du Bois’s combination of the Marxist and Black radical, abolitionist traditions. We highlight how the university transforms along with its changing interrelations with capitalism, especially its accumulative functions. We briefly demonstrate this approach by turning to two key periods in
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
I wrote a short piece for @thefunambulist.bsky.social about the genocidal threshold: the point at which quotidian state violence conceivably becomes capital G “Genocide” crime vs. the acceptable genocidal outcomes of nation-state policy thefunambulist.net/magazine/red...
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Genocide: When Does State Violence Pass the Threshold?
In this short text, Zoé Samudzi comes back to a question she had articulated in the issue she guest edited for The Funambulist 37 (Sep-Oct 2021): who has the right to use the term “genocide…
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Duke University Faculty for Justice published a statement on Palestine today. Consider signing in solidarity if you have any relation to Duke (faculty, students, admin, alumni, or staff like me). “It is imperative to reject injustices committed in our name.” medium.com/@dukefaculty...
Text: “We condemn the brutal and inhumane attacks against civilian lives and call for an immediate ceasefire. The decades-long status quo in the region — where the Palestinian people have been living without equal rights or the right to meaningfully self-govern — is at the root of the current war. Over two million people, nearly half of whom are children, have been entrapped in what has been widely reported as conditions of an open-air prison, given very little freedom of movement in and out. The Israeli human rights organization, B’tselem, concluded that Israel has established in Gaza and the remainder of historic Palestine, “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This is apartheid.” Amnesty International agrees in its report “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians.” “Text: “Statement on Palestine

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*This statement was drafted in the week following October 7th by a concerned group of Duke University faculty in response to the current war in Gaza. What we have witnessed through numerous conversations with faculty, administrators, staff and students across our campus is that the fear “
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Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Duke Faculty for Justice release statement on Palestine 🍉 medium.com/@dukefaculty...
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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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lb @lbhungalia.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Some critical reads rn: Darryl Li on the Sinai solution in the early occupation period and its continued relevance t.ly/Ke0F_ Esmat Elhalaby on Gaza & historical through lines t.ly/ckLYX Neve Gordon on foreboding developments in the West Bank t.ly/HwjAW
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Join us to discuss "Radical Failure and World-Building in Abolitionist Organizing" with Alexis Shotwell, Kevin Walby, Leah Montange, Meghan McDowell, Nick Montgomery, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard & me Sat., 11/4, 8:00-9:40am EST Hybrid: Zoom reg. @ cutt.ly/radicalfailure  & in-person at ASA in Montreal
Flier for an event: "Radical Failure and World Building in Abolitionist Organizing" (in purple letters) above a graphic with an image by Amanda Priebe: cupped hands holding fire, surrounded by a black ribbon with white lettering that reads "let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair" (a quote by Mariame Kaba) 
Join a discussion with Alexis Shotwell, Eli Meyerhoff, Kevin Walby, Leah Montange, Meghan McDowell, Nick Montgomery, and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard on Saturday, Nov. 4, 8:00am-9:40am EST. Read more about the discussion here.

Hybrid: in-person at the ASA meeting in Le Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Salon 6 (Level 3) and online at https://cutt.ly/radicalfailure (Please register beforehand)
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
The late scholar-activist Eqbal Ahmad on Palestine.
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Friend And Critic In Solidarity: Eqbal Ahmad On Palestinian Tragedy
Eqbal was perhaps the only South Asian intellectual after Gandhi whose sane voice was hailed by Arabs in general - he was very close to Arafat
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
“How do you break a siege? How do you escape from prison? How do you get back your land?” New at PB: Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social) on the history of Palestine, settler-colonial violence, and poetry under siege:  www.publicbooks.org/our-siege-is...
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Our Siege Is Long
Throughout his life, poet Muin Bseiso narrated the history of Palestinian struggle and criticized Western portrayals of Gaza. Today, Bseiso’s son dodges Israeli bombs to preserve his archives.
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