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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The Palestine Lectures at Cambridge: Marina Warner on Rage. 3 March 2026. All welcome.

Palestine Lectures 3 March Marina Warner on Rage

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The Palestine Lectures at Cambridge: Marina Warner on Rage. 3 March 2026. All welcome.

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The Palestine Lectures at Cambridge. On Childhood with Lorna Finlayson. All welcome.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 20/06/2025

Today is World Refugee Day. ✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives. www.historyworkshop.... #WorldRefugeeDay

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Creating Refugee Archives

How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Prompted by the wonderful editors and with Edward Said as guide, Basma and I write about the scholasticidal tendencies within universities, and invite education scholars in particular to consider their politics and practices over the last year. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Palestine Lectures: Raymond Geuss on solidarity. All welcome.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

The International Institute of Social History has digitized all of Lebanese structural marxist Mahdi Amel’s notebooks, with the help of his family search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH0.... Can’t wait to book a weekend and dive into this archive.

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Collection Summary: Mahdi Amel Papers

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

'The Arabs: A Living History' (1979-1983) is an incredible 10 part series. Spearheaded by Basim Musallam, thematic episodes (gender, economy, urbanism) are led by Khalida Said, Abdallah Hammoudi, Galal Amin, Nadia Hijab, Edward Said, etc. Finally online: www.mckinnonfilms.com/portfolio-it...

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Are you a Palestinian woman pursuing a PhD in the social sciences or humanities anywhere in the world? Apply to the Tanya Baker-Asad (funded by Talal Asad) Scholarship at the wonderful Palestinian American Research Center. www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

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Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship - Palestinian American Research Center

2024-2025 Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian Women Pursuing PhDs The Palestinian American Research Center announces the inauguration of The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women...

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Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

It’s official: the UAW is on strike at all of the Big 3. Three plants are now out thus far (roughly 13,000 workers) and more can be called out at any moment.

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The UAW Strike Matters for the Entire US Working Class

The United Auto Workers, headed by a new reform leadership, are set to strike the Big Three automakers at midnight tonight. The entire working class will be watching to see if autoworkers can claw bac...

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Palestinians grant no quarter to antisemitism, no matter who espouses it. A letter condemning PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s latest comments. sites.google.com/view/palesti...

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Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

The second article of Kjersti Berg and I's special issue of the Journal for Refugee Studies on histories of encampment is out! Laura Robson argues for an end to the bifurcation of histories of the UNHCR and UNRWA (and why it matters). academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

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Mark Hewerdine @markhewerdine.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

There is a sick irony, almost certainly lost on her, that Antoinette Sandbach invokes the “right to be forgotten” to disassociate herself from the legacy of her slaveholder ancestors: slaveholders or erased the personhood of 1000s in the name of profit, who worked to render their stories forgotten.

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