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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Thank you Ethel, this is so very kind and generous of you to say. Sending you my warmest wishes, care and solidarity-

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 26/06/2025

7 HOURS LEFT, PLEASE SHARE! In the morning I'm sending a small batch of funds to this displacement camp, but the team wants to maximize what they can include in food baskets for these 15 families ASAP. HOW BOLD CAN WE BE TONIGHT? Even $1 sustains LIFE. Last check 263/900 chuffed.org/project/save...

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Save Devastated Families in Jabalia, Gaza

Although the war has ended, the suffering has not. In fact, it has worsened with the continued siege and the reclosure of border crossings. In Jabalia, northern Gaza, several families who have lost…

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Please help if you can by supporting this fund for Ruaa. Anything helps - and it’s a genuinely worthy cause!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Afrikaners “name themselves natives, a word they deployed as a slur for us, in the hope that they might adopt, in the act of naming, our relations to the land and all that it entails. The demand for a white ethnostate requires our dispossession again…” - Nolan Oswald Dennis in The Funambulist #59

A complicated diagram depicting rock trajectories, geopolitics, solar systems, etc — white figures on a black background

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Another reference (if of interest to those tracking this) is the issue we did some time ago at the Journal of Architectural Education (before our parent organization censored our Palestine issue, fired our executive editor and our board resigned): Deserts. www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl... 🌵

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Deserts

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

recurse 4 a late planet [lush] by Nolan Oswald Dennis. / Working diagram (2025-ongoing). // "In South Africa today the rehabilitation of Apartheid is being pursued under the guise of white indigeneity." thefunambulist.net/magazine/bla...

Diagram by Nolan Oswald Dennis with a black background and illustrations in white and yellow and some lines in red and blue.

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Help people survive. Help people survive. Help people survive. Please give what you can -

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Another worthy, worthy fund to support. Please consider donating to Nya and her family -

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 17/04/2025

IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...

Trump and Lindsay Graham in the Oval Office full of cheap gilded kitsch

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Please give if you can, folks. Any little bit helps.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 02/05/2025

“Is science equally the surveillance satellite and the COVID vaccine?…We must also consider who is investing in scientists, in their thousands, protesting for protections of Western science.” averyreview.com/issues/71/ou...

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The Avery Review | Outlaw Geology at the End of the World

The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@divyampersaud.com’s text : “Outlaw Geography at the End of the World,” is phenomenal too; a fantastic meditation on ideological and intellectual obfuscations snd an how to take, after Nâzim Hikmet, “to take living seriously.”

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Mohamad Nahleh is an incredible writer and thinker - and his piece, titled “Purging a Wretched Empire,” is heart-crushing, unapologetic, tender, brutal and beautiful. It’s a must read.

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Stop what you’re doing and go read the latest issue of The Avery Review - with incredible pieces by Gabriella Demczuk, Sanie Irsay, Sydney Rose Maubert, Mohamad Nahleh, @divyampersaud.com, and Faris Shomali. Online here:

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The Avery Review | home

The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 28/04/2025

wrote about how trump is going to annihilate the field of architecture for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview

His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart.

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Another important and vetted and important fund to support here. Please take a few minutes and support Mohamed and his family!

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Delighted to welcome these brilliant critics for M.Arch Thesis Reviews at Carleton Architecture next week; welcome Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Dan Ling, Aliki Economides, Stephen Beites, Bz Zhang, Mohamad Nahleh, Karen Kubey, Louis-Charles Lasnier and McLain Clutter!

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

She kissed the ground and she liked iiiiiiiiiiiiit 🎶

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"...the question remains whether Africa can chart its own course through the cosmos, informed by the rich histories of scientific knowledge and celestial relation born out of the continent, or whether its space endeavors will reproduce familiar patterns of extraction and control."

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Off-Earth - Thandi Loewenson - Celestial Settler Frontiers

In the collection of National Archives in Harare, a curious series of documents detail accounts of historical astronomical discoveries, celestial phenomena, meteor showers, and alien encounters across...

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Please support this project - small amounts, whatever you can manage!

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

What amazed me while reporting this was that ACSA felt the best course of action was to gather design education's foremost social justice advocates on an editorial board & then antagonize them by blowing up a JAE issue on the top social justice issue of our time www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...

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A fight with the Journal of Architectural Education over academic freedom has put the ACSA in crisis

Last month ACSA canceled the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) themed on Palestine and fired its interim executive editor. The action resulted in the resignation of all 2...

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

Dear Dr. Abdelhadi,

The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning. We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,

Mary Gallagher

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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean
Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

More context from @zachmortice.bsky.social on ACSA’s decision to censor the Journal of Architectural Education’s Palestine issue (+ then some). Re: institutional capitulations, performative repair + ivory tower knee-bending; do give this a read; it’s an important moment in our discipline.

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A fight with the Journal of Architectural Education over academic freedom has put the ACSA in crisis

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 04/04/2025

this is the most important story in architecture right now

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A short interlude for the upstairs and downstairs apartments.

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Grateful to Scroope Journal (from the School of Architecture at Cambridge) + editors Nick Frayne & Jerry Chow for the invitation to contribute to volume 33: Disenclosure; and to world a little around writing as a spatial practice. Honored to be in this company and to have a print copy in hand. ♥️

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Another vetted and important project. For those of you today and tomorrow thinking is boosting sadaqah on the days of Eid - this is a great place to start - ♥️

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson

Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Yes, it’s the bad place, but there is good to do, and good that we can do. Please contribute to this fund if you can; even if a little.

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"What does it mean, in the midst of our genocide, for Palestinians to make freedom by making place? Might it be not simply to revive (transform?) what is dead, but also to inhabit what is alive? Gilmore’s reminder to “make freedom by making place” is a tactical as well as imaginative proposition."

Stone slabs with some soil and green foliage in Palestine.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

taking over while someone tries to heal is love. please step up

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Another worthy, worthy cause - and a re-up from a little while ago. Anything helps!

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Please give if you can. This is legit!

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

An incredible statement of support from MESA, on the cancellation of the Palestine issue by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Huge gratitude to these colleagues. Read it below:

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Middle East Studies Association

Our letter expressing concern about the decision of the Board of Directors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture to cancel a planned issue of the Journal of Architectural Education ...

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journal’s forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issue’s cancellation, we’ve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.

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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Hard, but necessary. It’s been a privilege to work with this board; among the most principled, generous, kind, brilliant, just, + fiercely tender people I’ve met. Looking forward to building platforms, institutions, languages, potentials + possibilities that have these values and voices. Stay tuned.

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Unfortunate, but not unexpected news. I hope the editors find a venue for the contributions, which were submitted last month and were in peer review ahead of last week's decision by ACSA. Maybe a special issue of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social? www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor

ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

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