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Rebecca Ruth Gould

@rrgould.bsky.social
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Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian

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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In memory of Refaat Alareer on what would have been his 47th birthday. My last email exchanged with Refaat on 12 Oct 2023, less than 2 months before he was martyred in a targeted Israeli strike. I had hoped to work with him on a project on free speech and academic freedom in Palestine & beyond.
email from Refaat expressing concern for ny safety and an eagerness to work together
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In memory of Refaat Alareer on what would have been his 47th birthday. My last email exchanged with Refaat on 12 Oct 2023, less than 2 months before he was martyred in a targeted Israeli strike. I had hoped to work with him on a project on free speech and academic freedom in Palestine & beyond.
email from Refaat expressing concern for ny safety and an eagerness to work together
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@rrgould.bsky.social : When the Occupation Fears a Kite by @rrgould rrgould.medium.com/when-the-occ...
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When the Occupation Fears a Kite
Lujayn Maghari’s dispatch from Gaza
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I enjoyed this wide-ranging conversation with Jeffrey-Herlihy Mera of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez about my short story collection Strangers. We discussed Bolaño, Borges, Walter Benjamin, exile, and much more. Watch the full conversation if these subjects interest you! youtu.be/k7lOSi5V-bM
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A Rainy Afternoon in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico: Talking about Strangers (2026)
YouTube video by Poetry & Protest (Rebecca Ruth Gould)
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"In Gaza, the wounded care for the critically wounded; the exhausted carry those who can no longer stand." @rrgould.bsky.social writes about one Gaza community’s ongoing struggle to care for the orphaned, wounded, and the displaced amid Israel’s genocide: dawnmena.org/israel-attac...
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Few artists have been as intertwined with a struggle & so beloved by the people fighting as Sliman Mansour. Sadly, he has passed at age 79. In 2023, he told @hyperallergic.com: "Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings…We are not less than any other people in the world.”
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Sliman Mansour, Painter of Palestinian Hope and Humanity, Dies at 79
"Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings," Mansour told Hyperallergic in 2023. "We are not less than any other people in the world.”
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you read one thing about Jason Arday (RIP) and the vicious media onslaught against him, make it this. “His rise and fall expose the moral bankruptcy of a system that wants the appearance of racial progress without the work of structural change.” open.substack.com/pub/paulddf/...
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Who Killed Jason Arday?
Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This morning a boat named Kate set sail for Gaza from Bristol’s Harbour as part of the Freedom Flotilla. May they reach their destination! www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea... youtube.com/shorts/6MpFo...
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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I found the racism of my black Irish childhood embarrassing. Now it has given way to fear. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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I found the racism of my black Irish childhood embarrassing. Now it has given way to fear
Growing up in Waterford, I naively believed Ireland might sidestep the entrenched divisions of its near neighbours
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you read one thing about Jason Arday (RIP) and the vicious media onslaught against him, make it this. “His rise and fall expose the moral bankruptcy of a system that wants the appearance of racial progress without the work of structural change.” open.substack.com/pub/paulddf/...
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Who Killed Jason Arday?
Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It says a lot about which academic stories get media coverage that multiple non-academics I know asked me about the Jason Arday story, but no one I know outside of the academy had heard about the University of Minnesota paying $250,000 for rescinding a job offer to Raz Segal due to donor pressure.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I wrote about how medical & rescue workers in Gaza must care for others even when they are wounded themselves. The incidents described here took place in July. Just yesterday, the same rescue worker was attacked again. The genocide continues. “Ceasefire” is a lie open.substack.com/pub/rgould/p...
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In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest
How the wounded kept caring for the displaced when Israel attacked Gaza’s Abu Asi Orphan Camp
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I wrote about how medical & rescue workers in Gaza must care for others even when they are wounded themselves. The incidents described here took place in July. Just yesterday, the same rescue worker was attacked again. The genocide continues. “Ceasefire” is a lie open.substack.com/pub/rgould/p...
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In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest
How the wounded kept caring for the displaced when Israel attacked Gaza’s Abu Asi Orphan Camp
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@rrgould.bsky.social : In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest 💔 medium.com/global-liter...
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In Gaza, Even Broken Ribs Are Not Enough Reason to Rest
How the wounded kept caring for the displaced when Israel attacked Gaza’s Abu Asi Orphan Camp
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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 12/08/2026
For the last 2 years, I've been directing a secret project, helping Raja Shehadeh safeguard the diaries he has written daily since teenage - literally millions of words, going back six decades. It's quite a story. Join us: > Thu 3 Sep > 3pm UK time > Free to register: llc.ed.ac.uk/raja-shehadeh
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From Palestine to Scotland: Celebrating the Raja Shehadeh Archive | Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World | Literatures Languages and Culture
Join internationally acclaimed Palestinian writer, lawyer and activist Raja Shehadeh on 3 September 2026 as he marks the accession of his extraordinary personal archive to the University of Edinburgh'...
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Alex Langlois @langloisajl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Those who ran the Abu Asi Orphan Camp knew their circumstances were abnormal. "Yet genocide is anything but normal," writes @rrgould.bsky.social in @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social's Democracy in Exile, sharing the story of those who kept 3,000 families sheltered, fed and alive. dawnmena.org/israel-attac...
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Israel Attacked Gaza's Abu Asi Orphan Camp. The Wounded Kept Caring for the Displaced. - DAWN
When Mohammad returned to their shelter in the Abu Asi Orphan Camp in Al Bureij, central Gaza, in June 2025, Sara knew her brother would not listen to her plea for him to rest. Only hours earlier, Isr...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Eighteen years ago today, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet, passed away. Through his poetry, he gave voice to exile, identity, memory, and belonging, becoming one of the most influential figures in modern Arabic literature. Read his biography on #PalQuest: www.palquest.org/en/biography...
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Mahmoud Darwish - Poets (1941 - 2008)
Biography - Mahmoud Darwish was born on 13 March 1941 in the village of Birwa (Acre district) to Salim Darwish and Huriyya al-Biqa‘i. He was the second child in...
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Vron Ware @vronsta.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Meanwhile,while no one is paying attention: www.middleeasteye.net/news/cambrid...
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Exclusive: Cambridge University backtracks on divesting from arms companies
University investment body quietly shelved plan for at least partial divestment from weapons companies, sources say
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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
The Gaza Strip concentration camp, nowadays. #neverforget
UN map of the Gaza Strip, including Israeli controlled areas.
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
With the upcoming 89th anniversary of Paolo Iashvili setting an end to his life, on July 22, here my article on why this act matters. (Some will visit his grave, there also will be a reading of his poetry on that evening in Sololaki.) @rrgould.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hansgutb...
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Paolo Iashvili and the Writer’s House of Georgia
Reupping an article on one of Georgia's most important poets that has only become more relevant since it first came out. Mark July 22 on your calendars.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I was honored to endorse Stray Bullet, a collection of 8 poems by Marah Al-Khatib. Buy it and spread the word about this wonderful initiative to support writers in Gaza from Costal Lines Press www.coastallinespress.com/p/stray-bullet
Illustrated cover of *Stray Bullet* by Marah Al-Khatib, showing a patterned dress-like form with small red and blue details, suspended by crossed rods, with the title printed below.

Al-Khatib’s ‘Stray Bullet’ is a haunting lyric sequence written in the charged space between love and loss. These poems refuse the separation of private feeling from historical catastrophe. Al-Khatib’s language is raw, dreamlike, and piercing; it moves between tenderness and devastation with remarkable intensity. This zine is the work of a young poet transforming unbearable experience into a lasting literary monument.”
— Writer Rebecca Gould, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, SOAS University of London.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Join us at SOAS as a new Lecturer in Arabic Literature at SOAS (0.4 FTE, fixed term until 31.8.2029) This role involves teaching, advising students of Arabic and supervising dissertations in Arabic literature, Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/910500
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Lecturer in Arabic Literature -0.4 FTE at SOAS
Apply now for Lecturer in Arabic Literature -0.4 FTE, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We need to protest more to get this doctor released from his Israeli Hell hole.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 09/07/2026
Oh my goodness looooooook they printed your messages and hung them in Spark Space for the kids to see 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Over 70 folks have sent a hopeful note to students taking exams in Gaza. Submit yours: tiny.cc/sparkstudents
Blurry phone photo showing three large posters hanging on a wall, with the words “spark work messages of hope” visible and little sticky notes graphics. In front of the wall is a metal chair and a staircase
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 08/07/2026
We're just an employee-owned audiobook company, standing in front of readers, asking them to make the switch so they can support their indie bookstore with every audiobook purchase 💓 (We're also a Certified B Corp, offer DRM-free audiobooks, & have 600,000+ to choose from.)
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die.” That’s a direct quote from an Israeli soldier to a Palestinian parent, referenced in a new UN report. The report states clearly: Israel’s military is deliberately killing Palestinian children.
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Drones and decomposing babies: What's in UN report on Israel's genocide of Palestinian children
Israel has killed over 20,000 Palestinian children since 7 October 2023. The UN has detailed instances of torture, rape and murder in a landmark report
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Do read Mohammad Mhawish’s unforgettable account of life under surveillance during the genocide in @nymag.com. As one of his interviewees says: “It is not death that we fear. It is the terror that comes before it.” nymag.com/intelligence...
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Do read Mohammad Mhawish’s unforgettable account of life under surveillance during the genocide in @nymag.com. As one of his interviewees says: “It is not death that we fear. It is the terror that comes before it.” nymag.com/intelligence...
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Good news! Sang Hea Kil, one of the first professors to be fired from a public university in connection with the protests against the Gaza genocide has won back her job www.kqed.org/news/1208842...
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San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests To Win Back Job | KQED
Sang Hea Kil is one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in connection with the protests.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Good news! Sang Hea Kil, one of the first professors to be fired from a public university in connection with the protests against the Gaza genocide has won back her job www.kqed.org/news/1208842...
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San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests To Win Back Job | KQED
Sang Hea Kil is one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in connection with the protests.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
According to Stop Murdering -journalists site, Israel had killed 324 journalists and other media personnel in Palestine, 322 of them in Gaza, since October 7th 2023. Now the number is 325. stopmurderingjournalists.com?location=gaz...
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Stop Murdering Journalists - Databases for Palestine
Israel is on a journalist mass-murdering spree.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Geoffrey Robertson: “ The Elbit 4 case is larger than they are. The British state has redefined civil disobedience as terrorism – lengthening sentences, stripping prison privileges, and marking dissenters for life – as a result of a finding made in secret” www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...
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Punishing Protest as Terrorism
The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Geoffrey Robertson: “ The Elbit 4 case is larger than they are. The British state has redefined civil disobedience as terrorism – lengthening sentences, stripping prison privileges, and marking dissenters for life – as a result of a finding made in secret” www.thekeymagazine.com/p/palestine-...
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Punishing Protest as Terrorism
The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Here are some thoughts on the new Court of Appeal Palestine Action ruling, written with @alangreene.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social for @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...
Quote from the blog: 'The Court creates an impression of judicial scrutiny, but one so lacking in substance as to embolden even far more reaching uses of executive powers in the future'
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
On Monday, the UK Court of Appeal upheld the state’s ban on Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The opinion that matters most is that of those it acted for. A friend in Gaza called its members “our heroes who have restored our faith in humanity.” rgould.substack.com/p/palestine-...
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Palestine Action: Would the UK have proscribed the suffragettes as terrorists?
By current standards, the suffragettes were terrorists
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
On Monday, the UK Court of Appeal upheld the state’s ban on Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The opinion that matters most is that of those it acted for. A friend in Gaza called its members “our heroes who have restored our faith in humanity.” rgould.substack.com/p/palestine-...
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Palestine Action: Would the UK have proscribed the suffragettes as terrorists?
By current standards, the suffragettes were terrorists
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thrilled to share the first look at Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries! 🎉 What animates Islamic politics? Coming soon from @uclpress.bsky.social 🔗 uclpress.co.uk/book/poetics-and-politics-of-islamic-imaginaries/ @takhayyul.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @uclpress.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries
Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries shows how narratives of culture, masculinist restoration and revolutionary spirit drive, connect and reinvent different forms of politics in Muslim majority...
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“Blurring the line between principled direct action and terrorism is characteristic of authoritarian regimes.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/ju…
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Sentencing Palestine Action protesters as terrorists would be ‘constitutional threat’, says lawyer
Judge will decide whether four’s acts had link to terrorism, despite jury not convicting them of terrorism offence
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“Blurring the line between principled direct action and terrorism is characteristic of authoritarian regimes.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/ju…
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Sentencing Palestine Action protesters as terrorists would be ‘constitutional threat’, says lawyer
Judge will decide whether four’s acts had link to terrorism, despite jury not convicting them of terrorism offence
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I recently received British citizenship after 10 years of living in the UK. “Where Palestine is Free” reflects on becoming British in a city of Palestine solidarity, through encounters with two security guards who noticed my Free Palestine badge. rgould.substack.com/p/where-pale...
image for an essay titled ‘Where Palestine is Free,’ showing a close up of a white Free Palestine badge with a small Palestinian flag, pinned to burgundy clothing beside a black and white keffiyeh
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Over 3,000 families in Gaza’s Abu Asi Orphan Camp have been affected by a new evacuation warning My friends in Gaza have housed 61 women & 219 children, but this is a fraction of those needing shelter substack.com/@rgould/note/c-2735390…
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The world should know that the evacuation orders that made headlines in 2023 continue under the cover of media blackout and lapsed attention spans. This image from Juthoor News shows displaced people...
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I recently received British citizenship after 10 years of living in the UK. “Where Palestine is Free” reflects on becoming British in a city of Palestine solidarity, through encounters with two security guards who noticed my Free Palestine badge. rgould.substack.com/p/where-pale...
image for an essay titled ‘Where Palestine is Free,’ showing a close up of a white Free Palestine badge with a small Palestinian flag, pinned to burgundy clothing beside a black and white keffiyeh
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Pleased to see new displays of tatreez and thobes in Bristol’s Palestine museum. It’s the only such museum in England. Must visit if you haven’t already!
Palestinian traditional dresses (thobes)display of tatreez from Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Eyal Weizman’s Ungrounding is a harrowing and unforgettable account of the Gaza genocide. Among the best I have read. He writes: “Ungrounding is not a by-product of military confrontation but rather its aim. The monochrome desert of upturned soil is the material signature of Israel’s genocide.”
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm excited to contribute to "A Grand Tour: Travels in the South Caucasus," a class convened by the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures & the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus A great line up of sessions & teachers! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-grand-to...
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A Grand Tour: Travels in the South Caucasus (Joint ISAC–ARISC class)
Learn about travel and culture in the South Caucasus!
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Mustafa Barghouti explains that Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire 3,000 times, has killed 930 Palestinians, is still restricting the entry of aid, & is occupying 60% of Gaza (soon to be 70%) when the ceasefire agreement says they should be withdrawing.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm excited to contribute to "A Grand Tour: Travels in the South Caucasus," a class convened by the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures & the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus A great line up of sessions & teachers! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-grand-to...
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A Grand Tour: Travels in the South Caucasus (Joint ISAC–ARISC class)
Learn about travel and culture in the South Caucasus!
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Global Souths Hub @globalsouthshub.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Academic freedom is often treated as a settled democratic value. Rebecca Ruth Gould argues the opposite: that it is fragile, selective, and deeply shaped by power. 🔗
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The Line is Thinner Than we Think: Rebecca Ruth Gould on Academic Freedom - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB The Line is Thinner Than we Think: Rebecca Ruth Gould on Free Speech and the Fragility of Democracy
In this Q&A, Bethlehem Attfield talks to Rebecca Ruth Gould, who is a School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS) Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, about academic freedom, the importance of understanding culture and languages to gain authentic perspectives. She also talks about the courage to speak out on your convictions, In this Q&A, Bethlehem Attfield talks to Rebecca Ruth Gould, who is a School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS) Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, about free speech, the importance of understanding culture and languages to gain a full perspective of minority communities. She also talks about the courage to speak out on your convictions, and the small subtle shifts that could lead liberal democracies down a road towards fascism.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is disgusting treatment of the Flotilla activists, the woman being abused at the start of the video is Irish woman Catriona Graham. Our government cannot continue to stand by as apartheid Israel kidnaps, assaults and incarcerates its citizens, it must impose sanctions now.
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