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Sara Salem

@sarasalem.bsky.social
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assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her

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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Mai Taha and I wrote this article on sonic cartographies of internationalism, now up on @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It traces how radio broadcasting was central to liberation struggles around the world, asking how sound draws out different maps of solidarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now! archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...
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Archiving the Tricontinental — archive stories
︎︎︎ All     ︎︎︎ Launching Archive Stories     ︎︎︎ Archiving Palestine     ︎︎︎ Archiving the...
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This Wednesday - join us if you can! @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at @lsehumanrights.bsky.social Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Just listened to a ⚽️ podcast where they used Gramsci to analyse the rise of set pieces in the premier league this season. His influence is truly unparalleled 🥲
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
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rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight. We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"...a past that can never quite be forgotten." Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
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Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
In this new Intervention, "Cairo Road", @sarasalem.bsky.social reflects on Lusaka's map as a "living archive" of solidarity, a cartography of anticolonial struggle antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A picture of two zines - ‘a year in the allotment’ and ‘a radical garden’
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Here, @sarasalem.bsky.social‬ answers as part of our latest blog series.
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The point is to change it
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Relevant yet again
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Basil Farraj on abolition, carcerality and subversion - join us this Thursday! Register here - buff.ly/18iNH0m
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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
London 🇬🇧!! So delighted to be in conversation on my new book with the esteemed Doctor @sarasalem.bsky.social March 4. Free and open to public. London School of Economics. My book #DarkLaboratory is an anticapitalist love letter to islands & how to solve the climate crisis #EuropeanTour
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Spent the weekend with Mariana Enriquez’s latest 💚
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For Palestinians, sport is a place of wonder & play, a brief taste of freedom, & so of course it cannot be allowed to live. Probably you’ve already decided what you think about this. But even one mind is worth changing, just as surely as one life is worth saving. www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
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Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew
As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Second time seeing this incredible film ❤️‍🔥
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So excited to start this book about the opening of whole collections of classified documents from the Soviet era, and what they tell us about Soviet history and archives more broadly.
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Any postcolonial studies or Marxism starter packs? 😊
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Some texts I’ve been teaching this term 💫
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Calling for a ceasefire is now a radical and controversial demand. It is astounding what the political terrain looks like today. There is not even the pretence of humanitarianism, just endless support for mass killing.
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Why must Palestinians audition for your empathy? Hala Alyan www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/o...
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Opinion | The Palestine Double Standard
The task of the Palestinian is to audition for empathy and compassion. To prove that we deserve it.
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Struck by how so many refer to Gaza as opposed to Palestine. Another layer of erasure…
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
The Palestinian keffiyeh and its symbolism: The firshnet represents its Mediterranean life. The bold multi-laned borders represent the trade routes passing through Palestine. The leaf pattern in between the two border lines represent olive leaves. The hills, the sea, and the routes of travel.
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
So much is being revealed (again) about how little most academics care about the world they write, teach and speak about.
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
500 people. In a hospital. I am speechless. www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10...
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Israel-Hamas War: Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza Hospital, Killing 500, Palestinian Health Ministry Say...
The ministry said the number of casualties at the Gaza City hospital, where many civilians had sought shelter, is expected to rise. Israel said it is investigating. President Biden is expected in Isra...
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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Palestinian writer Adania Shibli has been informed that she will no longer receive the 2023 LiBeraturpreis award at Frankfurt Book Fair. Following this, Fitzcarraldo Editions have made her novel Minor Detail free to download for the entirety of Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
‘We’d not been given perfection, not godliness, not symmetry, not a bad hand, nor a curse; our lives, not easy or free from pain; we’d been given only a real life, dreadfully normal and sublime, and I would no longer betray its beauty by wishing it otherwise.’
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Can anyone recommend readings/resources on questions of race/empire/nationalism/resistance in East Asia? Hoping to add more of these to a course I teach, and would really appreciate it! 💙
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
At the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter we are starting a virtual seminar series, inaugurated by Mohammed Al Sudairi (24 October, 17:00 London time). You can sign up here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Incredible!!!
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Watching Arsenal was the most stressful part of my weekend 😭
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
My first post here is to share one of my favourite fiction finds this year - Claire Keegan’s novels! 😍
Three novels by novelist Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These; Antarctica; and Foster
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