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There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.

You are being lied to

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What building an Afro-Asian Solidarity reading list looks like (work in progress)

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Bottling the World Economy | Adam Hanieh Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which

“Because Gulf-produced chemicals now sustain everything from factories in China to farms in South America,” writes Adam Hanieh, “disruption in the region ripples outward through industries and food systems across continents.”

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Very dystopian timing. I’ve been working on this since November.

Thanks @thedialmag.bsky.social

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I wrote something on Husayn Muruwwa & the 1962 Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Cairo:

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شكرا حبيبي

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Locating Lebanese Communism in Afro-Asian Solidarity Husayn Muruwwa's Report from the 2nd Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Cairo (1962)

open.substack.com/pub/lauan24/...

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I wrote something on Husayn Muruwwa & the 1962 Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in Cairo:

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Who Owns the Energy Transition? Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers with Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami | King's College London Join Adam Hanieh, Thea Riofrancos, and Ilias Alami for a discussion on how to think of climate politics in the context of changing energy networks, imperialism, and the remaking of the world order.

I'll be speaking at King's with @triofrancos.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh in a couple of weeks
23 March 2026 17:30 to 19:30
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/who-o...

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Helfen und Bangen in Beirut Das dichtbesiedelte Gebiet im Süden der libanesischen Hauptstadt wird in etwa von einer Million Menschen bewohnt. Viele von ihnen sammeln sich auf den Straßen Beiruts, während die Angst vor dem, was n...

Zwischen großflächigen Evakuierungsanordnungen und Solidarität, während die Angst vor dem, was noch kommt, alle im Land umtreibt.

Für das zenith Magazin habe ich Eindrücke aus #Beirut, #Libanon zusammengefasst. Zum Nachlesen: magazin.zenith.me/de/gesellsch...

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the fact that most who have died in the gulf so far are either stateless or migrant tells you everything

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Walid Khalidi, an exceptional Palestinian scholar and one of the most important memory-holders of Palestine has passed away.

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What people in Tehran woke up to. They are breathing this now.

This war has to end before it’s too late for all of us.

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This is the first strike during this war that they hit the inner circle of Beirut. Until now, this area has been considered a safe neighborhood and district. Many of the displaced built up their shelters nearby at the Corniche. Horrific. #Lebanon #Beirut

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Presence Africaine

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Please support this campaign, organised by my good friend Rani in Beirut:

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Revolution without illusion The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule.

The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule. africasacountry.com/2026/02/revo...

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Back to teaching my class on Nation, Class, and Religion in the Middle East. This week's reading is on striking working women in Lebanon's tobacco industry in the 1940s. The author links anti-colonialism, class, nation, and gender in an interesting & productive way

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Missed the announcement of the release of our new special issue on #Fanon at 100?

Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation

Find the journal alert and all the contents, free to access & download anywhere in the world, here:

mailchi.mp/09af158365d9...

#Fanon100

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Congrats on the publication Onni ✊🏼

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This special issue includes an article of mine on the politics of time in Fanon's thinking, as well as truly excellent contributions by some of the leading Fanon scholars of our time. Be sure to check it out!

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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥

👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN

💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.

#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

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Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation - ROAPE Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary…

1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥

Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation

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Wurden die Beiträge eventuell aufgezeichnet?

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Sundays are for reading

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I'm in this one folks! Check it out.

It's open-access, link at the top of the thread

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Falls es jemanden interessiert, von welcher Organisation der @taz.de Autor N. Potter hier für seine Arbeit gewürdigt wird. @abgeordnetenwatch.de hatte gerade erst die Recherche "Wie Elnet Politik und Unternehmen zusammenbringt" publiziert. Hat die taz ihrem Autor auch schon gratuliert?

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The ‘ceasefire’

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Sign up today for this Workshop4Sudan coming up on December 3rd to support @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social

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