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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Thank you to the brilliant folks at the Avery Review for hosting this piece of writing, and in such incredible company, for this issue. #averyreview

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.

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.

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…

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?

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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

Deserts

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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recurse 4 a late planet [lush] by Nolan Oswald Dennis. / Working diagram (2025-ongoing).

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"In South Africa today the rehabilitation of Apartheid is being pursued under the guise of white indigeneity."

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“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.”

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@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.”

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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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:

Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart.

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

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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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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...

"...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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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.