UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. .. more
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What a complement of fasting and prayer 🙏🏾
My words are
burning my
mouth
My poetry
is starved
of the breath
with which
to form vowels
with which to
break fast
and make
fast
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economic collapse - Labour doing with little more than a Reform
-Style objection to foreign students what Thatcher and her Tories did to Steelworks and mines in 1980s - in hatred of any structures of opposition. Those communities NEVER recovered and I should know.
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But the beats have aligned. Six months of work later, this weekend I'll have an investigation go live & it addresses Israel's genocide in Gaza and the African continent.
Coming to @aljazeera.com, hope you'll tune in.
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Activist James Zogby pays tribute to his late friend, who was the first politician to welcome Arab Americans into the Democratic Party - and even met with Yasser Arafat when others wouldn't.
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I brought some receipts about the human costs of Western imperialism in my latest Guardian column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trump’s blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, I’ve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines weren’t saying.
NB: They’re still not.
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See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f
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Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
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Spot the pattern?
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My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops!
Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you!
Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...