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Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · Aug 28

The first paper of the Takhayyul Working Paper Series is out!! We're honoured to present Dr Nazan Üstündağ's "Imagining Freedom in the Kurdish Women Freedom’s Movement" 📑

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jul 11

I just wrote this 'spur of the moment.'
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The Hidden Trauma: Bureaucratic Battles’ Impact on the “Academic Outsiders”

In UK academia’s current crisis of mass redundancies and institutional upheaval, academics from disadvantaged backgrounds experience…

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jul 11

Cok tesekkur ederim (tebrigin hayrani oldugum roman yazarindan gelmesi <3)

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Baris Balcioglu @baris72.bsky.social · Jul 9

Güzel olmuş. Elinize sağlık!

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jul 9

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER!!!

Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jul 9

and to everyone who supports them on their journey. And, I don’t care if it’s not academic. I try to follow my heart when developing my academic projects anyway.
Here's the full book
www.academia.edu/130425349/Fa...
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Fahri the Magic Boy

"Fahri the Magic Boy" presents a narrative exploration of dyspraxia through the lived experience of its protagonist, offering an alternative discourse to traditional deficit-focused represen...

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jul 9

I am incredibly proud to share this deeply personal project with you — a story that has been growing in my heart for quite some time. “Fahri the Magic Boy” is my love letter to every child who experiences the world a little differently, +1/2

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jul 4

My reflections continue: "The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target"
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The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target

It was several years ago. I was working at a coffee shop in Norwich during the pandemic, and a group of co-workers sat just behind me. One…

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 25

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London art auction raises over £250,000 for Gaza medical aid

A charity art auction in London has raised over £250,000 for emergency medical aid in Gaza.

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 24

I found myself listening to my interview with Faezeh Hashemi (former president of the Islamic Federation for Women's Sport) during the 2012 London Olympics.

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Hashemi on Women in Sports

YouTube video by Sertaç Sehlikoglu

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Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · Jun 23

A really exciting opportunity to sit down with renowned #author and #psychologist #GunduzVassaf for our latest podcast episode. Take a listen! tinyurl.com/Spotify-Imag...

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thank you! Lucky to have Emily Edwards on the team too!

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · Jun 13

Congratulations!!

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 13

Dear Everyone,

I am excited to announce my appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life!

I am looking forward to working with incredible scholars globally!

Here's my editorial note:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 12

++ — the resilience you would see on the face of any autistic individual persevering through a world that often demands they suppress their authentic way of being whilst fighting for what they know to be right."

Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 12

"I respect her every time I see her face because I can read the tensions written there. The tension on her face, to me, simultaneously shows her resilience++

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 12

"We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice"

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We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice

In a world increasingly paralysed by performative activism and social conformity, we need what I call “an autistic nudge” — the kind of…

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 11

This will be part of the book project
"Is Critique Islamic?"
So any suggestions are more than welcome!

Takhayyul Project @takhayyul.bsky.social · Jun 11

A revised version of
"Genealogy, critique, and decolonisation: Ibn Khaldun and moving beyond filling the gaps"

by @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social is now OUT!

open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-14

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thank you!! Little excitements

Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · Jun 9

@takhayyul.bsky.social is directing the discussions.

The first four MOST-READ articles in History and Anthropology are from our special issue "Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique"

HUGE CONGRATS!!!

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UCL Discovery @ucldiscovery.bsky.social · Apr 11

Open Access UCL Research: Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul - UCL Discovery

UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · May 27

+++"There are other ways of making a speech unfree, including by making it insignificant [and then marking it as uncivil or too loud when forced to repeat]."

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · May 27

++" Paradoxically, she cannot prove that she is unheard, as her options are either being further denied or treated as ‘too loud’ (high-pitched). In this state of void, free speech does not really have any particular relevance." +++

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · May 27

I found myself thinking about this:

"Being unheard is a state. It is a cosmos that creates its own reality. A void filled with denial." ++

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A Brown Woman is Never a Senior

or On Sara Ahmed’s Strangeness

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Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · May 26

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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