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ShieraM

@shieram.bsky.social

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ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Mar 13

‘I can hear footsteps approaching my door well before the guards appear, which gives me enough time to hide my papers under the mattress. But even if they were discovered, they would just think I had gone mad.’ #ijaam #aniraqirhapsody #sinanantoon

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Mar 9

These people lived in a so-called open-air prison, under siege for seventeen years, their calorie-intake counted by the Israeli state, their living conditions already “uninhabitable.” Yet there was a future there and it has been destroyed.’

#recognizingthestranger #isabellahammad #groveatlantic

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Mar 9

‘A past has been demolished — universities, places of worship, writers, educators, journalists, little children, elderly people who remember the Nakba of 1948 — and a future has been demolished. What future? you might ask.

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Jan 14

#shuggiebain #douglasstuart #glasgow

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Dec 29

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite

In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual

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ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 29

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 24

De-linking is…the only realistic response to the liberal utopia.

#re-readingthepostwarperiod #samiramin #criticaldevelopmentstudies #development

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 23

‘This book focuses on figures for whom the intellectual domain itself had to be undone in order to know something about the world around us.’

#ofblackstudy @plutopress #webdubois #sylviawynter #jacobcarruthers #cedricrobinson #tonicadebambara #joshuamyers

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 20

‘We rise, and I began to feel a strange elation, one of thousands, moving at the same time, bowing at the same time, rising at the same time. It did not matter who or what I was. I was present.’

#enterghost #isabellahammad #hamlet #palestine

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 20

‘[It] is…a distortion…from which…dominant social theories and ideologies suffer.’

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 20

‘[It] is…not a banal ethnocentrism testifying…to the limited horizons beyond which no people on this planet has yet…been able to go. [It] is a…modern phenomenon, the roots of which go back only to the Renaissance [and] the 19th century.’

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 20

‘[Eurocentrism] constitutes one dimension of the culture and ideology of the modern capitalist world.’ #eurocentrism #samiramin #otherarchives #otherarchivesexist

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 20

‘What is the purpose of the mind in heaven?’

#scatteredsouls #shahnazbashir @shahnazbashir.official #kashmir #shortstories

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 10

‘A poem is not just words placed on a line. It’s a cloth.’

‘[Poems are] works that document the lives of those authors and the places they lived.’

‘They are inviting me to live their experience.’

#thingsyoumayfindhiddeninmyear #mosababutoha #gaza #palestine

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Dec 2

‘If you pointed out something uncomfortable or too “real,” they asked you for proof. But no proof was ever good enough for them, especially if it was inconvenient for them to acknowledge.’

#tilt #intergenerationaltrauma #rowmanandlittlefield #meghanavnayak

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Nov 28

‘Do you think I have no insides?’

#theparisian #isabellahammad #exquisiteprose #palestine #palestinenovels
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Grove Atlantic (@groveatlantic.bsky.social)

Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on. 🔗 lnk.bio/3fz3

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ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Sep 7

‘Technology and media pretend to provide a world that is internetted — all they deliver is a world of shadows.’

#anamcara #abookofcelticwisdom #johnodonohue

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Aug 17

‘A terrorised society will behave like an unthinking, submissive mob for a long time. Feeding it is enough to make it obey. Provided with amusements, it’s happy. The rather small arsenal of tricks has not changed in millennia.’

#theshahofshahs #ryszardkapuściński #crevicemoments

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Aug 14

#ghassankanafani #therevolutionof19361939inPalestine

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Aug 14

‘The revolution — in its essence and its substance [and] its local leadership — was a peasant revolt.’

‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Aug 13

And I’ve been living here, quietly, beside you, for years, just waiting for…the high sign.’

#whentheemperorwasdivine #julieotsuka #japaneseinternment

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Aug 13

‘I’m the slant-eyed sniper in the trees.

I’m the saboteur in the shrubs.

I’m the stranger at the gate.

I’m the traitor in your own backyard.

I’m your houseboy.

I’m your cook.

I’m your gardener.

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Jul 20

‘Common challenges: to consistently justify its opposition to social integration and to explain, in an infinitesimally precise manner, the process of turning Judaism into a state and a nation.’

#kanafani #onzionistliterature #literarycriticism

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Jul 15

#sudan #eyesonsudan #grovepress
#riverspirit #leilaaboulela #sudan #eyesonsudan #grovepress @leilaaboulela @groveatlantic

ShieraM @shieram.bsky.social · Jul 15

‘Zamzam walked back through a town that was beginning to bloom as a new capital in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’

#riverspirit #leilaaboulela