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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 7d

Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization by @esmat.bsky.social

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row the boat @rchops7.bsky.social · 7d

received @esmat.bsky.social’s book in the mail on its launch day, and could not be more excited. there has been no other book i have been suggested over and over again to sharpen and aid my own thinking (also got my uni to buy an e-copy!) 🍉

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 8d

out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 16d

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

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The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 14d

Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.

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SOAS History and the SOAS History Blog @soashistory.bsky.social · 15d

The Histories of Capitalism and Race series
@soasuni.bsky.social is back with a stellar line-up! Join us for exciting book discussions with @esmat.bsky.social, Catherine Hall, @omarcheta.bsky.social, Nicky Falkof, Tithi Bhattacharya, Françoise Verges, and Hafsa Kanjwal.

SOAS Walter Rodney Collective: Seminar Series, Fall 2025
Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic
5-7pm, SOAS (unless otherwise specified_
Convenors: Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, Lisa Tilley, and Samia Khatun
Thursday 9 October
Esmat Elhalaby, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (2025)
Thursday 16 October
Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024)
Tuesday 28 October
Omar Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2025)
Thursday 30 October (12:30pm)
Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa
Thursday 13 November
Tithi Bhattacharya, Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (2024)
Thursday 20 November
Françoise Verges, Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism (2024)
Thursday 4 December
Hafsa Kanjwak, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023)
Department of Politics and International Studies, Department of Development Studies, and School of History, Religions and Philosophies

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 13d

bahut shukriya ustaz

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · Sep 8

It is the *greatest* (perhaps only) affirmation when a student publishes their book but holding @esmat.bsky.social brilliant *Parting Gifts of Empire* is a special privilege all its own. Until liberation.

PARTING GIFTS OF EMPIRE
PALESTINE AND INDIA
AT THE DAWN OF DECOLONIZATION by ESMAT ELHALABY

Acknowledgments
More than 410 days into a genocide in Gaza, I must acknowledge-at the outset-that this work is not particularly urgent. This book is about ideas and writing, and the social conditions, or social history, of intellectuals in the colonized world. Those conditions today are being transformed. For hundreds of intellectuals in Gaza, their condition now is simply a shallow grave or rotting beneath the rubble of their own homes. It is impossible to account for the family, friends, and colleagues killed by Israel. There is not, probably, enough paper in the world. But I cannot begin to thank all the people who made this book possible without first acknowledging at least those in my immediate family who were recently murdered by the Israeli state in Gaza: Sahar Abushaban, Mohammad Abushaban, Rana Abushaban, Nabila Elhalaby, Hani Ageela, Ashraf Abushaban, Essam Abushaban, Adly Elhalaby, and Basheer Alashi. Until liberation.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Read the introduction to Anjali Nath's "A Thousand Paper Cuts," which offers a pre-history of the redacted visions of the Homeland Security age. buff.ly/liHKmoZ

Cover of A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War by Anjali Nath. Features a textured background in shades of pink, orange, and green with faint abstract floral and geometric patterns. The title is prominently displayed in bold black letters on a lighter background. Below it, the subtitle is similarly presented with black bars suggesting redaction. The author's name appears at the bottom in black letters on a lighter background.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · Aug 30

so looking forward thinking with the extraordinary @esmat.bsky.social at the launch of his new book, Parting Gifts of Empire, from @ucpress.bsky.social @makdisi.bsky.social at the University of Toronto November 6, 2025

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · Aug 15

proofs 😭

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · Aug 14

Gearing up to teach in Fall and excited about my lineup for International & Global History seminar with amazing scholars (not pictured is Durba Mitra's forthcoming masterpiece)

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French.
The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South by Elizabeth N. Ellis
Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India by Subah Dayal
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith
Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism by Catherine Hall
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China by Shellen Xiao Wu
Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962 by Kalyani Ramnath
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization by Esmat Elhalaby

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · Mar 20

A Partial Bibliography from the Battle Over Middle East Studies That Might Be Useful pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-pa...

A Partial Bibliography from the Battle Over Middle East Studies That Might Be Useful

Reports yesterday revealed that a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Unde...

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · Mar 11

Two events coming up at UofT

March 28: "Decolonizing the Study of Palestine, after Eliza Zureik" with Ahmad Sa'di, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Mary Zureik, & Hadeel Assali

April 1: "Landing in Palestine: Skateboarding and the Anti-Colonial Image" with Maen Hammad, Stephen Sheehi, & Tamara Abdul Hadi

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · Feb 19

Nakba Denial: On the politics of history and genocide www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/nak...

Nakba Denial — Parapraxis

On the politics of history and genocide Esmat Elhalaby

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Feb 11

📣Join us on Feb. 14 at 11am ET w/ @srseikaly.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social, @meznaqato.bsky.social & @jehadabusalim.bsky.social to discuss the suppression of pro-Palestine voices in academic spaces (@history4palestine.bsky.social)
🔗 WEBINAR REGISTRATION: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Jan 4

Prof. Elhalaby speaks of the personal archives of Mu’in Bseiso, preserved in large part thru the efforts of Sahbaa al-Barbari, his wife, author, communist. Her account published by U Alberta press, Light the Road of Freedom.

Esmat Elhalaby speaking to a room full of people for workshops for Gaza in person workshop at Recirculation, a space run by Word Up collective

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · Jan 4

Wonderfully informative and radical panel on Third World+Palestine with @esmat.bsky.social+ #AHA25

Global Currents of Colonial Violence and Third World Intellectual Exchange: Looking South toward Palestine
Empire Ballroom West (Sheraton New York, Second Floor)
The objective of this panel is to encourage comparative and transnational approaches to the study of Third World liberation that deprioritize the metropole and to enrich historical conversations about Palestine as a state that has been at the center of rich global intellectual and political currents.
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Chair: Stacy D. Fahrenthold, University of California, Davis Alexander Aviña, Arizona State University Kevan Aguilar, University of California, Irvine Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto Ahmad Shokr, Swarthmore College

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · Dec 11

Palestinian Liberation and Zionist Ideology at the Western University, an essay I wrote with Maya Wind read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... part of dossier on "The Student Intifada" with essays by students involved in the encampments earlier this year. Please read and share.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Dec 10

Join us for our SECOND in-person workshopat Recirculation in NYC! @esmat.bsky.social will be discussing Muin Bseiso's GAZA DIARIES (1971) with us. All proceeds to the Sameer Project, which is distributing tents, cash aid and medical supplies. Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/mui...

Brown, red and blue background. White text: In-person. NYC. Muin Bseiso and the History of Anticolonialism in Gaza. Esmat Elhalaby. Jan 4, 2025 6-7:30pm EST. Recirculation, a Word Up Project. 876 Riverside Dr. & 160th St. NY.

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · Dec 4

Tomorrow

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · Nov 20

Recordings of the "The Anti-Zioinst Idea: History, Theory, & Politics" are now available www.theantizionistidea.com/recordings

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · Nov 18

Dispatch from Palestine (Studies) pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2024/11/disp...

Dispatch from Palestine (Studies)

The 1938 Eastern Women’s Congress (for the Defense of Palestine), Cairo. Last week I participated in a moving and historic meeting of Palest...

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