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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · 26d

‘I am resolutely in the camp of the losers. The losers who are deprived of the right to leave any trace of their defeat and deprived of the right of proclaiming it.

I am inclined to speak of this defeat, but there is no question of surrender’.

(Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor)

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 26d

Really touched by all the messages and comments from colleagues and friends who have read (or attended) our BERA plenary, also by the academics and academic associations choosing to share the text. 🙏🏾

#KeepTellingOfGaza
#AntiPalestinianRacism
@khawlabadwan.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

Out of Ashlaa’ أشلاء: Refugee Language Education in Times of Heartbreak and Failure

Keynote presented at the BERA Conference, 10 September 2025, University of Sussex, by Alison Phipps, Khawla Badwan and Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes.

www.gla.ac.uk

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 28d

@khawlabadwan.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Sep 8

Heading to ‪#BERA2025‬ (solidarity to GMT strikers in London) with @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and @hyabyohannes.bsky.social ‬ to deliver plenary together.

Out of Ashlaa’ أشلاء: Refugee Language Education in Times of Heartbreak and Failure

Determined to hold it together but have tissues in case.

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Sep 1

To deny refugees the right to family life is to strip them of the last fiber of their humanity. It is a disgrace.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK suspends refugee family reunion applications

Yvette Cooper outlines her plans as MPs return to Parliament after a summer of protests at asylum hotels.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s arrived. The best theoretical text I’ve ever read on the figure and experience of the refugee.

Congratulations @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

Order here for your library www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Aug 29

9. Or buy / order for your library and READ (several times) what is quite simple the mostly theoretically and empirically brilliant book on refugee experiences I have encountered by @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

The Refugee Abyss | Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes | Taylor & Francis eBo

In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 27

Six copies of my book arrived today.
The book insists that writing and reading, in a world where the possibility of a livable life is vanishing for many, are the last remaining acts of solidarity. We must imagine a new world when the current one becomes unlivable.

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Unending carnage. Mortal silence. Active complicity in the unfolding genocide.

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 21

My book, The Refugee Abyss, is out today! Each page holds lives interrupted & stories that haunt our conscience. I invite you, dear reader, to engage with the displaced voices with utmost care & curiosity.
@uofgeducation.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

The Refugee Abyss | Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes | Taylor & Francis eBo

In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 21

My book, The Refugee Abyss, is out today! Each page holds lives interrupted & stories that haunt our conscience. I invite you, dear reader, to engage with the displaced voices with utmost care & curiosity.
@uofgeducation.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

The Refugee Abyss | Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes | Taylor & Francis eBo

In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Aug 13

It includes a foreword from @sabirzazai.bsky.social (@scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social) and contributions from @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @teresap.bsky.social @pinaraksu.bsky.social @scothunter.bsky.social & others not on BlueSky including:

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 12

If the crushed flesh and bones of emaciated children and the wailing of mothers unable to feed their babies fail to evoke a visceral response and concerted action, then how can the international community hope to stop an unfolding genocide?

Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 8

“Think of Others” by Mahmoud Darwish

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 5

What can a society that is held hostage by its own elected officials, by laws that have grown inhumane, and by calcified racism do to rebuild a world that has been amputated from its foundations? What lies at the crossroads between brutality and powerlessness?

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 5

A new open-access publication that I co-authored with @alison_phipps👇🏾

Cc: @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

“Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage”

Link: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.29...

1.1 Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage On Love and Rage from A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland on JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

www.jstor.org

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 4

“‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive”👇🏾

Sudan is an overlooked and forgotten catastrophe.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive

A deadly cholera outbreak adds to the misery in a region that has witnessed fighting between the army and the rebels.

www.aljazeera.com

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Aug 2

After all, will this brutal world ultimately confess its madness? Will its confession be genocide? Perhaps it will once again declare ‘never again’, insisting on moving forward without accountability. This is the essence of coloniality, which renders some lives violable, expendable, and disposable.

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Jul 24

With the genocide now in its latest stage, the political class that actively supported & defended it is now hoisting themselves to a moral high ground from which to declare ‘never again’ once an entire population has been starved to death or crushed in concentration camps.

Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Jul 24

How can one sleep after reading these words from colleagues?

‘Our homes have been destroyed, and our tents have been blown away. We now sleep on blood-stained ground. We can’t walk anymore…. We are starving, and children are dying’.

Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Jul 23

The abyss is unending: unrestrained violence, starvation, destruction, & systematic eradication of life. Emaciated children tremble beneath constant fire, brutally murdered in their thousands, with families swept away. The West’s complicity & betrayal of the world are astounding.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jun 11

Brilliant to see this important piece of journalism by Hamish Morrison of ⁦National‬⁩ winning News Category at Scottish Refugee Media Awards
2025
www.thenational.scot/news/2450711...
@scotnational.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social

Refugee who fled organ-harvesting gangs says riots gave him 'flashbacks'

A REFUGEE who fled Egypt against the threat of organ-harvesting kidnappers has said riots across England gave him “flashbacks” to the horrors he…

www.thenational.scot

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · Jun 4

That hand is raised once more! The world is held hostage by a veto power.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · May 30

Really looking forward to this Eritrean Coffee Extravaganza ….. time to wash the Zuria and find the camel hair! Also @hyabyohannes.bsky.social I need a bigger Gebena!

UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 @uofgunescorila.bsky.social · May 30

So looking forward to having a cup of Eritrean coffee on 13 June!

Mark your diaries and join us in the Byres Community Hub in the Clarice Pearce Building for a afternoon of coffee, stories and excellent company.

All welcome, drop-in, no need to register and entirely FREE!

See you there!

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · May 29

A defiant decolonial voice has departed, becoming an ancestor. Ngũgĩ stood firm like a giant baobab tree, whose words disrupted the very grammar of coloniality from deep within its roots.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

Acclaimed Kenyan writer and dissident, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, dies at 87

Ngugi’s work critiqued both British colonialism in Kenya and postcolonial Kenyan society.

www.aljazeera.com

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