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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 4d

💯 with young Moroccan brothers and sisters who are protesting for their rights and dignity!

The GenZ 212!! 🇲🇦💪💕

The youth refuses to leave Morocco for abroad and wants to improve their living conditions from within: education, healthcare, employment, fight against corruption!

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 8d

The Muslim Staff Network is officially launched today at the University of Liverpool! 🥳

Feel free to join us if you wish to develop Muslim-friendly events, improve Muslim amenities on Campus and protect each other against any forms of Islamophobia!

www.liverpool.ac.uk/intranet/hr/...

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 15d

Macron recognizes the State of 🇵🇸

This is a good thing, but not without sanctioning Israel.

This is Western whitewashing!

We said we’ll NEVER forget, forgive, and give up!

Thus, genocidal supporters will be prosecuted, even if it takes times! Justice for our shahids 🇵🇸🕊️💕🤲

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 16d

❗️French President Emmanuel Macron announces France’s formal recognition of the State of Palestine

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 15d

Yallah, Bismillah, I’m ready 💪🤲🤲🤲

As promised, I am ready to expose these white racist feminists who tried to exploit my work!

Msekin, they had no idea who they were dealing with 🫨😂

Justice for these young people, Justice for these women!

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 22d

Everywhere Islamophobia👇👇👇

The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 22d

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Everywhere Islamophobia' by @kawtarnajib.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Kawtar Najib (2025) entitled: 'Everywhere Islamophobia' with a blue banner at the top.

The multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia highlights how it spares no spatial scale (from the globe to the body). However, Islamophobia is also a multi-dimensional nature that affects all places and sectors of our societies (whether political, institutional, educational, etc.). This article aims to reinforce this dual nature by using the notion of ‘Everywhere Islamophobia’, in light of theories showing that racism is everywhere. The everywhereness of Islamophobia even within the discipline of geography has been recognised late, compared to its everydayness, and this contribution shows precisely that Islamophobia is everywhere but manifests itself differently in each locality.

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 23d

My paper in the PIR website (both in English and French) 👇

Parti des Indigènes de la République @partiindigenes.bsky.social · 23d

L’identité palestinienne s’est «musulmanisée» et les marqueurs de la Musulmanité se sont «palestinisés». C'est ce que Salman Sayyid appelle la «palestinisation de la Musulmanité»

➡️ indigenes-republique.fr/lutter-contr...

Lutter contre l’islamophobie pour la #Palestine, @kawtarnajib.bsky.social

Lutter contre l’islamophobie pour la Palestine | Indigènes de la République

English version below Intervention de Kawtar Najib, géographe à l’Université de Liverpool (en Angleterre), spécialiste de l’islamophobie et de la justice sociale et spatiale, lors du meeting unitaire ...

indigenes-republique.fr

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 24d

Academic freedom is under threat!! 🚨

Bravo to the editors who support and protect the academic freedom of their authors to publish views which some might not agree with without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions!!

We continue 💪 Stay tuned!!

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 25d

I wasn't sure I'd make it to Paris that evening... but I'm so glad I did!

It was an absolute pleasure!

Internationalizing our resistance!

💪🌍🇵🇸

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · 27d

My paper published yesterday in the Islamophobia Studies Journal on ‘Studying Islamophobia in France and England: My Journey between Despair and Success’👇

And no, I am not romanticising the situation in UK academia, I KNOW very well… and I am working on it!

scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Studying Islamophobia in France and England: My Journey between Despair and Success

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d17694129e98">This article attempts to discuss the circulations, confrontations, and differentiated re...

scienceopen.com

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hey join us if you’re around!!

Looking forward to it 🤲🇵🇸

Parti des Indigènes de la République @partiindigenes.bsky.social · Sep 7

🇵🇸 🌍 ⛓️‍💥"Résistances internationales: contre l'impérialisme et le colonialisme sioniste"

Rdv ce jeudi 11 septembre au Baranoux à partir de 19h pour un nouveau meeting unitaire de l'espace Malcolm X avec Kawtar Najib, Chris Smalls, Bobby Vylan et Abdellatif Zeroual !

#Palestine #Gaza

Un évènement exceptionnel organisé par l'Espace Malcolm X, avec la participation de :
Chris Smalls : En finir avec la complicité syndicale dans le génocide à Gaza
Kawtar Najib : Luer contre l’islamophobie pour la Palestine
Bobby Vylan : Les artistes et leur rôle dans la mobilisation globale contre le génocide palestinien
Abdellatif Zeroual : Résistances populaires contre la "normalisation" : état des lieux et perspectives de lutte
(ENTRÉE LIBRE 🇵🇸✊🏾MAYIBUYE PALESTINE✊🏾🇵🇸
Venez nombreuses et nombreux !
L'espace Malcolm X est un espace politique anticolonial autonome et souverain qui comprend le Parti des Indigènes de la République, Urgence Palestine, LP-Umoja, Perspectives musulmanes, Dynamique Unitaire Panafricaine, CAGE International

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Sep 2

Follow this thread 👇

The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jul 24

#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al.

This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Paul Griffin, John Clayton & Edith Adamson (2025) entitled 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' with a blue banner at the top.

This short intervention offers a historical geography-informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify continuities across 100 years of racialised violence in Britain whilst also noting important differences. We revisit riotous events from 1919, 1981 and 2001 to illustrate the persistence of exclusionary racism within Britain, whilst also pointing towards the endurance of anti-racist resistance and alternative world views. Our argument points towards the immediacy of violence, in both mundane and spectacular forms, as well as the longer lasting realm of the everyday where racialised violence is (re)produced.

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hey this event looks really nice… unfortunately I won’t be able to make it as I’ll be in France!

But wait… where is Gaza? Maybe my very recent paper is relevant here: ‘The UK’s first anti-Muslim pogroms in a context of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza’

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 26

Oh nooo how awful, tomorrow I’m gonna watch the 30-minute interview with this war criminal to analyze how the French media dehumanize French Muslims… I’m gonna be sick 🤮🤕

Thank God I’m gonna listen to Maged Bamya’ interview (Permanent Observer of 🇵🇸 to the UN) right after 😮‍💨

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 23

Huge demo in Casablanca in Hay Mohammedi that I know well 😉

Very proud of Moroccans who are standing up for 🇵🇸… with a special poster honoring our Jewish-Moroccan friend, Sion Assidon (whom I met this summer), who is currently in a coma! May God help him come back to us 🤲💪💕

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 23

Bravo 👏💕

Proud of Liverpool for standing up against racists/Islamophobes! What?… They wanted to do like last year!

Nope!! Anti-racist activists (very good friends) managed to stop the racists and their march (putting our Caribbean Center and our Al-Rahma Mosque at risk)! 💪

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 20

The book ‘Theology After Gaza: A Global Anthology’ by Mitri Raheb and Graham McGeoch was published a few days ago

And my chapter ‘Gaza: An Islamic Return to Justice’ is fully accessible online👇

I’ll continue to work on Liberation Theology with Gaza❤️‍🩹🤲

books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZEF...

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 20

Hey the paper is already published👇

Cool… here is the DOI to access it: doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 15

Soon to be published!

My paper on the UK’s first anti-Muslim pogroms, in the midst of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza...

I just need to be a little more patient, as it will be published in a special issue...

We continue 💪

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 14

Allahi rahmo 🤲

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 14

Al Jazeera journalist Anas Jamal Al Sharif was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza a few days ago…

I just read his will and it's heartbreaking!

Yes, Palestine is the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world…

… and we will do EVERYTHING we can to show it, voice it, study it… 💪🤲🇵🇸💕

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 7

Very good introduction by Bouna!

'We, the people from colonization... I insist... the others can stay, but I embrace my ‘communitarianism’... We are the heirs of a long history of RESISTANCE because what’s happening in 🇵🇸 is our direct fate!

So… watch out for white thieves 🤣

Parti des Indigènes de la République @partiindigenes.bsky.social · Jul 26

Les enseignements de #FrantzFanon pour nos luttes anticoloniales www.youtube.com/watch?si=H8A...

Les enseignements de Frantz Fanon pour nos luttes anticoloniales

Introduction au meeting unitaire de l’Espace Malcolm X « Palestine, Panafricanisme : convergences anticoloniales » par Bouna Chemseddine de la Brigade Panafricaine pour la Palestine le dimanche 20 juillet 2025 à Paris. L’espace Malcolm X est un espace politique anticolonial autonome et souverain qui comprend le Parti des Indigènes de la République, Urgence Palestine, Perspectives musulmanes, LP-Umoja, la Brigade Panafricaine pour la Palestine- BPPA, et CAGE International.

www.youtube.com

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 6

UoL press release regarding our presentation of the European Islamophobia Report at the UK Parliament last June!

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/05/r...

Researcher presents Islamophobia in France report to Parliament - University of Liverpool News

Researcher presents Islamophobia in France report to Parliament

news.liverpool.ac.uk

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 4

Back in LVP, and back to work 💪

Happy to have now a Chefchaouen carpet and Fez hat in my office… that go so well with the 🇵🇸 items already there 🤩… while listening to ‘Famous’ by French Montana.

youtu.be/LNHkxOU7zz8?si…

Trying to create a mini-safe place in an unsafe space!

Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 4

Merci. Bientôt sur le site du PIR normalement!

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Kawtar Najib @kawtarnajib.bsky.social · Aug 3

‘Are Islamists still Islamists?’

I had the chance to attend a seminar given by Sümeyye Sakarya, and I think we need to read this book👇

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