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Leila Essa

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assistant professor of comparative literature at utrecht uni. projects on post-partition lit & authorial politics. current research and writing at https://intervention.sites.uu.nl/. she/her.

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · Jul 10

a quick research blog update with lovely book news and much gratitude for anna bernard's solidarity talk at utrecht last month and for the "for now" conference organisers in berlin last week

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For now

The book that I mentioned in my last post is taking shape: Marta Cenedese and I have just signed a contract with Bloomsbury Academic for our edited volume Activist Writing / Activist Reading. We are v...

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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 5h

Finished copies of Palestine is everywhere (publishing 16 Oct) 🖤 Edited by Skye Arundhati Thomas, this book contains dispatches from Gaza — essays, poems, images and letters from prison — reflecting on resistance, solidarity and the right to self-determination. www.silverpress.org/collections/...

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 6h

Joke’s on EU lawmakers because the single best veggie fake available in Dutch supermarkets is called ‘Little Willies’ www.reuters.com/business/eu-...

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 10h

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 2d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 2d

"Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual. Thanks so much to everyone for checking in on us ❤️ So grateful for the kindness, THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️"

Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 2d

Oh thank God, they write on Instagram: "A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack."

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Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 2d

❤️
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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 2d

Books Upstairs got me through Dublin lockdown

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 2d

so maddening

Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 2d

This is horrific - had literally just this morning been thinking about Books Upstairs as one of my favourite book stores to show my Publishing students

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 3d

Ever since spending October 2023 in Berlin I’ve stopped really liking the city

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Ideal way to get this one out into the world I think

Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 3d

(to read the book itself that is - keep in mind as an alternative to law school)

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 3d

Gute Besserung!! Also: friends and I saw Shrek at the cinema yesterday and I told them about your book proposal and everyone was gagging to read it

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5d

Today is German Unity Day, celebrating reunification of East & West. In 1992, Audre Lorde co-wrote a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, decrying how unification is used to reinforce the ideal of "Germany for Germans," producing racist violence. Apt today, with police cadets chanting "Ausländer raus!"

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 5d

Reading up on Paul Marshall today - why is (the Church of) England like this www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan · Making Media Great Again

Paul Marshall’s emergence as a media magnate has surprised many. ‘I totally get UnHerd. That’s who Paul is,’ one...

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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · 5d

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature by Refqa Abu-Remaileh
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Such an amazing project that offers analysis, maps, visualizations, interviews, and more. Incredibly useful for all who are engaged in researching, learning, or teaching Palestinian history.

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that retraces and remaps the global story of Palestinian literature in the twentieth century, starting from...

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 5d

I’m planning on putting it on my syllabus for our next teaching block, so good!

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Margarete Stokowski @margaowski.bsky.social · 5d

saunervig wie leute immer englische wörter in ihre sätze einbauen …

fontane in seinen briefen so ca 1870-1985: ich hab mein zimmer in a snug home verwandelt

…geoffnet und ausgepackt und mein Zimmer in a snug home umgewandelt.“

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 5d

it’s completely irrelevant to my current problems but sometimes it hits you that you might as well have grown up on a different planet

Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 5d

have hardly slept because of worrying about the place I live and my tired mind is slowly graduating to related curiosity questions like - how many colleagues in Dutch academia have even grown up in rented flats 🙃

Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 5d

calling home for reassurance that this flat is no more dangerous than the one I grew up in, just literally ten times the rent

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 5d

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 5d

calling home for reassurance that this flat is no more dangerous than the one I grew up in, just literally ten times the rent