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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Aug 28

This was so much fun! Making was a creative act of selfcare today and here is my square/map. Thank you Laura and co.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Aug 5

You could set up a 24/7 hourly shuttle service and the overall number of people wanting to seek asylum in the UK would hardly change, I know you know this. Those making out that absolutely everyone wants to come to the UK are deluded.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Aug 3

Desperate, desperate stuff once again.
✅ legitimises far-right obsession with small boats
✅ bound to disappoint target audience as goes nowhere near the “solutions” they’d be impressed by
✅ drives them to Reform, or worse
✅ unlikely to have any effect on anyone’s behaviour
✅ alienates everyone else

Crackdown on Channel crossing social media adverts

The offence of promoting illegal crossings online would carry a sentence of up to five years in prison.

www.bbc.co.uk

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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · Aug 1

A new paper 'Ruptured Atlas' documents the complex spatial and lived experiences of the #Yazidis in the aftermath of the 2014 genocide.

📝 by @sanamurrani.bsky.social, Kimbal Bumstead, Zoé Paris, Ghazi Ismael, Jameela Rasho & Omeed Joqey.

eprints.lse.ac.uk/128743/

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Jul 26

It looks like Starmer will do anything apart from serious condemnation, disarming and sanctioning. Mind blowing levels of complicity www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Starmer says plan to airdrop Gaza aid and evacuate ill children will go ahead

Leaders of UK, France and Germany call for lifting of aid restrictions and immediate ceasefire after holding talks

www.theguardian.com

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jul 24

ICYMI: The Sociological Review magazine’s new issue includes:

‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs & building solidarity
Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps & refuge
Interview with lecturer turned TV writer Jayshree Patel
...and much more

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collectifgood @sgritti.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Drawing on a two-decades-long study of refuge place-making in Iraq, she talks to curator and fellow architect George Kalivis about the rupturing of geographies during and after war, highlights parallels with the Palestinian genocide, and discusses the making of deep maps as a research method."

Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you to the Image-Maker in Residence team at @thesociologicalreview.org for my interview: Towards an Alternative Spatial Practice: Deep mapping off the map. It is about my book, Rupturing Architecture, and my mapping practice.
thesociologicalreview.org/image-maker-...

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jul 11

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s latest issue. Featuring:

Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge and rupture
‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses and building solidarity
Illustration by Tim Marrs
...and much more.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ah here comes @cnn.com with the bullshit straight out of 2003

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Jun 18

Absolutely this! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones

Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Jun 17

How on earth is this slaughter still allowed to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks

At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social · Jun 17

Let’s not forget this. Still killing people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks

At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry

www.theguardian.com

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jun 15

If the UK government wants to defend Israel militarily, put it to a vote in Parliament.

Let the country see which MPs support a genocidal state.

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Jun 14

F**k right off! Both the unnecessary war and the genocide have to end! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza

Critics of war will be more reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv

www.theguardian.com

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · Jun 14

Words have lost their meaning. We live in an Orwellian world in which war is peace and love is hate.

Keir Starmer, once again, beating the imperial bullsh*t drum like few others.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jun 13

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s June issue. Featuring:

Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge + rupture
‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower
Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses + building solidarity
Illustration by Tim Marrs
...and much more.

buff.ly/y8o76RY

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jun 10

“Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” — Elton John (1976)

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you to the Image-Maker in Residence team at @thesociologicalreview.org for my interview: Towards an Alternative Spatial Practice: Deep mapping off the map. It is about my book, Rupturing Architecture, and my mapping practice.
thesociologicalreview.org/image-maker-...

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Jun 9

To watch the entire West back Israel's non-existent 'right' to board a vessel in international waters and abduct its crew and passengers on the might-is-right principle is to witness the Death of International Law - again! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israeli forces take control of Gaza aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg

British-flagged yacht operated by pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition was making symbolic attempt to deliver aid

www.theguardian.com

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · Jun 3

They called it a “Humanitarian” agency, they changed the core meaning of what it is to be humanitarian… shame on all governments around the world for allowing war crimes to unfold every day.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 3

Palestinians killed after Israeli military opens fire at aid distribution point, Gaza’s civil defence agency says – Israel-Gaza war live

IDF says it fired at ‘individual suspects who advanced towards troops’ during incident at aid point in southern Gaza Strip * Palestinians killed by Israeli fire at aid point, Gaza officials say Israel’s military has announced overnight that three soldiers have been killed in combat in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Times of Israel reports that according to an initial IDF probe, the five troops were in a vehicle in Jabaliya when it was struck by an explosive device. Two other troops were wounded in the incident. 423 Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat inside Gaza since Israel began its ground operation there following the surprise 7 October Hamas attack inside southern Israel. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · May 22

An amazing review of my Rupturing Architecture has just dropped. Thanks to Frazer Macdonald Hay for taking the time and for his exceptionally beautiful words! 🙏

www.uniformnovember.com/single-post/...

Review: Rupturing Architecture by Sana Murrani

Review Frazer Macdonald Hay : Rupturing Architecture by Sana Murrani .....A Call to Reimagine Refuge(Arabic)I devoured this book. Sana Murrani’s Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in ...

www.uniformnovember.com

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · May 20

14,000 Palestinian babies may die in the next 48 hours. The UN has reported that lorries carrying baby food and nutritional supplies are at the Gaza border, but Israel is not allowing them to enter. How is it possible that no one has taken effective action to stop this?

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Sana Murrani @sanamurrani.bsky.social · May 20

Omg, they just pulled their finger! About effing time of not too late.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 20

UK suspending trade talks with Israel over Gaza blockade, Lammy tells MPs – UK politics live

Foreign secretary tells parliament that civilians who are facing homelessness and trauma are now experiencing renewed bombardment

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · May 17

“UN relief chief Tom Fletcher said a joint plan by the United States and Israel to replace international aid mechanisms in Gaza was a “waste of time” as more than 160,000 pallets of aid are “ready to move” at the border, but blocked by Israel.” @tomfletcherun.bsky.social

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · May 17

The talks in the Qatari capital have begun without any conditions for Israel to allow aid into Gaza or a ceasefire.

New Gaza truce talks under way as Israel expands ground assault

The talks in the Qatari capital have begun without any conditions for Israel to allow aid into Gaza or a ceasefire.

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