Until you taste olive oil made fresh by family from their land you haven’t lived. This olive oil is from my mums aunty’s olives & za’ata is homemade too 🇱🇧
It also makes the ongoing ecocide in Palestine 🇵🇸 & Lebanon more painful. May our lives & our trees’ lives be saved from ongoing genocide.

Successfully defended my thesis this morning & I’m now officially Dr Sophia Hayat Taha

Thank you for the wonderful support from my co-supervisors Dr Moran Mandelbaum & Dr Jane Krishnadas

I’m grateful to my examiners Prof Dallal Stevens and Dr Forough Ramezankhah & my chair Dr Mario Prost

Here is Mango she has been a co-author in all my academic work

Just submitted my thesis: Progressing a transformative critique; from necropolitics to abolition: Migrant Women, and Third-Sector Resistance to No Recourse to Public Funds
85,382 words
396 pages
My 3 pages of acknowledgements start with Lebanon and Palestine
Thank you everyone

When it’s Halloween 🎃 but also #FreePalestine 🍉

(For nerds www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/... )

Well this is exciting!
From 2nd November our chapter will be available open access online & then of course you can order the physical copy for your library or personal copy. #RISbook

Such a joy to research & write with Aneta Hayes & @selomer42.bsky.social

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Decolonisation is not a metaphor

Seems a good day to share my cross-stitch Fanon quote

Took a walk because I have writer’s block and found the warmth of autumn sun and lovely red ivy (and a sandwich) and it just reminded me that I am very lucky to get to be a nerd as my full time job