NEW from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Noor: “This felt like a kidnapping because it was: Officers in plainclothes — who refused to show us a warrant, speak with our attorney, or even tell us their names — forced my husband into an unmarked car and took him” Says they didn’t know where he was for 38 hours

Islamophobia charity Tell Mama facing closure after funding pulled by government - The Guardian

This is long-awaited news. Hoping it actually leads to an official definition, and some recognition of the daily incidents of hate and microaggression that Muslims face. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Please do support the BDS movement... it DOES have an impact. People power goes far!

Article published in REtoday magazine talking about citizenship and RE in primary schools from our 'Becoming Citizens of 'Post-Secular Britain: Religion in Primary School Life' project @annastrhan.bsky.social @drpeterjhemming.bsky.social and Sarah Neal. reteachingresources.co.uk/product/reto...

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

Carl Sagan published this 30 years ago, 1995. Bullseye.

The end of life debate has brought one important issue into the spotlight- the care and valuing of the elderly while alive. theconversation.com/i-couldnt-ca...

The debate would do well to learn from age-affirming cultures and faiths. Great article, but no mention of what we can learn from non-Western that surround their older folk with compassion and love, and give them life-affirming reasons to live. theconversation.com/i-couldnt-ca...

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes

GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, analysis shows

Literally...

The debate would do well to learn from age-affirming cultures and faiths. Great article, but no mention of what we can learn from non-Western that surround their older folk with compassion and love, and give them life-affirming reasons to live. theconversation.com/i-couldnt-ca...

The end of life debate has brought one important issue into the spotlight- the care and valuing of the elderly while alive. theconversation.com/i-couldnt-ca...

I'm reading that Mark Zuckerberg is genuinely spooked by the rapid growth of Bluesky. Sounds pretty good.

As part of #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth, we're sharing the #IdentitiesBlog by @alikassem.bsky.social: 'Where can Others turn? On (de)coloniality, messy refusals and alternatives to Eurocentric modernity' www.identitiesjourna...#IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth,#IdentitiesBlog@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

For those familiar with the murders, executions, and enforced disappearances and torture in post-9/11 Pakistan - such videos of the military are not surprising at all based on testimony we gathered over the last 23 years. It’s just that it’s now being caught on video.

Tell your friends (etc.):

“One incident can sometimes make you lose hope in life... A clothesline, a letter, a smashed finger — fragments through which a whole life takes shape in a reality where the norm has been suspended,” Reem Sleem, displaced from Gaza to Egypt, writes. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

New issue of Journal of Palestine Studies is out, with a set of articles on "mediating palestine: representation, mobilization, and experimentation" Thankful to editor in chief @srseikaly.bsky.social and the rest of the team for their tireless efforts www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpal20/5...

You’re not violating a reading rule if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore. You needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

Are there any sociologists or psychologists on here who study relationships? Especially platonic relationships and how they interact with beliefs, interest, values, etc. Also interested in people who study how online relationships work. I’m doing some research right now. Let me know if you can help

So true! I feel a sense of relief every time I see a much loved library still standing!

Photos are circulating on social media, alongside reports that the Israeli army is rounding up and blindfolding Palestinian doctors, nurses, and patients outside a hospital in northern Gaza. Some of those detained are seen with catheter bags, nasogastric tubes, IV drips, and crutches.

Here’s an excellent article from @digibritislam.bsky.social‘s @drkelshayyal.bsky.social and Dr Sadek Hamid on British Muslim podcasters. There’s lots to consider in relation to the impacts of podcast content, and - especially - the personalities behind the pods. themaydan.com/2024/11/brit...

We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Graduate students & ECRs writing on (anti)colonialism, race, indingenaiety, racial capitalism: do consider submitting your work for the CPD (colonial-postcolonial-decolonial) paper prize 👇

Middle East crisis live: Israel strikes Beirut after evacuation call

Surprise, surprise

Along with Lubaaba Al-Azami, I co-convene NeSA, a network of Muslim women in academia. We have a starter pack here of Muslim women scholars which we will continue to add to: go.bsky.app/MHfnaeh

Great work Khadija!

Media blackout as the UN Special Committee calls Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. Meanwhile, Israel plans to annex the West Bank by 2025, bans UNRWA, and the U.S. ramps up efforts to crush the Palestinian movement. This is a full-scale assault on the very existence of Palestinians.

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

It’s here, a *start* of an Islamic Studies Starter Pack. Please spread the word. This is a work in progress… Scholars of Islam in all regions and periods, let me know, and I’ll happily add you. go.bsky.app/EYU1bFe

November is Islamophobia Awareness Month. Here is an animation that explains what Islamophobia is and how it operates: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pFJ...

Welcome to Blue Sky.

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

We have a conference in Coventry on 5/6 February showcasing current scholarship around the theme of digital Islam. See here for provisional programme and (free) registration details: digitalbritishislam.com/conference-p...