Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social has recently contributed to an important report from the Independent Commission on Counter Terrorism. It found that Britain’s counter terrorism strategy is no longer keeping the country safe. Read about the report and Amal's input here ⤵️

The Department of Politics at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social 💼📚🎓invites applications to the Politics Pathway of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP): The deadline for the NWSSDTP funding application is 2nd February 2026 for the October 2026 programme start.

Trying to do some good by challenging the racialisation in counterterrorism policy & law - it took 3 years but my research is out in the ‘Report of the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism Law, Policy and Practice’. Many thanks to Tufyal Choudhury and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.

Will be heading to London tomorrow to be present for the Launch of the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice Report. My submission for this focused on understanding how race and processes of racialisation shape and inform counter-terrorism law, policy,and practice.

I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.

This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome). 📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!) Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...

Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025

Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.

I am excited to share that I’ll be speaking as part of the Birmingham Literature Festival on the topic of ‘Malcolm X: A Deeper Purpose ‘this Saturday: www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/mal...

Im in an IR textbook as a reference in world politics! Check out : ‘Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations’ from Oxford University Press 📚 Thank you to the amazing editors for highlighting my work! @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came to our @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book launch , Narratives of Hope, and Storytelling against the colonial panels and round tables ☺️it’s been an honour to share my thoughts and research with the @europeanisa.bsky.social research community ! #eisapec2025

Really enjoyed the panel on ‘ Memory, Justice, and the Politics of knowing : Decolonial Perspectives on Transitional Contexts’ ! Got to see some great presentations from Noga Glucksam and Sung-Jin Park! @uni-jena.de @richmondunildn.bsky.social‬ #eisapec2025

Excited to listen to the role of Critical/Orthodox Terrorism Studies in the permissibility of violence this morning with @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social @nicolapratt.bsky.social Madeline-sophie abbas and @amnakaleem.bsky.social #eisapec2025

Congratulations to @malikalnasir.bsky.social on his book launch for ‘Searching for My Slave Roots:From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge’ yesterday at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social It’s been an honour to witness Malik win and share his story with the world: harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...

Stay safe Liverpool. It’s shame that in 2025 we still have to tell the police that the safety of racialised people matters more than ensuring white supremacists are happy,content, and ‘free’

“People are overwhelmed – emotionally, mentally, physically, financially; they cannot endure any more suffering.” aje.io/ymvlk3

Looking for more reading? I edited - and contributed to - this special edition on James Baldwin for Writers Mosaic. writersmosaic.org.uk/content/goin...

I am excited to share that I'll be presenting three times next week as part of the @europeanisa.bsky.social Pan European Conference. Please reach out if you're an IR or Security Studies scholar with an interest in race and IR or anticolonial theory. It'll be my first time there #EISAPEC2025

Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

In 4 months it will have been a year since some amazing colleagues and I co-wrote 'An appeal to Anti-colonial education at the University of Liverpool' www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu... . It is hoped that this is a helpful resource for educators elsewhere. ‪@liverpooluni.bsky.social‬

The Windrush generations were proudly British. Yet immigrants are still fighting to be seen that way | Diane Abbott

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

As of 30 minutes ago BBC reports that Donald Trump is looking for "'better' than a ceasefire"... and then he says "the gloves are off 'beautifully'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBjr...

Deeply concerned that we are going to watch a nuclear war be initiated and learn about it via X www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eetf...

For anyone interested in hearing my thoughts on Islamophobia, you can listen to my brief interview with @voiceofislamuk.bsky.social Radio this morning on their Breakfast Show: on.soundcloud.com/Nn1nqwBjcpEp.... I come on at 1:30:44 ☺️

From God we are to god we shall return. Rest in power Alia Hogben. A beautiful kind and radical soul. My condolences to all those grieving Alia today ❤️

Saw the @mosalahbr.bsky.social parade today #liverpoolFC!! ❤️⚽️🚩🚩

As a long time Eurovision fan, it is difficult to deny the truth about the event when it comes to its politics. This is a brilliant piece by my friend @somdeepsen.bsky.social writing for @aljazeera.com : www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Me and Lily taking a water break at the park while being indirectly serenaded. The artists name is Ike Thomas : ikethomas.os.fan

Some thoughts on Starmer's speech and Labour's normalisation of far-right politics in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/keir-starmer...

This time last year, when asked at the @gvagrad.bsky.social to comment on the EU’s rise of the far right, I said I was more worried about what the election of #KeirStarmer would mean for the normalization of the far Right and that I couldn’t overlook the politics of my backyard. I stand by that.

Excited to share the cover for my debut non-fiction book WE WERE THERE, which is out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head + is a cultural history of Black Britain in the Thatcher era. Please pre-order it via the link if you feel inclined! www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...

Had the pleasure of attending Lanre Bakare’s @lanre-bakare.bsky.social book launch of ‘We were there’ yesterday at Tate Liverpool. I’ve only just started reading but it’s an incredible reckoning of the presence Black power in the North so far ! Highly recommend!: www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...

💯 "The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?" - Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

My favourite movie from here on out. All the happy tears and vulnerability. All the beauty www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dX...

Really enjoying a workshop on the affective economy of memes organised by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social of @york.ac.uk. Learning about the origins and affects of Pepe, the feels guy, the Godchancellor and the role of memes in the global communication of political sentiments and discourse

‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’ This week’s column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Forgive me mom, I only wanted to help people. I just wanted to save lives”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Jr...

With my MA class titled ‘Anticolonial legacies in international politics’,students organise a 20min seminar conversation focused on discussing how colonial legacies connect with epistemic violence, the narration of time and space, worlding and more.Incredibly proud to watch them lead their learning!

‘#Black migration and the legacies of #colonialism' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Jamella Gow identitiesjournal.co...#Black#colonialism'#IdentitiesBlog,#Blackness #race #racialization @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Meet this month's researcher in focus, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social, and learn about her work on how race pervades international and transnational politics and security spaces. 🎧Listen and 📖read here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #AcademicSky @livunipol.bsky.social

Thank you so much to Dr Ajay Parasram of @dalhousieu.bsky.social for speaking with our @livunipol.bsky.social POLI265 students today on the topic of Global Racial Fragility and White Supremacy

Eid Mubarak to you and yours ☪️🎉

I had a great field trip with my @livunipol.bsky.social students to the Benin and Liverpool exhibit at the World Museum. Thank you to @mobbackhouse.bsky.social for taking the time to walk us through the design and decolonising politics of museum curation and for a detailed Q&A