The language of “victory” becomes so hollow that it blurs the line between life and death, equating genocide with triumph.

‘I am resolutely in the camp of the losers. The losers who are deprived of the right to leave any trace of their defeat and deprived of the right of proclaiming it. I am inclined to speak of this defeat, but there is no question of surrender’. (Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor)

Really touched by all the messages and comments from colleagues and friends who have read (or attended) our BERA plenary, also by the academics and academic associations choosing to share the text. 🙏🏾 #KeepTellingOfGaza #AntiPalestinianRacism @khawlabadwan.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

@khawlabadwan.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

Heading to ‪#BERA2025‬ (solidarity to GMT strikers in London) with @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and @hyabyohannes.bsky.social ‬ to deliver plenary together. Out of Ashlaa’ أشلاء: Refugee Language Education in Times of Heartbreak and Failure Determined to hold it together but have tissues in case.

To deny refugees the right to family life is to strip them of the last fiber of their humanity. It is a disgrace. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s arrived. The best theoretical text I’ve ever read on the figure and experience of the refugee. Congratulations @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social Order here for your library www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

9. Or buy / order for your library and READ (several times) what is quite simple the mostly theoretically and empirically brilliant book on refugee experiences I have encountered by @hyabyohannes.bsky.social www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Six copies of my book arrived today. The book insists that writing and reading, in a world where the possibility of a livable life is vanishing for many, are the last remaining acts of solidarity. We must imagine a new world when the current one becomes unlivable.

Unending carnage. Mortal silence. Active complicity in the unfolding genocide.

My book, The Refugee Abyss, is out today! Each page holds lives interrupted & stories that haunt our conscience. I invite you, dear reader, to engage with the displaced voices with utmost care & curiosity. @uofgeducation.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

My book, The Refugee Abyss, is out today! Each page holds lives interrupted & stories that haunt our conscience. I invite you, dear reader, to engage with the displaced voices with utmost care & curiosity. @uofgeducation.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

It includes a foreword from @sabirzazai.bsky.social (@scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social) and contributions from @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @teresap.bsky.social @pinaraksu.bsky.social @scothunter.bsky.social & others not on BlueSky including:

If the crushed flesh and bones of emaciated children and the wailing of mothers unable to feed their babies fail to evoke a visceral response and concerted action, then how can the international community hope to stop an unfolding genocide?

“Think of Others” by Mahmoud Darwish

What can a society that is held hostage by its own elected officials, by laws that have grown inhumane, and by calcified racism do to rebuild a world that has been amputated from its foundations? What lies at the crossroads between brutality and powerlessness?

A new open-access publication that I co-authored with @alison_phipps👇🏾 Cc: @uofgunescorila.bsky.social “Restorative Integration as a Decolonial Praxis: On Love and Rage” Link: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.29...

“‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive”👇🏾 Sudan is an overlooked and forgotten catastrophe. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

After all, will this brutal world ultimately confess its madness? Will its confession be genocide? Perhaps it will once again declare ‘never again’, insisting on moving forward without accountability. This is the essence of coloniality, which renders some lives violable, expendable, and disposable.

With the genocide now in its latest stage, the political class that actively supported & defended it is now hoisting themselves to a moral high ground from which to declare ‘never again’ once an entire population has been starved to death or crushed in concentration camps.

How can one sleep after reading these words from colleagues? ‘Our homes have been destroyed, and our tents have been blown away. We now sleep on blood-stained ground. We can’t walk anymore…. We are starving, and children are dying’.

The abyss is unending: unrestrained violence, starvation, destruction, & systematic eradication of life. Emaciated children tremble beneath constant fire, brutally murdered in their thousands, with families swept away. The West’s complicity & betrayal of the world are astounding.

Brilliant to see this important piece of journalism by Hamish Morrison of ⁦National‬⁩ winning News Category at Scottish Refugee Media Awards 2025 www.thenational.scot/news/2450711... @scotnational.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social

That hand is raised once more! The world is held hostage by a veto power.

Really looking forward to this Eritrean Coffee Extravaganza ….. time to wash the Zuria and find the camel hair! Also @hyabyohannes.bsky.social I need a bigger Gebena!

A defiant decolonial voice has departed, becoming an ancestor. Ngũgĩ stood firm like a giant baobab tree, whose words disrupted the very grammar of coloniality from deep within its roots. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

For genocide to truly bear the weight of its name, how many times must it unfold year after year with relentless magnitude and without consequence? What is genocide if it is met with utter impunity and active complicity?

Children bombed as they slept, their flesh and bones charred, shattered into pieces. And the complicit world watches in silence as genocide consumes everything like a wildfire.

The barbarity and brutality of genocide cannot be more grotesque, yet it worsens with each passing day.

This is a faceless world whose visage has crumbled to rubble.

‘Starved to death’ not from a lack of food, but because of the bordering and weaponisation of food. The indifference is endless. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Grateful to @sidhepress.bsky.social for this profoundly moving book that beautifully documents the poetics of love and loss.

Families wiped out, children vanish in smoke and dread by the thousands. Mortal silence and active complicity are normalised. This is a nameless, faceless world, its essence erased in the face of genocide.

My poem Heart Wood and my poem Tartreez are both in this tender yet uplifting anthology. A Labour of love from @sidhepress.bsky.social our brave publishers of the hard words - also with poems by @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and words from @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

Reminder: Our next event is a lecture on The Refugee Abyss by @hyabyohannes.bsky.social, taking place on 28 April from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM at @uofgarc.bsky.social, Room 137C. To register, please follow the link below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-refuge...

Book talk at Gavin’s Mill in Milngavie, Scotland @alisonphipps.bsky.social and @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, the authors of ‘Keep Telling of Gaza’ will read from their book, as well as talk of their experience working with colleagues in Gaza. Register at: www.gavinsmill.org/events-gavin...

Holding them in faith, in pain, in courage and in pursuit of truth-telling. May these words never be forgotten. May they continue to offer a way to the maddening truth that is Gaza. #KeepTellingofGaza sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-t...

In a world that has gone mad, the demand for peace has become hollow. Justice has lost its meaning and substance, while humanity grapples with the loss of its character and essence. The abyss yawns before us.

Carnage upon carnage, despairing and raw. The indifference is laid bare, stripped to the bone. The world watches, yet does not care. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Why is life, reduced to rubble and ruin, breathing beneath its own flesh and bone, met with such brutality?

“Humankind today is disappearing, like a face in the sand erased on the shore. But that which is taking its place no longer has a world; it is only a bare life, mute and without history, at the mercy of calculations of power and science” (Agamben, 2021)

Unfortunately, the world has become so brutal that it cannot denounce genocide. In fact, it pronounces it with brute force, then calls it self-defence.

Gaza is deliberately plunged into darkness amidst the rubble and ruins. In fact, the part of the world that gazes at this darkness with indifference is the darkest of all worlds.

The peace tree is growing, surrounded by daffodils.

Thank you, Iona Community for this emotionally generous, enriching talk with poet & ally, @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow Video: youtu.be/npBGwUSQOjU #Palestine #poetry #booksky #Scotland #faith #love #Gaza

The cruelty of the Home Office has no limits, no end👇 “Any person applying for citizenship from 10 February 2025, who previously entered the UK illegally will normally be refused, regardless of the time that has passed since the illegal entry took place...” freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

Keep Telling of Gaza with Professor @alisonphipps.bsky.social on 17th February. If you do not want to miss this conversation, here’s the Eventbrite link for registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keep-telli...

Our weekly team meeting just took a creative turn! Poetic vibes, artistic sparks, and crafty magic all around. @alisonphipps.bsky.social @uofgeducation.bsky.social

Kufra is a graveyard for many refugees from Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia, and beyond. It is essential to preserve their remains and trace their families. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

Is👇🏾 not the reason why Western governments have banned Chinese tech firms? ‘The UK government has demanded to be able to access encrypted data stored by Apple users worldwide in its cloud service’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...