Othello (meets The Wire) 2011. The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Featuring Dominic West (Jimmy McNulty) and Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon). #throwbacktheatre #theatre

Check out this #ERSNew #OpenAccess paper below: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

🐣🔓 #Museums have a representation problem. Colonial narratives & institutional whiteness exclude young people from racialised backgrounds. Sadia Habib @manchester.ac.uk asks: can #poetry be a tool for anti-racist change? Yes. It’s about reclaiming space, rewriting narratives, and sharing power.

Our new issue is out! 🎉 The latest issue is now out, focusing on "Anti-racist pedagogy in early years and childhood settings." 22 articles by 54 researchers from 9 countries. Fully Open Access and Free. 👉 Read and share: doi.org/10.37291/271... #EarlyChildhood #AntiRacistPedagogy #OpenAccess

Super proud to have co-edited this new collection on anti-racist education in early years and childhood. A joy working with my fantastic colleague-friends Ümit and Mehmet, and all authors and reviewers. Join us for our online launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/umit-yildiz/...

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship: 'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Cat That Slept for a Thousand Years at Manchester Museum. Touched by all the messages I received in the last few weeks of good folk spotting my two purr-fect beauties on gallery wall! 😻😻 If you're feline in the mood, catch the cats before they fall back into a catnap for another millenium! 🐈🐈‍⬛

The liberation of #Palestine & the sovereignty of #Iran are connected struggles❗ Print off our poster. Colour and black & white versions available (copy & paste link): tinyurl.com/4fmjyeka Stop Israel-US Imperialism❗ End Genocide in GAZA ❗ Stop War in IRAN ❗

Reminder for our seminar on Mon 19 May: @drsuriyah.bsky.social on Muslim masculinities and her book 'Bartered Bridegrooms' (join in person/online) - see below @uomsoss.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

This whole piece by @benehrenreich.bsky.social is so excellent that it is difficult to find a single excerpt to share that would do it justice in its entirety. And a relevant extension— www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Not having to wear masks is the essence of American freedom. Here’s why my agents cover their faces while kidnapping students on college campuses. by Donald Trump

Rumeysa Ozturk was kidnapped in plain sight & sent to Louisiana to be locked in the same detention center Mahmoud Khalil was sent to. She's a peaceful protestor, grad student, & my constituent who has a right to free speech & due process. Now she's a political prisoner. Free her now.

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

Speak up for Momodou Taal. Your silence will not protect you. Academics outside the US esp have a moral duty to publicly come out in support and organise. ICE will disappear Momodou Taal. Your trips to the US can wait, seriously! theintercept.com/2025/03/21/t...

I am pleased to share my new article on young people, cultural inequalities, representation, and activism. #museums #education #culture bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @uomseed.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @educationuom.bsky.social

Beautiful Iftar at the Manchester Museum. Alhamdulillah for blessings like these 🤲🏽❤️

🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn 📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾 events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

Speaking exclusively to Declassified, half a dozen current and former staff at the BBC, Sky, ITN, the Guardian and the Times have disclosed the extent of anti-Palestinian prejudice in their newsrooms. Watch 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxtg...

*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.* Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.

Absolute privilege to hear about the work done by @darrenchetty.bsky.social to promote anti-racist education in the area of Philosophy for Children. We loved hosting Darren at @official-uom.bsky.social and were pleased that as usual our seminar was attended by students, staff & activists!

My Museum colleagues boldly & beautifully curated an event honouring Palestinian stories & voices pointing to our responsibility as cultural workers, educators, human beings, custodians of artefacts & stories. Our values - care, imagination and inclusion mean we must keep talking of #Palestine 🇵🇸 💚

On Wed 29 Jan 2025, the Univ of Manchester’s UCU branch passed a BDS motion, calling on the institution to support BDS & academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. To read the motion in full, follow link or scan QR-code in visual. #Palestine 🇵🇸

The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by Israeli security forces. Mahmoud and Ahmad Mina have been taken to custody. Anyone who’s visited Palestine knows how serious this is for freedom of speech and cultural organising in Palestine and Israel.

I'm pleased to announce that Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970, edited by Karène Sanchez-Summerer, @rachelmairs.bsky.social, Lucia Admiraal and me, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, is now available open access from www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This, you guys, is 💫💥

Looking forward to this new series @ profstevenjones.bsky.social and @sadiahabib.bsky.social

YES - we need to Reimagine University & TRANSFORM IT! This new book series looks very promising: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive... UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED is edited by @profstevenjones.bsky.social and @sadiahabib.bsky.social by @manchesterup.bsky.social & @lauramswift.bsky.social.

Kicking off @official-uom.bsky.social Manchester Institute of Education Anti Racist Educ Network seminar series 2025, Gary Younge talks about Dispatches from the Diaspora 👊🏽👊🏽💚 Keep 👀 out for more seminars! Funded thru' @uomseed.bsky.social EDI. Collab with @ethnicityuk.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social

Introducing: University Reimagined A new #HigherEducation book series offering a home for fresh ideas about higher ed, & innovative solutions to the challenges it faces. Proposals now OPEN! Find out more about the series, upcoming projects, & how to submit 👇 tinyurl.com/University-R...

Yaaas, congratulations on your fantastic achievement dear Dr Choen Yin Chan! 👩🏽‍🎓 🥰 We knew you would smash it today! So pleased to have shared your special day with you! More celebrating to come... 🍝🍜

A big thank you to Dr Parise Carmichael-Murphy for an incredible and important presentation at our final Manchester Institute of Education Anti Racist Education Network seminar of 2024! Well attended by staff and students keen to learn about inclusive curriculum/histories projects and resources 👏🏽👊🏽

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

After some MIT students publish an opinion piece in the campus paper criticizing a professor's work with the Israeli military, the paper stops publishing op-eds entirely. A perfect example of how campus speech works in 2024. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...

Meta - "One person, who spoke anonymously, shared leaked internal documents about a change made to Instagram's algorithm, which toughened the moderation of Palestinians commenting on Instagram posts."- BBC News - How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories www.bbc.com/news/article...

We started our podcast at the beginning of 2019... glad to hear we still have an audience 🥳🎊 🎙🎧📢 New season of @riztest.bsky.social podcast coming soon... open.spotify.com/show/456Onfs... Let myself & @shaftag.bsky.social know if there's anyone cool we should invite! 👊🏽👊🏽🙌🏼

"Western universities are increasingly prioritizing ideas of neutrality over a principled commitment to free speech and the pursuit of truth". theconversation.com/universities... #Palestine #EndGenocide

University Week of Action for #Palestine. United against #scholasticide. See below for some of what's happening in Manchester 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾Including open meeting, discussion, creative spaces, teach-ins, film screening. (Look out for what's happening in other cities and campuses via @ucu.org.uk)

We had the absolute pleasure of hosting Prof Vini Lander at the University of Manchester. Vini's presentation focused on why we need the Anti-Racism Framework for Initial Teacher Education & Training. More here: www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carneg... #edchat #antiracism #education #teaching

In our Members' Meeting next week, we look forward to hearing from our guest speaker Professor Steve Jones. We will be discussing governance and university democracy. Check your emails for the Zoom link! #HigherEd #universities

Big thanks to Remy Mohamed and the Greater London Authority (GLA) Muslim Staff Network for inviting me to present to over 100 of their colleagues today. I spoke about why we set up The Riz Test to tackle negative representation in film and on TV. #TheRizTest #IAM2024 #islamophobiaawarenessmonth

Last night, thx to Healing Justice London. We shared experiences of disciplining and surveillance of Muslims, impact of #Islamophobia on communities. We talked about hope, faith and resistance. Ofc with #Palestine on our minds, in our 💚. Thank you to all who supported. #RehearsingFreedoms