Is AI Islamophobic? open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

“We're in a time of grotesque imperial wars. We have to keep complaining and protesting.” - Sara Ahmed open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

Issue 003 of The Key has landed. We’ve got so much to share with you this week: 🔑 The first look at Molly Crabapple’s epic social history of the anti-Zionist Jewish Labour Bund, eleven years in the making. 🔑 A profile of one of the most innovative Palestinian rappers working today, Haykal. 1/2

This powerful and truly lyrical novel came out one year ago. Not too late to dive into it. Essential reading about Uganda, war, gender and for African literature broadly. www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/remember-j...

"Michael Jackson, Palestine, and the Erasure of Solidarity" -- essay by Sherry Zane. How were the political positions of the most visible Black superstar on the planet strategically made invisible? www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/michael-ja...

Palestine at the Movies: A Triptych On a big year for Palestinian cinema and the importance of culture work in the war over historical narrative. By Bhakti Shringarpure www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/palestine-...

Live this Saturday -- "The Movies Were Too Political! A Pre-Oscars round up of a year in film" open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

Abdallah Alkhatib in Berlin: "And one day, we will have a great film festival in the middle of Gaza, in the middle of other Palestinian cities....We will speak about politics before cinema. We will speak about resistance before art, about freedom, before duty, and about a human being before culture”

We Are Not Okay From Gaza to ICE to Epstein, our children are not safe and the horror feels closer than before. By Bhakti Shringarpure. open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

"I have had front row seats to voter suppression,” writer, poll worker, activist and Georgia resident @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Enjeti explains in a conversation about the precarious history of voting rights in the US. open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

Is Satire Dead? Featuring Tanzanian political cartoonist Gado on the role of satire, humor and cartoons in modern public discourse open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

Really good episode on how we got here, where we are, what to do. Never miss Harsha Walia’s words.

"It’s not about abolishing ICE. It’s about abolishing the system and the power that ICE upholds.” -- @harshawalia.bsky.social #podcast on the history of ICE, border imperialism, settler colonialism, and normalization of violence towards migrants. open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

“Venezuela is a brutal sanctions regime.” - Geo Maher open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

20 Episodes of Radical Futures podcast in 2025 Conversations that mattered during a difficult year. open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

A despairing but important conversation with Ramallah-based writer Lama Obeid open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

“We’re all heading to Gaza…That’s the model for the world.” - Ammiel Alcalay open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

Make Reading an Act of Solidarity: Read Palestine week starts tomorrow, November 29th. As you engage with Palestine, keep Sudan in your hearts, minds and on your bookshelves as well. www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/make-readi...

#ReadPalestine week (Nov 29-Dec 5) Read. Resist. Rise up. -> publishersforpalestine.org @pubforpalestine.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social @orbooks.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @saqibooks.bsky.social

Palestinian Author Nasser Abu Srour's prison memoir ("written inside the walls of the Israeli prisons where Abu Srour spent 33 years") wins 2025 Prix de La Littérature Arabe. @oliviasnaije.bsky.social for @arablit.bsky.social arablit.org/2025/11/20/p...

'To fully contextualize the current man-made hunger crisis in Sudan and to recognize that it has been decades in the making, we must turn to history." writes Nisrin Elamin. Accompanied by paintings by the legendary Ibrahim El-Salahi transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

Omer Al Tijani on documenting Sudanese cuisine as an act of resistance. In a country ravaged by war and where hunger has been weaponized in extreme ways, The Sudanese Kitchen cookbook works against invisibility and erasure. www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/omer-al-ti...

#Sudan open.substack.com/pub/sudanwar...

Read Palestine Week is seven days when people around the world read – publicly and in community – as part of the global resistance to the genocide of the Palestinian people. publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/11/j...

Nov 30, 2025: Reading Palestine 5 - We Are Not Numbers: Voices of Gaza's Youth www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/nov-30-202...

Just learned that the interviewer here is the wonderful Bhakti Shringarpure of @radicalbooks.bsky.social, full interview here www.warscapes.com/conversation...

This conversation being shared like crazy since Zohran Mamdani's win 💕 www.warscapes.com/conversation...

17. Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/17-undoing...

This is big. A South African court has ruled that anti-apartheid leader & 1961 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Luthuli was murdered by the apartheid state's security forces & that the inquiry into his death was a cover-up -- as many had asserted all along. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Uncovering histories of targeting and policing Muslims in Kenya www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/uncovering...

"The people of Gaza did not give up, they did not surrender." - Haidar Eid www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-people...

Palestine has made radical solidarities possible: "The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation on hope and solidarity with writer Sisonke Msimang traversing Australia, South Africa and Palestine." www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/palestine-...

Palestine, Black & African Solidarities, and the Perils of Online Activism: Featuring Sisonke Msimang new episode of the Radical Futures #podcast www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/14-palesti...

What a perturbing program -- This is about the institutionalization of activism thus dismantling critique of power. Imagine activists getting off the streets sitting around reflecting, giving talks, attending wine receptions, probably brainstorming an undergrad major in activism

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Horrifying state of things theintercept.com/2025/09/24/d...

From the incomparable, legendary Raji Sourani www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide. www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/why-the-wo...

If you're shocked about Ezra Klein's op-ed fawning over Charlie Kirk, please know that this is a long liberal tradition of op-ed writing. From out podcast archives, the deep dive into the genre of the op-ed itself. www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-op-eds-...

Today, on the 24th anniversary of 9/11, this podcast with Somali scholar Maxamed Abumaye offers fitting reflections on the wave of militarism, policing, surveillance and totalizing violence unleashed by the West's War on Terror. www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/black-musl...

“Offers radical insights into how the past, present and future is made and re-made through statues and monuments in the public spheres.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

“Statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with institutionally constructed histories.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/a-world-or...

“Movements centered on either dismantling or building statues have become critical for understanding charged debates around history and memory today.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

📣 #podcast On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social in conversation with Bhakti Shringarpure about his book "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" out @plutopress.bsky.social www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

thrilling to talk to @radicalbooks.bsky.social about 'The Psychic Lives of Statues': Rhodes, Mandela, Gandhi, Patel, Ambedkar, Fanon and more against the backdrop of the dystopian present + reflections on imperial settler colonial 🇮🇳, apposite on Aug 15 www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

"‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media" -- Appalling Australian media getting cookbook author Mona Zahed's visa revoked amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity...

Frantz Fanon Stands for Revolutionary Love, Not Violence: Featuring Hassane Mezine www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/frantz-fan...

The Age of Fanon, 2: Hunger and Starvation www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-age-of...

“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-wan...