Nora Jaber - نورة جابر
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Lecturer of Law in the Muslim World. @UoELawSchool @alwaleed_centre . International law, human rights, political economy, feminist theory. Focus on GCC & MENA.
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Thankful to have been offered a space to articulate my thoughts on international law during the horror that Israel is inflicting upon Gaza. Do read all the reflections & join us in thinking about where IL fits in / toward a free Palestine. Here’s a snapshot from my contribution.
London Review of International Law invited critical comrades contribute short reflections on IL and Gaza. It's a fascinating collection of around 40 pieces, varied in form and content. If you don't have access, but would like to read it, get in touch <3
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Very hard being a Palestinian anywhere right now, let alone in the West in liberal academic spaces where the silence of some is deafening and the statements of others are devastating.
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ICJ told us what we already know. Now how do we change the material realities on the ground?
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Coming to terms with how little your life is worth to the people you live among is excruciating
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I’m in Edinburgh to deliver a lecture and even though it’s not far, it feels really good to be out of England where anti-Palestinian rhetoric & repression has been crushing. First encounter here was with a waiter who expressed solidarity and support when I said I’m Palestinian.
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Finally submitted my PhD! (Still woke up feeling that morning PhD guilt/dread though - I wonder how long it’ll be before I process this)
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Racist and condescending. Not just because of her stereotypical generalisation of Arab men as sexist and oppressive, but also because of how she implies Arab women are silent and voiceless. White feminism at its finest.
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It is very dehumanising to see the support for and the silence about what Israel is doing to Gaza and the rest of Palestine. Very hard to see people around you, including some you've known for years, make it clear that Palestinian lives do not matter.
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Just printed my PhD thesis for the first time. Now it’s sinking in.
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We can't talk about 'decoloniality' without acknowledging the ways in which the spaces we produce knowledge in are complicit in perpetuating settler colonial brutality in Palestine. We need to dismantle the material structures that sustain that violence. I’m hopeful that we can.
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Call for Papers - Workshop I am organising with Gerry Simpson at
@LSELaw
. Come think with us about the politics of invoking international law during times of crisis? How do we make sure we don't reproduce structures of oppression in our struggles for justice? Please share!
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Excited to announce that from September I’ll be joining the University of Edinburgh as Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World. Looking forward to working with colleagues at
@UoELawSchool
&
@alwaleed_centre
. I’ll miss my wonderful
@ExeterLawSchool
&
@ExeterIAIS
colleagues
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Very excited to announce that my doctoral thesis has been selected by
@OfficialBrismes
as joint winner of the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. Receiving this recognition for my work is so encouraging. Congrats to
@AndrawosNader
who also won this year!
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Very excited to be joining the
@UniofExeter
as Lecturer in Law next week! Exeter is such a special place to me for lots of reasons, and more so now that it’s where I’ll begin my first full time academic job.
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The hyper focus on ‘women and children’ victims of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza, though well-meaning, serves to reproduce the racist and colonial idea of the Palestinian/Muslim/Brown man as violent and ungrievable, and as deserving of eradication.
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When we write about the Kafala system, let’s do it in the context of capitalist global economies, colonialism, & racist immigration policies. Contextualise & de-exceptionalise it - recognise that it’s driven by many of the same factors that drive slave labour everywhere.
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Some days the pain is so sharp. I cannot believe this is still happpening. I can’t believe the world has still not demanded a ceasefire (the absolute bare minimum) and I can’t believe the amount of silence and complicity. My heart really, really hurts.
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Gulf Women’s Lives: Voice, Space, Place is out today! My chapter on gender reform & the politics of women’s petitions in Saudi Arabia is available open access here:
Thanks so much to the editors for all their work on this and to
@UExeterPress
.
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‘Capitalism itself is rendered invisible through a juridical prism of “equal rights” that posits equality where none exists’
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Call for Papers- Come join
@tor_krever
and I in thinking about the ‘juridification of justice’ in April at
@ExeterLawSchool
What happens when struggles for justice become battles over rights & questions of legality? What has been gained & lost through the turn to juridification?
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Tired of people telling me that the lockdown will be good for finishing the PhD - that now I can focus all my time on wrtiting. Do people not get that a change of scene, going out, social relations are necessary... even for one’s ‘productivity’?
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Tomorrow I start my role as Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World at
@UoELawSchool
&
@alwaleed_centre
. Excited to work w/new colleagues & develop my research & teaching in the area! Will miss my colleagues at
@ExeterLawSchool
. Forever grateful for their warmth & support
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Here's the finalised programme for our 'Epistolary International Law' workshop at
@LSELaw
later this month. Very much looking forward to everyone's contributions!
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Sun shining down on this beautiful student encampment at
@UniofExeter
. Yesterday
@pappe54
joined to talk to students about the power of protest and the inevitability of a free Palestine.
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as much as covid sucks, this is not the first time people are separated by borders from their loved ones. For some of us, that’s always been our reality... guess it matters more when it affects the people who drew up the borders in the first place
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Made my first cardigan! Doesn’t look anything like it was meant to and it’s at least 3X bigger than it was supposed to be, but it’s warm and wearable and I’ll probably not take it off for the next week or so
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Who would be interested in a reading group on gender and nationalism in Saudi Arabia? Some good literature being produced that’s worth reading & discussing.
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Happening tomorrow!
I’ve felt strange in most academic spaces while my people are being slaughtered so I’ve tried to create one where Palestine is centred & where the politics of our work is seriously reflected upon. It’s not enough, but hopefully a small step toward liberation
Here's the finalised programme for our 'Epistolary International Law' workshop at
@LSELaw
later this month. Very much looking forward to everyone's contributions!
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While Israel is destroying every university in Gaza and trying to eradicate Palestinian knowledge production, universities in the UK are actively pursuing partnerships with Israeli universities that are complicit. We need an academic boycott and we need a CEASEFIRE NOW!
The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
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Today many of you are afraid to show solidarity with Palestine. You’re afraid of your employers, afraid of your governments. We’re fighting for a world where no one is afraid to stand against settler colonialism or any injustice, a world where that’s the ONLY acceptable stance.
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self care is obviously important but the discourse around it has become individualistic & divorced from the socioeconomic & political structures that are at the root of a lot of our mental health issues. we are being told to only put indivdual bandaids on deep collective wounds
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I really want my grandparents who were forcibly expelled from Palestine in 1948 to see a free Palestine in their lifetime.
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What is happening in Iran today must be contextualised but also de-exceptionalised. The brave women in & of Iran are resisting a masculinist state’s policing of their bodies & lives. They’re fighting for their right to choose & to have their bodily autonomy respected 1/x
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My latest for
@LSEMiddleEast
The New Saudi Personal Status Law: An Opportunity for Meaningful Gender Reform? | Middle East Centre
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Applying for jobs post PhD is like pleaseeee overwork me and underpay me. PLEASE.
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Can’t wait for Monday’s event on ‘Imagining an Alternative Politics of (Human) Rights’
@LSEGenderTweet
.
I’m presenting on how rights claims are articulated by marginalised subjects in the Gulf with a focus on Islamic Feminism as alternative legal praxis to global human rights.
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Excellent piece by
@miraalhussein
on the changing and tiered nature of citizenship in the Gulf
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'While scholarship on the [Gulf] is heavily reliant on colonial archives and Western secondary sources, fewer researchers consult local source material. Gulf periodicals represent a particularly rich body of sources..'
@WafaAlsayed
@LSEMiddleEast
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can’t believe this is still happening. my heart breaks into more pieces every day. do not get used to this!
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I don’t listen to Fairuz on weekday mornings because her songs feel like home and sometimes it hurts too much to do any work after that.
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Excited to deliver today’s seminar on gender in the Middle East. We’re discussing the refashioning of the abaya as a form of passive resistance/negotiation w/hegemonic islamic patriarchal values in GCC. In refashioning, what other forms of dominance do we reproduce? Consumerism?
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‘Self-defence’ under capitalism: demolishing human life and infrastructure to protect the free flow of commerce. Self = profit
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Rentier state theory contributes to an image of the Gulf national as apolitical, ‘apathetic, materialistic, and backward’. It also contributes to the widespread assumption that public opinion is non-existent or equal to that of the state. 1/
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Political repression & real estate development often go hand in hand.
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No better way to end the semester. I’ve just been offered a 2 year E&R lectureship at
@ExeterLawHead
. I’ve loved teaching there so far but am over the moon to have time allocated for research too. Looking forward to meeting everyone at the law school in the new year!
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my writing process these days: 10 minute burst of writing followed by sense of accomplishment followed by two day break. on repeat.
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Arab and Muslim women, please be careful of Western audiences misappropriating your narrative to further highlight your ‘oppression’, especially when this is selfishly done without acknowledging the role of the West in perpetuating your ‘plight’ politically, economically, etc..
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The biggest challenge in writing my thesis has been the constant battle between self-censorship & expression. The constant assessment/fear of risks &consequences. Always reminding myself of my commitment to be truthful and transparent in what I write, and what/who I exclude & why
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My viva is on Monday and work has been nonstop. Must find time (and strength) to re-read the thesis. SO NERVOUS to discuss my work with scholars I have immense respect for
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Call for abstracts for the 2023
@SLSA_UK
conference! Consider submitting under our current topic 'Epistemic Injustices in Law'. We've divided this into two sub-parts to think about how legal knowledge is produced and what/who it overshadows and displaces?
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No one should have to choose between being home and being free.
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Exeter, you’ve been precious. Edinburgh, here I come!
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Saudi Arabia set to abolish
#Kafala
system in 2021. To be replaced with work contracts that regulate the relationship between employers and foreign workers.
#SaudiArabia
is set to abolish the sponsorship system effective from the first half of 2021; more than one million expatriates are expected to benefit.
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I am very excited to announce that
@rindala_aj
and I are finally launching our reading group on ‘gender & nationalism in the Gulf’. Due to the large interest, we have set up a brief application process. Please fill in and submit by 20th of December. Form:
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I can’t believe this is still happening. There are mornings when, for a just moment, I wonder whether I’d dreamt it all and then it hits me and my heart breaks all over again. Ceasefire now, as the first step to a free Palestine.
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More and more evidence of the absolute futility of international law when it comes to preventing war crimes and protecting basic human rights.
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Nearing the end of the long and dwindling PhD tunnel but I can’t see the light yet. Help.
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I struggle to put this down & have to force myself to take breaks. In many ways, it feels like a mirror into parts of myself that I hide from. It takes courage to look so deeply into oneself, to put what you see into words, and to share them with the world. Thank you
@NoreenMasud
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Really want to be my friend who just told me he can’t meet up today because he’s suddenly ‘gone to live alone on a small Scottish island, to just write.’
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Thought I was going to crash this weekend but my brain is still buzzing from the past two days. I learned so much from everyone at the ‘juridification of justice’ workshop. Huge thanks to everyone for sharing and thinking together.
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We need to confront our racism in the Arab world. Being subjected to racism does not excuse your own racism toward others. Yes, Arabs face racism. And YES, Arabs can be very racist.
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If you’re using your time & energy on academic works debating the legality of Israel’s horrific attrocities instead of organising & calling for a ceasefire, you’re wasting precious time. Gaza is being obliterated NOW. Stopping this is the priority. You can write about it later.
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As excited as I am to finish this PhD, I’m terrified of the uncertainty around what comes next
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I’ve had some wonderful colleagues do this for me and it has made a huge difference to my mental health. The pain we are feeling as Palestinians is immense, so solidarity in the form of practical support is invaluable at a time when we are targetted for even expressing our hurt.
I cant believe i have to say this, but if you have Palestinian colleagues reach out to them, offer to teach their classes, fill in service work, offer your shoulder, whatever. They are going through hell and solidarity is action, not words
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anyone else terrified of publishing? i am. the biggest hold backs for me are: do i really know enough to publish about this? what if i read more later and change my mind about what i've written? other reasons include risk + safety
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Messages of solidarity and support have kept me going the past week. Every reminder that we are not alone (despite concerted efforts by politicians, media outlets, and academic spaces to isolate us) is invaluable.
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Our reflections from the first Feminist TWAIL Collective workshop are out on
@TWAILReview
. I explore the engagement with Islamic feminism in Saudi women's rights claims & their limitations when they don't challenge gendered & racialised material inequities
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A must read, especially for those who undermine and infantilise students and dismiss the knowledge they possess and its transformative power
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Join us this on Wednesday 25 October if you want to understand Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. The speakers will discuss the application/limitations of international law in the context of settler colonialism in Palestine. Link:
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‘We spend the first part of our lives demanding air in our homelands, and then we leave to countries where we are promised air, only to find out we were robbed of our lungs.’
#SarahHegazi
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I'm designing an advanced undergraduate course on Law and Power in the Muslim World. Any reading/topic suggestions are hugely appreciated. I'd love for this to be co-created and ever evolving.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could start writing our PhD with all the knowledge we've acquired by the end of it? I wish everything I know now could have informed the entire process. This is why we must be reminded that the PhD is often our first work, not our only, & never our best
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Just reviewed my first article & was reminded of times reviewers had been so harsh in their tone & comments, which for a long while, discouraged me from trying again. Academia creates so much pressure & competition and it’s our responsibility to practice kindness & to uplift.
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This has me thinking about why we engage with international law when we know its complicity w/ colonial violence. Perhaps a fear of leaving it in the hands of the coloniser who invokes it to create what
@PeruginiNic
calls a moral & ethical asymmetry between coloniser & colonised.
With
@FranceskAlbs
&
@luigidaniele10
, hosted by
@PalStudies
, we discuss “Humanitarian Camouflage: Israel Rewrites the Laws of War to Legitimize the Genocide in Gaza”, the same camouflage now spilling over also to West Bank & Lebanon
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everyone’s like use the lockdown to finish your phd. LOCKDOWN IS THE REASON I HAVEN’T FINISHED MY PHD.
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When I finish my PhD, I’m printing a copy of it for burning. I want to watch it burn. I want to hurt it like it hurts me EVERY DAMN DAY.
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my sister just got married and if one more person says عقبالك i’m going to scream
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Join us at the
@LSELaw
in thinking about open letters and the practice and politics of turning to international law in times of crisis.
@critlegthinking
Deadline for abstracts 31st May.
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i can’t count the times i’ve spoken to women who are unhappy in relationships & family dynamics but can’t articulate why. often, they’ll find answers in feminist literature. it will give them words for what they’re going through & more importantly, show them they’re not alone
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It seems international pressure only comes for those who fit western ideals of what ‘liberation’ should look like. Not a peep for others whose advocacy employs local or religious terms of reference. You either speak our language or we do not see you.
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Who is crying for our beautiful men? Who is fighting for them? What little tears are shed are shed for our women and children. Our men deserve love and justice too.
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Eid Mubarak to all celebrating. May the next thing we celebrate be a free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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men who fall for confident women, get intimidated by them, do everything in their power to make them insecure so they can feel better about themselves, then wonder why ‘you’re not the woman i fell for anymore’... و بعدين معاكم؟
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I miss road trips in Saudi. My sister sent me this photo she took this morning on her way from Jeddah to Ta’if for a hike 😍
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Looking forward to presenting at Critical Legal Studies at
@durham_uni
in September. Going to be talking about the reproduction of class & racial hierarchies in women’s rights struggles in the Gulf.
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Excited to welcome the brilliant participants of the ‘juridification of justice’ workshop. Thanks again to
@ExeterLawSchool
and
@SLSA_UK
for funding. Thanks also to everyone who expressed interest - we hope this is only the beginning of a broader network exploring law & justice.
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‘What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, always raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?’ - L. Abu-Lughod (2008)
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A short poem I wrote in solidarity with the
#StopEnslavingSaudiWomen
campaign.
Thanks
@sister_hood_mag
!
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Join us tomorrow as we discuss the ongoing protests in Iran & brutal state violence against women & ethnic minorities, including the Kurds. We discuss & imagine possibilities for transnational feminist solidarity.
@ExeterIAIS
@UniofExeter
Register here:
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Just had my first LLM supervision meeting and it felt so good to be able to guide my supervisee on a topic I know and care a lot about. These are the bits of academia that I came for.
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Excited to announce that I will be joining the
@KSCLG
as a non-resident research associate where I’ll be leading a research project on women in local governance. Please get in touch if you work in this area academically or otherwise!
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1/ I'll be sharing the titles we discuss in our reading group on 'Gender and Nationalism in the Gulf' every week. Last week we read:
1. Joane Nagel, ‘Masculinity and Nationalism: gender and sexuality in the making of nations’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol 21(2), March 1998
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‘Nakba as a legal concept’ by
@RabeaEghbariah
offers a clear picture of the way law, esp. international law, has played a fundamental role in the ongoing Nakba we experience as Palestinians. Given that, I am really not convinced that more law & legal recognition is the answer
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