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US breaking news reporter @FT formerly commissioning editor @FTopinion views own, RTs ≠ endorsements ✉️ zehra.munir @ft .com
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Some news: Today is my last day on
@ftopinion
, as I'm heading to NY to join the FT's breaking news desk there. A huge thank you to
@AliceFishburn
and colleagues who have taught me so much over these past two years. Am sad to be leaving, but excited for this next adventure...
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Some job news: I’m thrilled to be joining
@financialtimes
as Junior Opinion Editor! I loved my stint on the desk last year, and clearly couldn’t stay away for long. You can reach me from Monday on zehra.munir
@ft
.com. I can’t wait to get started⭐️
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lots of surreal news recently - i’m graduating with a first from
@oxfordhistory
, and i’ll be starting my dream internship at
@FTOpinion
from September! friends in London (journo or otherwise...!) - let’s get coffee!
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Ate more nihari than is healthy for this piece - a sacrifice I was willing to make.
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I chatted with Kamila Shamsie for this weekend’s
@FT
. We talked about cancel culture, British politics and growing up in 80s Karachi.
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Shocked and sad to hear that Benjamin Zephaniah has died. It was through his work that so many of us learned to love poetry, and to see it as something which related to our lives.
Here is his warm response to an email I sent him when I was 12, telling how much I liked his books.
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used my last brain cell and wrote an essay !! it's about the war on terror, narratives of liberation, and *that* letterboxes comment
Proud of our History undergrad Zehra who has won the
@StEdmundHall
Rebecca West Prize for Writing with 'Beyond liberation: using Rebecca West to complicate images of Muslim womanhood' Congratulations!
@WadhamSU
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My interview with
@DimaSrouji
is out in
@FTMag
now. Incredible photography by
@cianobasmith
. Thank you
@baya_simons
for the commission 🌷
Palestinian artist Dima Srouji on creating ‘forgeries’ of V&A artefacts
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Me after I buy both a croissant and an iced coffee from Gail’s
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gal-dem tried to do something different, in a media landscape that has looked the same for a long time. it meant a great deal to many young journalists - this is such sad news
We are incredibly sad to announce that gal-dem is closing.
Several factors that have contributed to this difficult decision, including numerous challenges with running a small, mission-driven, independent media company. We’ve shared more here
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I’ve written the latest edition of the FT’s Long Story Short newsletter, featuring my picks of the week. The first line is now fake news but London WAS warm until today… You can subscribe to the newsletter here —
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“Water holds you up. Water says, ‘I’ve got you.’”
Spent a sunny Spring morning chatting with
@swimdemcrew
about getting people in the pool. Wonderful photography by
@alexkurunis
.
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Great to see Worcester acknowledging the classist and exclusionary implications of the government's A Level results policy, and guaranteeing places to all UK offer-holders. And to my college
@wadhamoxford
, I hope you will be doing the same?
Many members of our college community and beyond have expressed their concern for the potential impact of yesterday’s A Level results on this year’s incoming students. There is some information here:
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diaspora poets be like 'i know a spot' and take you to their generational trauma
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v happy to have written this week's
@FT
week ahead newsletter! featuring predictions for COP26 and a quick look at Zuckerberg and co's journey into the metaverse...
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lahore’s winter offerings are totally unparalleled. missed these perfect january oranges, orange + carrot juice, and everyone’s favourite dessert (gajar ka halwa).
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thinking abt how we asked my little cousin her New Years resolution and she told us she hopes to eat 1,000 grapes
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cannot believe none of these old philosophers had to footnote! i'd wax lyrical on the state of nature too if i didn't have to cite my sources every third word
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quarantine has made me realise that the most underrated creative writing of our era can be found on student linkedin feeds - the way we've learned to spin narratives about 2 day work experience placements? truly amazing
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I'm in the latest edition of the
@ftmoralmoney
newsletter, discussing the debate around green interest rates
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My dispatch from Peshawar and other cities on the ongoing expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan - and the surge of community support that has followed.
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Wrote about gendered violence in Pakistan, and the structures that don't seem to shift. V grateful to all those who spoke to me for this one
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"Like the vast majority of Gazans, most of the journalists are trapped inside the besieged strip as Israel refuses to grant permission for them to leave. They are not just working, but battling for their own and their families’ survival."
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my favourite thing is reading my friends' writing (essays, poetry, stories) before publication. everyone writes so beautifully and i always feel like i'm in on a secret
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focus on anything for more than 2 seconds during the pandemic challenge
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so much fun hosting
@ZahraHankir
for
@OxReviewofBooks
yesterday. we talked about the challenges faced by women reporting in the middle east, the need to platform voices on the ground, and more. left feeling very inspired !!
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Looked at the calendar just now and realised there's only a few weeks to go until I move to Glasgow for a trainee reporting stint
@thetimesscot
! Would love recs for places to eat, visit, and people to meet. Favourite novels set in the city also v welcome
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thinking about this 'Lament of an OM Oxonian' who dreaded the arrival of colonial interlopers in the late 19th c. tag yourself - i'm the 37 moon-eyed wives
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so excited to have a short story in this year's anthology! consider pre-ordering if you want some new reading material (and are trying to avoid amazon) 💫
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seeing this makes me want to launch a girlboss skincare line!! corner office cleanser, (glass) ceiling serum, ms. moisturiser, neolib night cream. there is money to be HAD here
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New York friends/ mutuals, let's get coffee! And if someone can point me to a casual women's football game in Brooklyn, I'll be forever grateful (the one I organise in London is my pride and joy).
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Such a pleasure to interview
@laurenoyler
for the
@OxReviewofBooks
termly lecture evening. Among other things, we talked about conspiracy theories, Trump-era 'pussyhat feminism', and books as commodities. Do tune in when the interview is broadcast this Wednesday!
Our termly lecture evening is back! Join us for three interviews with three acclaimed writers: Lauren Oyler, Victoria Hislop and Alan Hollinghurst.
The evening is free and will be broadcast on our Facebook Live on Wednesday 24th at 8pm.
Art by Ellena Murray
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"I have to swap on to the always-baking Bakerloo Line, that huge tandoor for cooking humans"
Fab
@greenmiranda
column - we both live at the mercy of the brown line, so I can confirm her description is exactly right
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the final form of disaster capitalism is surely all the newspapers and magazines releasing paywalled lists of books to read during quarantine
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islamophobia but make it corona-friendly
France mandates masks to control the coronavirus. Burqas remain banned.
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feels surreal that 2 weeks ago there was nothing odd about dozens of us getting together to celebrate the latest ORB. now it might be the last big gathering we attended before covid.
still, no matter what happens next - i am so proud of all those who put work into the issue ❤️
Some photos from our Hilary term launch at
@CAFETARIFA
!! Thank you to our wonderful photographer Oshy Ray. Thanks also to our contributors, the
@OxReviewofBooks
team, and everyone who came down to the launch.
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I was thirteen when I read Rooftoppers, which was marketed towards a slightly younger age group, but I remember being totally enthralled.
@johngapper
's interview with Katherine Rundell is the loveliest thing you'll read this weekend.
Katherine Rundell: ‘Larger than the world’s chaos are its miracles’
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Wrote this over the summer, when I was young and still had opinions, for
@OxReviewofBooks
. A review of Arundhati Roy's latest, alongside Megha Majumdar's debut 'A Burning'. Concerning Modi's India, fiction as protest, and newly forged solidarities.
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Very interesting op-ed by Aveek, up on the FT website now
A bit from me on 'nanny state' discourse: public attitudes have been in favour of action on smoking/drinking/obesity since before the pandemic, politicians might just be catching up.
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the brief at the new yorker was really ‘damning profiles for the rest of 2021’
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we did it !! the term is over !! and i have the sweetest photo of a prof at the pickets perusing our mag !! all worth it in the end
🌟🌟🌟FRENZY has been delivered all over Oxford! From JCRs to porters lodges, to local cafes and picket lines, there are now thousands of copies of the magazine circulating the city. Remember to pick one up! 🌟🌟🌟
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"I’ve always been a sucker for fatteh. It was my nickname at school; at least I think that’s what they were calling me." - this review of Akub by
@timhayward
is just great
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Better relations with the rest of the world also matter. This requires the west to recognise its own double standards and hypocrisy, writes Martin Wolf
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Must read by
@pilitaclark
. Bonus Bergman in the intro
Pilita Clark: Guess what a growing number of political figures are blaming for the gathering energy disaster? That’s right. Net zero. This is — literally — gaslighting
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the only thing you need to read this weekend (by
@milesellingham
)
What drives London's most notorious graffiti writer? And why, in the most surveilled city on earth, does he risk his life nightly?
@milesellingham
finds out in this
@FTMag
#longreads
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hi twitter!! this is for a project i'm working on - we've seen a lot of discussions recently about contested histories in public spaces (e.g. the Rhodes statue and whether it should be allowed to stay up). does anyone have any examples in a South Asian context? (1/2)
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haven't finished the two essays i was meant to do but got my flatmate's friend to register to vote so still counting this evening as a success tbh
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‘Rising prices of essential commodities have robbed people of their free time as well as happiness�� - an observant letter in
@dawn_com
on the impact of Pakistan’s inflation crisis
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"The White House may believe that cosying up to MBS is necessary...but we cannot show our revulsion for Vladimir Putin’s atrocities by rewarding those of the crown prince."
Reprieve director
@mayafoa
pulls no punches in her piece today
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This is such a wonderful piece by
@emmavj
Personal essay by me: How I learnt to live with shyness
"Shyness has always lurked somewhere within, ready to bubble up and deflate again. It is shape-shifting, fleeting, unpredictable. People told me in hushed tones that they, too, were shy, particularly after social distancing
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my neighbour just asked me a variation on 'not even water?' so i can confirm that ramadan really is approaching
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can't believe sajid just solved racism
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@theoryhoes
deliver the goods (interesting discourse + hot takes) every week - incoming freshers, get involved ✨✨✨
we aren't at the virtual freshers fair because we have too much work to do 🥴👎 - if you're an ox student pls share our socials with your friends n freshers!! we want accessible feminist theory 4 all but we must too succumb to capitalist notions of productivity 🤠
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This is v good
"Neither [Labour nor the Tories] has even come close to accepting just how radical and significant the Cameron-Clegg government really was." Very acute column by
@stephenkb
on the long shadow of austerity
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do muslim women need saving? - l. abu-lughod
empire falls - r. russo
the namesake - j. lahiri
black lamb and grey falcon - r. west
reread:
white teeth - z. smith
god of small things - a. roy
think these are the last six i read ! all were pretty wonderful ngl
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'But the government’s vice signalling on immigration and border control may also pave the way for a government that takes those signals seriously'
@stephenkb
great on the real harm that comes from 'vice-signalling'
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Lina Khan writing for the FT on private equity firms' serial acquisitions and their consequences for consumers, workers and businesses
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e.g. a statue of Queen Victoria in Lahore was removed in 1974, but it has been preserved in the Lahore Museum. does anyone know of any statues, monuments, mausoleums, even street names, that may have been taken down/ replaced/ are contested in South Asia? pls lmk! (2/2)
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@jiaqikangjiaqi
i think this section from a short story that was published in the
@MaysAnthology
earlier this year ! from the perspective of a spa worker in Lahore, talking about her clients
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had NO idea that a student subscription for MUBI is free !! lockdown just levelled up
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"Seeing Palestinians as non-human makes it a waste of time to try to understand them. Thus their legitimate grievance is obscured and a just way forward is blocked. But no justice, no peace."
Ahdaf Soueif on the language of dehumanisation
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"A self-described ‘writer, lyricist, musician and naughty boy’, he was concerned with action as much as aesthetics" - lovely obituary by
@franklinlnelson
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We have two really lovely obituaries in today’s paper:
Roger Blitz on Roger Squires, the ‘Mozart’ of the puzzle community
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so good - "Maybe they, like us, found Sunday evenings a bit depressing. Maybe they also thought the company’s mission a bit pointless."
I wrote about the simplest way for bosses to seem normal - namely, resigning
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@hebamks
writes on the Arab artists pouring their effort into solidarity work - in Cairo, Beirut and beyond
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FT View: Pakistan’s expulsion order deepens the Afghan crisis
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The view was that, after 9/11, it was simply too dangerous to ignore a looming security threat. But many of those who voted for the Iraq war, including Biden, now accept that it was a mistake.
@gideonrachman
on Israel and the lessons of 9/11
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'Guns now kill more American kids than cars or cancer. These are preventable deaths. If that does not constitute an immediate public health emergency, what does?'. Important read from
@anjahuja
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Such a lovely piece on Drummond St and its delights
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A wonderful read by
@gisa_tunbridge
Wrote for the
@FT
about the McMillan library in Nairobi, which
@ShiroKoinange
and
@TheBookBunk
are trying to revamp.
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"For scandal has erupted in second-hand automotive land. Systematic fraud. Dismay. Tip-of-the-iceberg theorising. Hull-ripping confirmation."
This by
@Urbandirt
is so good
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Humanity must prevail in Gaza, write Philippe Lazzarini and Martin Griffiths
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@iramstagram
@sahxra_
iram everydayyyyy i see her on my feed and her pics make me think of u ! ! !
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@NetoStreisand
@ftopinion
@FT
@AliceFishburn
Many congrats on the next step Streisand! And you won't be able to leave Opinion behind that quickly - I'll be badgering you with Qs for weeks to come!
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'Because the whole point of othering is that the other doesn’t have the same rights, the same humanity, as those making the distinction. What does this have to do with climate change? Perhaps everything.'
‘Said may have had no time for tree-huggers, but tree-huggers must urgently make time for Said.’
In front of the paywall during
#COP26
:
@NaomiAKlein
on the intersection of environmentalism and colonialism, and why it matters:
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@lana__stewart
@TejaswiRawal
u have to click 'check out' and then u access it all !!! it's so counter-intuitive confused me all vac
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