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Sara Salem
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associate professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // 📖 anticolonial afterlives in egypt // love ⚽️ // she/her // views my own
London, England
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    Sara Salem
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    Nov 12, 2023
    I teach a course on anti-colonial archives. We read texts, recipes, poems, letters, memoirs. We watch films, listen to freedom songs. We talk about dreams, food, dust & soil as history. For centuries, millions of people on this earth have stood up for a world free of colonialism.
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    Sara Salem
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    May 7, 2024
    This is what they won the Pulitzer for. Propaganda.
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    Falastin Flip
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    May 6, 2024
    “Hamas accepted the ceasefire deal and we don’t know how to spin this now”
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    Sara Salem
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    Dec 2, 2023
    Meanwhile many universities around the world remain silent, most notably in countries whose governments are complicit in this ongoing genocide.
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    Sara Salem
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    Apr 19, 2024
    Apparently a lot of academics need to be reminded that ‘neutrality,’ ‘staying out of it,’ ‘it’s complicated,’ ‘both sides are wrong,’ ‘we shouldn’t politicise things,’ etc etc means you’re absolutely taking a side. At least own it.
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    Sara Salem
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    Oct 16, 2020
    In case you forgot for a day how violent and terrible the World Bank is, they are here to remind you
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    World Bank South Asia
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    Feb 13, 2020
    71% of #Bhutan's territory is covered in forest, but with a contribution of only about 2% to GDP per year, the forest sector remains underutilized. How can the country sustainably invest in its forests? wrld.bg/ybEL50ykTbd
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    Sara Salem
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    Sep 26, 2022
    Woke up to the news about Italy’s next prime minister. This is the European project: a massive shift to the right, anti-migration as the pillar of nationalism, austerity and a dismantling of the welfare state, right wing internationalism, & conservative gender politics.
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    Sara Salem
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    Aug 16, 2021
    The endless reproduction of the idea that it is Europe facing a migrant crisis and in need of protection, and not the migrants themselves who might be experiencing a crisis
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    AFP News Agency
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    Aug 16, 2021
    Replying to @AFP
    #BREAKING Macron vows EU initiative to protect against migrant flows from Afghanistan
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    Sara Salem
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    Apr 13, 2024
    Germany is copying Germany.
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    Dr Andreas Krieg
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    Apr 12, 2024
    Germany is copying from the Middle Eastern authoritarian playbook of clamping down on freedom of speech under the pretext of fighting 'Islamism' The 'Palestine Congress' in Berlin among others was organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace
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    Sara Salem
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    Jun 10, 2024
    Nothing more boring than liberals expressing ‘shock’ at far right gains year after year after year. The rise of fascism and the right is deeply entangled with liberalism, not separate from it.
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    Sara Salem
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    Oct 28, 2023
    People all over the world are marching for a free Palestine. 500,000 in London alone - the biggest Palestine protest in British history
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    Sara Salem
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    Oct 11, 2021
    Thomas Sankara is known as Thomas Sankara 👀
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    BBC News Africa
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    Oct 11, 2021
    14 men are going on trial accused of complicity in the murder of Burkina Faso's former president, known as 'Africa's Che Guevara' - 34 years after his death. His widow tells us she's in 'a hurry to know the truth' bbc.in/3an8iN8
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    Sara Salem
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    Oct 29, 2018
    It’s difficult watching political scientists scrambling to understand what’s happening around the world today as if there haven’t been people, paradigms & theories that have been theorizing racism, nationalism, empire & gender for a century and warning of exactly what we see now.
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    Sara Salem
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    Sep 11, 2022
    A side effect of the queen discourse is realising how many people think decolonisation was ‘given’ to the colonised because they had been asking for it (politely I assume). Zero awareness about what decolonisation is in a country that thinks it has a world class education system.
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    Sara Salem
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    Nov 4, 2023
    This is so important. Across many cities & countries we are seeing the biggest demonstrations since the protests against the US/UK invasion of Iraq in 2003. There are now calls for a million people to march for Palestine and a ceasefire next Saturday in London.
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    Rula Jebreal
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    Nov 4, 2023
    We are witnessing the largest U.S. anti-war protests since the #Iraq war.
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