I’m speaking about #zangwillsspitalfields at this exciting symposium at the Museum of Liverpool on Sunday 9 December - free but please register eventbrite.com/e/creative-res…

I have just spent a week in Baghdad during the current crisis over cabinet formation. This quote sums up my thoughts: 'The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.'

Excited to be part of this wonderful line up this semester!

Delighted to see this article in print. Free downloads to the first 50 lucky readers tandfonline.com/eprint/FPfJS2B…

Conference: A Century of State Making in Iraq The University of Leicester will play host to a conference aimed at discussing inter-disciplinary activity of history, law & the future of Iraq. 24 April 2019 - More info: bit.ly/2uO4SxW Funded by a BISI Conference Grant

✊PROUD 🏳️‍🌈🧕🏽of our courageous members who have spoken out about their lived experiences as LGBTQI Muslims. Imaan is the world’s oldest charity supporting LGBTQI Muslims. We have monthly social meetings and events in London and across the UK. Ben Hunte

Two fixed term posts at QMUL! One of which will (excitingly) cover my teaching during a Leverhume fellowship. Happy to chat if helpful.

Dozens of academics have told BBC News they were "harassed" out of their jobs and made to sign non-disclosure agreements after making complaints. Anahid Kassabian, who broke her NDA from University of Liverpool and Emma Chapman are both speaking out bbc.co.uk/news/education…

We've just launched our 7 new #SimpleActs for #RefugeeWeek2019 = 7 simple things we can all do to help change the way we see refugees, and ourselves. Sharing early so you can build them into all the Refugee Week events you are planning! Take a look: refugeeweek.org.uk/simple-acts/ RT

Come work with me! Amazing colleagues & awesome projects are guaranteed 👇👇👇

We have been sitting down with UUK since October and provided them with our draft disciplinary guidelines and recommendations that we draft sector professional boundaries and that NDAs be banned. Now is the time to tell Universities UK, UCU and your own VCs to listen!

Writing (and Translating) Queer Characters in Egyptian Novels arablit.org/2019/04/25/wri… via ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social

I can't believe this needs to be said, but here we are: no to zero-hour contracts! Universities, pay your staff! The University of Edinburgh is not alone in this despicable practice: the fact that it appears in a job ad shows how normalised these conditions have become.

Temporary post at KCL to cover modules in Palestinian and Israeli Literature; Culture, Dissent and the Arab Spring; Literature, Solidarity and the Humanitarian Turn; and The Colonial Novel and British India. jobs.ac.uk/job/BRZ637/lec…

Super excited to be welcoming the amazing Saleem Haddad Saleem Haddad سليم حداد to QMUL English & Drama’s #QMSexCult on 12 November. Join us if you can. Tickets are free, but you do need to book.

Demonstrators very angry and agitated after shots were fired earlier at them in Beirut, chanting "the people demand the downfall of the regime." March now roving, cops in riot gear playing catch up.