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Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦

@drayeshaomar

British Academy International Fellow @SOASpolitics |Senior Lecturer @WitsPolitics | @TheoriaE |Intellectual History | Comparative Political Theory| M&G 200 YSA

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Birkbeck Philosophy (@bbkphilosophy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fanon's Philosophical Legacy conference, 27th and 28th of June 2025, in London. Organized by Birkbeck Philosophy's Richard Elliott Register here. bbk.ac.uk/events/event/5… Provisional conference schedule can be found here: philevents.org/event/show/129…

Fanon's Philosophical Legacy conference, 27th and 28th of June 2025, in London. Organized by Birkbeck Philosophy's Richard Elliott

Register here.
bbk.ac.uk/events/event/5…

Provisional conference schedule can be found here:
philevents.org/event/show/129…
Nate George (@ngeorge00) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While great effort has been invested in analyzing revolutionary intellectuals, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution & its guides. My open access article in American Historical Review on Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, & Global Counterrevolution doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 (@drayeshaomar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“When he succeeded, as he did with his first century in 2016, it was hailed as a turning point for black cricket. When he failed, it was the entire demographics' failure.“ espncricinfo.com/story/temba-ba…

South African Liberation Struggle Stories (@sastrugglestory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1986: City Press remembers June 16 Uprising. The publication was then under the editorship of legendary South African activist editor Percy Qoboza #June16 #SowetoUprising📸City Press History ZAR

1986: City Press remembers June 16 Uprising. The publication was then under the editorship of legendary South African activist editor Percy Qoboza #June16 #SowetoUprising📸<a href="/City_Press/">City Press</a> <a href="/HistorySAZAR/">History ZAR</a>
Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... (links in thread below):

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality.  You're going to love this... (links in thread below):
Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 (@drayeshaomar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The 16th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought: "States and Spaces in the History of Political Thought" 19th & 20th of June at the LSE. …yofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. 

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 (@drayeshaomar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nothing quite captures the complexities of postcolonial/ global south intellectual life like citing Mahmood Mamdani on decolonization in your footnotes while his son challenges western power structures in running New York City #MamdaniForMayor

Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'It's a killing field': IDF soldiers ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Tom Ashby (@tomaashby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do check out this new intellectual history podcast hosted by Selma Sondern Institute of Intellectual History - the first episode features Richard Whatmore (St Andrews History) on why the Enlightenment, eighteenth-century republicanism, & the history of free states matter for global politics today

Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 (@alonleegreen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happening now in Tel Aviv: we march with the pictures of the children in Gaza who were starved to death by our government and our army. We cannot accept it. We call people to refuse the starvation, to refuse the killing, to refuse the annihilation.