Raph Cormack
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Assistant Professor of Arabic @durham_uni. Author of Midnight in Cairo: a history of the women of Egypt’s roaring 20s. صعلوك الأدب
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Joined May 2011
RT @Alex_Niven: There’s a weird, strong, reactionary tendency in the British music industry and it’s not acknowledged enough.
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RT @nirhasson: A journalist for 24 years, this is probably the most important article I've ever published. We saw the famine in Gaza with o….
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RT @NathanJRobinson: I cannot state it enough: Israel has stopped pretending this is anything other than a mission to destroy Gaza, make it….
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RT @thaqafatalhind: Last week my mother's cousin's wife was hanging laundry to dry in Gaza City with her five year old son when an Israeli….
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RT @DalrympleWill: "Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war".
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Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
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RT @PeterVerney1: FWD.A new Sudan Digital Archive, , is 'dedicated to preserving and making accessible the collect….
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I saw this in Edinburgh and @randajarrar is incredible. Highly recommend.
The Last Palestinian begins with the protagonist in a death shroud. My friend Victor has taught me that theater is a ritual for reviving the dead. Tickets for London:
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RT @arablit: We'll have more on Sonallah Ibrahim in the days & weeks to come, but particularly remembering his 2003 award-rejection speech….
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Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim — one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries — died today, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture announced. He …
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RT @Samu35495Samuel: Prominent Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim dies at 88 - Society - Egypt - Ahram Online
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Sonallah Ibrahim, the acclaimed Egyptian novelist, died in Cairo on Wednesday at the age of 88 after being hospitalized with pneumonia.
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This is, in part, a sign of how far Israel's cheerleaders have gone off the rails. But this man has written for British national newspapers.
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RT @JehadAbusalim: "My 14-year-old niece Noor was the only survivor after an Israeli airstrike. I want the world to remember who we lost."….
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RT @JehadAbusalim: Anas Al Sharif was born in 1996. He was 4 when the Second Intifada began in 2000. He was 11 when Israel imposed the blo….
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RT @thaqafatalhind: The University of Toronto's Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations is hiring an Associate or Full professo….
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Associate Professor or Professor - Palestinian Literature and Culture
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RT @JamesCopnall: El Fasher is starving - and surrounded. More details with @nattyray11 on Newsday shortly. And we'll hear from a resident….
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RT @KholoodKhair: Extremely urgent and dire famine and RSF seige crisis report by @HRL_YaleSPH. - civilians starved and killed by RSF .- e….
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The latest episode of Minor Books, on Jane Gardam's Going into a Dark House, with Henry Oliver of the Common Reader substack.
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RT @_bezpilotnik: Alright lads, I'm doing the Great North Run in about six weeks to raise money for @actionFdn, a NE charity who operate un….
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For the sixth time, I'm hustling the rickle of bone and hair I'm ashamed to call my body around the 13.1 miles of the Great North Run for the benefit of Action Foundation - a top-notch charity who do
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RT @SkyPoliticsHub: 'He went to get flour, he's not Hamas, he's not a terrorist, was shot in the stomach, and then a tank ran over him'. Fo….
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