Sanaa Alimia
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Some of best English language scholars on Afghanistan & diaspora that go beyond usual tropes. Trying to amplify Afghan scholars too... Google them / Google Scholar them.
*Please add more in comments
1. Khadija Abbasi ...
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I saw the legend 🧿❤️ of the
@RMTunion
and for first time in my life comrade-girled someone & asked for a selfie. He kindly obliged. The people (&the babies!) are with the strikers. All power to the posties, nurses, railway workers, ambulance drivers ✊🏽❤️
#Strikes
#RMTSolidarity
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I only found one picture in Kenyan national newspaper on
#Queen
#JubileeCelebration
and that was of
#HarryandMeghan
😆 That’s Kenyan editors throwing shade at the colonialists
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Humbled & in debt to the folks who shared their lives with & excited to say in September 2022, my book will be out! More details to follow. But for now a big thanks to
@spin_ghar
for your producing such a great image for the cover ❤️✊🏽
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UK media covering
#Omricon
,
#SouthAfrica
& travel reverting to images of black people—implied racislised threat too. I’m pretty sure UK‘s South African Diaspora are predominantly white. This from
@guardian
yesterday. Could have just gone with airport image, no? Whats the deal?
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Diaspora Orientalism: When folks who have neither lived or worked in/ no longer live and work in their country of origin, reduce the country and its people to having no agency.
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#Harry
says biggest mistake of his life was wearing a Nazi party costume. Not killing 25 people in Afghanistan (v. often civilians were killed in these ops!) For those celebrating his anti-racism, what does it mean if you don’t criticise an imperial war?
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He’s so angry at a Pakistani holding him to account. Germany, always on the wrong side of history.
young human rights activists disrupt the german ambassadors speech during the Asma Jahangir Conference for their role in the genocide in Gaza
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I’m holding it in my hands! Refugee Cities is out with
@PennPress
in September. If you’re interested in a peoples history of displacement across Afghanistan & Pakistan, check this out/ ask your library to order a copy. Ever grateful the people who shared their lives with me.
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Having lived in Germany for years, seen German foundations work upclose in Africa and Asia too, they just can’t take our people speaking back, being more intelligent and humane. Colonial mentality that they think can get away with because they wear a shalwar kamiz.
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Is this Karachi police equivalent of "look at our equality, our women can opress people too"?
#StopDeportations
#AfghanRefugeesInPakistan
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A Pakistan edition is coming soon. Needed. (And cheaper!)
“Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan” - An excellent book by
@SanaaAlimia
to understand the context and plight of Afghan refugees and migrants (lawful and unlawful) who are being forcefully and unjustly ejected from Pakistan.
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If you’re interested,
Refugee Cities, is 50% off until 23 September! Quite good considering how expensive academic books are discount code SCHOOL22 (excuse mum’s laundry in the background)
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Friends, comrades, and family in Pakistan & our diaspora: I appreciate & applaud our solidarity with Palestine. Long may it continue. Please also extend our solidarity to Pakistan's Afghans who are being expelled from the country. Sign/Circulate
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1/ Reflecting on debates on the silencing of non-white academics in
#Germany
. I always found workspaces pushing to achieve gender parity but completely ignoring race. Often I found black & brown male colleagues losing out as a result.
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Engineering disaster and the legacy of colonialism in Pakistan’s floods |
@jamhoormedia
@RedPeppermag
@MairaHayat
“Successive Pakistani govts have never questioned (colonial) hydrological infrastructures…they have expanded them.”
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Quick note. The
#Mujahidin
of 1980s didnt just morph into
#Taliban
. I worked with plenty of ordinary former
#Mujahidin
members - office clerks, translators, & people who fought - who were anti-Taliban, critical of US war, & living ordinary lives in
#Pakistan
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3. Shahram Khosravi (many to choose from), start with: “Deportation as a Way of Life for Young Afghans,” 2016.
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5. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (everything), including historical analysis + contemporary commentary on Afghanistan.
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The global solidarity statement AGAINST deportations of Afghans in Pakistan is hosted by
@jamhoormedia
See/sign/circulate to relevant MPs, organisers via the original doc:
Keep documenting + rejecting violations against Afghans.
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Grateful to
@AuratMarch
for creating space to talk with and learn from
@Moni_Kakar
& a rich audience — all of whom are committed to thinking and acting on our interconnected liberation. Afghan deportations from Pakistan (and elsewhere) are cruel and shambolic.
#StopDeportations
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In Kenya, someone asks us when hearing we‘re Pakistani: „What’s wrong with Pakistan? They’re chasing Afghans out, why??“
The shame. The stupidity. The cruelty is clear.
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4. Anila Daulatzai (everything) including "The discursive occupation of Afghanistan."
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What's happening to Afghans in Pakistan is a part of a longer anti-Afghan, anti-Pashtun, anti-poor story, but also shows the total failure of the PML-N govt. The fau-radicalsim of their opposition era has shown itself. They'll do whatever the real bosses want
#StopDeportations
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More footage of good people in Pakistan calling out German ambassador. At a conference about human rights in Pakistan where people have courage to speak out against state violence in Balochistan they connect the struggles and speak for Palestine. Germany enabled this genocide.
Pro palestine protestors call out German ambassador during his speech on civil rights
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So excited to join the editorial collective at
@RedPeppermag
— what a dream team
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pakistan: human rights activists disrupting German ambassador.. good! Germany sends its ambassadors& political foundations across the South, condescending in the best of circumstances but in the midst of a genocide funded by Germany, NO THANKS.
young human rights activists disrupt the german ambassadors speech during the Asma Jahangir Conference for their role in the genocide in Gaza
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I wrote for the
@thenews_intl
"Today's cruelty builds on years of violence that Pakistan has gotten away with, all the while being emboldened by international humanitarian institutions and other states."
On
#Afghans
in Pakistan.
#StopDeportations
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I wrote this on
#RefugeeCities
@PennPress
for
@ThePublicSquare
earlier this year: Afghans Built Urban Pakistan | Essay
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6. Paniz Musawi Natanzi, "Art, Geopolitics, and Gendering Afghanistan." ...
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7. James Caron (lots to choose from) "Reading the power of printed orality in Afghanistan."
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The shameful government of Pakistan and its real power holders intend to deport more Afghans after Eid. Mubarak sha. Your idiocy and cruelty will not be forgotten.
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"Writing is a testimony, a memory that outlives any human experience, + an obligation to communicate with ourselves and the world. We lived for a reason, to tell the stories of loss, survival, and of hope" Rafaat Alareer. Viva Palestine, always. Download:
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My wedding day. Around 6 years ago. We won’t stop. My father taught me. I’m teaching my kids. We are learning from them. We are learning from those living and dying in Palestine. We can’t stop.
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10. Ayesha Khan: “Afghan Refugee Women's Experience of Conflict and Disintegration,” Meridians, 3: 1 (2002), 89-121.
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Ready to read
@ZohaWaseem
on Policing in Karachi — sitting in Nairobi it’s interesting to see the commonalities of post-colonial policing here! Important addition to literature on police — and I’m sure will add to discussion in different way ok Abolition!
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Comrades, friends. Tomorrow with the formidable
@Moni_Kakar
and myself. There will also be righteous souls participating who we will draw in for conversations.
#StopDeportations
This online teach-in with Sanaa Alimia (
@SanaaAlimia
) and Moniza Kakar(
@Moni_Kakar
) aims to contextualise the cruel and inhumane wave of deportations of Afghan refugees within the larger alienation of Afghans within Pakistan and beyond.
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Honored to have co-edited latest
@RedPeppermag
Art, reportage, essays from Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem & diaspora — plus solidarity from Kashmir, Afghanistan, Namibia, East Africa.
PALESTINE
Get your copy:
Artwork:
@hafezomar
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Wish I was physically there to stand with
@Moni_Kakar
and others and our Afghan friends in Karachi and elsewhere. These are crucial acts of solidarity and care.
#StopDeportations
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Participated in a protest organized by
#AuratMarch
against Pakistan's unjust mass deportation of Afghan refugees. It was heartening to see a diverse group of civil society members from Karachi come together to raise their voices against this unjust policy.
#RefugeeRights
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11.
@timothynunan
Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Glad to see public solidarity and actions being organised for Afghans in the country. None of us are free until all of us are free.
The Aurat March (
@AuratMarchKHI
) has announced plans to hold protests this Sunday in major cities across Pakistan, protesting against the deportation of Afghans refugees from the country
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London, you’re grey and cold, but the people on this march are beautiful.
It’s massive! Watching the view from southbank is 🤩 🤯
Still happening for a next few hours.
Carrying my pop’s sign as he baby sits the kids.
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All I got to say is don’t mess with soas students. School of Walter Rodney and all the African Asian and socialists 💚✊🏾
BREAKING: Occupation in solidarity with Palestine begins at SOAS
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Proud to have co-edited this
@RedPeppermag
from Nairobi with beautiful comrades commissioned from Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Libya, the “diaspora” and more. Check out the cover from
@StudiosFreehand
& feat.
@chechebooks
Nairobi ✊🏾 get your print copy! £3!
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Glad to speak alongside
@goldosuri
@pagalpanchi
@meznaqato
@Takhayyul1
on Gaza in the Global South covering Palestine, Kashmir
@aziakashmir
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Eqbal Ahmed, Afghans in Pakistan and the urgency of solidarity
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"Pakistan’s move smacks of cruel collective punishment, sending people back to harsh and uncertain fates and risking more bad blood in the future." Manzoor Ali for
@Himalistan
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13. Martin Sökefeld. "Nations Rebound: German Politics of Deporting Afghans." International Quarterly for Asian Studies. 50: 1-2, pp. 91-118.
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Many thanks to
@mazdaki
for reading and reviewing the book so generously. If you want to understand how the book questions the current cricket beef, read the review!
Afghan refugees aren’t freeloader namak haram; they helped build cities in Pakistan & made them home. Xenophobia after sledging in cricket and spectator hooliganism, has roots in insecurities of the post-colonial state. I discuss Dr Sanaa Alimia’s new book
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"The freedoms and dignity of all oppressed peoples are interconnected" - this is why we are moved & inspired as Palestinian organisations, even admist their pain, sign against Afghan deportations in Pakistan.
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📢 ONLINE EVENT: 25 OCT "Kashmir and Palestine in Converstion | Occupation & Surveillance" Come listen to
@_mehr00sh
@aziakashmir
@thaddad
@mjunaidr
@yarahawari
. Part of
@AKU_ISMC
Governance Programme 2021/22 Dialogue Series. Register:
Trolls not welcome.
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23. Since the link to Khadija Abbasi’s great work on Hazaras was broken on tweet
#1
, let me add it here
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17. Elaheh Rostami-Povey's work on Afghan women and invasion (written after 2001)
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25.
@zarenaaslami
’s body of scholarship on Afghanistan, race, and empire in c.19. Read more here:
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Watching London marathon and all I can see is Palestine 🇵🇸 Flags on the lampposts. Thank you, London!
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2/ Often white women colleagues failed to interrogate the power they wielded over black & brown male colleagues. But would pat themselves on the back for achieving gender equality (of numbers rather than pay!) in the workspace.
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Next week, 'Refugee Cities' if you'd like to listen/chat
@TP_DCU
with
@PeterAdmirand
💻Via Zoom
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22.
@Oeppen
's "‘Leaving Afghanistan! Are You Sure?’ European Efforts to Deter Potential Migrants Through Information Campaigns"
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Targeting
@Moni_Kakar
for speaking up for Afghans is a low bar. Solidarity and love to you, Moniza!
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has requested Twitter to suspend my Twitter account because I am advocating for the rights of Afghan refugees, and according to the PTA, this is against Pakistani law.
#RefugeesRightsInPakistan
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Today!
Next week, 'Refugee Cities' if you'd like to listen/chat
@TP_DCU
with
@PeterAdmirand
💻Via Zoom
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27.
@RobertCrews22
& Shazam Bashir’s edited volume Under the Drones has important contributions
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Lovely
@AKU_GSMC
in Nairobi kindly interviewed and filmed me for
@AKUGlobal
&
@AKU_ISMC
upcoming Authors day—1 November! Quite a different (good different!) university be a part of (for all my cynicism of academia)… now waiting for
@DeanFASPK
’s invite?!
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Starting in 2010 I started collecting oral histories of Afghans in Karachi+ Peshawar. It was depressing then to document arrests, death, + mistreatment. 13 years on (13!!!) depressing to know not much changes. Read:
@ShahmeerAlbalos
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Were all the best teachers you had in your life women? Or is this my experience? (Also per-uni I mainly had women as teachers). At university the superstars were usually men. But the people who transformed my life were women.
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Reminds me of when a PROFESSOR of Islamic Studies in Germany told me I am not a good Muslim because I don't wear hijab and show skin. We only exist as "objects" stuck in time that can be dissected to "prove" whatever idotic racist fantasies these fools have.
Bauchfrei für Islamisten, Fashion wartet immer wieder mit spektakulären Überraschungen auf 💪
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Why did thie Pakistani caretaker governemnt NOT allow a moratorium on winter evictions? Utter cruelty.
#StopDeportations
#AfghanRefugeesInPakistan
Trucks filled with the rare assets Afghans could bring back. Most are dispossessed, extorted, and arrive with nothing. Governments usually observe a moratorium on winter evictions but not this caretaker Pakistani government. Zero rules apply, a story of refoulement.
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24. Alessandro Monsutti’s seminal 2005 War and Migration, but all of his work really. Here is a good starter:
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@tnflorvil
Best thing is I recently got to witness a German organisation talk about decolonisation but did not want to discuss racism LOL 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Love to everyone who is having their first Eid without a love one — parent, child, friend, comrade. Akhtar Mubarak sha. Eid Mubarak. We continue.
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Going through my 2013(!) PhD and an appendix where I recorded food stampedes and suicides from poverty. Terrible to read then as it is now. May they all rest in peace and power. May we all work to produce the conditions in which this is not unusual.
A stampede at a Ramadan food distribution centre in Pakistan’s city of Karachi has killed at least 11 people, all women and children, say police and rescue officials
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@zarahsultana
@campbellclaret
Any women's rights won in
#Afghanistan
- were and always have been - won by
#AfghanWomen
. Alistair Campbell needs to do one.
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Karachi from the sky is not messing around. That’s some mega mega city stuff right there.
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3/ Then to be a Palestinian scholar in Germany. Nah. Forget it. Emigrate. You can't work on it.
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28. Nivi Manchanda's many works, including: Queering the Pashtun
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@W_Asherah
Pakistan imports huge amounts of tea from Kenya. A nation of tea addicts—chai is life 😅 So when I landed in Nairobi I was like 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🤩🤩🤩🤩
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This from
@JAC_Refugees
has sent me to tears. It should do You too. A cruel state. And for those saying "good"/"it's inevbitable"/"we suffer in Pakistan too". We see you. And your two-bit terrible peices of writing & solidarity. May we never be as vacous as you
#Afghanrefugees
“Gone to Afghanistan”
“Empty”
Through constant and unrelenting harassment, law enforcement across Pakistan have forced Afghans who have lived here for decades to leave their true homes, staring at uncertain futures
At Afghan basti, Karachi
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30. Faiz Ahmed’s 2017 Afghanistan Rising, situating Afghanistan conversation with British and Ottoman influence
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Who is in Berlin next week? Check out this conference organised by a collective of German, Afghan, and Pakistani, and other scholars on
#Pashtun
#Youth
and Alternative Futures!
Next week happening at HU in Berlin. For more information and programme:
#academicTwitter
#berlin
#conference
#Pakistan
#ecr
@HumboldtUni
@bgsmcs
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8/ Germany is hard place to live if not-white. But the health service is good. And infrastructure. Plus Berlin playgrounds for my kids. So, you know, between being killed off my a crumbling NHS or depression from racism in German workplaces, we have some tough choices!
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The brilliant
@PrinceGuma
at
@tacklinginfra
on
#tech
&
#water
in
#Nairobi
#Kenya
"Instead of striving for tropes of ‘world class’ water delivery, how about water provision that meets the needs of this particular city and its peoples?"
@RedPeppermag
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The UK feels like a sinking ship with folks like this at the helm.
Close minded bigots who know exactly what they’re doing and backed up by a party only too happy to have brown faces doing the ideological anti-migration (of a certain type) work that’s come to define the Tories.
Home Secretary
@SuellaBraverman
says 'vulnerable white girls are being targeted by British Pakistani grooming gangs', and people have been 'turning a blind eye out of political correctness'.
#Ridge
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