Oppression is not a point of view
Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately
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We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities. Al Jazeera, 29 May 2024 We have come together as Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities to affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and our students, and the insistence on our future, in the face of all current attempts
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Suliman | iopal.net | 6.5.10 A blackout as it is, you resort to a candle to light it up. In Gaza, you light the candle up. In Gaza, you read under a faint candlelight. In Gaza, you read; in the dark, you read. Gaza … Fourteen years in Gaza have taught me to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) George Bisharat | Los Angeles Times | June 3, 2008 This essay was featured as the final segment of an on-line debate between George Bisharat and Judea Pearl that ran for five days as the ‘Dust-Up’ website feature of the Los Angeles Times and its sister publications Newsday, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. I
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fida Qishta | IMEU | 8 March 2008 Rafah, the Gaza Strip, March 3 – Israeli officials said today that they finished their military operation in the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli attacks continue, and we fear that Israel is still planning a major invasion. On February 29th, Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mustafa Barghouti | Al-Ahram Weekly, Issue 771 | 1-7 December 2005 The on-the-ground reality of Israel’s moral bankruptcy in its genocidal policies towards the Palestinians remains as clear as ever, writes Mustafa Barghouti* What is the current situation on the ground in Palestine? The Israeli narrative that continues to dominate the international media presents
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Palestine Monitor | August 2005 Editors’ Note: This is a rare eyewitness account (with photographs) of one of the hundreds of illegal “targeted murders” by Israel of young Palestinian men, members of the legal Resistance. As such, its importance cannot be overstated. It is the only eyewitness account of this particular
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | 27 January 2005 As the BBC and other major media organizations patronizingly ‘congratulate’ Abu Mazen on deploying 3,000 lightly-armed Palestinian troops to protect the ‘security’ of illegal Jewish colonists in Gaza, they report that ‘it is quiet on the ground’ in Palestine. In doing so, they are
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Terry Boullata | Electronic Intifada | 18/12/2004 Terry Boullata is head of a private school in Abu Dis and an advocacy worker. Terry Boullata: “Bit by bit the wall became more tangible” I am 38 years old, and I am from Jerusalem. I was born and lived all my life here, and I am
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Evan Wright | Village Voice | 24-30 November 2004 In April 9, 2003, the day the statue of Saddam Hussein was being toppled in Baghdad, symbolizing the promised liberation of Iraq, I was embedded with a Marine unit engaged in fierce combat about 30 miles north of the city, on the outskirts of Baquba.
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