Sara Salem
@sarasalem.bsky.social
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Mai Taha and I wrote this article on sonic cartographies of internationalism, now up on @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It traces how radio broadcasting was central to liberation struggles around the world, asking how sound draws out different maps of solidarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now! archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...
Archiving the Tricontinental — archive stories
︎︎︎ All ︎︎︎ Launching Archive Stories ︎︎︎ Archiving Palestine ︎︎︎ Archiving the...
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This Wednesday - join us if you can! @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at @lsehumanrights.bsky.social Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-p...
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
LSE Human Rights@lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat do neoliberalism, US aid, and Gulf land grabs have to do with hunger in Sudan? @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan 🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm 🎟️ register to join us in-person or online #LSEEvents #Sudan
Just listened to a ⚽️ podcast where they used Gramsci to analyse the rise of set pieces in the premier league this season. His influence is truly unparalleled 🥲
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
LSE Human Rights@lsehumanrights.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat do neoliberalism, US aid, and Gulf land grabs have to do with hunger in Sudan? @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan 🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm 🎟️ register to join us in-person or online #LSEEvents #Sudan
For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight. We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
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"...a past that can never quite be forgotten." Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
Sara Salem@sarasalem.bsky.social · 9mo agoI wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
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In this new Intervention, "Cairo Road", @sarasalem.bsky.social reflects on Lusaka's map as a "living archive" of solidarity, a cartography of anticolonial struggle antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Here, @sarasalem.bsky.social answers as part of our latest blog series.
The point is to change it
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Basil Farraj on abolition, carcerality and subversion - join us this Thursday! Register here - buff.ly/18iNH0m
London 🇬🇧!! So delighted to be in conversation on my new book with the esteemed Doctor @sarasalem.bsky.social March 4. Free and open to public. London School of Economics. My book #DarkLaboratory is an anticapitalist love letter to islands & how to solve the climate crisis #EuropeanTour
For Palestinians, sport is a place of wonder & play, a brief taste of freedom, & so of course it cannot be allowed to live. Probably you’ve already decided what you think about this. But even one mind is worth changing, just as surely as one life is worth saving. www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew
As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored
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So excited to start this book about the opening of whole collections of classified documents from the Soviet era, and what they tell us about Soviet history and archives more broadly.
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
Calling for a ceasefire is now a radical and controversial demand. It is astounding what the political terrain looks like today. There is not even the pretence of humanitarianism, just endless support for mass killing.
Why must Palestinians audition for your empathy? Hala Alyan www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/o...
Opinion | The Palestine Double Standard
The task of the Palestinian is to audition for empathy and compassion. To prove that we deserve it.
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Struck by how so many refer to Gaza as opposed to Palestine. Another layer of erasure…
The Palestinian keffiyeh and its symbolism: The firshnet represents its Mediterranean life. The bold multi-laned borders represent the trade routes passing through Palestine. The leaf pattern in between the two border lines represent olive leaves. The hills, the sea, and the routes of travel.
So much is being revealed (again) about how little most academics care about the world they write, teach and speak about.
500 people. In a hospital. I am speechless. www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10...
Israel-Hamas War: Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza Hospital, Killing 500, Palestinian Health Ministry Say...
The ministry said the number of casualties at the Gaza City hospital, where many civilians had sought shelter, is expected to rise. Israel said it is investigating. President Biden is expected in Isra...
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Palestinian writer Adania Shibli has been informed that she will no longer receive the 2023 LiBeraturpreis award at Frankfurt Book Fair. Following this, Fitzcarraldo Editions have made her novel Minor Detail free to download for the entirety of Frankfurt Book Fair.
