Happy birthday Refaat, poet, scholar, and stone thrower of the First Intifada. Miss your acuity, courage, generosity and wit every day The video? #iykyk youtu.be/QzOIXlmpgBQ?...

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Short 🧵 After a bookish fundraiser yesterday, a lovely young Palestinian poet from Gaza asked an unexpected question: “why do you teach?” My answer: “to build the future.” To build a different, better, just future from what the Empire allows us.

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The younger me never thought teaching would be so dangerous. Despite over 10 years of death, rape and other violence, I soothed myself that teaching at imperial core was safe(r). That even if we were murdered, it would not be with impunity. Summer 2026 ended that delusion

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This week marks my 21st year of teaching in UK higher ed. I don’t know how long I can continue. But as I look over my lecture notes for today’s class - with poetry by Emily Dickinson, Claude McKay and Refaat - I know this: I will keep building the future as long as I can.

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Pathetic…..

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