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Sumit Sarkar’s unfinished argument with history

Sometime in 2000, I lost my copy of Sumit Sarkar’s Modern India in the Hindu College hostel at Delhi University. It was unfortunate. I remember looking for another copy in the library but without any success. I was somehow in a hurry to finish reading it, so I bought a…

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Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week

Exclusive: Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she ‘cannot be party to silencing writers’ after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to appear

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Peter Navarro’s Brahmin remark sets off a meltdown

Peter Navarro, Donald Trump’s favourite tariff warrior, has a gift for provocation. He has now dipped into India’s caste politics to explain why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is, in his telling, “bankrolling” Russia’s war machine with oil purchases.

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Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed?

Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?

The Guardian - US

Jane Austen at 250: Why we shouldn’t exaggerate her radicalism

The BBC’s recent docuseries, Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, the PBS mini-series Miss Austen as well as cultural and tourism festivities are all marking the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth for a global audience.

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Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ

Our cultural touchstones series examines works that have had a lasting influence

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‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how Columbia went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for Trump

The university had a history of being a home for cutting-edge discourse on Palestine – until it capitulated to the administration’s demands

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Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’

As the Columbia University professor steps down, he addresses student protests and how ‘higher education has developed into a hedge fund’

The Guardian - US

How Lebanon’s national identity is exploited to justify violence against it

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah confirmed on Sept. 28 that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut a day earlier. Nasrallah is the highest-ranking Hezbollah leader to have been killed since Israel began targeting the group’s leadership.

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Isabella Hammad: ‘I heard Edward Said speak when I was seven’

One of Granta’s best young novelists on rage, identity politics and the need for precision as well as poetry

The Guardian - UK

Robert Irwin obituary

Author, scholar and historian who enjoyed success with his 1983 novel The Arabian Nightmare

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian film draws praise as Cannes stars take discreet stances on Gaza war

The war raging in Gaza has given added prominence to director Mahdi Fleifel’s drama “To a Land Unknown”, the only Palestinian film to be screened in Cannes this year. While festival organisers have reined in protests, filmmakers, actors and activists have sought to shed light on the plight of Gaza’s…

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Jewish criticism of Israel’s actions must not be dismissed

Letters: We can only address the politics of Israel/Palestine by recognising the suffering of both Jewish and Palestinian people, writes Lynne Segal. Plus a letter from Ron Mendel

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Best art history books for honing your cultural knowledge

Discover the vibrant tapestry of the art world and its pioneers

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‘The war will end’: Remembering Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s poetic voice

Mahmoud Darwish’s poems are ever relevant to the conditions of Palestinians, particularly now in Gaza.

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Said, Scorsese, softmaxxing and sleep myths

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - US

Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’

As war rages in Gaza, the scholar and activist’s words feel prescient. That’s because so little has changed

The Hindu

2023 Indira Gandhi Prize jointly awarded to conductor Daniel Barenboim, Palestinian activist Ali Abu Awwad

Jointly awarded Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament & Development to Daniel Barenboim & Ali Abu Awwad for their efforts in resolving Israel-Palestine conflict.

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The Conversation

How colonialist depictions of Palestinians feed western ideas of eastern 'barbarism'

Like so many other Palestinians, my friend Abeer Salah (not her real name) lives in exile. For Salah, home is Baqa’a refugee camp 20 kilometres north of Jordan’s capital of Amman. But she has family and friends trapped in Gaza. Since the horrific Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 and Israel’s…

The Guardian - UK

An experts’ guide: culture to help understand the Israel-Palestine conflict

Writers and Middle East specialists choose key works – histories, novels, podcasts, documentaries and more – to explain the current crisis

The Guardian - UK

The two-state solution is not the only viable option for Israel and Palestine

Letters: A three-state solution, whereby Gaza reverts to Egyptian control and the West Bank becomes part of Jordan, has been tried before and worked, argues Dr Martin A Smith. Plus letters from Janet Dubé and Mike Reed

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The fruits of Palestine and their symbolism

Beyond their simple colours and shapes, these fruits carry the weight of history, shared culture, and loss.

The Conversation

Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad watched Saddam's statue topple in 2003. His 'standout' war memoir de-centres the West

Baghdad native and former architect Ghaith Abdul-Ahad traces his start as a journalist to the day Saddam Hussein’s statue was toppled in central Baghdad, on April 9 2003 – two weeks after US troops invaded the city.

The Hindu

Denying States their own cultures

Governor Ravi’s argument defies the principle of the concept of linguistic States

The Conversation

Iraq war 20 years on: how the role of empire and imperialism in the Middle East has been misconstrued

Before the US-led coalition’s occupation of Iraq starting in March 2003, there was at least one subject upon which certain advocates and opponents of the war agreed: that the invasion was imperialistic. Both sides weaponised the historical role western imperialism played in the Middle East in an equally pragmatic and…

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