"A goal" (1926), by Gerard Bhengu (1910-1990).

"At the heart of most contemporary nationalist mythologies is a desired proximity to Whiteness" (Radwa Saad, 2024).

"Palestine's South Africa moment" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/les…

"Match Day, Outside Goodison Park, Everton Football Club," 1990. By Frank Green.

Paolo Maldini, 1999. By Clive Brunskill.

The People's University for Palestine in New York. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

Brazil’s president says world doesn’t have to put up with Elon Musk’s ‘far right’ ideology just because he’s rich cnn.com/2024/09/04/tec…

The All Blacks will play Springboks in a test in Cape Town. The usual coverage about the black, mostly coloured (but also some Xhosa-speaking) fans who support the All Blacks is again a story. Most of the write-ups and comments are surface-level. This 2018 piece by Stephen Coplan is

God. That story about a white farmer and his (presumably) white foreman or relative (still in his teens), along with some black male workers, who attacked. shot and murdered two black women who were visiting a farm in South Africa's Limpopo Province. They then fed their

"Mo Salah Mural," 2022. By John Culshaw.

Abdullah Ibrahim (left) on cello, with Ray Nollie (center) also on cello, Johnny Gertze on upright bass, and Basil Coetzee on flute, playing a live gig in Strandfontein, Cape Town, South Africa, in 1970. By Basil Breakey.

Outtakes from our Fall semester welcome event (pizza party) this week.

Argentina is really good. 3-0 vs Chile 91'

"Hebron, Palestine, 1960", via ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly.

“On the one hand, poetry is secret and natural, on the other hand it must make its way in a world that is public and brutal” (Seamus Heaney).