If Lula wins despite all the billions spent on buying votes, police shenanigans, disinformation and the politicized prosecution and jailing, it will be the greatest political comeback of all time.

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all endurance.”
- James Baldwin

we'll discuss precisely about that on Oct. 31 at Birzeit University /Ramallah: conference co-organized with CBRL, Brown University, CPS at Columbia U., SOAS & partners.
Full programme: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1653284
Also via zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/84648604792

Hamideh Saberi, whose phd thesis I've the honour to supervise, will deliver a talk at New York University.
Together with Moniro Ravanipour, Neda Bolourchi & Yass Alisadeh, she will address the protests in Iran from a gender/historical perspective. Also on-line: as.nyu.edu/neareaststudie…

Interrsante último número de Perspectives on History de la American Historical Association , en particular'The anthropocene. History and Legacy of the Colonial Mindset' por Lorenzo Kamel Lorenzo Kamel

disci.unibo.it/en/news/1922-2…

'Terra Contesa' tra i 6 libri scelti da Sette, il settimanale del Corriere della Sera. Grazie ad Antonio Carioti.

Annexations. 'Legality aside'.

how #Iran arrived at this point? and why a obscurantist and extremist Iranian leadership is (beyond appearances) precisely what is needed in the eyes of those who aim to keep Iran isolated? My two cents.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/…

alle 21:45 su Radio 24 per parlare dell'omicidio di #MahsaAmini e più in generale del ruolo del ' #velo ' (non prescritto, come anche la #poligamia , dal Corano) e quello delle donne iraniane nella storia del Paese.
academia.edu/44327857/_Donn…