A scholar of language, culture, education and social justice. A poet: https://sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-telling-of-gaza/
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Dr Khawla Badwan
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Despite and still
You are invited to this event at the Manchester Poetry Library to mark the launch of At the Edges of Languaging.
The series are situated at the edges of disciplines, genres and norms, pushing language into a craft of wordsmithery responding to contemporary horrorism.
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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beyond
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All life is sacred,
no except for...
Language is the brick that builds the walls. Language is also the brick that can be thrown at these walls in pursuit of fairer presents and futures.
After decades of intercultural theorisations on the relationship between the self and the other comes an urgent realisation for this time of "terrifying firsts" to borrow from Craig Mokhiber:
there's no self and other
anymore
The prices of oil
What kind of world normalises the horrors of "Gaza-like" ? What kind of life are we living as death worlds are spreading? What kind of future are we planning with the language of silence and the paradigm of indifference?
"Ignorance of the other is not a strategy for survival" - Edward Said
Language in Times of Unspeakability
You are cordially invited to the launch event of a new series hosted by the Manchester Poetry Library called ‘at the edges of languaging’.
The opening event is on 8th June 2026. To register: www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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