Maria Marsh

Refaat Alareer, If I must die (courtesy of @theIMEU on insta)

Information about the book, part of Cambridge's Global Middle East series, can be found here: bit.ly/4ap537T @CUP_PoliSci

So pleased to see that Crystal Ennis's (@Crystal_Ennis) book, MILLENIAL DREAMS IN OIL ECONOMIES: JOB SEEKING AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR IN OMAN is the winner of this year's @AgapsOrg Book Award agaps.org/agaps-awards/h…

The Frederick Douglass Book Prize finalists have been announced and I'm so pleased to see that @cambUP_History author Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré's book SLAVERY, RESISTANCE, AND IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN WEST AFRICA is on the list. macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/ya…

I am beyond pleased to see that the very first in our series Elements in Middle East Politics is now available online: WHAT IS THE MIDDLE EAST? by Marc Lynch - what a topic & author to launch it all

These covers are so striking - more in the Global Middle East series coming soon

If you can, please do consider donating to @sameerproject: chuffed.org/project/help-u…

Back to my desk in Cambridge and reflecting on a really inspiring few days in Chicago. Thank you to all of you @ASANewsOnline for your work and also to all that kindly took their time to meet at #ASA2024. Now back to the emails…

Last day of #ASA2024 - come by and check out the latest from Cambridge’s African Studies Series, including books by Bernard Moitt, Laura Martin, Mariana Candido and Erin Pettigrew

@CandidoMarianaP @ASANewsOnline So good seeing you too! And seeing all the love your book is getting as well

Always nice to see @MariaSoleMarsh @ASANewsOnline

Celebrating all the prize winners from the last year from Cambridge, including the winner of the 2023 ASA Best Book Prize, @CandidoMarianaP’s WEALTH, LAND, AND PROPERTY IN ANGOLA #ASA2024

We’re open and good to go! Drawing attention here to Rachel Jean-Baptiste’s award-winning book and part of our African Identities series edited by Carina Ray and Toyin Falola. This book is also shortlisted for this year’s ASA best book prize @ASANewsOnline #ASA2024

Ok we are all set up at #ASA2024. See you tomorrow morning at the book exhibit: 9am on the 7th floor for coffee hosted by @ASANewsOnline

THE ORIGINS OF THE SYRIAN CONFLICT by @MarwaDaoudy offers a thoughtful look at Syria's environmental, economic & social vulnerabilities in the lead up to the 2011 uprising - bit.ly/4ffk4ba

Good morning, Chicago! I’m looking forward to meeting you all at this year’s @ASANewsOnline meeting. We’re setting up the booth today ready for tomorrow #ASA2024

This week, more than most, I’ve been thinking about Salwa Ismail’s THE RULE OF VIOLENCE. A powerful and moving book about the rule of the Assad family in Syria, I urge you to read the section on memory, violence, and Hama in the 1980s - bit.ly/4gLsZ5F

Archives of the Disappeared. “Please brothers don’t step on these files, you’re stepping on souls.”

It’s a good day for Mahmoud Darwish — “The Prison Cell”

The #Assad regime's murderous dictatorship in #Syria has fallen. Syrians are elated and their moods seem to be a mix of celebration and apprehension. Amid these rapid changes, this is a reminder what the regime was most infamous for: militias, massacres, and prisons. A thread 🧵

Threading Refaat Alareer's words through my needle today 🇵🇸

What would you do after a #ceasefire? Everyone I know wants to cry, breathe, wrap their heads around loss, to realize the bombing has ended. Everyone I know is mourning thousands killed & hundreds of thousands left without a roof over their heads. #Lebanon #LebanonCeasefire