@MuriamDavis

Historian of 🇩🇿 | editor @meriponline @jadaliyya | Director @CMENA_UCSC | 📖 Markets of Civilization @DukePress | history, politics, theory, cats

 Santa Cruz, CA
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This looks like a great teaching tool.
Mezna Qato@meznaqatoOct 13
What Americans were told about Palestinians, and for how long. Interesting effort. coveringpalestine.org/

Covering Palestine

What Americans were told about Palestinians, and for how long. 2772 clippings from 667 newspapers, 1799 to 2023.

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I recently published a piece in Insaniyyat detailing how the decolonial turn (especially the writings of Mignolo) obfuscates the history of 🇩🇿 Algeria and works against an emancipatory politics in the MENA region. A possibly unpopular take, I realize. shorturl.at/Q2c9N

The Algerian Revolution and the Pitfalls of Decolonial Theory in th...

Perhaps no anti-colonial struggle has been more fruitful for theorizing the nature of decolonization than the Algerian Revolution. Indeed, since 2023 Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians has b...

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Contrary to popular belief, the first Arabic translation of Fanon's Damnés de la terre was not by al-Durubi and al-Atassi in 1963 but done by Algerian comrades writing for El-Moudjahid in 1962. Note also the different translation - they do not use معذبو الأرض but rather الكادحون.
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Trying to stay off this site but this was too cool not to share!
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I sometimes forget to post on here these days, but I wrote a piece about a wonderful Algerian historian who I sadly never got to meet in person. His work has so much to teach us about the relationship between social justice and anti-colonial revolution.
Mezna Qato@meznaqatoFeb 12
"Harbi’s writings also illustrated a model of internationalism that refused to accept the authoritarian nature of specific nationalist projects, even if these projects were based on anti-imperialist principles." - @MuriamDavis jacobin.com/2026/02/mohammed…

Mohammed Harbi Was Algeria’s Revolutionary Historian

Mohammed Harbi went from participating in Algeria’s independence struggle to writing some of the most important books about its history. Harbi, who died last month at the age of 92, was a creative...

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Hey @airfrance, the 19th Century called and they want their Orientalist clichés back. Is Delacroix your marketing director?
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Yesterday was the anniversary of Camus' death: In 1964, while living in Paris, 🇵🇰 Pakistani artist Sadequain Naqqash was commissioned to produce lithographs for a special edition of Camus' L’ Étranger.
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3/ In one of his rubaiyat he wrote: “Har chand ke hai Marx ka hi khabt mujhe/ Abjad ki nigarish pe nahin zabt mujhe/ Ishq aur virasat hi ki majboori men/ Khataati-e-ayat se hai rabt mujhe.”
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4/ "Although Marx remains my obsession/ I cannot control the alphabetical description/ Indeed due to my passion and patrimony/ With the calligraphy of the Quranic verses I have a connection."
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I recently wrote a piece on how Algerian communists and Trotskyists critically engaged with Fanon's writings under Ben Bella (1962-1965) for @ROAPEjournal. '‘A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962' - tinyurl.com/5xa9rbtk

‘A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962

This briefing revisits Algerian debates on the writings of Frantz Fanon in the years following independence. It focuses on how leftists responded to Fanon’s theory of the peasantry and his depiction...

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Julian Go@jgo3426 Apr 2025
Can racial capitalism be discussed seriously in France? A piece in Le Monde @lemondefr about the special issue on racial capitalism in Marronnages featuring my article & others @madeline_woker lemonde.fr/idees/article/202…

« Marronnages. Les questions raciales au crible des sciences sociales » : échapper aux formes de...

Le sujet, au cœur de la revue annuelle, divise aujourd’hui la politique mondiale. Il déchire également la recherche en sciences sociales, où la notion de « race » est confrontée à de fortes réticen...

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NEWS: MERIP Welcomes Yaman Salahi to our Board of Directors. Yaman is the founder of Salahi PC, a mission-drive law firm that pursues class action and individual litigation for social and economic justice. We are thrilled to be working with Yaman and relying on his expertise!
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Happening Monday!
Center for the Middle East and North Africa, UCSC@CMENA_UCSC5 Feb 2025
We are excited to be hosting M'hamed Oualdi and Shreya Parikh for a discussion on the study of race and racism in the Mediterranean from the 18th Century to the present. 24 February, 10 am (PST) on Zoom. We hope to see you then!
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It is hard to express how excited I am for this announcement! 🥳 ♥️ @CMENA_UCSC is hosting a Raï concert in Santa Cruz (California, not Oran!) on 23 May. 🇩🇿 Please share with friends and join us if you live in the area!
Center for the Middle East and North Africa, UCSC@CMENA_UCSC15 Feb 2025
Our ♥️ Valentine’s Day surprise ! 📢 Cheb Nasro, one of the 💫 legends of “Romantic Raï,” will be coming to Santa Cruz for a concert on May 23rd at 7pm!! 🎶🇩🇿 🔥 Book your tickets through the @kuumbwajazz website (link in comments ⬇️). @chebnasro11 @ucsc @UCSCTHI
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Looking forward to this timely discussion between @shreya_parikh and M'hamed Oualdi! Two amazing scholars of North Africa who have much to teach us about the history and politics of race and racism in the Mediterranean.
Center for the Middle East and North Africa, UCSC@CMENA_UCSC5 Feb 2025
We are excited to be hosting M'hamed Oualdi and Shreya Parikh for a discussion on the study of race and racism in the Mediterranean from the 18th Century to the present. 24 February, 10 am (PST) on Zoom. We hope to see you then!
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We are excited to be hosting M'hamed Oualdi and Shreya Parikh for a discussion on the study of race and racism in the Mediterranean from the 18th Century to the present. 24 February, 10 am (PST) on Zoom. We hope to see you then!
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This is a fantastic issue of @meriponline!
MERIP@meriponline29 Jan 2025
Resistance -- The Axis and Beyond is out NOW. Middle East Report 313 features a kaleidoscopic set of perspectives on military and non-military resistance to Israel's campaign in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Read, share and let us know what you think! bit.ly/4aEYBrt

Resistance—The Axis and Beyond

Winter 2024

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Anti-Nazi poster printed in the Algerian journal AnNasr (June 1943) showing Saladin (Salah ad-Din) slaying a swastika “the enemy of all religions”.
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