Sara Salem
@sarasalem.bsky.social
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Just listened to a ⚽️ podcast where they used Gramsci to analyse the rise of set pieces in the premier league this season. His influence is truly unparalleled 🥲
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Just listened to a ⚽️ podcast where they used Gramsci to analyse the rise of set pieces in the premier league this season. His influence is truly unparalleled 🥲
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
What do neoliberalism, US aid, and Gulf land grabs have to do with hunger in Sudan?
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
🎟️ register to join us in-person or online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @sarasalem.bsky.social will join us to discuss the politics of hunger in Sudan
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
🎟️ register to join us in-person or online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
lse.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Honoured to be hosting the incredible Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social next month at LSE - join us for this important lecture on December 3
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For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
www.versobooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
www.podbean.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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"...a past that can never quite be forgotten."
Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
antipodeonline.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"...a past that can never quite be forgotten."
Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
antipodeonline.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
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In this new Intervention, "Cairo Road", @sarasalem.bsky.social reflects on Lusaka's map as a "living archive" of solidarity, a cartography of anticolonial struggle antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In this new Intervention, "Cairo Road", @sarasalem.bsky.social reflects on Lusaka's map as a "living archive" of solidarity, a cartography of anticolonial struggle antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
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Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Here, @sarasalem.bsky.social answers as part of our latest blog series.
The point is to change it
buff.ly
June 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Here, @sarasalem.bsky.social answers as part of our latest blog series.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Basil Farraj on abolition, carcerality and subversion - join us this Thursday!
Register here - buff.ly/18iNH0m
Register here - buff.ly/18iNH0m
May 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Basil Farraj on abolition, carcerality and subversion - join us this Thursday!
Register here - buff.ly/18iNH0m
Register here - buff.ly/18iNH0m
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London 🇬🇧!! So delighted to be in conversation on my new book with the esteemed Doctor @sarasalem.bsky.social March 4. Free and open to public. London School of Economics.
My book #DarkLaboratory is an anticapitalist love letter to islands & how to solve the climate crisis
#EuropeanTour
My book #DarkLaboratory is an anticapitalist love letter to islands & how to solve the climate crisis
#EuropeanTour
January 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
London 🇬🇧!! So delighted to be in conversation on my new book with the esteemed Doctor @sarasalem.bsky.social March 4. Free and open to public. London School of Economics.
My book #DarkLaboratory is an anticapitalist love letter to islands & how to solve the climate crisis
#EuropeanTour
My book #DarkLaboratory is an anticapitalist love letter to islands & how to solve the climate crisis
#EuropeanTour
Spent the weekend with Mariana Enriquez’s latest 💚
December 1, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Spent the weekend with Mariana Enriquez’s latest 💚
For Palestinians, sport is a place of wonder & play, a brief taste of freedom, & so of course it cannot be allowed to live. Probably you’ve already decided what you think about this. But even one mind is worth changing, just as surely as one life is worth saving.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew
As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:15 PM
For Palestinians, sport is a place of wonder & play, a brief taste of freedom, & so of course it cannot be allowed to live. Probably you’ve already decided what you think about this. But even one mind is worth changing, just as surely as one life is worth saving.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
Second time seeing this incredible film ❤️🔥
November 21, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Second time seeing this incredible film ❤️🔥
So excited to start this book about the opening of whole collections of classified documents from the Soviet era, and what they tell us about Soviet history and archives more broadly.
November 19, 2024 at 4:31 PM
So excited to start this book about the opening of whole collections of classified documents from the Soviet era, and what they tell us about Soviet history and archives more broadly.
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Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
November 15, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
Any postcolonial studies or Marxism starter packs? 😊
November 17, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Any postcolonial studies or Marxism starter packs? 😊
Some texts I’ve been teaching this term 💫
November 17, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Some texts I’ve been teaching this term 💫
Calling for a ceasefire is now a radical and controversial demand. It is astounding what the political terrain looks like today. There is not even the pretence of humanitarianism, just endless support for mass killing.
October 31, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Calling for a ceasefire is now a radical and controversial demand. It is astounding what the political terrain looks like today. There is not even the pretence of humanitarianism, just endless support for mass killing.
Struck by how so many refer to Gaza as opposed to Palestine. Another layer of erasure…
October 23, 2023 at 7:03 PM
Struck by how so many refer to Gaza as opposed to Palestine. Another layer of erasure…
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The Palestinian keffiyeh and its symbolism:
The firshnet represents its Mediterranean life.
The bold multi-laned borders represent the trade routes passing through Palestine.
The leaf pattern in between the two border lines represent olive leaves.
The hills, the sea, and the routes of travel.
The firshnet represents its Mediterranean life.
The bold multi-laned borders represent the trade routes passing through Palestine.
The leaf pattern in between the two border lines represent olive leaves.
The hills, the sea, and the routes of travel.
October 17, 2023 at 9:23 AM
The Palestinian keffiyeh and its symbolism:
The firshnet represents its Mediterranean life.
The bold multi-laned borders represent the trade routes passing through Palestine.
The leaf pattern in between the two border lines represent olive leaves.
The hills, the sea, and the routes of travel.
The firshnet represents its Mediterranean life.
The bold multi-laned borders represent the trade routes passing through Palestine.
The leaf pattern in between the two border lines represent olive leaves.
The hills, the sea, and the routes of travel.
So much is being revealed (again) about how little most academics care about the world they write, teach and speak about.
October 19, 2023 at 8:29 AM
So much is being revealed (again) about how little most academics care about the world they write, teach and speak about.
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500 people. In a hospital. I am speechless.
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10...
Israel-Hamas War: Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza Hospital, Killing 500, Palestinian Health Ministry Say...
The ministry said the number of casualties at the Gaza City hospital, where many civilians had sought shelter, is expected to rise. Israel said it is investigating. President Biden is expected in Isra...
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2023 at 7:18 PM
500 people. In a hospital. I am speechless.
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10...