Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
@nawalabu72.bsky.social
Lecturer in the politics of race & decolonial studies / IR lover researching terror & migration-security/ Black Muslim feminist killjoy | https://colouredacademia.wordpress.com
Excited to be joining @marinegueguin.bsky.social @kamrank.bsky.social @carlgibson.bsky.social at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social for a Roundtable on 'Rethinking the Pedagogies and Politics of “Terrorism” '! First time in Leeds :)
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Excited to be joining @marinegueguin.bsky.social @kamrank.bsky.social @carlgibson.bsky.social at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social for a Roundtable on 'Rethinking the Pedagogies and Politics of “Terrorism” '! First time in Leeds :)
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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social has recently contributed to an important report from the Independent Commission on Counter Terrorism. It found that Britain’s counter terrorism strategy is no longer keeping the country safe. Read about the report and Amal's input here ⤵️
Counter-terrorism commission calls for overhaul - University of Liverpool News
Counter-terrorism commission calls for overhaul
news.liverpool.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social has recently contributed to an important report from the Independent Commission on Counter Terrorism. It found that Britain’s counter terrorism strategy is no longer keeping the country safe. Read about the report and Amal's input here ⤵️
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The Department of Politics at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social 💼📚🎓invites applications to the Politics Pathway of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP):
The deadline for the NWSSDTP funding application is 2nd February 2026 for the October 2026 programme start.
The deadline for the NWSSDTP funding application is 2nd February 2026 for the October 2026 programme start.
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The Department of Politics at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social 💼📚🎓invites applications to the Politics Pathway of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP):
The deadline for the NWSSDTP funding application is 2nd February 2026 for the October 2026 programme start.
The deadline for the NWSSDTP funding application is 2nd February 2026 for the October 2026 programme start.
Trying to do some good by challenging the racialisation in counterterrorism policy & law - it took 3 years but my research is out in the ‘Report of the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism Law, Policy and Practice’. Many thanks to Tufyal Choudhury and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Trying to do some good by challenging the racialisation in counterterrorism policy & law - it took 3 years but my research is out in the ‘Report of the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism Law, Policy and Practice’. Many thanks to Tufyal Choudhury and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.
Will be heading to London tomorrow to be present for the Launch of the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice Report. My submission for this focused on understanding how race and processes of racialisation shape and inform counter-terrorism law, policy,and practice.
Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice - Report Launch
11th November 2025, Royal United Services Institute, 61 Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET
binghamcentre.biicl.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Will be heading to London tomorrow to be present for the Launch of the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice Report. My submission for this focused on understanding how race and processes of racialisation shape and inform counter-terrorism law, policy,and practice.
I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...
October 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...
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Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.
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This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies
In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th...
cais.cass.anu.edu.au
October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social
cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025
October 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025
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Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.
#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -
Who is Disposable? The Making and Re-Making of the “Bad” Migrant at Europe’s Borders - https://cup.org/473YrJ8
- @gemmabird.bsky.social & @davideschmid.bsky.social
#FirstView #JREP10
Who is Disposable? The Making and Re-Making of the “Bad” Migrant at Europe’s Borders - https://cup.org/473YrJ8
- @gemmabird.bsky.social & @davideschmid.bsky.social
#FirstView #JREP10
October 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.
I am excited to share that I’ll be speaking as part of the Birmingham Literature Festival on the topic of ‘Malcolm X: A Deeper Purpose ‘this Saturday: www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/mal...
Malcolm X: A Deeper Purpose | Birmingham Rep
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I am excited to share that I’ll be speaking as part of the Birmingham Literature Festival on the topic of ‘Malcolm X: A Deeper Purpose ‘this Saturday: www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/mal...
Im in an IR textbook as a reference in world politics! Check out : ‘Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations’ from Oxford University Press 📚 Thank you to the amazing editors for highlighting my work! @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Im in an IR textbook as a reference in world politics! Check out : ‘Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations’ from Oxford University Press 📚 Thank you to the amazing editors for highlighting my work! @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came to our @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book launch , Narratives of Hope, and Storytelling against the colonial panels and round tables ☺️it’s been an honour to share my thoughts and research with the @europeanisa.bsky.social research community ! #eisapec2025
August 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to our @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book launch , Narratives of Hope, and Storytelling against the colonial panels and round tables ☺️it’s been an honour to share my thoughts and research with the @europeanisa.bsky.social research community ! #eisapec2025
Really enjoyed the panel on ‘ Memory, Justice, and the Politics of knowing : Decolonial Perspectives on Transitional Contexts’ ! Got to see some great presentations from Noga Glucksam and Sung-Jin Park! @uni-jena.de @richmondunildn.bsky.social #eisapec2025
August 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Really enjoyed the panel on ‘ Memory, Justice, and the Politics of knowing : Decolonial Perspectives on Transitional Contexts’ ! Got to see some great presentations from Noga Glucksam and Sung-Jin Park! @uni-jena.de @richmondunildn.bsky.social #eisapec2025
Excited to listen to the role of Critical/Orthodox Terrorism Studies in the permissibility of violence this morning with @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social @nicolapratt.bsky.social Madeline-sophie abbas and @amnakaleem.bsky.social
#eisapec2025
#eisapec2025
August 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Excited to listen to the role of Critical/Orthodox Terrorism Studies in the permissibility of violence this morning with @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social @nicolapratt.bsky.social Madeline-sophie abbas and @amnakaleem.bsky.social
#eisapec2025
#eisapec2025
Congratulations to @malikalnasir.bsky.social on his book launch for ‘Searching for My Slave Roots:From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge’ yesterday at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social It’s been an honour to witness Malik win and share his story with the world: harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...
August 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Congratulations to @malikalnasir.bsky.social on his book launch for ‘Searching for My Slave Roots:From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge’ yesterday at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social It’s been an honour to witness Malik win and share his story with the world: harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...
Stay safe Liverpool. It’s shame that in 2025 we still have to tell the police that the safety of racialised people matters more than ensuring white supremacists are happy,content, and ‘free’
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Stay safe Liverpool. It’s shame that in 2025 we still have to tell the police that the safety of racialised people matters more than ensuring white supremacists are happy,content, and ‘free’
“People are overwhelmed – emotionally, mentally, physically, financially; they cannot endure any more suffering.” aje.io/ymvlk3
In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye
Forced expulsion is looming and we know this time we may never see our homes again.
aje.io
August 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“People are overwhelmed – emotionally, mentally, physically, financially; they cannot endure any more suffering.” aje.io/ymvlk3
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Looking for more reading? I edited - and contributed to - this special edition on James Baldwin for Writers Mosaic. writersmosaic.org.uk/content/goin...
Going to meet James Baldwin - Writers Mosaic
James Baldwin was an activist, public intellectual and a guide for understanding the nuances of race. In this edition we explore how he remains an inspiration for a new generation taking on the persis...
writersmosaic.org.uk
December 27, 2023 at 6:47 AM
Looking for more reading? I edited - and contributed to - this special edition on James Baldwin for Writers Mosaic. writersmosaic.org.uk/content/goin...
I am excited to share that I'll be presenting three times next week as part of the @europeanisa.bsky.social Pan European Conference. Please reach out if you're an IR or Security Studies scholar with an interest in race and IR or anticolonial theory. It'll be my first time there #EISAPEC2025
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I am excited to share that I'll be presenting three times next week as part of the @europeanisa.bsky.social Pan European Conference. Please reach out if you're an IR or Security Studies scholar with an interest in race and IR or anticolonial theory. It'll be my first time there #EISAPEC2025
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Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
'No Other Land' Contributor Odeh Hadalin Killed in West Bank Settler Attack
Odeh Hadalin, a contributor to the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was reportedly killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
www.rollingstone.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
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Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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July 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —
In 4 months it will have been a year since some amazing colleagues and I co-wrote 'An appeal to Anti-colonial education at the University of Liverpool' www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu... . It is hoped that this is a helpful resource for educators elsewhere. @liverpooluni.bsky.social
www.liverpool.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In 4 months it will have been a year since some amazing colleagues and I co-wrote 'An appeal to Anti-colonial education at the University of Liverpool' www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu... . It is hoped that this is a helpful resource for educators elsewhere. @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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The Windrush generations were proudly British. Yet immigrants are still fighting to be seen that way | Diane Abbott
The Windrush generations were proudly British. Yet immigrants are still fighting to be seen that way | Diane Abbott
This week’s Windrush Day reception at No 10 was joyous – but also a reminder of the ugliness behind the ‘island of strangers’ rhetoric, says Labour MP Diane Abbott
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The Windrush generations were proudly British. Yet immigrants are still fighting to be seen that way | Diane Abbott