Raph Cormack
raphcormack.bsky.social
Raph Cormack
@raphcormack.bsky.social
صعلوك الادب
Giving a talk that will present some of the early findings in my research for a biography of James Sanua- Abou Naddara
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Raphael Cormack | “How Jewish was James Sanua?”
Raphael Cormack | “How Jewish was James Sanua?” Raphael Cormack, Assistant Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, United Kingdom In conversation with Jessic...
cjs.fas.harvard.edu
January 28, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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I will never understand the soullessness of people who try to strip a human rights defender and torture survivor of the safety that his family won at impossible cost. I have nothing but the most profound admiration for Alaa Abd el-Fattah
I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.

Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.

#FreeAlaa Always.

freealaa.net/alaa-response
Statement in response to historic tweets
I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu...
freealaa.net
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I'm excited to share this new essay, which offers a glimpse into my current book project: a biography of Shaykh Imam. I hope this piece will appear in Arabic soon and if anyone has a story to tell about Imam, please reach out. I would love to hear it. 🎶 doi.org/10.1017/S002...
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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From a letter to Dr Adnan al-Bursh. We will be posting letters of rage & grief, to those who can no longer receive them, throughout the day. Please join with your own.

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April 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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The GRIEF issue is out today. Don't miss the many resonant letters at arablit.org/grief & join us in writing your own.

Also, if anyone knows who took this photo, we'll pass it on to Matthew.

"May what we mourn propel us toward collective liberation." - Abdelrahman ElGendy
April 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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ArabLit Quarterly Spring 2025: GRIEF (PDF)

The GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly brings readers & writers together into a space of shared rage, shared love, and a shared way forward. We share in the horror of seeing small children covered in the grime of cement dust and smoke; the horror of…
ArabLit Quarterly Spring 2025: GRIEF (PDF)
The GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly brings readers & writers together into a space of shared rage, shared love, and a shared way forward. We share in the horror of seeing small children covered in the grime of cement dust and smoke; the horror of manufactured hunger and deprivation; the horror of a whiteboard on which healthcare workers have written REMEMBER US. We share in the grief-rage of people kidnapped by governments, of climate collapse, of profit margins wedged open far enough to swallow people whole.
arablit.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Just finished the excellent ‘Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age’ by @raphcormack.bsky.social - a highly readable account of fakirism, spiritualism and occultism in the 20th century, approached through the lives of two key figures: Tahra Bey and Dr Dahesh.
April 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Happy US Publication date to HOLY MEN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC AGE. It's been a slog but it's finally here! @wwnorton.bsky.social wwnorton.com/books/978039...
March 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Happy US Publication date to HOLY MEN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC AGE. It's been a slog but it's finally here! @wwnorton.bsky.social wwnorton.com/books/978039...
March 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM