Category: by Tilda Walker
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‘What matters are the needs which art answers.’ – John Berger Fathi Ghaben (1947-2024) was a Palestinian painter whose work played a dual role: at once witness to the struggles of his life in Gaza and a rallying call to oppose this oppression. Both are acts of resistance. So too is the survival of his…
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It is no secret that the history of Arabic studies at Oxford is inseparable from British imperialism. Our department’s name change in 2022 did not paint over its orientalist past – nor should it, or did it, try to. On the surface, times may have changed since the study of “oriental” languages and cultures was…
The Oxford Arabist 