Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
07.10.18 - Althorp Literary Festival, Althorp (UK)

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry ‘#RhodesMustFall’ sparked an international movement calling...

Chalk and Blackboard: Decolonizing places of knowledge

»[T]he night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard«, Ngugi wa Thiong’o writes to reveal the intimate link between physical and...

Looking for an expert introduction to Rojava? A more nuanced take on the situation?

Thomas Schmidinger will be at Five Leaves Bookshop on Wednesday 12th September at 7pm to discuss the conflict, present and past, and his new book