Sara Salem

@saramsalem

Dreaming of decolonial futures. But for now, exploring capitalism, post-colonialism & empire in the 'Middle East'. Assistant professor @ LSE. She/her.

Cairo, Egypt | London, England
lse.ac.uk/sociology/peop…
Joined February 2016
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    Feb 7

    It’s kind of real? 😳 Thanks Cambridge University Press and especially Hossam Dirar for letting me use his painting on the cover

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    3 hours ago

    . book prize lecture. Tomorrow Nov 11 @ 4pm. Should be great discussion w/ Adam Hanieh registration needed.

    LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER for book prize lecture with winner Adam Hanieh from , author of 'Money, Markets, and Monarchies' TOMORROW Wed 11 Nov, 4-5.30pm Other speakers:
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  3. 7 hours ago

    Not made my the same place but tastes exactly the same 🥲

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  4. 7 hours ago

    When I lived in the Bay Area I used to looooove this type of granola I couldn’t find anywhere else. Found it in London yesterday and I’m soooo happyyyy 🌟🌟🌟

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    18 hours ago

    this “newspaper” has never met a u.s.- backed coup that they didn’t endorse. but the one time such coup fails, they create a narrative to sustain their ongoing support for u.s. imperialism. trash

    Bolivia’s former president, Evo Morales, returned to the country on Monday, a year after his failed attempt to keep power tore the nation apart and sent him into exile.
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    18 hours ago

    Jobs like this don’t come around every day: is hiring “an early career researcher... to undertake research into environmental and police violence in the US and reflect upon these issues in written text or graphic and animated form”

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    19 hours ago

    De bekende stickers zijn nog steeds verkrijgbaar. Neem contact met ons op via Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, Instagram of mail: doorbraak@doorbraak.eu. Ze zijn gratis, maar een donatie is altijd welkom: IBan: NL14 INGB 0003 3896 27 tnv .

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    22 hours ago

    Comrade - back in Bolivia.

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  9. 22 hours ago

    Watching British cooking/food competitions is just hearing people say ‘the only thing is I don’t like spicy food’ over and over and over and over and

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    Nov 9

    Hey Siri What are the GPS coordinates for hell

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    Toto’s ‘Africa’ will now play on a loop in the middle of Africa’s oldest desert for eternity
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  11. 24 hours ago

    Shameful

    Along w/ , Prof Corinne Squire, Prof Molly Andrews, Prof Mike Cole, Dr Jill Daniels, Imogen Ward & Toshiya Kogawa are being fired by while hiring hourly-paid lecturers to fill in the gaps of their expertise: Details: 1/3
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  12. Nov 9

    Can't wait to read this, by the amazing Ian Patel! Out with Verso next April - We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire

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  13. Nov 9

    Looking forward to this!

    THIS WEDNESDAY 11th NOVEMBER: The IPEG Book Prize Lecture. Adam Hanieh will discuss his prize winning book Money, Markets & Monarchies with , & Register at this link...
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  14. Nov 9

    Solidarity with , whose work and presence has been so important and monumental to so many of us. Shocked by this terrible and shameful news from , highlighting the urgency with which we need to fight for all worker’s rights at the university

    V.briefly reactivating my twitter to offer solidarity to the brilliant Prof whose work, activism & support has helped so many of us, inside & outside the academy. is dismissing Gargi from her job in a shameful disregard for worker rights
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  15. Nov 9

    “You'll have noticed that I'm not talking about whether the Labour Party has got its policy on this or that issue right. I'm talking about a whole conception of politics: the capacity to grasp in our political imagination the historical choices in front of us, today.”

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  16. Nov 8

    “When the Left talks about crisis, all we see is capitalism disintegrating, & us marching in and taking over. We don't understand that the disruption of the normal functioning of the old order, provides the opportunity to reorganise it in new ways, to restructure and move ahead.”

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  17. Nov 8

    “The depth of the reversal aimed for was profound: a reversal of the ground-rules of that settlement, of the social alliances which underpinned it and the values which made it popular.” On how Thatcherism managed to do this.

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  18. Nov 8

    Sharing some Stuart Hall: to truly win (and he doesn’t mean elections), the left has to create an alternative political project. To reverse the political culture which had formed the basis of the political settlement, and transform ‘common sense.’

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  19. Nov 8

    Homelessness vs giving everybody a home are both political choices (made by the state). It’s shameful to think of how high rates of homelessness are here in London, by choice.

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  20. Nov 8

    Has anyone done/know of cooking/baking classes (online) they’d recommend? 🥩🍠🍝🥟🍦

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  21. Nov 8

    Bolivia ✨

    Breaking: Luis Arce Caracora has been sworn in as President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, putting a close to the 12 month US-backed coup dictatorship of Jeanine Añez, while marking the restoration of democracy & the Bolivian Peoples' victory over tyranny.
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