Marya Hannun

European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza Britain has paused some weapons sales to Israel, but a Guardian investigation shows revenues from the GBU-39 bomb generated by the US arm of MBDA flow through the UK theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

In New Gender Frontlines: MERIP's Managing Editor Marya Hannun interviewed Sudanese activist Raga Makawi about the role of women in Sudanese politics from the rule of Omar al-Bashir and through revolution and war. READ NOW. buff.ly/UoowFRQ

I was asked to review Adam Kirsch’s atrocious book on settler colonialism (which is basically an apologia for Israeli genocide). So I actually took the occasion to highlight the amazing Palestinian scholarship going back DECADES on the subject: jewishcurrents.org/history-lesson

HYBRID EVENT: The Iran-Israel War featuring Andreas Krieg, Shabnam Holliday, Craig Jones, Asma Abdi and Maziyar Ghiabi, sponsored by Exeter University's Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies and MERIP. July 9, 2PM BST / 9AM EST. Register: buff.ly/GT5xi0Y

BREAKING 🇬🇧🇵🇸 The UK Parliament has voted to proscribe @Pal_action as a terrorist organisation. Support for the group will now carry a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

"Where, in the war zone, would I find the space to alter our vocabulary? And why should I want to?...why should I bypass the fires engulfing our cities to extinguish hypothetical flames?"

British Medical Association Severs Links with Israel.

Check out Wasafiri's UAE issue! I contributed a piece on my Syrian family's relationship with Dubai and Kuwait, how we inevitably become part of places and places become part of us. I'll be reading from it on 15 July. Join us for the launch in London! wasafiri.org/content/online…

Terrible day for justice: the High Court has ruled against Al Haq in the judicial review of UK arms exports to Israel. 3 main types of reasoning: 1) that some of the issues are non-justiciable ie can't be adjudicated in a UK court of law. So what is the point of export controls?/

TOMORROW: Don't miss our Launch Event for our latest issue, New Gender Frontlines. 12PM EST June 26. The conversation will feature Issue Editor Sabiha Allouche, and contributors Rahaf Aldoughli, Paniz Musawi Natanzi, and Hala Shoman. Info at the link! buff.ly/uOS3v1E

Read about the interplay of working-class masculinity, anti-Afghan racism & tennis in Iran in my piece on @meriponline. Immense gratitude for Gol Agha Azizi, @JrFarnaz, @mohammadrezaju1 & @MaryaHannun. This piece was finalized before June 13, 2025. merip.org/2025/06/banned…

NEW in MER 314: "Courts of Exclusion -- Working-Class Masculinity and Anti-Afghan Racism in Iran" by Paniz Musawi Natanzi. Natanzi revisits the 2016 tennis documentary "Overruled" that "unsettles the figure of the “kargar Afghani” (the Afghan worker)" buff.ly/nwKz3FE

Spoke to some smart folks on Iran. Listen to it here

Heads up! Steube (R-FL) intros bill to impose far-reaching sanctions on South Africa & SA officials for crime of opposing Israeli actions/policies. Love it or hate it, this is clearly a TEMPLATE for US sanctioning any country for failing to fully respect Israeli impunity. 1/

German Chancellor Merz: "Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us" This is a full German endorsement of Israel's war of aggression and violation of Article 56 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits targeted strikes against nuclear facilities.

MERIP Managing Editor @maryahannun interviewed Sudanese feminist Raga Makawi (@RagaHMOM) on the role of feminist activism in that country's unfolding revolution and counter-revolutionary war. OUT NOW in MER 314: New Gender Frontlines buff.ly/pujekpW

Israeli attacks have so far killed 585 people and injured 1,326, the human rights group HRANA reported citing non-governmental sources. The casualties were among military personnel and civilians, it added. 239 civilians have been killed and 335 injured, HRANA reported, while…