Mobeen Hussain
@amhuss27
HIstorian of South Asia and the British empire; @wellcometrust fellow @YorkHistoryDept; visiting fellow @tcddublin; formerly @UnivOxford JRF & @CamHistory PhD.
Call for Papers: I'm running a workshop on Colourism in South Asia and South Asian communities at the University of York in November (with the intention of putting together an edited collection). Please circulate & consider submitting an abstract by 11 July 2025. #SouthAsia
"the normalization of Netanyahu, the constant whitewashing of Israel’s alleged war crimes... is why a man who has blood dripping from his hands...can be invited on to the Nelk Boys’ highly influential podcast to jokes about whether he prefers McDonald’s or Burger King."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"As Martin Luther King Jr wrote from a Birmingham jail: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” And the provision of weapons to facilitate genocide is more than unjust: it is an abyss of moral horror."
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"....your neutrality on Palestine will not protect you. When the time comes for the federal government to target other causes, it will be your names that Columbia will offer on a silver platter, it will be your pleas that fall on deaf ears.. your just causes that are stonewalled"
“To Columbia—an institution that laid the groundwork for my abduction—and to its student body, who must not abdicate their responsibility to resist repression … I ask you, who is truly at risk here?” writes Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, in his op-ed. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/0…
Really enjoyed talking and holding a discussion session on skin-lightening, colourism, and current state of the industry as part of Thackray Museum of Medicine Lates' Skinburn: The Science of Skin event. Also enjoyed discussing colourism with the local community.
C.M. Naim, May You Always Be Our Lodestar I wish I had another 90 years to learn from you, Naim Sahib. | Manan Ahmed Asif✍️ Read here: thewire.in/culture/c-m-na…
2 days to submit abstracts #SouthAsia #colourism
Call for Papers: I'm running a workshop on Colourism in South Asia and South Asian communities at the University of York in November (with the intention of putting together an edited collection). Please circulate & consider submitting an abstract by 11 July 2025. #SouthAsia
We’ve been screaming it for months: They shoot at aid lines. They kill the hungry. No one listened…because we’re Palestinian. Now Israeli soldiers say it, & suddenly the world blinks. They dehumanized us so well, even our truth needed a translator.
Haaretz just revealed, based on conversations with soldiers, that commanders instructed them to fire at crowds near the GHF aid distribution centers to drive them away — even when it was clear the crowds posed no danger. Here’s how the soldiers described the horrific scenes:
Just over two weeks to submit abstracts, deadline is 11th of July. Please share and circulate with any scholars or activists who might be interested. #SouthAsia #colourism
Call for Papers: I'm running a workshop on Colourism in South Asia and South Asian communities at the University of York in November (with the intention of putting together an edited collection). Please circulate & consider submitting an abstract by 11 July 2025. #SouthAsia
It seems with the collapse of any meaningful commitment to a rules-based international order - replaced instead by a raw-power dialogue shaped by might over right - every country in the global South watching Gaza burn and witnessing strikes on Iran is asking the same question:…
A woman as old as my mother crawled through gunfire in Nitzarim for a bag of flour, for children who aren’t even hers, because hers were already killed. And what haunts me isn’t just the image of it; it’s how easily we’ve accepted that this is what motherhood looks like in Gaza:…
"Every time we save a way of being or mourn the passing of a natural kind, whether a species or otherwise, we make decisions rooted in our emotional attachments, or our perceptions of that natural kind’s value – whether commercial, aesthetic, or ecological"- Sadiah Qureshi
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There is a threshold at which medicine becomes murder. I have seen it. It is here. The World Health Organization was informed calmly and formally that the Israeli army has suspended medical coordination for all Palestinian males over the age of twelve. Twelve. At that age, a…
European University Legacies is available open access for a few days. Ciaran O'Neill, Patrick Walsh & I contributed a chapter on the processes & challenges of a public-facing colonial legacies project @tcddublin. Fully OA & forthcoming in print in Sept edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-european-…
📢 @reetiks, featuring the work of @ClimateBrides, reveals how climate shocks—job loss, school closures, displacement—are fueling early marriages across South Asia. Calls for urgent adaptation to protect adolescents' rights and futures. #ClimateJustice #ChildMarriage @scroll_in
Climate change is eroding safety nets, accelerating child marriage in South Asia scroll.in/article/108281…
Great news, TCD dragged its feet but got there eventually. Well done to TCD staff and students!
This the product of lots of really hard work by students and staff who pushed a reticent and sometimes hostile institution into facing up to it's moral responsibilities. Well done to all involved. irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…
‘Every Gazan child is the enemy… we must colonize Gaza.’ – Former Israeli MP @moshefeiglin ‘14,000 babies will die in 48 hours unless we reach them.’ – UN’s @TFletcher Yesterday, 5 aid trucks were allowed in but sat untouched as Israel denied UN permission to collect them.
Was wonderful to be back in Dartmouth to celebrate the incredible scholarship and mentorship of Douglas Haynes, my external PhD examiner. Enjoyed presenting and participating in the conference and meeting so many scholars I've long admired in person.
Looking forward to contributing to these conversations.
Remember to RSVP for our Ireland and Atlantic Slavery Symposium on Friday here: bit.ly/3REhSR7
I’ve trained myself to turn my eyes away. Not because I don’t care. Because my heart can’t bear any more. Because I see too much already. In the hospital, I see mothers carrying their children in pieces. Fathers who’ve stopped speaking. Babies who’ve never opened their eyes. I…