If you are visiting Dubai, rent a boat 🛥️

The Permanent Forum on People of African Descent is an important platform for elevating health and other concerns of people of African descent globally.

I echo calls for a 2nd International Decade for People of African Descent, to promote recognition and justice, and…

On my way to the US! Honoured to be invited by Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Sunil Amrith Yale South Asian Studies Council to present #MisreadingTheBengalDelta at Yale on Tuesday 23rd April.

calendar.yale.edu/cal/event/even…

Jeremy Bowen: Iran's attack on Israel offers Netanyahu a lifeline bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

If you want to understand Revolutionary Iran, Empire Podcast has an entire series on the Fall of the Shah, the Rise of the Mullahs, the growing rivalry between the Sunni Saudis and the Shia Islamic Iranian regime, and the rise of the Iranian proxies, Hezbollah & the Houthis:…

Thread: I wrote 36 historical features for Scroll.in in 2023. Here is a list of the five articles I enjoyed working on the most.

1. How a German missionary changed the way houses were roofed in western India - The story behind Mangalore tiles.

scroll.in/magazine/10421…

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“Orientalism — Palestinian scholar Edward Said’s term for a European tendency to portray “the East” as exotic, irrational, and uncivilized — was being used to cast both groups as inferior and deny them equal rights. Their struggle was one and the same.” Please read this thread 🧵

Our history is there for whoever is ready to discover and digest it.

כָּל דִכְפִין יֵיתֵי וְיֵיכֹל, כָּל דִצְרִיךְ יֵיתֵי וְיִפְסַח

Here's my full article. vox.com/world-politics…
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You’ve probably been hearing lots about Israel — but not about Jews with roots in the Arab and Muslim world. They’re over half of Israel’s Jewish population, yet the American media barely covers them.

So let me tell you a story about my family. 🧵 1/18

vox.com/world-politics…

Please Watch.

Given #COP29 hosts Azerbaijan have unveiled their logo for this year, here's all the logos from previous COPs.

(My favourite has to be COP7)

'In the small towns of West Bengal & Bangladesh, every pond has stories to tell—of waterbirds & wetland plants, of family memory, colonialist history & climate change...'
A deeply fascinating essay on water as memory-keeper & storyteller, by Amitangshu| অমিতাংশু।
placesjournal.org/article/ponds-…

This stuff is serious and involves us all #EarthTransformed

“Living in Saudi Arabia under a travel ban is to live in a constant state of fear, as we know the modus operandi of the authorities. Usually, as was the case with Loujain, the kingdom bans someone from leaving and then, later, they arrest them.”

Saudi Arabia is rebranding itself as a moderate country, but what’s the truth? Just ask our female activists - great piece by ⁦⁦Lina Alhathloul لينا الهذلول⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Meanwhile, latest reports suggest that the damage to the Gaza Strip is estimated to be $18.5 billion, which is 97% of the total economy of Gaza and the West Bank.

“By the mid-2060s population growth is expected to turn negative – India will begin to have fewer people every year.” Rukmini S