Alison Phipps

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2 months ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Alison Phipps

Alison Phipps suggests how UK universities can support colleagues in Gaza during a fragile ceasefireIt’s 5.30am and I’m already awake. Watching. Waiting. Watching. Writing. My colleagues in Gaza are awake too, messaging. The deadline comes and the ceasefire is delayed. We are nervous. And then the ceasefire comes. A colleague messages at around 10.30am. “Good morning, our dear Prof. Congratulations for Gaza truce and ceasefire.
Alison Phipps: Why I'm finding it hard to write about Gaza

Jan 19, 2025 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

Displaced Palestinians gather outside their tents in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on January 16, 2025, one day after the announcement of a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas (Image: Getty Images) ‘WE do injustice to Gaza when we look for its poems, so let us not disfigure Gaza’s beauty,” says the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Alison Phipps: Scotland is straining to take its place on the world stage

Dec 1, 2024 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

Alison Phipps discusses the open embrace we lost out on back in 2014 (Image: Getty Images) ALISON Phipps's essay is taken from our new book, 10 Years Of A Changed Scotland, published to mark a decade since the independence referendum. Editor Laura Webster has compiled a series of essays from top contributors including Neal Ascherson, Assa SamakeRoman, Jonathon Shafi, John Curtice, Professor Aileen McHarg and many more.
Alison Phipps: Equivocation and delay over Gaza is aiding the erasure of Palestinians

Nov 27, 2024 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

IT’S always an effort publishing any book. But publishing under genocidal conditions directly affecting your authors and yourselves as editors, feels miraculous. But sometimes miracles happen. Last week, On November 21, 2024, we received an email from our publisher saying, “Dear Hyab, Tawona and Alison, your book is in the depot and the open access version is now online.” Our book – Cultures Of Sustainable Peace (below) – bears a title which can easily produce a hollow laugh.
It’s shameful that it took court order for action to be taken against Israel

Nov 24, 2024 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

ON November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court finally acted unanimously and decisively on The Situation in the State of Palestine. The ICC is responsible, under the Rome Statute, for cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The warrants issued are simultaneously for three men, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif).
Alison Phipps: Language rights matter — in New Zealand and here in Scotland

Nov 17, 2024 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

ON Thursday, Hana-Rāwhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, Aotearoa New Zealand’s youngest MP, stood to perform a haka in parliament. Slowly and with a great deal of mana – spirited power – she tore in half a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country’s founding treaty with Māori people.
Alison Phipps: Attacks on cultural sites are an affront to all humankind

Nov 3, 2024 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

Flame and smoke rise from Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh The City of Tyre – Unesco World Heritage Site ‘THIS is Tyre now,” writes my Palestinian friend in Glasgow. “Unesco City.” He sends me a video of a bomb exploding and smoke rising. “The alphabet came from Tyre.” My fingers move across the letters on the keyboard, the letters from Tyre.
The UNRWA ban is a catastrophe which will have ramifications for decades

Oct 29, 2024 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

The UNRWA has been banned by the Israeli Knesset (Image: Saif Dahlah/AFP via Getty Images) THE Israeli Knesset has voted on a bill outlawing UNWRA – the one UN agency that is responsible for crucial aid for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and across the Middle East. It passed with the sickening support of 92 out of 120 members of the Knesset. It was only 10 opposed: Nine Palestinian members of the Knesset and the one member of the Communist Party.
Alison Phipps: Seven words to save our sanity in the midst of the terror in Gaza

Oct 27, 2024 | thenational.scot | Alison Phipps

Mostly I think we are lost, lost for words, and that shows we are alive MAN burning alive, a report from a reputable journalist, of children separated from mothers, thrown into a north Gaza pit in Jabalia Refugee Camp, left until their bones start cracking under the weight of sand being bulldozed onto them, and then dragged out by Israeli Occupying Force soldiers, and thrown randomly at horrified mothers, whether or not it was their child, who were then told to run, at gunpoint.
Manchester University Press appoints Tom Dark as new trade publisher

Sep 20, 2024 | thebookseller.com | Maia Snow |Adrienne Buller |Alison Phipps

You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles. News Manchester University Press (MUP) has appointed Tom Dark as new trade publisher. Dark previously served as head of books at Edinburgh University Press. This appointment marks a return to MUP for Tom, where he had previously worked shaping its trade list. MUP’s trade list, launched in 2020, has seen year-on-year growth.