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The Visual Politics of Palestine Solidarity: Naji al-Ali’s Handala
Naji al-Ali ’s Handala, presented in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and by many pro-Palestine initiatives, is a well known cartoon character associated with Palestinian resistance. In this article, Marina Hamanaka (a PhD student in Area Studies, at The University of Tokyo) tells us about the story behind Handala, and her research exploring…
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The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North: A TWQ Special Issue
This special issue (The Gaza Genocide and the Crisis of the Global North. Guest Editors: Ibrahim Fraihat and Abeer Al-Najjar, Volume 47, 2026) examines the war on Gaza not only as a devastating act of mass violence against Palestinians, but as a revealing moment that exposes deep crises within Western political, legal, and media systems.…
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Reclaiming Narrative Sovereignty: A Lesson in Challenging Epistemic Erasure
How do Palestinian classrooms counter dominant narratives in the media? And how can education become an epistemic infrastructure for narrative sovereignty? In this blogpost, Hussein AlAhmad, an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at Arab American University in Palestine, asks these questions and reflects on his recently published Third World Quarterly article. In Palestine, education is rarely…
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World Food Day: Highlighting Global Food Insecurity
Purniya Awan, explores the complex intersections of food, famine, and malnutrition with a particular focus on how food is weaponised in conflict zones like Gaza. In this blog post for World Food Day, she unpacks the systemic drivers of hunger and shares a list of free-to-view Third World Quarterly (TWQ) and Central Asian Survey articles…
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The Criminalisation of Palestine Solidarity
In this piece, Mira Mookerjee, Editor and Website Curator at the Global Souths Hub, documents the discussions that took place at this year’s European International Studies Association (EISA) and examines the link between the criminalisation of Palestine solidarity and the global rise of fascism. International Rela_[404 Not Found]: Politics for a Broken World was the…
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Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue
At this year’s BISA (British International Studies Association) conference a crowd gathered in The International Convention Centre to listen to Hala Shoman (Newcastle University), Maryam Aldossari (Royal Holloway, University of London), Ashjan Ajour (University of Wolverhampton), Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick), Sara Ababneh (University of Sheffield) and chair Jemima Repo (Newcastle University) discuss why Palestine…
