Pass on Press (& friends!) invite you to a series of community events in discussion with scholar Mohamed Abdou, speaking for the first time in Berlin. (Instagram: @pass_on_press)
11.01.2025 – 1492: Islam & Anarchism
19:00 Casino, Sonnenallee 100, Neukölln
14.01.2025 – عن الهيمنة، هيمنة الهيمنة، والأناركية الإسلامية في ظل اشباح الربيع العربي
19:00 Khan Aljanub (Bookshop), Donaustraße 27, Neukölln
15.01.2025 – 1492: From Turtle Island to Palestine
19:00 Vierte Welt, Kottbusser Tor/Adalbertstr. 96, Kreuzberg
In this series of talks, Abdou will expand on different elements of his book, Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). He will address the year 1492’s historical, material, spiritual and symbolic significance, particularly for Muslims, Jews, as well as Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour, globally. Beyond the neoliberal academy (that at best is a site of resistance, not liberation) he will discuss the failures of the Arab Spring including its secular colonial and statist aspirations, as well as “hypocrisy in solidarities” and how the liberation of Palestine is braided with Turtle Island. He will attend to the difference between: Strategy and Tactic, Mobilizing and Organizing, Anti-colonial resistance and Decolonization.
Dr Mohamed Abdou is an interdisciplinary scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race and Islamic studies, as well as anti-racist, feminist, gender, sexuality, women, decolonial and post-colonial studies with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa and Turtle Island. He is a self-identifying Muslim anarchist and diasporic settler of colour based in Tkaronto, so-called Canada.
There will be a limited number of Mohamed’s book, Islam & Anarchism, available for purchase at these events. Pass on Press will also have copies of our third edition available for purchase: a bilingual zine featuring two of Abdou’s shorter articles: “It is a Racial-Religious War: Organizing and a 1492 Transnational Movement Framing” and
“عن الهيمنة، هيمنة الهيمنة، والأناركية الإسلامية”
All events are free of charge to attend, but we will be collecting donations in support of two families in Gaza throughout the evening, so please bring cash!!
About the book “Islam and Anarchism – Relationships and Resonances” by Mohamed Abdou: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341927/islam-and-anarchism/
