Rebecca Ruth Gould

Rebecca Ruth Gould

Rebecca Ruth Gould

Rebecca Ruth Gould is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is the author of several influential works at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, including Erasing Palestine (2023), Writers and Rebels (2016), and The Persian Prison Poem (2021). Alongside Malaka Shwaikh, she co-authored Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine (2023). Gould's articles have appeared in leading publications such as the London Review of Books, Middle East Eye, and The Nation, and her work has been translated into eleven languages

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Book Club: In 'Complicit', British journalist Peter Oborne rips away the veil of diplomacy to reveal Britain's fingerprints all over Gaza's destruction

10 November, 2025

Despite the IPC confirmation of Gaza’s famine, Israel's denial persists as Western media reinforces these misleading narratives, argues Rebecca Ruth Gould.

10 September, 2025

Israel knows that more data on the famine in Gaza may force an end to the genocide, that's why it's blocking research, writes Rebecca Ruth Gould.

05 August, 2025

While the UK now honours the suffragettes, a century ago they sparked outrage, drawing clear parallels with today's direct action, says Rebecca Ruth Gould.

20 July, 2025

Book Club: 'On the Pleasures of Living in Gaza' takes us beyond the headlines, revealing the everyday lives, joys, and struggles of those living in Palestine

28 May, 2025

Failed by Columbia's faculty, the responsibility of upholding Edward Said's legacy now falls to students like Mahmoud Khalil, says Rebecca Ruth Gould.

20 March, 2025

Book Club: Edward Said's work highlights the urgent need to recognise the Palestinian struggle, especially in light of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza

09 October, 2024

Book Club: Nasser Abu Srour's memoir transforms the confinement of his prison cell into a powerful exploration of love, loss, and the Palestinian experience

14 August, 2024

Kamala Harris' outrage at the burning of the US flag outside Congress betrays a weak knowledge of US antiwar and leftist culture, writes Rebecca Ruth Gould.

29 July, 2024

Book Club: Drawing on Hebrew sources, Maya Wind shatters the myth of liberal expression in Israeli universities, revealing instead how they prop up apartheid.

24 January, 2024