Dalia Gebrial
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Dalia Louise Gebrial (born 1993 in Lambeth, London)[1] is an English political commentator, journalist, writer, activist, and researcher. She presents and produces video content regularly for Novara Media.[2] She has contributed to The Guardian,[3] The Independent,[4] The Washington Post[5] and The Telegraph,[6] and appeared on Sky News and BBC Politics.
Education and career[edit]
Gebrial received a BA in English literature from the University of Warwick in 2014 and an MSt in world literatures in English from the University of Oxford in 2016.[7] She is a PhD candidate at LSE researching topics of the gig economy under neoliberalism, climate justice, anti-racist social movements and the effects of gender and race on labour-based capitalism.[8]
In 2017, Gebrial was the editor of a special issue of the journal Historical Materialism which focuses on identity politics. Gebrial co-edited the volume Decolonising the University, published by Pluto Press in 2018, with Gurminder K. Bhambra and Kerem Nişancıoğlu in which they discuss how colonial thinking can be challenged inside and outside the classroom across the world's universities. The book was inspired by a movement of South African students in 2015 to remove another statue of Cecil Rhodes in the University of Cape Town, drawing comparisons and contrasts with the same issue in Oxford and how colonialism is fought in a former colony or its native nation-state. Likewise, in the book, Gebrial makes the argument that "the role of the historian is to simply 'reveal' facts about pasts that are worth revealing" through the role of the institution.[9]
In February 2021, Gebrial co-authored the book Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State with seven other anti-racist scholars dealing with issues related to race, the state, media and criminalisation of race. In the book, the authors discuss how the legacy of empire has been shaped by global capitalism and how the legacy of empire continues to influence contemporary events such as Theresa May's hostile environment policies and Brexit.[10] Novara Media contributor Ash Sarkar called the book "rigorous, impassioned and urgent, this book punctures the puffed-up nationalist swagger of our government with an incisive critique of post-imperial decline".[11]
Political views and activities[edit]
Gebrial says she is anti-capitalist and feminist, and that the two elements are interlinked; feminism, she says, cannot be compatible with capitalism.[12]
While a student at Warwick in 2013, Gebrial participated in protests against the university for its alleged links to sweatshops in the East, Southeast and South Asia who were involved in producing branded clothing for the university. She said that her support, along with other students, was to "take a stand against the exploitation of third world workers".[13]
When at University of Oxford, Gebrial was involved in anti-racist activism to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes in 2015. She said that "taking down the Rhodes statue would not immediately fix or reverse all of this" but that such a move would signal that the university wants to "seriously engage with this problem".[14] Similarly, Gebrial at a 2017 Oxford panel stated that the existence of the Rhodes statue at Oriel College "stands as a metaphor for the empire", for which she rejected the idea of removing it simply to create a safe space and instead to be "representative of a wider change in the university".[15]
This line of activism has been expanded more broadly to what Gebrial calls "decolonising the curriculum" to remove the colonial slant placed on the teaching of British history where there is little focus on historic black and brown voices, both within Britain and in its colonies. This was partly inspired by her experience where she says "I studied history to A-level standard and I never once engaged with the Empire" and it is this that creates a "cognitive dissonance" in the general population where "people really don't know what the realities of the British Empire were".[16]
Gebrial defended the removal of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol in June 2020.[17]
Works[edit]
Books[edit]
- Bhambra, G.K.; Elliott-Cooper, A.; Balani, S.; Nişancıoğlu, K.; Koram, K.; Gebrial, D.; El-Enany, N.; de Noronha, L. (2021). Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State. (London: Pluto Press)
Edited books[edit]
- Bhambra, G. K.; Nişancıoğlu, K.; Gebrial, D., eds. (2018). Decolonising the University (PDF). London: Pluto Press. Search this book on
- Paul, H. K.; Gebrial, D., eds. (2021). Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal (PDF). London: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Search this book on
Edited book chapters[edit]
- Gebrial, D. (2018), "Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change" in Bhambra, G.K.; Nişancıoğlu, K.; Gebrial, D. (eds.) (2018). Decolonising the University (London: Pluto Press)
- Gebrial, D. (2020), "Socialist Strategy in the Age of Precarity" in Blakeley, G. (ed.) (2020). Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era (London: Verso)
Academic articles[edit]
- Gebrial, D.; Kumar, A. (2016). "Atoning for the past", Economic and Political Weekly 51(10)
- Gebrial, D.; Kumar, A.; Sarkar, A.; Cooper, A.; Iyer, S. (2017) eds. Special Issue "The Politics of Identity", Historical Materialism 26(2), p. 3-20
- Gebrial, D.; Kumar, A.; Elliott-Cooper, A.; Cooper, A.; Iyer, S. (2018). "Marxism and Identity Politics", Historical Materialism 29
- Bhambra, G.K.; Nişancıoğlu, K.; Gebrial, D. (2020). "Decolonising the university in 2020", Identities 27(4), p. 1-8 https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2020.1753415
References[edit]
- ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.
- ↑ Novara Media. "About". Novara Media. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Gebrial, Dalia (16 November 2019). "We're the black and brown women who want to unseat Boris Johnson". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Gebrial, Dalia (27 March 2020). "If you don't care what happens to gig workers during coronavirus, you should – you're next". The Independent. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Gebrial, Dalia (3 June 2019). "John Cleese's tweets weren't just racist. They were also based on a historical lie". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Gebrial, Dalia (22 December 2015). "We don't want to erase Cecil Rhodes from history. We want everyone to know his crimes". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ "Dalia Gebrial LinkedIn Page". LinkedIn.
- ↑ London School of Economics. "Dalia Gebrial". LSE. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Cline, Timon (13 August 2020). "The 'Critical' Threat of Missions". Patheos. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
- ↑ UCL (10 February 2021). "VIRTUAL EVENT: Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State Book Launch". UCL.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ Pluto Press. "Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State". Pluto Press. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ↑ Sky News (3 May 2019). "Dalia Gebrial: 'Feminism can change society for everyone'". Sky News. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ↑ Coventry Live (16 August 2013). "Warwick University students in protest over uni's alleged links to sweatshops". CoventryLive. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ↑ Khomami, Nadia (22 December 2015). "Oxford students step up campaign to remove Cecil Rhodes statue". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Okpalugo, Ebubechi (10 August 2017). "Review: Taking the Decolonisation Project Forward Panel". Oxford Common Ground. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ↑ Gilmour, Charlie (12 February 2016). "Cecil Rhodes protest: On Whitehall's 'murder mile', the Empire's heroes are steeped in innocent blood". The Independent. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ↑ Sky News Daily (8 June 2020). "Anti-racism protests, the pandemic and controversial statues". Poddtoppen. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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