On Friday 21st November, Hicham will introduce a screening of “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media”.The screening will be at 7PM in room C11 (Portland Building, Nottingham University Main Campus).
Hich will talk about the continuing relevance of this landmark multi-award-winning documentary which discusses mass media, propaganda and thought control in democratic societies. This event [...]

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The Times Higher Education Supplement has covered the terror arrests at Nottingham University extensively and much of this coverage has been sympathetic. This motivated outgoing Vice Chancellor Colin Campbell to write to the publication to restate the university’s position. Others have subsequently responded, leading to a debate in the letters section reprinted below.

Nottingham: why I [...]

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Presently 67 signatories from the University of Nottingham
Dear Vice-Chancellor,
As employees of the University of Nottingham we are very concerned that the recent arrest of Hicham Yezza, an administrator in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, and Rizwaan Sabir, a masters student in the School of Politics and International Relations, has resulted in Hicham [...]

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As concerned academics at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham among the many individuals who have been involved in the campaign for academic freedom and the release of Hicham Yezza in the wake of the false terror arrests at our university last week, we feel it necessary to comment [...]

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