Marie's Musings
Marie Kawthar DaoudaI write what the bee in my beret buzzes about. The past matters. Follow me for musings about art, literature, history, what is wrong with the world, and what is beautiful about it.
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How I fell in love with John Keats
Enough with culture wars stuff. Let’s talk about love instead.
So there was that guy…
Now that I have your attention, I can tell you the story. You will see it is, in the end, still a love story, and still about culture.
There was, inde...
Systemic racism exists. It killed Henry Nowak.
Henry could have been one of my undergraduate students. I could have entered my teaching room one morning to learn that he was stabbed to death, handcuffed by policemen who refused to believe him, to even hear him, as he gasped ‘I have been...
Scattered thoughts on assisted suicide
Oh no Love, you’re not alone
Of course, the ‘thin end of the wedge’ argument is important in the question of assisted suicide. This pertains to practical ethics. Yet in the distance, the practical and the principled argument fade into one....
TE Lawrence's Keffieh
An edited version of this piece has appeared in The Telegraph (14/02/2026)
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Remembrance Day address - Oriel College
It is extremely moving to be speaking on this Remembrance Sunday. The names of the 162 Oriel men who died at war are listed on the Memorial in the library. I would like us to have a particular thought for those whose names appear last, list...
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Hats & Petticoats activist. Born in the 19th century. Author, lecturer at Oriel, Oxford. Moroccan, French, and then some more. Views mine, not AI’s. New book - Not Your Victim - how our obsession with race entraps and divides us.
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