A successful fieldtrip to the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park, staffed by the enthusiastic NRC volunteers 🙌 Dr Arthur Asseraf and his Special Subject students left inspired by the history, development and future of radio communications. @arthurasseraf.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social

Can I ask for help? I’m not sure how to use this platform (or any social media) anymore. I’ve been away bc it all feels a bit useless with the world right now. But when I was on Twitter a lot, it gave my work meaning - since then I feel in a bit of a crisis professionally, and stuck. Tips welcome!

JOB!!! Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty. It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27. @camhistory.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...

No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

I want to send a very sincere Fuck You to Columbia University, let me be specific: Columbia was where I started learning Arabic, and in my class were at least three Orthodox Jewish women who consistently bodied everyone else due to their excellent Hebrew grammar. 1/

Podcast indispensable dont 1 phrase résonne avec ce qui se joue ces dernières années autour de la place des legs coloniaux dans notre présent du Sahel à Mayotte, de l’Algérie à la Kanaky-Nouvelle Calédonie « On a jamais aussi bien connu le phénomène colonial et on ne l’a jamais aussi peu reconnu »

As things are getting worse for Palestinians, our ability to protest this abroad is shrinking. Some UK universities (like mine) are trying to ban demonstrations for 🇵🇸 please consider donating to legal costs to resist this, esp. if you’re based at a university/in the UK donorbox.org/studentprote...

PSA: I’m sorry I didn’t answer your email. Yes, all of you. I have a very heavy admin job atm and cannot respond to as many requests for media, conferences or writing projects as I would like this year (especially if they’re far away). But keep bothering me and I’ll do my best!

We did not pay anyone for this review I promise

A surprise to find that our book “Colonisations: notre histoire” which came out in 2023 is in this week’s @londonreview.bsky.social Especially great because of how seldom books in foreign languages get reviewed in English 👇🏼 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New record: not once but twice in one day have I received mail and email intended for Assef Ashraf (my taller, more attractive colleague who works on a different continent)

me: trying to fit Palestine into one model colony or another does not help us politically people: but you’ve never heard my perfect model An explanation of why this doesn’t work 👇🏼 1/

And here for more discussion 👇🏼

See below for discussion 👇🏼

‘It is peculiar that some people gaze upon the occupation, fragmentation, and genocide of Palestinians and, as a precondition for supporting their liberation, demand that they specify exactly what a liberated Palestine would look like.’ Reposting bc some of the end was missing last week!

“We should ask not whether what unfolded in 🇩🇿 is especially similar to 🇵🇸, but how reading these histories together might help us consider what decolonization feels like not as an end point, but as an ongoing process.” The always-great @arthurasseraf.bsky.social on Algeria and Palestine.

"Settler colonialism relentlessly politicizes movement and dwelling, but the basic act of staying or going is not, in itself, indicative of a person’s political position."

My essay on the Algeria/Palestine comparison, and what we do with it now, is now out and free to read and share on the Jewish Currents website:

Fuck the American Historical Association

Ce soir et demain à Tunis!

"Sortir Fanon de son autel n’implique peut-être pas seulement de retrouver l’homme derrière l’icône, mais rend aussi nécessaire de penser notre présent racial..." @arthurasseraf.bsky.social a lu pour @laviedesidees.bsky.social le 'Frantz Fanon' d'Adam Shatz @edladecouverte.bsky.social.⤵️

Dans La Vie des Idées, ma lecture de la dernière biographie de Frantz Fanon par Adam Shatz, ou, comment retrouver l’homme derrière le mythe c’est bien mais peut-être pas suffisant

Our Fall/Winter issue is almost here! Featuring work from @maricohen.bsky.social @arthurasseraf.bsky.social @soljbrager.bsky.social & others, a special collaboration with @hyperallergic.com and so much more. Subscribe today to get it—and save 25% with code WINTERBLUESKY. jewishcurrents.org/subscribe

Pour @vintagearab.bsky.social Le Maghreb des ondes Tiré du roman d Amira Ghenim le désastre de la maison des notables

Syrian TV broadcasts a still image with the words: The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

Watching the news from Syria this week, hopes and anxieties that had been kept frozen for a decade are thawing. I feel like I'm time-traveling, feeling things I had not felt since 2015. Now more than ever, Syria is the true test of people's politics.

Aujourd'hui à Tunis, premier séminaire du cycle "Penser la question palestinienne depuis le Maghreb" J'interviendrai dans la deuxième et troisième séance, les 10 et 11 janvier prochains

Y a-t-il déjà un fan club de Solenn de Royer et ses chroniques de cour de Macron dans Le Monde, ou faut-il le créer?

everybody on this app is making starter packs and nobody is posting

For those who don't know me 👋 I'm a historian 🥸 at the University of Cambridge 🇬🇧 In my Lost Twitter Kingdom, I posted about the Maghrib 🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳 🇫🇷 French colonialism and politics Orangina 🍊 and, for some reason, Emily in Paris I am committed to the liberation of Palestine in our lifetime 🇵🇸 🍉 1/ 👇

@christophersilver.bsky.social sorry I couldn't find your handle to @ you!

Un petit fil pour vous résumer par épisode la série documentaire "Le Maghreb des Ondes" cette semaine, sur laquelle j'ai eu le plaisir de travailler avec la reine du son elle-même @vintagearab.bsky.social 👇 1/

Ma mère me racontait qu’à la fin des années 40 début des années 50 un de ses oncles était un mordu de la radio et un grand fan de Nehru en Inde. Il n’arrêtait pas de le dire “Nehru a dit, Nehru a annoncé etc..”

Ideal como "escucha complementaria", si los alumnos saben francés, para una unidad didáctica sobre la radio. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

« Le Magheb des Ondes » c’est aujourd’hui 🥳. À partir de 16h en podcasts sur le site et les appli et à partir de 17h en direct sur @franceculture Une série LSD en 8 épisodes qui raconte comment la radio a accompagné le Maghreb vers l’indépendance. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Merci beaucoup Emmanuel, pour le soutien de France Culture et LSD pour ce projet: ÉCOUTEZ "LE MAGHREB DES ONDES" 📻🇩🇿🇹🇳🇲🇦!