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Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

The quintessential white liberal moment: To use the obviously wrong American violation of sovereignty to mansplain Venezuelans and South Americans that narco-tyrant Maduro is some kind of liberation icon. Revolting.

Bari Weiss: I'm a free thinker. I named my publication the Free Press. My ideas are too dangerous for you squishy liberals Bari Weiss' CBS News: It's another beautiful day in Donald Trump's flawless paradise

This year, for my mental health, I'm going to practice just letting people be wrong on the internet.

finally, we're living through precedented times

'Paralimni-Deryneia unveils ancient treasures to boost cultural tourism' (Cyprus) #archaeologynews 🏺 in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/parali...

The 'Unearthed' exhibition at the Museum of Sydney is one of the best I have seen this year & one of the best about archaeology as process. Archaeology in Australia has not been brilliant at capturing our own story but the accompanying excavation documentary is a great view mhnsw.au/unearthed-ex...

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Semiotic paradox alert!

Ambiguous Architectures in Abu Dhabi themarkaz.org/featured-art... My latest for the @markaz-review.bsky.social on Kuwaiti artist Ala Younis' mid-career retrospective at NYUAD Gallery, focusing on her work on weather systems & cyclical architecture in the UAE.

Analytically, tensions between Saudia Arabia and the UAE are probably the thing that interests me most right now. I feel like I am barely scratching the surface of understanding something really important.

The forensic archaeologist on the hunt for trafficked antiquities edition.cnn.com/2025/12/13/s... (on Christos Tsirogiannis)

They're enabling creepy lonely men to create submissive "AI companions" that can be modeled on whatever real-life woman they're obsessed with and made to do whatever they want and, Jesus Christ, I need to wash my hands just typing that.

Alas, forever it's been since I've been on these apps, trying to catch up (now) on the disaster that is everything.

"Syria is still in ruins. In every city and village I have visited this last 10 days, people were living in skeletal buildings gutted by war. But for all the new Syria's problems, it feels much lighter without the crushing, cruel weight of the Assads." #syria www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Participants believe the practice of torching the devil helps banish bad spirits from their homes and neighborhoods. The custom began in the 16th century, but has spread out from various towns since the 1990s to become popular nationwide." www.reuters.com/article/worl...

For the third year in a row, a coalition of Miami artists and activists met on the busy Saturday of Art Basel to protest the event’s ties to the genocide in Gaza.

Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@dilmunite.bsky.social) reviews “Hope Without Hope” by Matt Broomfield — a deep dive into Rojava’s revolution, failure, and hope. 📘 Published by @akpress.org 🔗 bit.ly/hope-without-... #Rojava #Revolution #Hope #TMRWeekly #TheMarkazReview

"In a context where the threat of violence is constantly actualized and the historical archive is an extension of the present, these works ask us to reconsider how we document, remember & understand the past.” @dilmunite.bsky.social on an exhibit on Lebanon's civil war for DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

"The war in Lebanon is often spoken of as if it ended or was a closed chapter, but as the exhibition suggests, it never truly did," Ayman Nahle, curator of Beirut exhibition '50 Years of Deja-Vu', tells Arie Amaya-Akkermans. @dilmunite.bsky.social's exhibition review, for DAWN's Democracy in Exile:

My latest long-read for @markaz-review.bsky.social "Syria and the Future of Art", I spent a few months talking to people in Syria & Syrian diaspora & to a migration scholar & looking at data, to understand what happened to art (and archaeology) after the fall of the Assad regime.

"The memory of the Lebanese civil war today does not operate in isolation; it echoes and intersects with the devastating realities unfolding around us." Arie Amayya-Akkermans (@dilmunite.bsky.social) reviews the Beirut exhibition "50 Years of Deja-Vu", in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

Cyprus approves €50,000 emergency aid for victims of Damascus church attack

"His practice interrogated the metaphysical dimensions of violence—what it means to endure it, witness it and survive its memory." Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@dilmunite.bsky.social) reviews Lebanese-American artist Nabil Kanso's exhibit "Echoes of War” for DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

"After decades of pieces depicting the horrors of war, suffering and autocracy in the Middle East, Kanso’s work is finally coming to life." Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@dilmunite.bsky.social) discusses Lebanese-American artist Nabil Kanso's latest exhibit, "Echoes of War," in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

"Kyrnus, revere and fear the gods. For this restrains a man From doing or saying anything sinful. Put a people-eating tyrant to rest however you want— No criticism will come from the gods for that.” open.substack.com/pub/joelchri...

Dozens of people are shot dead *every day* in "Gaza Humanitarian Fund" aid distribution centres. People desperate to feed their families, shot dead in the chaos and panic that inevitably surrounds these sites. Israel has created a real version of "the hunger games". 1/

Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water

Smithsonian asserts authority to make ‘all personnel decisions’ following Trump attempts to fire gallery director. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/10/s...

Now it's verily true that the entire social media environment is dead... So there's no choice but to return here, at least I see some colleagues from classics/archaeology still around here!

🏛️ Büyükada Rum Yetimhanesi otel oluyor 👉 Cemaat Vakıfları I. ve II. Dönem Temsilcisi Laki Vingas, ahşap binanın güvenlik ve bakım sorunları nedeniyle geliri olmadan ayakta kalamayacağını belirtti. 🗞️ Tuğçe Yılmaz'ın haberi buff.ly/1pXoIHy

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

Look, the numbers are bad for Tesla, but I think with some hard work and dedication, we can make them worse

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin faces up to 12 years in prison in Turkey for crimes related to "terrorism", "insulting the president". "Joakim is not a criminal and definitely not some kind of terrorist,” says the editor-in-chief of his media outlet Dagens ETC. Free Joakim! www.dn.se/varlden/joak...

Earthquake in Istanbul: no cat left behind!

return to woke

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

My visitor visa to the US expires in June 2025, it’s probably the first time ever I won’t have a continuous US visa since at least 2002 (when I turned 18). And I have no intention of applying to get one or visiting before the expiry date. I guess this is going to be a world without America?

I try to be open-minded, but I'm just really not into fascism I guess

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

Not one mention of the energy costs of building new cities 50 miles away from urban cores & the entire argument is based on the straw-man that sprawl is not already the hegemonic development pattern for most of the nation. Worst article on urbanism I’ve read in years. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...

I know I'm a pie in the sky liberal but I don't think Marco Rubio should be able to deport you because he doesn't like your beliefs