this is a masterpiece

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

A. lived in Germany since he was two months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/germ...

“I think the answer to why they’re being very clearly misrepresented as hate marches is to undermine the hundreds and thousands of people who are turning up on the street. It’s to distract from the government’s complicity in these crimes." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Antisemitism in Britain - what is going on? I talked to @arielleangel.bsky.social and Em Hilton of @naamoduk.bsky.social for the latest episode of the @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast. jewishcurrents.org/the-wrong-wa...

Look obviously having to live in a country governed like this is not great, but it will also be very very funny if the eternally useless Labour Party manage to blow up the government without actually removing the prime minister.

How does one even react to such daily savagery

Check out our latest Palestine Global Health Collective Newsletter. Consider sharing it with others and signing up to it. 🔗 mailchi.mp/64e3edc7194d...

No relief for anyone in Lebanon. Israel is hammering Beirut so that Bibi can appear independent of Washington to his fanatic murderous base, a base that can only be sated with Arab blood. Hundreds of casualties just in the last 12 hours. Israel is the most dangerously country on earth.

a nuclear armed rogue state, having started a holy war of aggression with its illegally nuclear-armed vassal, is now pledging to commit a genocide

I love this!

In less than a month, "Israel has struck at least 128 medical facilities and ambulances across south Lebanon, killing 40 healthcare workers and wounding 107." Israel violates international law a matter of state policy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

A database on the systematic repression of Palestine Solidarity across UK and Germany. European Legal Support Centre with @forensicarchi.bsky.social www.index-of-repression.org

A good time to read @lalehkhalili.bsky.social's book 'Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula'. Or if you don't have time to do that, how about the review-essay I wrote about the book on my Substack during a previous war-related shipping crisis:

I wrote about Lyd (2023) and Two Blue Lines (2015) for Films for the Feminist Classroom, in a piece titled "Permission to Imagine: Palestinian Liberation and the Failures of Liberal Democracy." Lyd is such a beautiful and inventive film. Watch the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LypA...

if you're in London, this should be a great conversation: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Aaaaand then they came for the people who denounced the open letter! Bei dem Jungle World Redakteur brennen die Synapsen durch. Wie könnte das nur passieren? Wenn die kuffiye antisemitisch ist, wie die all behaupten, dann kann sie sich damit nicht ablichten lassen! Wo sind wir denn

My book "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" is coming out in early August as part of @ucpress.bsky.social's "Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century" series!!! More info can be found here: www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

My book "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" is coming out in early August as part of @ucpress.bsky.social's "Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century" series!!! More info can be found here: www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

📣Call for Abstracts: Sex, Reproduction, and the Politics of Knowledge Workshop 🔗 HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/366FXSCX

Read Gala Rexer's review of "A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism" by Jordanna Matlon. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@galarexer.bsky.social talks to Edna Bonhomme, culture writer, historian of science, journalist, and author of “A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19” (2025) www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racia... #AHistoryoftheWorldinSixPlagues

I was in NYC last night, and I didn’t even know how much I (and everyone else) needed a shared political moment that just felt hopeful and exciting (and not cynical, for once!) 🥲 we need feelings like this on the left, too!

This Monday!!

Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me) When: October 13, 4-6 pm Where: A0.23 Social Sciences Tell you friends in the Midlands!

Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me) When: October 13, 4-6 pm Where: A0.23 Social Sciences Tell you friends in the Midlands!

I finally received my visa! I'll be a Visiting Research Scholar at NYU's Department of Social & Cultural Analysis this fall. I'll be working on my new project on environmental racism/repro health in London, but I'd be more than happy to also speak about Palestine/repro injustice in your class/uni

I always feel this weird mixture of grief-cum-pride, both an analytical grasp of class and an intimate affective reaction, whenever I understand that people who are my age and have extremely productive academic careers have most likely grown up to parents who are also writers/professors/academics

This scheme is still open, and includes Palestine:

Does anyone have any book/article recs on the methodological and ethical questions of studying up (i.e., ethnographic studies of politicians, corporations, government employees)?

I'm starting my second major ethnographic research project after the PhD and I can't really tell yet what it is (shifting to a new subfield, doing ethnography as a "researcher" not just a student, less time contraints in terms of outcomes but also life in your mid 30s), but this is challenging!

Our commentary on reproductive genocide in Gaza has now been featured on the SRHM podcast so you can hear a conversation with Hala and me on Spotify and Apple Podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n... Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Someone needs to write about the affective implications of AI knowledge production; after marking a bunch of essays that were either fully or partially written by AI, I feel dumb/numb, angry, and exhausted. They make me crave human mistakes, typos, unfinished thoughts, a wonky structure etc. 😭

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Starvation in Gaza, key findings

*new publication* in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social Finally, this article I wrote with Dr Christy Kulz is out journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Starker Beitrag von Hanna Al-Taher und Benjamin Schütze zu Deutschlands verlogener Nahostpolitik: "Was Taten betrifft, ist deutsche Nahostpolitik genozidal und pro-ethnischer Säuberung. Nur wird es weniger offen formuliert als von Trump." taz.de/!6071887/

So sad to learn of Sandra's death. She was a dear friend and constant inspiration. In the intellectual vanguard of postcolonial science studies, Sandra never ceased pushing us to think more critically, more radically. How I miss those days hanging out in Venice Beach... #STS #postcol

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #palestine #gaza

In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world. @alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement. www.historyworkshop....

Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte Felix Klein will Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Zustimmung äußerte Klein zu Trumps Plan Gazas Zivilbevölkerung zu vertreiben: „Ich halte es nicht für verkehrt, radikal und einmal völlig neu zu denken“ www.welt.de/politik/deut...

so many articulations of gender 🤝 empire these days