Today at 3pm EST with @lediona.bsky.social @harunb.bsky.social @ademferizaj.bsky.social Piro Rexhepi Dženita Karić #Bosnian #Albanian Studies 🔥🔥🔥 #Balkansky 🗃️

po m’vjen keq që po ju prishi pak iluzionet me sabah, ama shqiptarët e sirisë e kanë ruajtë identitetin shqiptar edhe pse s’kanë jetu në trojet shqiptare, që disa prej jush t’obsesionum me racën tonë ariane t’bardhë, t’pastër e t’lashtë ia kanë mveshë arbëreshëve pa shumë bazë.

we all need to tweet more about the nish genocide against albanians and other muslims in the region during the winter of 1877-78.

i’m sure i’m not the first to say this, but: ethnicity is race for white people.

hard to argue that european colonialism – especially its german variant – didn't disrupt the course of our history, as bosnia was literally colonised by the habsburg empire in 1878, and albania ended up with a german aristocrat as head of state after its independence in 1912.

currently reading this by @edinh.bsky.social and loving what i’m learning about the bosnian intellectual mehmed šaćir kurtćehajić! 👨🏻‍🏫

The chapter "How women KLA combatants complicated notions of patriarchy and masculinity" by @ademferizaj.bsky.social in our ed. vol. "Feminist Encounters in Statebuiding" received an Honorary Mention for the 2024 Arshi Pipa Best Graduate Student Paper Award. Available here: shorturl.at/HHYMk

MUST READ: www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

happening right now: @pirorexhepi.bsky.social presenting his book "white enclosures" at the university of prishtina moderation by lirika demiri and gëzim selaci

prizren, kosova, is full 🍉🍉🍉

Genocide isn’t an event but a spectrum. There will always be semantic/legal debates, but once you reach the point where the mass murder of non-combatants becomes a vital part of a broader campaign to permanently “remove” a population from some territory, it’s perfectly fair to bring up the G word.

So much is being revealed (again) about how little most academics care about the world they write, teach and speak about.

Jedes einzelne Wort eine Gewalttat

I really thought nothing could top the insanity that is American political discourse on Israel and Palestine, but now I realize that Germany is every bit as deranged just with a cultured veneer. More smugly self-satisfied than zealously militant, unmistakably racist all the same.

I need white Germans to realize that May Ayim was a poet in addition to being an activist, intellectual, speech therapist, etc. Her writing has literary significance. Just because you don't read her doesn't mean she isn't important. 1/

Today I taught about French settler colonialism and the Algerian revolution (and Fanon’s “A Dying Colonialism”) and it seems like some of my students were struck by French Algerian assimilation policy: that indègenes could be French, or they could *remain* Muslim, but they couldn’t be both.

your daily reminder that if you want to know what's going on in the balkans, just listen to the voices of the racialised – roma, bosnians, albanians

Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...

Really cool to see something I helped write appear in Albanian. Faleminderit, Liri Kuçi! @dzenitakaric.bsky.social @pirorexhepi.bsky.social