Charlie Kirk’s shocking killing sets the stage for a federal crackdown | Moustafa Bayoumi

newbooksnetwork.com/one-story-th... Two Central Asians in dialogue about the field as well as my continuing work on Langston Hughes. A deeply memorable discussion even if the NBN folks mixed up by book title (!) see link. #CentralAsiaBooks #langstonhughes

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Almaty opens its first contemporary art museum with Almagul Menlibayeva’s powerful solo show, marking a new era for Kazakh and Central Asian art timesca.com/kazakhstans-... #Kazakhstan #Almaty #ContemporaryArt #CentralAsia #AlmagulMenlibayeva #KazakhArt #ArtMuseumOpening

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And on 9/19 at 6pm, following Yahya Ashour's reading, we encourage everyone to attend the book launch event for Ammiel Alcalay's CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, hosted by @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and @cunypoetics.bsky.social and featuring @zohrasaed.bsky.social and Safira Berrada-Riggs!

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social is raising funds through the sale of "everything could be", a chapbook composed of lines donated by 155 UDP authors and friends. Buy a copy here. All funds will support a new season of books, fair pay for staff, and rent. shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...

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Following cuts to USAID, the scholarships of 82 Afghan women pursuing further education in Oman have been ended and they face returning to Afghanistan. I wrote to the Education Secretary urging her to work with UK universities to see if the students could continue their studies here.

In what must be an act of resistance, Mahmoud Khalil *refused to sign* his “Notice to Appear” (the first step in a deportation proceeding)

Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy | Moustafa Bayoumi

This is the kind of mayor I want for our city!

What a different world we could have.

This screenshot tells you everything about the Democratic party

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Steve Donoghue reviews a memoir of food and foreign reporting, Cold Kitchen by Caroline Eden, out from Bloomsbury: openlettersreview.com/posts/cold-k...

I’m Offering these writing classes m/w 3/3-3/19 come join and then we can celebrate your writings on nowroz eve or for Eid!

My uncle Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the kkk for trying to unify Ann Arbor School district. Here’s an article. I hope it’s ok to share this here. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

To celebrate Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes, Honey & Co are doing a supper club in London on 31 March, with me! There will be Armenian jingalov hats, tolma, lamb stew with cinnamon (and a veg alternative), tarragon panna cotta & more. Book here: honeyandco.co.uk/caroline-ede...

Where are my central asian artists and writers, my persianates, and other such rebel scholars and creators? Attaching this clip from Lida Abdul video piece.

Question for the lawyers. If they take my uncle into a room and tell him they are not releasing him until he signs & then he’s “free to go.” What should he do? Ask for a lawyer? For a phone call? Just say no and wait?

Here we go again! I remember when these solidarity signs popped up in 2017 after the first Trump administration. Now I’m seeing them again. (I saw this one yesterday in Hopewell, NJ.) Don’t stop! We should always be in community with each other, not just during challenging times.

@humanitiescuny.bsky.social @onuraayaz.bsky.social @samohana.bsky.social @tiniacos.bsky.social @zohrasaed.bsky.social #poetry #newamericanpoetry #charlesolson #pedagogy #gloriaevangelinaanzaldúa #etheridgeknight #freepeoplespoetryworkshop #allenginsberg #robertduncan #theodoreenslin #cidcormann

NYC folk: Hakeem Jeffries office is at 55 Hanson Pl. Suite 603, Brooklyn, NY 11217 near the Atlantic Ave Barclays Center stop Both K. Gillibrand and C. Schumer have district offices in midtown Manhattan at 780 Third Ave. NY, NY 10017 Gillibrand's office is 2601, Schumer's is 2301

Brooklynites is a Gotham Book Prize finalist. The book commemorates New Yorkers past who dreamed big abt better futures & worlds. Deep gratitude to the nominating committee, an honor to be included with these amazing writers 🗽📚 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu apnews.com/article/goth...

The most devastating news for the families we were working with.

FYI CUNY faculty: Public Safety should prevent ICE from entering campus unless they have a warrant. If they have a warrant Public Safety are to escort ICE to that campus' Legal Counsel, who will call CUNY Central Legal Office, who will call NYS Attorney General. ICE should NEVER enter a class.

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Reworking a sculpture made from galvanized wire, beads, colander, and metal spikes. What comes next?

My latest article, on depictions of Indians in Iranian literature, film, and media, is out now in Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan, by Mubbashir Rizvi “demonstrates that struggles for land justice can weather even the most terrifying conjunctures and formidable opponents—in this case, the Pakistani...

Powerful piece by @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social, dissecting (npi) the CIA black site photo of Ammar that was declassified earlier this year. hyperallergic.com/970546/the-b...

‘What findings of “excited delirium” and “sickle cell trait” both do is pathologize Black people, especially Black men, by turning their own bodies against them in a court of law.’ Daniel Penny’s lawyers used a racist defense strategy and it worked www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We had a wonderful time sharing our finds. Macaulay Honors Students will continue adding next semester as well. For now here is our map of Central Asian Restaurants and Businesses in South Brooklyn. Each pin is connected to a small sorry about the place: eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/mhc38701/

Explore Stories of Central Asian Restaurants and Businesses in South Brooklyn Join Us for the Launch of the Collaborative Map This map is more than a tool—it’s a living archive created by and for the community. Register to Attend here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mcw...

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To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

Moon beam in NJ. Just showing proof of life here.

Wednesday, I will be giving a talk about Andkhoy 1970s through my father’s stories and interview with Mark Slobin at University of Sussex at 8am NYC time: www.sussex.ac.uk/global/about...

As the situation escalates in Israel-Palestine, misinformation is rife. It can be difficult to decipher what is really happening and what is not. Our team has gathered examples of misrepresented footage and imagery from the latest conflict, helping you tell facts from fiction

any sinologists able / want to remark on the transliterations of this bit from a 1907 article I'm consulting for a paragraph I'm writing about legendary vegetable sheep? Internet searches of Tchou Ying's Fou-nan yi wou tche are getting me nothing. Chinese via French in 1907 = ???