Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.

Join us to celebrate and discuss @libertychee.bsky.social 's important new book this Friday! I'm very much looking forward to the event. #migration #polisky

So pleased to see that Crystal Ennis's (@crystalennis.bsky.social) book, MILLENIAL DREAMS IN OIL ECONOMIES: JOB SEEKING AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR IN OMAN is the winner of this year's AGAPS Book Award

It was brilliant speaking with my colleagues about our ten year journey, and debating what we consider the most critical political economy questions of today. (Will write more on this soon!)

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social for the well earned award for her brilliant book. I am thrilled that Making Space for the Gulf was also recognized by AGAPS

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social - I indexed this book, and the reward is richly deserved!

To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...

Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!

Racism motivated the securitisation of our campus. www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/hoe-d...

Allies and critics alike have bought into the narrative of Israel as a hub of high-tech military "innovation." But, as the scholar Rhys Machold explains in his new piece, this story obscures the true motor powering Israel's violence: Western backing. jewishcurrents.org/the-myth-of-...

CBC Fifth Estate investigates millions of dollars of Canadian tax deductible charitable donations funding the military occupation and illegal settlements. youtu.be/-4eOsVAxCTM?...

Two years of genocide and the AP still starts its articles with “Israel said” Israel continues to be given the right to narrate the genocide it is doing

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Israel is still not allowing International Media back into Gaza, despite the Ceasefire

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...

Very pleased to see our article (with Yujing Tan & Shivant Jhagroe) on the GPE of Labour & platform capitalism, drawing on our study of migrant gig workers in multinational food delivery platforms in the Netherlands published with @gpejournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1332/2635...

Haven't read my book yet & want to know more? Check out my #NewTextsOutNow interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social ! #newton #millennialdreams #oman www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46914

De dag waarop iedereen altijd al tegen deze genocide was @bramvermeul.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...

"The idea...is to retell the story of #Oman’s modern economic development from the perspective of #labor instead of oil... 'The story of Oman’s history and of development is the story of living and working. You want to understand the Omani story? Follow the workers.'" - @crystalennis.bsky.social

Haven't read my book yet & want to know more? Check out my #NewTextsOutNow interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social ! #newton #millennialdreams #oman www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46914

#OtD 25 Sep 2003 noted Palestinian intellectual Edward Said died. A founding father of postcolonial theory, he wrote extensively on the Middle East and Palestine, and how Western culture has been moulded by imperialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9791...

Solidarity to our colleagues at Birzeit University, enduring repeated attacks by Israeli occupation forces. If you haven't been, please pay attention. #scholasticide right2edu.birzeit.edu/birzeit-univ...

Canada has recognized Palestine. Finally. It feels like a tiny victory. But let's also put it in context. 140 other UN member states already recognize Palestine. It is meaningful in Canadian FP terms & represents a shift. Canada has been more than a holdout, it has even been an obstacle at the UN.

Yes! I just spoke to a librarian and they are spending time trying to find fake citations - they are being given pages of fake references to find via inter-library loan Again, digital asbestos - quick to produce, but so much cost and labour to clean-up.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and those who have canonized him. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

I had the opportunity to review Elham Fakhro's excellent and highly timely book on the Abraham Accords. It sheds light on Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, the GCC, and the US at this current moment. merip.org/2025/09/the-...

At the University of Valencia to explore AI and agency in politics, convened by Marco Guglielmo:

They bombed the Katara area in Doha. That area is a tourist spot, and always filled with families. I used to take my kid there every other day. What is this rogue world

*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way. www.sup.org/books/middle... (50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)

When the classroom is a tent and the dream is survival. In Gaza, students study by flashlight, under bombs, and through grief. This powerful essay by Taqwa al-Wawi honors their defiance and asks: how do you dream when your school no longer exists? www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

This must stop. Israel must stop this mass starvation. Our lawmakers must do more. “Since AFP was founded in August 1944, some of our journalists were killed in conflict, others were wounded or made prisoner, but there is no record of us ever having had to watch our colleagues starving to death.”

Look what just arrived in the mail - Fabricating Homeland Security! Looking forward to reading this important work. Congrats Rhys ! @stanfordpress.bsky.social

🤖 New Pre-Print: Ad Machina: Partisanship and Support for Delegating Government Decisions to Autonomous Algorithms osf.io/preprints/so...

Of course it is: Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

The masks are coming off: human values and international law seem to count for nothing anymore. This was already evident when the world did nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza. As you read this, Israel is still killing civilians who are already displaced & starving. www.standaard.be/opinies/je-k...

"As a commentator on Iran, write confidently and on behalf of all Iranians, even if you have never been to Iran or speak Persian. You are a bona fide Iran expert if you are white, male, and have an assistant who can tweet in Persian on your behalf."

Ook wij sluiten zondag 13.00 uur weer aan bij dit initiatief van @oxfamnovib.bsky.social en @amnestynl.bsky.social en eisen actie van dit kabinet. Help mee, doe je roodste outfit aan en trek een #RodeLijn voor alle burgers, journalisten, zorg- en hulpverleners die zijn omgekomen en vermoord in Gaza.

The people united will never be defeated! ✊ En daarom gaan we zondag massaal naar Den Haag om tegen onze regering te zeggen: trek NU die rode lijn en stop de genocide in Gaza. Als je kunt, kom alsjeblieft. ✊❤️🇵🇸 (Ook als je je niet hebt aangemeld, ben je heel welkom om 13 uur op het Malieveld ❤️)

Israel’s war on Iran has killed hundreds of people. Each has a face, a name, a story. Parnia Abbasi is one of them. She was a 24 year old poet and English teacher. Until an Israeli missile hit her home in Tehran, killing her and her entire family. This is one of her poems, translated to English

Picturing Scholasticide: A Visual Testament to the Destruction of Education in Palestine. Important, devastating work by some incredible colleagues. www.picturingscholasticide.org #menasky #polisky

Excited to see my friend @masayalb.bsky.social’a latest book published! Pre-order it through your favourite independent bookstore like I did (Words Worth Books, Waterloo ON) or from Bloomsbury Canada here: www.bloomsbury.com/ca/pandemic-...

The deportation of pregnant and lactating women is a new low in an already inhumane mass deportation wave in the #DominicanRepublic. My article for @ca.theconversation.com For Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, ‘reproduction is like a death sentence’ theconversation.com/for-haitian-...

They don't want to learn about Palestine. On censorship in Middle East studies by my Gulf studies colleague & comrade Alex Boodrookas. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... #menasky #polisky