Do you work on the Gulf & Arabian Peninsula, or know a graduate student who does? The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula (AGAPS) 2026 awards calls are now open! Deadline for the Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award & AGAPS Graduate Paper Prize is 15 July. agaps.org/calls-for-20... #menasky

US says Eid Mubarak Oman... x.com/i/status/205...

Very much looking forward to hearing about the research and experiences of our researchers / secondees as part of our EU-MSCA research consortium this afternoon. If you're interested in Non-Western Migration Regimes, please join us. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

“Women of the world, I call on you to stand with us. We’ve been deprived of the most basic human existence. We’ve lost our homes, our freedom and our privacy. Our lives as we knew them have been destroyed” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The paperback version of Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies is out! It's finally more affordable. And there's a discount 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Join the Leiden Political Economy Group for our annual lecture in GPE this Friday @unileiden.bsky.social. This year we're delighted to welcome @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social speaking about platform capitalism. www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2026/...

Join the Leiden Political Economy Group for our annual lecture in GPE this Friday @unileiden.bsky.social. This year we're delighted to welcome @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social speaking about platform capitalism. www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2026/...

Very happy to announce that I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the publication of my forthcoming book The Platform Fix. 🥳 It will be part of their Labor & Technology series, edited by Winifred Poster. @labortechresearchnetwork.org

Zo’n 350 Palestijnse kinderen in Israëlische gevangenissen worden gemarteld, seksueel misbruikt en uitgehongerd. Sinds 7 oktober 2023 is hun situatie enorm verslechterd. Een explosief rapport hierover van Save the Children werd aanvankelijk onder Israëlische druk niet gepubliceerd. buff.ly/KCqMV2l

Do you work at Leiden U & research migration outside the West? Please see our #CfA to participate in MARS: Non-Western Migration in Global Perspective - an EU-funded Marie Curie consortium for a secondment/research visit at one of our global partners: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

Looking forward to launching Limin Teh's fascinating account of Chinese miners in Japanese Manchuria tomorrow at Leiden University. Please join us to the discussion and celebration if you're in the vicinity! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

I've published a new article Labour Importism: Its rise and reproduction in the Arab Gulf States www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The question of who speaks for the Gulf...is... not a matter of political representation. It is a question of which lives are legible enough to count as affected, and which populations are visible enough to warrant a story." @miraalhussein.bsky.social www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4724...

#CfA: deadline this week! Are you a PhD student or are you a supervisor of a PhD student working on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula? Apply to the AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2026! Fantastic opportunity!

Looking forward to speaking about my book #MillennialDreams this evening with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social in her Exeter CGS seminar series. Join us at 18:00 CET universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

The article draws on my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran", now available in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social and included in its January Sale through its website (40% off automatically applied at checkout until January 31; use JAN40 in North America).

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira... Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

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.