Iraqi feminist activist Yanar Mohammed was shot and killed outside her home in Baghdad by unidentified gunmen the day before Iraqi Women’s Day. For the blog, @alktaif.bsky.social & @haydersh.bsky.social remember Yanar blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/03/...

Check out my new paper on oil extraction in Southern Iraq's marshlands & what this tells us about the carceral characteristics of toxicity at a time when pollution is the omnipresent condition of the Anthropocene: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Discriminatory language against the Israeli army Terrorism against transport planes Hurt feelings at the chemical weapons factory A safe space for the junta We train young men to drop fire won't let them write fuck on their helmets because it's obscene Self-care for the military-industrial complex

Two Iraqi security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said that more than 100 drones launched from Iran toward Israel were tracked crossing Iraqi airspace

Genocidal maniacs on a mission to erase the Middle East — Israel has always been the region’s poison. There will be no peace until the occupation ends. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7) t.co/8j7i8iXAIk

🗳️With 22 weeks to go until #IraqElections, here’s a summary of the most important headlines from the Arabic media over the past 7 days: *SCF (Al-Maliki) accuse Sudani of using public funds to buy voters *Assab say Al-Fayyed "black spot" who must go

“There is nothing left to bomb. The missiles are worth more than the buildings they’re hitting". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

apnews.com/article/isra... Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

📣 Research Assistant Position! @ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and I are looking for support for a project on higher education and electoral politics in Turkey. Are you: ▪️Ideally, a PhD student ▪️Fluent in Turkish ▪️Familiar with quantitative data Then please apply here: gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨CRIA is soliciting special issue proposals that contribute to scholarly debate and which examine pertinent and topical theoretical, empirical and methodological questions ⬇️ Deadline: 11 June

🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

wow, very excited to see my first publication out in the world... and in my dream journal no less! so thankful to my supervisor @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social and the editorial team @antipodeonline.bsky.social for helping this come into being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@uniofmanchester.bsky.social is hiring for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy! 🌟 link to apply - buff.ly/Do9nOVM There is also a Lectureship in Environmental Politics position open! - buff.ly/aorFjP2 @ipegbisa.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

I’ll be presenting my research on logging tenures as carceral geographies tomorrow as part of "The Capitalist State in the 2020s" workshop @ucl.ac.uk, & excited to be presenting alongside @alktaif.bsky.social! come by for a panel on carceral infrastructures from 2:00 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Rather than ushering in a new era of sustainability for Iraq... it appears that carbon credits will only align with a national policy of delaying & obstructing meaningful action on climate change,' writes @alktaif.bsky.social in a new Iraq Initiative article. kalam.chathamhouse.org/articles/car...

The details are so much worse. In her French op-ed, she explains that the issue raised was that she had a table that showed Gaza as having had the highest number of “humanitarian victims” of 2024. Her merely acknowledging the fact that Gazans are being mass murdered was a problem.

Postdoc Opportunity! Universität Tübingen Global Encounters Postdoctoral Fellowship Seeks researchers working on human-nature relationships and their transformation historically as well with regard to current conditions of crises in the Global North and South. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds.

The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social - on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

Check out our latest research paper exploring the adaptability of the 'Axis of Resistance' by examining its historical evolution, current dynamics, and policy responses, while presenting alternative approaches for engagement.

An investment firm headed by Jared Kushner and backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is the largest shareholder in an Israeli company, operating in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gulf-st...

On 28 May, CRIA is running an ECR workshop on 'The Global Politics of the Green Transition'! Abstract submissions close on 7 April.

The great danger with a government seemingly more pro-equality than the last one is that we'll get more announcements like this - "new role", "ongoing commitment", "accelerating action", "legend" - at the same time that funding and capacity is utterly eviscerated. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Quah Say Jye, "An Anatomy of Worldmaking: Sukarno and Anticolonialism from Post‐Bandung Indonesia," American Journal of Political Science (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who joined our event on 'Trump's Second Term and the Middle East' with @meznaqato.bsky.social, Gilbert Achcar, Tom Bateman, Sharri Plonski & chair @jasminekgani.bsky.social. 🎧 If you missed it, you can listen to the recording on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...

REMINDER: Join us Monday at 1PM EST in person and on zoom to discuss the past, present, and future of Feminism in Middle East Studies with Mounira Charrad, Suad Joseph, Deniz Kandiyoti, Judith Tucker, Nadje Al-Ali and Maya Mikdashi.

New article where I examine Gulf deposits to other Arab states' central banks as monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share my new report on how people are organising for the environment in Iraq and the challenges they face amidst an increasingly shrinking civic space in the country

“Historians and more it is our task as scholars to assume and assert our personal responsibility under genocide as the fire continues to reign.” @aycacu.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/03/a...

Excited to be joining @alktaif.bsky.social as co-editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social CRIA welcomes submissions on international affairs topics from across the social sciences!

When burning hospitals are no longer news ‘The silence over the demise of Kamal Adwan Hospital is deafening. The world has fully accepted Israel’s genocide’ aje.io/i3k7pq

Check out the first review essay to be published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, coming to BlueSky soon…

📣We are hiring! Please share! 👉 Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science 🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo 📅 Deadline: February 15th, 2025. 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NYU Faculty Arrested for Supporting Students in Peaceful Pro-Palestine Protests. Faculty Also Declared Personae Non Grata and Banned from Campus. NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2024 –

CNN’s Clarissa Ward just cannot help herself. She is always the same, every conflict, every country. Not even an attempt to practice any sort of conflict sensitivity norms. Let alone her lack of self awareness as some white woman marching around these countries, chomping at the bit.

Academia already acting like the ethnic cleansing of gaza is complete. Shame on Leiden and Cambridge Uni press. Utterly disgusting.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: One-year postdoctoral fellowships in the Humanities Program at Yale. Each appointment is renewable, conditional upon favourable review, for up to two additional one-year terms. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...

Funded PhD opportunity at the Centre for Peace and Security with Aurélie Bröckerhoff, Elly Harrowell and myself - entitled "The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies". ➡️ www.coventry.ac.uk/research/res...

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🚨 New article alert in @democratization.bsky.social: Why do authoritarian regimes maintain access to open U.S.-owned social media platforms like Twitter - despite their subversive potential - and how do pro-government supporters use them? 👇 OA link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Menasky

Relevant to some of the orientalist discourse reacting to the fall of Assad 👇 "From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings": academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

The Syrian government has been toppled, rebels are in charge of Damascus, and Assad is missing and possibly dead. Good roundup by Suleiman al-Khalidi, Timour Azhari, and Jaidi Taha for @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Amnesty International: “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call: this is genocide and it must stop now”. It marks the first time Amnesty has alleged the crime of genocide during an ongoing conflict… amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...