#HannahEinbinder #FreePalestine #StandingTogether

A response from an #Emory colleague to the university's decision to do away with DEI. It was our new interim president's first move when she took office Sept 1. noellemcafee.substack.com/p/is-emory-j...

This is why they were killing journalists! They didn't want us to see this!

Including this new article by me: www.scienceopen.com/document_fil... Thank you @reorient.bsky.social 💚🌙

🆕📑 'Exiles or Intermediaries? East Turkistani Muslims in the Interwar Middle East' - an article in @reorient.bsky.social on #ScienceOpen: 🔗 www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... 🖇️ @pluto-journals.bsky.social #CriticalMuslimStudies #Xinjiang #MiddleEastStudies #UyghurHistory #PanIslamism #PanAsianism

🆕📑 'The Exclusion of Ahmadis from Pakistani Muslimness: Iqbal, Maududi, and the Zia Regime' - an article in @reorient.bsky.social on #ScienceOpen: 🔗 www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... 🖇️ @pluto-journals.bsky.social #CriticalMuslimStudies #Ahmadiyya #ReligiousMinorities #PakistanHistory

🔔 New issue of @pluto-journals.bsky.social ReOrient! @reorient.bsky.social is an international journal publishing quality research on the newly emerging field of #CriticalMuslimStudies. 👉 www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...

There’s a new issue of the @reorient.bsky.social journal in town, including an article by me on beginnings. It’s the start of a much bigger (book) project for me but I can’t think of a better place to have shared its own beginning! 💚 Read here (open access): www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Islamophobia isn’t just socially acceptable in the UK now – it’s flourishing. How did this happen? | Zoe Williams. Meanwhile the UK government set up a working grp not to combat Islamophobia but come up with a new definition. Definitions are not magic spells: it will not Islamophobia vanish!

And if you liked this piece👇🏻🤓 you might like to know that it’s part of a blog series we are doing at @reorient.bsky.social curated by @adnanhusain.bsky.social on imagining the caliphate - and a new one by Salman Sayyid has just dropped! 🥳 criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/the-...

I think I forgot to mention this to you Bluesky, but I wrote this, with some other cool cats, for @reorient.bsky.social - it’s a pedagogic pack for teaching Islamophobia* 🤓 (That is, for teaching ABOUT Islamophobia not for teaching people how to be Islamophobic… no one needs any help there 😂)

Qu’est-ce que l’islamisme ? Être historien(ne) à l’heure de la chute de l’européocentrisme Contribution du Dr. Chella Ward / @luxmea.bsky.social, professeure à l’Open University en Angleterre et animatrice du podcast de @reorient.bsky.social À lire ! indigenes-republique.fr/quest-ce-que... 👇

The @reorient.bsky.social team made an easy-to-use guide from our home at the Iqbal Centre on how you might like to respond to the government’s Islamophobia / “anti-Muslim sentiment” consultation. 🤓 Check it out if you’re not sure how best to respond to the consultation, it’s important that you do!

'In Search of #Chronology: Narratives of #Qur’anicEvolution in Western Academia ¹' - a @reorient.bsky.social #Research article published by @pluto-journals.bsky.social on #ScienceOpen: 🔗 www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Salaams from the @reorient.bsky.social conference in beautiful Istanbul where I am having a great time talking about Black Power movements, ancient history and how we write the history of a world beyond global Islamophobia 🤓

Israel cracks down on official posts mourning Pope Francis - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-cracks-down-posts-mourning-pope-francis

Why Gaza genocide is strongest case before the ICJ - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/why-gaza-genocide-strongest-case-icj

We said that all the Islamophobic measures that were unleashed by the war on terror would not just target Muslims but would undermine civil rights for all…I guess we were wrong, bec liberal-democracies never break rules or treaties… o wait.

@reorient.bsky.social is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal published biannually by @pluto-journals.bsky.social that seeks to publish quality #Research on the newly emerging field of Critical Muslim Studies: www.scienceopen.com/collection/P...

'Ignoring the Bible in Qur’anic Studies Scholarship of the Late Twentieth Century' - an @reorient.bsky.social article by @pluto-journals.bsky.social on #ScienceOpen: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

For the @reorient.bsky.social blog I wrote about Shuhada Sadaqat (Sinead O’Connor), caliphates, imaginary kings, Greek tragedy, Britain starving the Irish, what it means to be free and of course - how we do history. 🤓 criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/befo...

a world gone flat (notes from last october at @reorient.bsky.social) criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/when...

For The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social l wrote about Mahmoud Khalil and our collective complicity in genocide www.newarab.com/opinion/ivy-... Thanks to @ashrafzeneca.bsky.social for wonderful editing.

The first episode of the new season of Radio ReOrient, part of the @reorient.bsky.social project is now available! You can listen to the episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/6JI0...

I changed my official Columbia University Alumni Profile to read "Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Palestine. End the Gaza Genocide." I haven't logged in for years, but it was worth doing so for this.

The existence of Zionism requires constant brainwashing, constant propaganda, constant lying, constant violence, constant aggression, and constant ethnic cleansing.

This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

The second episode of the new season of Radio ReOrient is here! In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. newbooksnetwork.com/adnan-husain

#PhotoDuJour #Resistance

I keep forgetting to tell you about new @radioreorient.bsky.social episodes! 🎙️ they drop every Friday in our ReOrienting History season on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Check out this one with the brilliant @adnanhusain.bsky.social on the limits of ‘the global’: newbooksnetwork.com/adnan-husain 🌍

🇵🇸 Gloire aux résistantes palestiniennes ! ✌🏼 #8mars

There is a new @radioreorient.bsky.social episode in town and it’s the conversation @saeedkhan1967.bsky.social and I had with Aliyah Khan on the Muslim Caribbean. I learnt SO much from this conversation! 🤓 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/40eM... or via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🎧

Opinion: 'Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-israel-can-ban-all-films-it-wants-palestinian-voice-cannot-be

Labour MP condemns secret filming of UK parliamentary delegation in Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour-mp-condemns-secret-filming-parliamentary-delegation-israel

UN condemns persecution of Tunisian opposition - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-condemns-persecution-tunisian-opposition

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Don't let the pro-Israel far right define what antisemitism is. A brilliant tour de force from @rachelshabi.bsky.social, who is - as ever - full of insight, humanity and moral clarity. New interview! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5e_...

If you weren’t able to make it to our In Solidarity with Palestine II event yesterday you can catch up here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=alb0...

Allegiance to the Ummah and the Oppressed on Trial: The Case of Elias d’Imzalene criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/the-... @reorient.bsky.social

"I resigned because I could no longer chair a branch that did not treat Palestinians as equal partners, and I could not sign off on a critique of Amnesty International’s report that pretends to be an expert minority opinion," writes former chair of Amnesty Israel Daniil Brodsky.

According to a publishing industry source there is a "high probability" Refaat's "If I Must Die" will be on the NYT bestseller list that comes out next week. but don't stop ordering it! Let's move that to a certainty so there can be no shenanigans.

The well-known German human rights organisation @ecchr.bsky.social concludes there is a legally sound argument that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This is a huge deal, considering Germany's tortured memory politics. The tide is turning. A shame it comes so late. www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...

"Elbit Systems, the Israel-based military company whose biggest single customer is the Israeli Ministry of Defence, was awarded grants for five projects under Horizon 2020 for a total 2.2 million euros ($2.3m)." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

Drop Site News is calling on the US State Dept. to demand immediate information about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s whereabouts and to take action for his release. Please sign the petition urging the U.S. government to secure Dr. Abu Safiya’s safe return. actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t...

Hold the MAA accountable. Until they can commit to divesting from war crimes, withhold your registration!

"Speak up for the lives of Gaza’s health care workers" by @451book.bsky.social "Since Christmas, the has IDF torched and raided northern Gaza’s last functioning hospital." letter to the editor in @ashland-news.bsky.social ashland.news/letter-speak... @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov