"Race and Civilizational Difference in Syria and Palestine: Franz Boas, Physical Anthropology, and the American Expedition to Syria of 1899. Just published in Public Culture. If you can't access, please contact me for a copy. read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...

Anyway...

There is not a lot of good news anywhere you look.

I love this and I hope everyone who has the opportunity boos billionaire-owned, consumer facing "A.i." in public at every opportunity. We don't have to pretend it's cool if we don't think it's acceptable!

Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!

excellent

ranjana khanna's ASYLUM out in december www.dukeupress.edu/asylum

“After a week spent reading On the Calculation of Volume, it became increasingly easy to imagine oneself the November rain in Clarion-sous-Bois, the cool metal of the sestertius, the gushing sound of water in pipes.”

our history of the present issue is now out from @dukepress.bsky.social ! on multiple registers of the "incapacitation" of tradition read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t... hooray

remembered this article in a conversation today, worth rereading. www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/... cd blanton's remarkable "reoccupying metaphor: on the legitimacy of the nonconceptual"

adonis - desert www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55320/... arabic here: www.ahewar.org/debat/show.a...

explains how tired i feel when i open the internet. dreaming of escape

I won’t be publishing with UQP any more and neither will Evelyn Araluen, Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko, Randa Abdel-Fattah, and Sara M Saleh, among others. The list is growing. The press is dead. I wrote about why here: sakr.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

youtu.be/XX1ResoIGc8?... khaali gaya na koi / oon ke dar se (the rest is silence)

Trump accidentally achieving US disarmament

”every morning i wake up in my hamas bed and i drink my hamas coffee before brushing my teeth with hamas toothpaste. the tines of my comb spell hamas and i run it through my knotted hamas hair... by the transitive property the cat is also hamas.” proteanmag.com/2026/04/01/t...

“If Syria is to succeed, healing the bonds between its divided communities is even more essential than making connections with the outside world.”  @qunfuz.bsky.social reviews five books on the Syrian revolution.

A book to read today and everyday

don moore: "the struggle over geography ... is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings." seminar syllabus to guide us through: www.jstor.org/stable/24498... remembering a very kind conversation in his office when early in grad school. r.i.p.

"Canadian companies in the oil industry are bringing in an extra $170 million in profits every day because of the war in Iran, which has pushed global oil prices up by more than 50 per cent, according to an analysis published by @policyalternatives.ca" halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/19/f...

read this one weeks ago but am drawn back to it...

the beginning of ibn arabi's chapter on the waystation of trial (#317). "why did he not from the first build that house / to last, its life not to perish? / it did nothing to deserve ruin / so why did he raise it up and why did he lay it waste / the hand of trial but toyed with us and it..."

la puissance de la douceur: "certain encounters do not necessarily heal but still preserve something essential against the world’s brutality: the possibility of a relation intimate enough to near suffering--yet disciplined enough not to consume it"

“Words, for the prison writer, are both personal and political, a means to self-determination and to bearing witness.” Toby Lichtig interviews Nasser Abu Srour, who was recently released after 33 years in an Israeli prison. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

i wrote about my year with On the Calculation of Volume defector.com/my-year-in-n...

roula hajjar - an ode to loss (2024) issuu.com/divisionrevi... reading nasser abourahme with avgi saketopoulou

THEN WE TAKE BERLIN contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre... (on grammatical islamophobia in the post-racial order & the implications of political victory)

“The Passions and the Interests charms the reader as it persuades.” Hirschman’s book, argues Lorraine Daston, “is a history of the invisible hand at work even within those very arguments for the existence of the invisible hand.”

Thrilled to announce my book, SEASONS OF FURY, will be out on August 25. Based on years of reporting and archival research, this book is a narrative history that follows four families to trace the rise of Islamophobia in the US. You can pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672414...

Reminder that Carney is cutting funding to Environment and Climate Change Canada by 45%. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

well i don't know about any of that but i'm keen to hear charlotte's comments, should be good

Jewish Currents speaks with philosopher Elad Lapidot about how our understanding of antisemitism changes in an era in which Jews and Zionism have been conflated. jewishcurrents.org/when-jewishn...

avgi saketopoulou - exigent sadism: austerity logics and the antireparative turn share.google/t2Tr1fKSVdXk...

they will not stop until they are stopped.

I think people should respond this way any time they are asked this question bsky.app/profile/dipl...

obligatory classic theonion.com/study-iraqis...

well. the great satan

This war has been extremely revealing about the limits of the lived experience/local voices industrial complex:

amira mittermaier & sylvain piron, "what is critique?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwC...

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is officially dead. The new Species Conservation Act is replacing it, but leaves many plants and animals — and their habitats — without protection. via @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...

enshittification of everything, case in point (foul image advertising this real anthro news article: www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ten...) burn it all!!!!!!!

mcmaster president: we enter the spring with momentum and optimism news.mcmaster.ca/message-from... what world does she live in

“Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition.” www.equator.org/articles/the...

The HQ of the UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon.

Don’t threaten us with a good time

Any adult country would have had a military coup by now

An exciting opportunity to join the editorial team at @stanfordpress.bsky.social and to gain a foundation in the world of scholarly acquisitions.

china sajadian, debt and refuge: syrian farmworkers and the politics of displacement in lebanon www.sup.org/books/middle... hooray!

Honored to be edited & published by the amazing @thepublicsource.bsky.social as I challenge false premise of measuring #sovereignty in #Lebanon vis-a-vis #Hizballah given Israeli policies. Instead, I argue for attention to more historical institutional dynamics—especially the Lebanese Armed Forces.