caught a bug at hm that has me shivery + gentle (not as bad as i anticipated tbh) emotional comedown should i watch pluribus or frankenstein

The Dutch province Limburg are trying to get the panels back and want to put up a special memorial for the black soldiers, and the governor of the province (a powerless job to be clear) is gonna have a discussion with the US ambassador over it. Fingers crossed nos.nl/artikel/2589...

Great book!!

www.youtube.com/live/yyxgyVF... Had to miss the last day of HM to get back to teaching tomorrow, but just want to say thank you to @histmat.bsky.social for filming uploading this excellent closing plenary.

Man zohran is solo carrying the international left’s morale at the moment

She’s here!

@histmat.bsky.social this year was soul refreshing. So many comrades, so many great thoughts and lovely chats. fuckin love it

We mourn and remember Sion Assidoun, a Moroccan Jewish anti-Zionist activist and co-founder of the BDS movement in Morocco.

decolonialfutures.uva.nl/annual-lectu... @biidaasamose.bsky.social in the netherlands lets go!

isnt there a story somewhere about derrida punching bernard henri levi or am i imagining this

One of the most important articles you will read this year. Esmat Elhalaby, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies. @esmat.bsky.social 🗃️

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... “Children who were meant to be born from these … reproductive specimens will never exist,” an expert medical witness told the commission’s investigation. “Families will be forever changed and bloodlines may end.”

Have you watched The Alchemy Lecture? Why not? Sound—at the Interregnum. It’s fantastic.

lmao

The name zohran comes from the arabic root z-h-r, to flower or to bloom

MESA and the AAUP have released a critical report exposing the weaponization of civil rights law to suppress campus speech concerning Palestine. Read full report here: mesana.org/advocacy/tas...

Hello dearies, I've made available online my syllabus for the course titled, Bodies and Sexualities: Transnational/Queer Feminisms It's a reading-heavy course (3hours each week, 8 weeks in all) for MA Year 2 students with a guest lecture. You can consult it here: doi.org/10.13140/RG....

spent my formative years in nyc And it was the first time i learned that you could truly love a place and that home could be anywhere. I never wanted to leave but then the arab spring happened and i had to go back for it. I still miss it sometimes all this time later. Good luck new york 😘

Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy is available now! Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐 www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...

The agents at the british border were distinctly less friendly too one of em literally asked me if i ‘dont miss kuwait’ in the questioning

first tube ride and the announcer goes ‘it is decidedly unpatriotic to not let passengers off the train first’ wtf london chill

IF YOU SEE MY AT THE HISTORICAL MATERIALISM BOOK FAIR YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO TACKLE ME AND KICK ME OUT PLEASE ITS FOR MY OWN GOOD

Hey y'all, will soon start an online class on Lebanese history and politics. If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging. I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon. Email: [email protected] Signal: @ ayoub.02

www.npr.org/2025/10/23/g... one of my albums of the year by a veritable american genius

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. -- Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)

I have an essay contrasting theory camps and communist ones in the latest issue PMLA, which reflects on the 1983 Illinois Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture conference. I sketch a material history of the perilous assumption that professional actions necessarily constitute political activity.

“Sheldon Yett, the UNICEF representative to Sudan, said in an interview that the situation in el-Fasher, was ‘an absolute catastrophe,’ w/thousands of children already suffering from disease & famine before the takeover of the city by the RSF. ‘Now it’s hell on Earth with lots of guns,’ Yett said.”

Abolish everything .. www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

Just added.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10... just devastating scenes and stories out of el fasher

One of my students had an i heart kuwait sticker on her laptop which she apparently got on a MUN trip that coincided with national day celebrations. talk about an out of body experience!!

after a 9 year absence since her truly staggering Zama (best film ever imo), the inimitable argentine director lucrecia martel (best living director imo) is back with a new one that is also her first full fledged feature documentary!! youtu.be/yPQRXpzx55o?... Amveryhype

Literally

Good meme but the one art form that is unambiguously thriving today despite the difficulties is cinema. There are so many good movies.

Innit (best sentence in moby dick)

Man US really is sppedrunning a century’s worth of moral panics in like a year

Its really a lot to ask of someone to produce knowledge in this reality. Dunno how u all do it

Lmao is this real

‘Test of ceasefire’ comeon guardian wtaf

Happy Publication Day, @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social! 🇵🇸

HM hasn’t even started but already so annoyed that i’m going to have to make some hard choices over which panels to go to and also sucks that i have to leave sunday early to get back in time for teaching

The merip special issue on normalization here really is an outright banger and a must-read as an antidote to so much political provinicalism these days

One of the great thinkers of our time. I can’t wait to read her collected work!

Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"

Was complaining a bit ago that more people need to read khaldun al naqib and it seems the colleagues at the doha center did a nice looking symposium on him this February! Hope there’s a publication in the pipeline www.dohainstitute.org/en/Lists/ACR...