📝 𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀! Our colleague, Dr Mohamed El-Shewy (@moshewy.bsky.social) has published a new paper, in 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊: 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦. Check it out! ➡️ 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.

While other AI companies are still struggling to monetize #genAI, Google has found an obvious solution: Sell it to the military. Now, U.S. soldiers can unleash the power of AI for tasks such as «summarizing policy handbooks,» a task that will certainly prove vital on the battlefields of the future

My latest for @972mag.com reveals how Palantir and Dataminr have been involved in hashing out the Trump-backed "peace plan" for Gaza. It's a story of how US surveillance firms are poised to sediment a new paradigm of Israeli control over the strip www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...

Tiina Järvi and @mikkojorge.bsky.social write about infrastructure, generators, and atmospheric politics of pollution in Lebanon: ’Breathing atmospheres of failure: The matter of pollution in Beirut’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I recommend reading this report by Dr. Suliman Baldo @SulimanBaldo and Ahmed Soliman on gold and the war in Sudan. It demonstrates that most of the gold extracted from Sudan is ending up in the UAE, including gold mined in SAF controlled areas. www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...

Profits from fire: how MBDA’s UK links tie Britain to Bombs dropped on Gaza aoav.org.uk/2025/profits...

taken command of the ship is a real funny way to spell hijacking is that us english british english or spineless english

A note from the Editors, in solidarity with our colleagues across the sector.

🌟Our call for papers is now open for our BISA- @isanet.bsky.social Joint International Conference 2025 with over 20 different workshops to choose from! 🌟 Deadline June 13 with the workshops being held in Newcastle in October! More info - buff.ly/W2uggrj ISA website - buff.ly/5GE6wf4

I spoke with the @financialtimes.com on the topic of AI use for targeting for their Tech Tonic podcast. The full episode is available here www.ft.com/content/a203...

Fresh out paper on ‘fitful infrastructures’ of survival in Gaza amid infrastructural elimination in Antipode by two GOCEP researchers, Khalid Dader and Mikko Joronen. @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Can't keep track of the latest abomination from Unit 8200? Neither can I, but here is another one. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

The fascistic AI imagery of the grotesque Trump Gaza video aims to alienate, disaffect, and deny futures. The point is not to coalesce publics behind visions of the future, but to assert power over futurity itself through the shitty banality of its anesthetics.

There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming 1/

New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 'Geographies of #war and #violence I: Decolonising war' by Craig Jones journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sadly this is part of the move to turn all government into tech industry compatible elements. Or, as it is the case in defence, push to “infuse” the government “with Silicon Valley DNA” That includes adopting SV language theconversation.com/the-silicon-...

Really, truly hope that the ceasefire holds - but this must not be the end of demanding accountability and redress for the genocide that has been perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians, and the material and ideological support our governments lent it to do so.

We ( @geogdurham.bsky.social ) are very honoured to be hosting Aslı Zengin for an event about her latest book "Violent Intimacies" this Thursday (16 January). Details of the event via the link below. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

NEW: How does the scale of harm in Gaza compare to other conflicts? Our new report presents a unique analysis of where and how thousands of civilians were killed in the first 25 days in Gaza - and how these patterns are unprecedented in modern warfare. gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org

Universities can't afford: research, manageable classes sizes, conference funding, mental health support Universities can afford: expensive VCs/deputy VCs, change managers, external consultants, shiny new buildings, Research Excellence Framework, clunky virtual learning environments, annual fun run

It’s a good day for Mahmoud Darwish — “The Prison Cell”

After a year dedicated to researching the deployment of white phosphorus by Israel in Lebanon, we are proud to launch WhitePhosphorus.info. This platform is an essential resource for tracking this toxic weapon, especially as people begin returning to their lands. #Lebanon

After 6 months off, starting December back at work on the world's most feral Ahmed Adaweya fanzine with the goal of ripping & writing about every one of his releases by the end of this horrible year. What's there now covers the 1970s sans 1 unattainable LP ahmedadaweya.blogspot.com

I had a great, if not bleak, convo on the urban displacement podcast. We discussed urbicide in different contexts and its differentiated impact from Palestine to Sudan, the significance of materials like concrete as weapons of war and more. Have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/4YAn...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.com

New #OpenAccess article, "Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame", by @moshewy.bsky.social @casesofyou.bsky.social and Craig Jones @newcastleuni.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Hello BlueSky! Here to bring you MERIP's critical coverage of the Middle East in skeet form! Our latest issue (# 310) was released last week: The Struggle for Sudan. It features articles and interviews with scholars, aid workers, labor organizers and local observers of the conflict after one year.

‘Bombs manufactured in Texas are fitted with precision-guidance systems from Missouri, shipped to Europe, then flown, perhaps via British bases in Cyprus, to Israel before being dropped on Gaza.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on transnational involvement in the Gaza war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...