Sign up for the grassroots campaign to support Zohran's agenda. act.ourtime.nyc/sign-up?r=l3...

How did New Yorkers elect a democratic socialist as their mayor? We have a reading list for that.

An inspiring and historic win open.substack.com/pub/nancykri...

This same question confronts foreign govts as well. Many have been cowed into appeasing Trump due to the very real pain he can inflict in the short term. But with his domestic weakness increasingly clear, a stiffer approach could add more pressure that weakens him even further in the long term.

Amazing win, friends!!!

#Georgia: We urge the immediate release of acclaimed poet and former president of PEN Georgia Paata Shamugia, who faces up to 15 days in prison for taking part in peaceful protests. Read more ⬇️ georgiatoday.ge/police-arres...

Our weekend in Dublin with students from Gaza open.substack.com/pub/nancykri...

My latest author newsletter is about a trip to Ireland to meet students recently evacuated from Gaza open.substack.com/pub/nancykri...

Vote for Zohran Mamdani ❤️‍🔥

I will be speaking at UCLA this evening at 6 p.m. PT. Would love to see you there. www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/even...

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?” ~Anne Carson, Glass, Irony, and God

📚 Join novelist and IALA advisory board member @nancykric.bsky.social at UCLA on October 30th as she discusses her latest book, The Burning Heart of the World. Learn more and RSVP here: www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/even...

"The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza... Times editors have told reporters to avoid 'inflammatory terms' like 'genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' and 'occupied territory' — and even to avoid saying 'Palestine.'" Read the @wawog.bsky.social dossier here newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier

Poem by Khaled Juma, translated from the Arabic by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor in the September 25, 2025 issue of the New York Review of Books

Why Genocide Enablers Like Bret Stephens Frighten Jews Like Me

It’s real playbill.com/article/ang-...

A Jewish-American journalist was attacked by Israeli settlers nearly a week ago, and Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (party leader) and Kirsten Gillibrand (DSCC leader), and Rep. Dan Goldman have apparently completely ignored him:

Nadera Mushtha writes eloquently about the destruction of her family’s home in Gaza. electronicintifada.net/content/noth...

"I knew life here [in Ireland] would be lonely, but the occupation forced me to make the impossible choice between exile and living in a place that has become a barren desert after the occupation stripped it of all signs of life." ~ Hamza Salha www.dropsitenews.com/i/175824939/...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis — theonion.com/israel-agree...

I am proud and honored to have been a mentor with We Are Not Numbers since 2015. It is a privilege to work with the brilliant young Palestinian writers I have met through this program. wearenotnumbers.org/why-write-in...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"I am exhausted. We are exhausted. If fatigue can be worn, we are all wearing threadbare shirts. We long for the Gaza we once knew, for the lives we once lived, and for the selves we once were." ~ Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“Trump may just throw his weight behind an agreement even more meaningful than the recent peace treaty he concluded between Armenia and Cambodia.” I laughed when I read that line, but it’s all too grim. mouinrabbani.substack.com/p/hamas-resp...

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

The hell our government has co-created. And as much as we have done to try to put an end to this depraved criminality, it hasn’t been enough. 💔

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out

As the Israeli invasion of Gaza City advances, al-Shifa Hospital is facing severe shortages of essential medical supplies, leaving patients untreated and vulnerable. Staff and patients fear an imminent Israeli attack. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/no-m... #Palestine #Israel

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

At least 16 people have died in ICE custody so far this year. At least 1,250 people detained by ICE are now missing. Almost half of the people arrested by ICE have no criminal record. This is fascism, and Trump made sure his oligarchs are profiting from it.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

#OtD 24 Sep 1883 during his Address to the National Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky, Frederick Douglass criticised trade unions that refused to organise Black workers. But most unions continued to be whites-only, with exceptions like the @IWW. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9696...

Death toll surges in early Israeli bombardment with the heaviest carnage in besieged Gaza City.

Is the world going to let them get away with this?

The recording of The Markaz Review Book Club’s discussion of my novel is now available. I loved talking with Rana Asfour, who asked some great questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A3o...

Here is the recording of The Markaz Review Book Club discussion of my novel The Burning Heart of the World. I loved talking with Rana Asfour, who had some great questions for me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A3o...

Read this powerful piece by my mentee Nadera Mushtha who is in Gaza City wearenotnumbers.org/we-counted-t...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

A friend sent me this photo of my novel in the window of the Armenian Museum in Watertown

The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless. Shocking.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

You can order my four novels, along with an anthology and a literary magazine I contributed to, from Abril Books at the link below. abrilbooks.com/creator/nanc...

It's so monstrous and unbearable to watch this unfold in real time. Day after day, week after week, month after month, now year after year--and our craven and corrupt institutions allow it to continue. Truly mind-numbing.

From post-9/11 NY to Lebanon to the Ottoman Empire, @nancykric.bsky.social’s The Burning Heart of the World explores the lasting scars of war & displacement. 🔥📚 Read her interview with Olivia Katrandjian in the @wirobooks.bsky.social: bit.ly/4lZSfHf

A Palestinian boy in Gaza rescued his birds from under the rubble after Israeli forces destroyed Al-Ruya Tower in Gaza City.

Absolute depraved cruelty and lawlessness on full display. Completely sickening that the world stands by and lets this continue. I am ashamed that we have failed to put an end to these monstrous crimes.

Mamdani: Why should I debate Trump's puppet when I could debate Trump himself? If Trump is serious about this, he should come to New York City. We can have as many debates as he wants about why he is cutting snap benefits for hungry New Yorkers just to fund tax cuts for his billionaire donors