the latest from RD: @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social on where we need to focus our outrage about Islamophobia (hint: it's not on political stunts.) religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...

my girl @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social saying what needs to be said "History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned." religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...

Latest op ed: Thanks to @religiondispatches.org for giving me somewhere to rant and @mpgphd.bsky.social for her amazing editing skills. "History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned." religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...

Maybe if we tell them there’s a student encampment inside the White House democrats will spring to action.

An IDF commander tells Haaretz that soldiers shoot everyone who crosses an imaginary line in north Gaza: "Bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them… People know that wherever you see these dogs, that's where you must not go." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Large missile barrage, now, targeting central Israel, possibly launched from Yemen

This is the best annotation of a primary text that a student has ever submitted.

Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s most transcendent musicians, passed away from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco at the age of 73. Photo credit: Jim McGuire

CNN: Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera photojournalist on one year anniversary of colleague’s death www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/m... @cnn.com @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism

Dehumanised in the genocide

Do you remember this simple man?! He had been known for describing his granddaughter killed in #Israeli_bombing last year: “The soul of my soul.” Khalid Nabhan has been KILLED in #Israeli_bombing of Al Nuseirat refugee camp!

Israel killed him, he’s now with Reem, the soul of his soul.

Israel has just killed Khalid Nabhan (“soul of my soul”), one year after they killed his granddaughter Reem

Just unbelievable. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... @theguardian.com

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

There is one photo from the 2016 fall of Aleppo that is forever inked in my brain and it's this one: The text reads: “To the one with whom I shared the siege, I love you.” 15th December, 2016

He bought it NOW? 😐😑😐

What does it mean to age in genocide? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What is your favorite academic book about white supremacy in America?

A student told me that they didn't need coffee to do the assigned readings for my class and that just made me so happy.

My friends are smart as hell, and they're equally as funny. Listen to their podcast. Use it in your classes.

Usually on laundry day I throw a blanket on my mattress cover while washing my sheets to avoid getting cat hair all over it. As you can see, GREAT SUCCESS.

Opportunity alert! Call for Applications for Post Doc for groundbreaking research on systemic Islamophobia amongst Children's Aid Societies (CAS). Deadline: Oct 20, 2023 See posting for details: islamicstudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/call-for-app...

I learned about a super cool project today: The "American Muslims: A History Revealed" documentary series. Here's a teaser. www.americanmuslimsfilm.com/teaser What a great resource!

Please spread the word! Kenyon is hiring a TT Religion in the Americas professor. I'm the chair of the search and happy to answer any questions.  careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

u motherfuckers need kwame

Hello all--would love your help in advertising a t-t position in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at my institution, which is looking for a scholar working on gender in the global South. JUST authorized & an early deadline: 15 Sept! https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12619

Friends! Those of you who have assigned "unessays" before! What wisdom can you share for those of us who are trying them out in the classroom for the first time? Do you have any do's or do not's that you think would be helpful?