New Study Indicates High Levels of Self-Censorship and Perceived Restrictions for Scholars Specialized in the Middle East since October 7, 2023. Official @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social press release: www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023! An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

I am very excited to share our article! @mariamsalehi.bsky.social, Johanna Grabert, and I look into how manifestations of the imperial boomerangs shape subjectivities, modes of governance, and material conditions - today and in the heart of Berlin: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting new publication by @laurakotzur.bsky.social @mariamsalehi.bsky.social and Johanna Garnett in @millennjournal.bsky.social! 📑

A thread🧵 on our new study "German Academia since October 7" was released yesterday. The study, coauthored with Sven Chojnacki, Iman El Ghoubashy, @thaddaea.bsky.social and Nina Moya Schreieder systematically examines how October 7 and the genocide in Gaza have affected researchers in Germany /1

Seit heute ist unsere @interactfu.bsky.social Studie zu Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Selbstzensur unter Nahostforschenden online. Für @tagesspiegel.de hat @jmwiarda.bsky.social die Ergebnisse zusammengefasst: share.google/PwlicDCFD2o4... Zur Studie: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/Grimm-D...

Hohe Selbstzensur u. wahrgenommene Einschränkungen unter Forschenden mit Nahostbezug - neue Studie @interactfu.bsky.social der #FUBerlin liefert systematische Evidenz für Deutschland u. zeigt: fast 85 % sehen eine gestiegene Gefährdung der Wissenschaftsfreiheit. ➡️ www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Hunger ist keine Panne! Wer über #Gaza spricht, darf Israels Absichten nicht ignorieren. Für das IPG Journal habe ich über Israels Einsatz von Hunger als Kriegswaffe und die Inkonsistenzen derer geschrieben, die dieses Kriegsverbrechen leugnen. www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/nah...

Seit heute ist unsere @interactfu.bsky.social Studie zu Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Selbstzensur unter Nahostforschenden online. Für @tagesspiegel.de hat @jmwiarda.bsky.social die Ergebnisse zusammengefasst: share.google/PwlicDCFD2o4... Zur Studie: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/Grimm-D...

Honoured to have been part of today's panel w/ @stefaniasds.bsky.social on academic freedom infringements in the wake of genocide in Gaza where I presented our survey on the conditions of MENA scholarship in Germany. 👉 The full study will be out on Monday @interactfu.bsky.social, stay tuned!

Neue Vorschau auf unsere Studie, die am Montag veröffentlicht werden soll! #Gaza #Wissenschaftsfreiheit Item q403: "Wie hat sich Ihrer Auffassung nach die Bedrohungslage für die Wissenschaftsfreiheit im Kontext des 7. Oktober 2023 und des Gaza-Kriegs verändert?" (nach beruflicher Stellung)

New preview of our study, to be published on Monday! #Gaza #AcademicFreedom Item q403: “In your opinion, how has the threat to academic freedom changed in the context of October 7, 2023, and the Gaza War?” (by professional position)

Preview of our study of (self) censorship, threat and protest in the context of Gaza. We asked +2000 academics working on Middle East politics, e.g. of they felt the urge to selfcensor. Our results mirror @abuaardvark.bsky.social and @stelhami.bsky.social's work on US context. Stay tuned for more!

🔥 SNEAK Peek auf unsere @interactfu.bsky.social Studie zu Selbstzensur, Bedrohung und Protest im Kontext von Gaza. Befragt wurden +2000 Wissenschaftler*innen mit Nahostbezug in Deutschland, z.B. ob sie bei der Thematisierung von Israel/Palästina selbst zensieren.. Stay tuned for more!

Tolles Gespräch von @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social mit @jannisgrimm.bsky.social zu dessen vielfältigen Arbeiten zu #Israels #Krieg und #Genozid in #Gaza & zum Schweigen, der Untätigkeit & Repression diesbzgl im deutschsprachigen Raum 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

After getting 4 paper rejected this month, I just learned that a piece that I have been working on for 5 years was just accepted by *Mobilization* “A Nested Framework for Understanding Revolutionary Situations: Tracing the Discursive and Material Dimensions of Transformative Events” Tears of joy!😢

Coming up on Monday next week, 18:00 CET Very honoured to follow up on Josef's insightful conversation with @omerbartov.bsky.social and to speak about my research on contested terminologies of violence, Germany's Gaza policy, and the conditions of Palestine solidarity in Germany.

Live Interview with @jannisgrimm.bsky.social ➡️The situation in #Palestine and #Gaza ➡️How the "Global South" views the so-called "value-based international order." ➡️The concept of German Staatsräson (reason of state) and its real-world implications www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZXA...

What an amazing way to end this semester ❤️ - with a deeply moving discussion of Hope & Home in the Syrian Diaspora with amazing speakers, Sarah Bassisseh, Salma Flayhan, Alhakam Shaar & Wendy Pearlman, followed by a beautiful concert of Jaffa Trio (lnkd.in/dtYk5sx7) at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

🎆I'm extremely proud to announce a special @interactfu.bsky.social publication: TALKING VIOLENCE - a new student-led podcast series dedicated to the many faces of violence, from its visible effects to its hidden structures. Born out of an undergraduate seminar at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's

The 2nd inspiring event in a row. It *is* not only possible but also urgently necessary to speak about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, especially at German universities! Thank you Hanna Al-Taher and Caro Vargas for your clarity and courage to speak at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social today 🙏

Very much looking forward to tomorrow's discussion w/Hanna Al-Taher and Caro Vargas at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social on traveling antagonisms and the tensions between erasure and tokenization of Palestinians in Western academia! 📍18:00 at Thielallee 67, Berlin!

Cool stuff happening this week @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social - if you're in town, join us!

Mit @tagesspiegel.de habe ich über unsere Forschung zu Palästina-Solidarität und dem repressiven Umgang mit Protest in Berlin gesprochen. Vielen Dank an Andreas Busche, der dem Thema Raum gegeben hat - bei der Berichterstattung der letzten Monaten keine Selbstverständlichkeit! archive.is/7IIQJ

Next week will be busy! Join us at one (or all) of these events @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social: 14 July: Gaza nicht allein lassen 16 July: Silence, Surveillance, Solidarity 18 July: Hope and Home/Jaffa Trio Way to end the semester! More info: www.interact.fu-berlin.de

Ich freue mich, spontan bei diesem Panel @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social dabei zu sein: Gaza nicht allein lassen. Solidarität und Handlungsoptionen in Deutschland Mit Ilham Bani Odeh (Transaidency/ SAWA), Oren Ben Zvi (Friends of Standing Together) und yours truly. 14/07/2025, 18:00, Thielallee 67

🎆Save the Date! The next event in our INTERACTconversations series is on 16 July 2025 at 6pm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: Silence, Surveillance, Solidarity: Palestinian Academics as Space Invaders in Western Academia w/Hanna al-Taher and Carolin Vargas www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/INTERAC...

Join us if you'd like for this talk about my joint research with @becomingothers.bsky.social and @thaddaea.bsky.social on Palestine solidarity in Germany. Tonight, 18:00, via Zoom 👇

Sneak peak for our next @interactfu.bsky.social INTERACTconversation #8 with Hanna AL-Taher & Carolin Vargas on July 16, 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social on: SILENCE SURVEILLANCE SOLIDARITY Palestinian Academics as Space Invaders in Western Academia If you are in Berlin: Save the date!

After the event is before the next event! Next Tuesday, I will give a substitute lecture for my cancelled talk at Uni Witten-Herdecke on logics, drivers and dilemmas of Palestine solidarity protests in Germany. Not on campus but online, at the invitation of the Witten-Herdecke students! Tune in! 👇

Very much looking forward to this @interactfu.bsky.social conversation on Solidarities between @myriahmed.bsky.social, Simin Jawabreh, @naikaforoutan.bsky.social and Ahmed Isamaldin on Thursday!

Wie sehen uns heute um 18:00 an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!

Join us next week at FU Berlin, Thielallee 67, 6pm! More info @interactfu.bsky.social: share.google/Wn1JCgBQi7h5...

What does it mean for scholars to be in solidarity with struggles around them? How can academic engagement move beyond rhetorical expressions of support toward real practices of care, resistance, and accountability? SAVE THE DATE for this event @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social next week!

My joint article "The Challenges of Mobilizing after Emergency Events-Linking Debates on Transformative Events and Human-Made Disasters" w/@myriahmed.bsky.social & İdil Deniz Şakar was just published! This was a major collaborative effort I'm very proud of! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Very happy to welcome @sarahbassisseh.bsky.social as a visiting researcher in the RG "Radical Spaces" at @interactfu.bsky.social! Follow Sarah's amazing work on the legacies of authoritarianism in Syria and their effects on political paticipation! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Incredibly proud to see my joint article with @becomingothers.bsky.social on "Multi-Perspectivity & Ethical Representation in the Context of Gaza & October 7: Addressing the Semantic Void" published by DAEDALUS - the official journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, in a..

Very happy to announce the exhibition "Third Space" at HAUNT in Berlin, which I am honoured to be part of as part of a collaboration with the visual artist Timo Herbst frontviews.de/exhibition.p...

As part of the exhibition, we are also hosting a talk w/ Timo Herbst, Rebecca Pokua Korang, @becomingothers.bsky.social, and me on 28 May 2025 on the fragility of images, the risks of testimony, and the ethics of visibility: "Fragments of Solidarity: Ethics, Evidence, and Echoes of Resistance"

PROOFS PROOFS PROOFS 🥰 This joint paper w/my @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social colleagues @myriahmed.bsky.social and İdil Şakar links the debates on disaster events and on the effects of violence on protest by studying the aftermath of the Beirut blast, Derna dam collapse and 2023 Turkey earthquakes.

Expertise-Dienst zum #8.Mai: 80 Jahre Kriegsende und Befreiung vom #Nationalsozialismus. Folgende Wissenschaftler*innen stehen honorarfrei für Interviews zur Verfügung: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/exper...

Konfliktforscher Jannis Grimm, @jannisgrimm.bsky.social, Freie Universität ▶️ www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/... (7/15)

Out now! The introduction to our Special Issue on ‘South-South security cooperation and the (re)making of global security governance’ (with MM Mueller) is now out @ejisbisa.bsky.social Available #openaccess at: doi.org/10.1017/eis.... Papers of the special issue out (so far) include 👇

Im FJSB ist heute mein Artikel mit @becomingothers.bsky.social zu den Palästinaprotesten an deutschen Hochschulen erschienen. M.W. Wissens handelt es sich um die erste empirisch fundierte Studie zum Thema. Darin untersuchen wir die Mobilisierungsdynamiken an.. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

🔔Das Timing könnte kaum besser sein. Während Francesca Albanese in Berlin spricht, ist mein gemeinsamer Artikel mit Marcus Schneider zur deutsche Aussenpolitik erschienen! "Staatsräson vs. Weltordnung: Gaza als Feuerprobe wertebasierter Außenpolitik im Globalen Süden" rdcu.be/eaqTV

🔔Timing could hardly be better. As Francesca Albanese speaks in Berlin, my joint article with Marcus Schneider was just published in ZfAS. To my knowledge it's the first study of the effect of Germany's stance on Gaza on its soft power abroad. (in German but worth translating) rdcu.be/eaqTV

Today is a good day. Aside from a snowy Berlin, my joint article w/@myriahmed.bsky.social and Idil Deniz Sakar "Mobilizing after Emergency Events: Linking Debates on Transformative Events and Man-Made Disasters" about the Beirut Blast, Derna Dam Collapse, and Turkey Earthquakes was accepted!

And here is an English version of our article: „Once Populist, Now Mainstream?“ verfassungsblog.de/once-populis...

I am really happy that Annelise Finney has joined us @interactfu.bsky.social as a German Chancellor Fellow of the @humboldt-foundation.de! Annelise is working on the project "70 Years Later: A Multimedia Reporting Project Exploring the Impact of Holocaust Reparations on Contemporary German Identity“