New doctor! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @nsalem.bsky.social Salem who recently passed her viva. Her thesis is titled ‘Museums, Technological Imaginaries, and Subjectivity in the Future-Tense.' 1/2

I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on Allgra Lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'. allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-sti...

Next up on panel 1: @omarghazzi.bsky.social from the London School of Economics and Political Science, presented on 'History and Memory.'

We are recruiting two LSE fellows @lsemedia.bsky.social (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

These Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza are so depraved, so disturbed, that it's difficult to even know what to say 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...

So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻

So we should not use this because "you don’t know where the data goes".. as opposed to data going to the likes of Elon Musk, which is totally fine :/ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

13 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Omar Al-Ghazzi (@omarghazzi.bsky.social). On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...

The newly formed Editorial Collective of Communication, Culture & Critique stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We call on our colleagues to stand against Israeli apartheid and the effects of genocide in Gaza. 🇵🇸 academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

My book announcement is live! The official print release date is June 6, 2025 (with an earlier online release in April). Very happy to do virtual or in-person book talks for your class, department, speaker series, activist group, etc. - please reach out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Just another day of Israeli occupation... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"The demographic overhaul at New College of Florida is perhaps the first real-life attempt to counteract the so-called "feminization" of education": well, maybe the first attempt that's so brazen, but AA for men is a poorly-kept secret at many private schools. reason.com/2023/08/16/n...

Two private jets owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, release as much carbon as an Amazon employee in the US would in 207 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Day 3 of our @iasnuq.bsky.social 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass with @omarghazzi.bsky.social on historical methods @nuqatar.bsky.social

The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

That's one way to say Israel is an expansionist violent settler state. Hands off Syria!

"Palestine is most dangerous country.." what an outrageous and shameful headline that obscures that it's Israel that is killing journalists en masse www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Pics of scantily clothed Bashar Al-Assad are going viral on Syrian social media. Whether authentic or not, the point is that he is subjected to a public stripping of authority (& masculinity). Similar to the fairytale on the emperor's clothes, he lost his clothes as he lost power.

📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’

Disturbing that Saidnaya was also a party town. Families used to go dance, eat & drink in dozens of restaurants and clubs near this torture centre. This encapsulates what the fallen regime represents, how it hid its extreme brutality in plain sight and implicated Syrians in it.

Unimaginable. The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened. A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.” “What happened?” a woman asks “The Regime fell. You are free.” #Syria 🇸🇾 (🎥Credit: Galyarahal)

JUST IN: Footage of Syria's rebels liberating secret underground floor at Sednaya Prison, where an estimated 150,000 Syrian civilians were being held without trials.

How good it feels to write the words 'the former regime'

Amnesty international: «La population palestinienne de Gaza victime d’un génocide» www.amnesty.fr/actualites/r...

📣 On 04/12 from 12:30 to 2:30 the seminar 'Ecologies & the living in crises and wars', I coordinate w/ Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, welcomes @omarghazzi.bsky.social for a presentation entitled:«The post-conflict status that never arrives: Arrested futurity as Lebanese meta narrative» Pm me 4 Zoom link

Visited Athens for the first time over the weekend.. Loved the urban detail and the familiarity of its Beirut vibes!

This shocking ad has flashed up on the advert section on the @skynewsrss.bsky.social app. What an appalling and offensive advert. I did not press the link to ‘learn more’ but surely Sky can’t endorse this view of the UN org UNRWA. Does anyone know what this advert is even for?

Random question to Turkish scholars, is it advised to refer to the country as Türkiye in academic research? Or is that performative?

188 Palestinian journalists killed in the last 14 months.

“I realized that all of these abhorrent offenses were done by people I knew from my university class.” In South Korea, a country with among the highest household internet availability in the world, deepfake sexual abuse has skyrocketed. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

Glad to start my visiting professor position at EHESS in (snowy) Paris. My first talk today discusses the urgent issue of media coverage of war on Gaza @cnrs.bsky.social

My friend Camila Vergara (Uni. of Essex) has had her Eugen Kogon Lecture on “Corrupt republics: oligarchy, war, and the destruction of nature” on 20 November at Darmstadt Uni. cancelled, because her hosts believe she shouldn’t say what she thinks about the war in Israel-Palestine. #academicfreedom

My book, Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge, is out today from @ucpress.bsky.social! It’s a book about the politics of digital technologies and why they matter, for social justice activists and for all of us. Order it here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

The images Israel has been producing on a daily basis for over 13 months will haunt the "liberal world" for decades

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

“There are political actors who have been obsessed with the idea of fundamentally transforming American higher education, and they have jumped into the space made open by accusations of antisemitism” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

The mainstream coverage of this story has been (another) spectacular failure in journalism

i am continually aghast that we are witnessing the most widespread slaughter of journalists in modern world history and it is not topic A in the media industry. where the hell is the outrage??? www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Historically speaking, Israel is, in fact, Egypt; the area is filled with evidence of the presence of Egyptians. (We can keep doing this forever).

With every Israeli airstrike you scan in your head where family members and friends and their relatives live to know who to message first #beirut #warcrimes

This is today across the road from our home.. of course you wouldn't know or care that Israel is murdering many civilians and destroying neighborhoods if you believe media language on "strongholds" and "targeted assassinations"

UNESCO to demand protection for Lebanon's historic monuments, not least the ruins at #Baalbek, which are threatened by Israeli actions. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/07/u...

America's backyard = Peru

Social media have felt hostile for so long. I'm trying to remember what it's like to want to say something.

Beautiful artwork by #palestinian artist Nabil Al Anani #art