Military GPS jamming in the Gulf is forcing delivery drivers to abandon their maps and navigate by memory as signals across the UAE and surrounding countries are spoofed or blocked https://restofworld.org/2026/gps-disruption-gulf-gig-workers/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

This is Apartheid. It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide. To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.

The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 58: IR Theory and the Middle East at War. Download the full PDF here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...

Impossible Conditions of Life: Famine, Humanitarian Management, and Genocide in Gaza muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Fun story from 1980: Carter's supposed plan to seize Kharg island. "The plan was originally designed to compensate for not getting the hostages, kind of a tit for' tat," explained a top source. "They'd have the hostages; we'd have their key oil depot." www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

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How do small states navigate the current turbulent geopolitical environment? How do they cope with external shocks from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Trump's erratic management of the US foreign policy? If you have answers, contribute to the CJIR special issue! cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

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@theguardian.com's @willchristou.bsky.social reports from Lebanese communities under Israeli bombs: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Heavy rain in Lebanon today. There are still thousands sleeping outside, in tents or out in the open.

"The conflict in the Middle East has diverted Washington’s attention from a peace deal... At the same time, the diplomats said, it was benefiting Russia through higher oil prices, a suspension of US sanctions and the rapid depletion of American munitions Kyiv needed." www.ft.com/content/c4fa...

100, innocent, children whose only crime was to be born Lebanese. 100 children among nearly 800 killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon www.channel4.com/news/over-10...

Well this isn't great. Clever of them to announce it on March 14 btw (Lebanese folks, you know what I'm talking about, and everyone else—no explanation will ever make sense)

“Reliance on AI among faculty is also on the rise, with observers pointing to the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AI systems grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.” www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

A must read article by Narges Bajoghli on Iran and the Iranian diaspora. nymag.com/intelligence...

📢 We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics. Come and work with us in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... Closing date: 7 April 2026

Novým duchovním vůdcem Íránu zvolilo Shromáždění znalců syna ajatolláha Modžtabu Chameneího. Volba není překvapivá, je to reprezentant bojovnější části režimu, hodnotí vedoucí Centra pro studium globálních regionů na Ústavu mezinárodních vztahů Jan Daniel. irozhl.as/ABF

Human Rights Watch: The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

This crew must be absolutely wrecked.

"Looking at the collective record, the unavoidable truth is that there was not one axis of evil but two, and innumerable people... have been crushed in between." @ericreidy.bsky.social writes about the American-Israeli war in Iran: ⬇️

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"israeli bombings in southern, eastern, western and nothern Lebanon. once again. just like the sound of a broken record, the needle is stuck on Lebanon" checkpoint303.free.fr/trackinfo_30... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_s...

Israel closes all Gaza crossings, tightens siege following Iran war - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-closes-all-gaza-crossings-tightens-siege-following-iran-war

Quite a major political choice by the UK. There are precedents for the UK refusing to let the US use its bases for military operations, but not many.

Recent @copernicusland.bsky.social Sentinel-2 imagery in False Colour now showing the degraged agricultural land in #Syria near Quneitra where Israel has been spraying herbicide. Images via @obretix.bsky.social

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

⏰ Reminder: the deadline to submit abstracts to workshops at #EWIS2026 is Wednesday, 11 February! 🔗 More details and the submission form can be found here: buff.ly/3rM0vZr

Excellent reporting here on Egypt's growing intervention in Sudan flying Turkish-made drones from a remote base at the Sudanese border. Since last November, Egyptian drone attacks have largely closed down the UAE-RSF supply route via Kufra in Libya.

The workshop explores emerging political imaginaries, focusing on questions such as: What domestic and regional visions of the future arise amid these (dis)continuities? Who formulates them, and who is excluded? How do visions advanced by different groups and elites interact, coexist, or clash?

Can anyone think of a single other time when a UN member state destroyed a UN agency headquarters?

Impressive and brutal reflexive piece on conflict studies by two leading voices in the field: @yguichaoua.bsky.social & @wlacher.bsky.social A short 🧵 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Come discuss imaginaries of Middle Eastern futures with us in @europeanisa.bsky.social EWIS in Izmir! How are futures imagined and practiced on the national and regional level? Full call - eisa-net.org/wp-content/u... How to apply - eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...

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The Czech Journal of International Relations invites proposals for special issues to be considered for publication in upcoming volumes! Please send your proposal and a brief CV of the editor(s) to the CJIR editor-in-chief at [email protected] by February 28, 2026. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...

Postdoc position focusing on the visions of political change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Charles University, Prague We are looking for candidates who either hold PhD degree or are finishing their doctoral studies to join the project’s team, starting between spring and fall 2026

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Continuing the thread from Serbia, last night I went to the launch of a platform documenting police violence/repression against Serbian citizens in protests, starting from the aleged use of sound canon on 15 March to the large-scale operation to suppress the protest in Novi Sad on 5 September 1/

Always remember that government spending is a political choice; there is no fixed amount of aid. You can support Ukraine *AND* increase humanitarian assistance or aid to Africa, but increasingly right-leaning governments in Europe are presenting dangerous binary choices for their global engagement

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/

Post claims Hegseth ordered survivors of boat strikes - who would be hors de combat - to be killed & that the SOCOM commander followed this order on the basis that "they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Israel just hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain al Hilweh, with missiles. It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.

“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.” The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Iniciativa za kritickou akademii adresuje Petru Papouškovi, předsedovi Federace židovských obcí, otevřený dopis, v němž odmítá křivé nařčení z antisemitismu. denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23816...

Following instructions to "write like crazy" on a range of topics, I broadened my authorial horizons and wrote this long piece on medieval, religious and Czech history. Hardly out of character, I know. The piece isn't primarily about language, though, so that's growth. dannybate.com/2025/11/05/s...

Rdg the new issue of @thefunambulist.bsky.social on “bulldozer politics,” on bulldozers as key weapons — of demolition and clearing-for-colonization — in Gaza and elsewhere. Glad to see an interview w/ Francesca Ammon, author of Bulldozer: Demolition + Clearance of the Postwar Landscape, here

After more than three years of war, civilian resistance in Ukraine remains high. Researcher Morten Bøås of NUPI details what it means to conduct RE-ENGAGE fieldwork in a city at #war. Read the full commentary: re-engaging.eu/news/why-ukr... #EuropeanUnion #EU #Ukraine #democracy #Russia #Kyiv

Zlom nejen v Kataru. Co uvedl do pohybu izraelský útok? Arabské státy jednají o větší spolupráci na obraně. Mluví se o vzniku „arabského“, případně „islámského“ NATO. O změnách v obranné politice se bavila @jolanah.bsky.social s Janem Danielem @horalistani.bsky.social www.voxpot.cz/zlom-nejen-v...