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Taif Alkhudary

Taif Alkhudary

@alktaif.bsky.social

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PhD student at POLIS, Uni of Cambridge

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Paul C(innamon) Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · Jun 29

Discriminatory language against the Israeli army
Terrorism against transport planes
Hurt feelings at the chemical weapons factory
A safe space for the junta
We train young men to drop fire won't let them write fuck on their helmets because it's obscene
Self-care for the military-industrial complex

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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · Jun 13

Two Iraqi security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said that more than 100 drones launched from Iran toward Israel were tracked crossing Iraqi airspace

Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · Jun 13

Iranian state television says the head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is feared dead after an Israeli attack.

The report offered few other details about what happened to Gen. Hossein Salami of the Guard.

apnews.com/article/iran...

Israel attacks Iran's capital with explosions booming across Tehran

Black smoke rose Friday over Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz though it wasn’t clear how bad the damage was.

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · Jun 13

Genocidal maniacs on a mission to erase the Middle East — Israel has always been the region’s poison. There will be no peace until the occupation ends. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israel launches strikes on Iran: what we know so far

Israel has launched strikes on dozens of targets inside Iran, including nuclear sites. This is what we know s

www.theguardian.com

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Connor O’Brien @connorpobrien.bsky.social · Jun 8

In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7)
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https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/offshoring-the-planet/

Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social · Jun 4

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Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social · Jun 4

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Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social · Jun 4

*Civil alliance of more than a dozen parties called “alternative” to run in elections
*Those freed under Amnesty Law banned from running for office
*KDP threaten to boycott elections over non-payment of salaries

3/5

Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social · Jun 4

*Sudani suggests candidates for 3 presidencies be selected b4 elections to prevent gov. formation delays, SCF refuse
*Sadr undecided about participation in elections; warns other parties not to use his name in campaigns, urges supporters to get electoral cards

2/5

Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social · Jun 4

🗳️With 22 weeks to go until #IraqElections, here’s a summary of the most important headlines from the Arabic media over the past 7 days:

*SCF (Al-Maliki) accuse Sudani of using public funds to buy voters
*Assab say Al-Fayyed "black spot" who must go

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Thomas Gregory @tom-gregory.bsky.social · May 26

“There is nothing left to bomb. The missiles are worth more than the buildings they’re hitting".

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Nothing left to bomb’: Yemen’s civilians bear brunt of US airstrikes on Houthis

Analysts say US and Israeli attacks failed to weaken rebels and are only pushing the country to the brink of famine

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social · May 24

apnews.com/article/isra... Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.

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Felix Wiebrecht @felixwiebrecht.bsky.social · May 20

📣 Research Assistant Position!

@ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and I are looking for support for a project on higher education and electoral politics in Turkey. Are you:

▪️Ideally, a PhD student
▪️Fluent in Turkish
▪️Familiar with quantitative data

Then please apply here:
gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social · May 7

🚨CRIA is soliciting special issue proposals that contribute to scholarly debate and which examine pertinent and topical theoretical, empirical and methodological questions ⬇️

Deadline: 11 June

Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social · May 7

Wow congrats Mirko, looks amazing !

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · May 7

🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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kyla piccin 🌀 @kylapiccin.bsky.social · Apr 1

wow, very excited to see my first publication out in the world... and in my dream journal no less! so thankful to my supervisor @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social and the editorial team @antipodeonline.bsky.social for helping this come into being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Taking Settler Colonialism Seriously in Abolition Ecologies: Centring Indigenous Dispossession in Geographies of Carceral Power, Ecocide, and the Abolitionist Ecological Imagination

Scholarship increasingly examines international social movements advocating for the abolition of the prison-industrial complex. Within this landscape, Abolition Ecologies has emerged as a generative ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Apr 3

@uniofmanchester.bsky.social is hiring for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy! 🌟
link to apply - buff.ly/Do9nOVM

There is also a Lectureship in Environmental Politics position open! - buff.ly/aorFjP2

@ipegbisa.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy:Oxford Road

To further strengthen our research and teaching portfolio, the Department wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Global Political Economy (GPE). While we invite applications from applicants in all areas of…

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kyla piccin 🌀 @kylapiccin.bsky.social · Apr 1

I’ll be presenting my research on logging tenures as carceral geographies tomorrow as part of "The Capitalist State in the 2020s" workshop @ucl.ac.uk, & excited to be presenting alongside @alktaif.bsky.social! come by for a panel on carceral infrastructures from 2:00 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Capitalist State in the 2020s: Borders and carceral infrastructure

This series of four collaborative workshops will examine the evolution of the capitalist state in the contemporary moment, focussing on industrial strategy and financialization, militarism, and border...

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Chatham House Middle East and North Africa @chmenap.bsky.social · Mar 28

'Rather than ushering in a new era of sustainability for Iraq... it appears that carbon credits will only align with a national policy of delaying & obstructing meaningful action on climate change,' writes @alktaif.bsky.social in a new Iraq Initiative article.
kalam.chathamhouse.org/articles/car...

Carbon credits: another way to delay meaningful action on climate change in Iraq - Kalam

In February 2025, Iraq’s Ministry of Environment announced the first project to be launched by the Carbon Economics Company, a collaboration with the World

kalam.chathamhouse.org

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · Mar 30

The details are so much worse. In her French op-ed, she explains that the issue raised was that she had a table that showed Gaza as having had the highest number of “humanitarian victims” of 2024.

Her merely acknowledging the fact that Gazans are being mass murdered was a problem.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Mar 30

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · Mar 31

Postdoc Opportunity!

Universität Tübingen
Global Encounters Postdoctoral Fellowship

Seeks researchers working on human-nature relationships and their transformation historically as well with regard to current conditions of crises in the Global North and South.

www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

H-Net Job Guide

Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social · Mar 24

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

What poisoned Fallujah can tell us about toxic risks in Gaza and Lebanon

Toxic remnants of war adversely affect the health not just of those immediately exposed but also of future generations.

www.aljazeera.com

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · Mar 18

ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds.

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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · Mar 5

The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD on Diasporas and Right-Wing Nationalism

The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a PhD fellowship in International Studies from September 1st, 2025

candidate.hr-manager.net

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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · Mar 17

Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.

Please help spread the word among interested candidates!

Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...