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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 9d

Are you a researcher working at a EU university? Are you fed up with our institutions turning a blind eye to genocide? Consider signing this. uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely. And great to hear about the writing exercise! I’m teaching this academic skills course next month and plan to do most activities in class. Looking forward to my therapeutic treat haha 😇

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 11d

They’re not any lazier than we were. The temptation to outsource to AI is real and I totally get why they turn to it. Just irks me how central the technofascists have become to whole generations’ education.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 19d

Wait, I didn’t know about feeds! Any in particular you’d recommend?

Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 19d

Something about the algorithm here feels off. Sure, it’s better than the racist sexist shithole Twitter has become. But it somehow manages to be consistently boring, keeping the spicy and interesting bits that do exist away from me. (Or is it me who hasn’t “trained” the algorithm to know me enough?)

Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 19d

Desperate to show they’re still somehow relevant but who fucking cares

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wow, hunger really went rogue in Gaza. And that food! So rude of it to stop going in. If only someone would kindly tell it to go in and the dying to stop!

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Contemporary Levant @contemplevant.bsky.social · May 13

New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: @karimeltaki.bsky.social reviews A lost peace: great power politics and the Arab-Israeli dispute, 1967–1979 by Galen Jackson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A lost peace: great power politics and the Arab-Israeli dispute, 1967–1979

Published in Contemporary Levant (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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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...

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Jan 28

Last few days to send us your abstracts! More below 👇

Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Dec 10

📢 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.’

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue in Middle East Critique entitled 'Rethinking State and Regime in the Middle East and North Africa: Conceptual, Historical, and Methodological Clarifications'

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Dec 10

If you are interested in participating in this project, or know someone who might be, please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions, share the call for submissions, and send us your contribution.

More information here 👇

Rethinking ‘State’ and ‘Regime’ in the Middle East and North Africa: Conceptual, Historical, and Methodological Clarifications

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Dec 10

Rather than dismissing this conflation as a flaw, we propose a critical examination of its origins, mechanisms of reproduction, and analytical and political implications for understanding power in the region.

📄 Research articles, 8-9k words
💬 Workshop in June 2025

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Dec 10

📢 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.’

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Dec 8

رحل بشار الأسد ولم يأتِ بعد المكان والزمان المناسبان.

Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Dec 8

Putin has sold out Assad. The price will be paid in Ukraine.

Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Dec 8

A week was the answer. Thinking of all the Syrians, Palestinians, Lebanese, and others who have suffered under this brutal regime. I think we’re allowed to rejoice for a bit, though only a bit, before panicking about what comes next with the jihadis-turned-freedom-fighters controlling much of Syria.

Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 30

How long until the Assad regime collapses? Just days after Netanyahu's threat to the Syrian regime, Turkish-backed jihadis have taken Aleppo and Hama, with rumours of a coup attempt in Damascus.

I’ve written on the need to see regional order as a continuous process of ordering—and…

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 30

we seem to be witnessing a dazzlingly fast reordering of the Middle East. Russia’s support for Assad is tepid, while Iran seems unwilling to fight another losing battle.

Truly “weeks where decades happen."

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 30

How long until the Assad regime collapses? Just days after Netanyahu's threat to the Syrian regime, Turkish-backed jihadis have taken Aleppo and Hama, with rumours of a coup attempt in Damascus.

I’ve written on the need to see regional order as a continuous process of ordering—and…

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Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social · Nov 29

🚨 New article alert: I surveyed the methods and source selection of articles on Saudi Arabia that were published in area studies journals. What do we study when we study Saudi Arabia?

open access link to the article 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Menasky

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 25

A war criminal with no principles agreeing to a ceasefire in principle. Pending reservations on 'details'.

CNN @cnn.com · Nov 25

Israel's Netanyahu has approved an emerging ceasefire deal with Hezbollah "in principle," source says.

Israeli prime minister approves Lebanon ceasefire deal ‘in principle,’ source says | CNN

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the emerging ceasefire deal with Hezbollah “in principle” during a security consultation with Israeli officials Sunday night, a source familiar with ...

cnn.it

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thanks for sharing this, Bruno! Would love to see you submit an abstract if you have the chance.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 21

The rule of law, liberalism, and the LIO altogether are antisemitic.

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Nov 20

So to help out @abuaardvark.bsky.social transfer the menasky list into sth more accessible, I created a SWANA starter pack. Please help me complete it (will create pt. II once this pack is full)
go.bsky.app/CyUi3Ms

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks for putting this together. If there’s space on the list, I’d be grateful if you would add me.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thank God the left is in charge for now in the US. Can’t imagine how bad and inhumane things will become when the Republicans take the helm in two months 🥲

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Nov 20

BREAKING: The US vetoed a UNSC resolution for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which received 14 votes in favor and one against.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu

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