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Taif Alkhudary
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PhD student at POLIS, Uni of Cambridge
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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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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
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.
apnews.com
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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/
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*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

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*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

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🗳️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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📣 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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🚨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
Wow congrats Mirko, looks amazing !
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🚨 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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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.
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.
www.ctvnews.ca
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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...
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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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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...