Anahita Arian, PhD
@anahitaarian.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Political Science & IR Leiden University.
IR, Political Science, (Global/Intellectual) History, Diplomacy, Empires, Gender, Sex, Race, Middle East, Eurasia, Indian Ocean, Islamicate World, Epistemology, Metaphysics.
IR, Political Science, (Global/Intellectual) History, Diplomacy, Empires, Gender, Sex, Race, Middle East, Eurasia, Indian Ocean, Islamicate World, Epistemology, Metaphysics.
Pinned
Says the man whose state has committed more coups on earth than any other country and who has sponsored terrorism and unleashed terror across the Middle East 🤯 is hat Kool Aid is he drinking?
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2/3 We are excited to discuss care, resistance & solidarity in neoliberal academia w/ #AslıVatansever #JanOrbie, #AgnieszkaFal-DutraSantos & @anahitaarian.bsky.social
The discussion will be chaired by @francakappes.bsky.social & @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
The discussion will be chaired by @francakappes.bsky.social & @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
2/3 We are excited to discuss care, resistance & solidarity in neoliberal academia w/ #AslıVatansever #JanOrbie, #AgnieszkaFal-DutraSantos & @anahitaarian.bsky.social
The discussion will be chaired by @francakappes.bsky.social & @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
The discussion will be chaired by @francakappes.bsky.social & @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
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Live at the #ProjectLab with @anahitaarian.bsky.social and Navnita Chadha Behera, diving into course design, teaching challenges, and strategies! 🎓✨
#EISAPEC25 #ECDgroup #Teaching
@europeanisa.bsky.social
#EISAPEC25 #ECDgroup #Teaching
@europeanisa.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Live at the #ProjectLab with @anahitaarian.bsky.social and Navnita Chadha Behera, diving into course design, teaching challenges, and strategies! 🎓✨
#EISAPEC25 #ECDgroup #Teaching
@europeanisa.bsky.social
#EISAPEC25 #ECDgroup #Teaching
@europeanisa.bsky.social
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4/5
📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.
Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!
@anahitaarian.bsky.social
📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.
Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!
@anahitaarian.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
4/5
📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.
Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!
@anahitaarian.bsky.social
📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.
Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!
@anahitaarian.bsky.social
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I look forward to facilitating this conversation on teaching & course design strategies at the upcoming #EISAPEC25 alongside @marionfoster.bsky.social for @ecdeisa.bsky.social
If you are around, join us in person for insights by @anahitaarian.bsky.social and #NavnitaCBehera & following exchanges!
If you are around, join us in person for insights by @anahitaarian.bsky.social and #NavnitaCBehera & following exchanges!
4/5
📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.
Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!
@anahitaarian.bsky.social
📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.
Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!
@anahitaarian.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I look forward to facilitating this conversation on teaching & course design strategies at the upcoming #EISAPEC25 alongside @marionfoster.bsky.social for @ecdeisa.bsky.social
If you are around, join us in person for insights by @anahitaarian.bsky.social and #NavnitaCBehera & following exchanges!
If you are around, join us in person for insights by @anahitaarian.bsky.social and #NavnitaCBehera & following exchanges!
EU officials are playing their part as loyal members of the Axis of Genocide (Israel, US & the EU). There are only a handful of EU countries that oppose this travesty of justice openly & with clarity: Spain & Ireland, plus Norway as a EEA member.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
EU antisemitism tsar lobbied against Israel sanctions
The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a "sensitive" cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver.
euobserver.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
EU officials are playing their part as loyal members of the Axis of Genocide (Israel, US & the EU). There are only a handful of EU countries that oppose this travesty of justice openly & with clarity: Spain & Ireland, plus Norway as a EEA member.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
While the genocide of Palestinians continues, the EU also continues its trade deal with Israel at €16 billion a year. This is supposed to be based on respecting human rights, which are clearly being broken. Please sign the petition: sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/stop_g...
SIGN THE PETITION: SUSPEND THE EU-ISRAEL TRADE AGREEMENT. STOP THE GENOCIDE.
Right now in Gaza, people are being bombed, starved, and killed. Over 54,000 people have died — most of them civilians. Children are dying from hunger. Families are being shot while trying to get food...
sign.myvoice-mychoice.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
While the genocide of Palestinians continues, the EU also continues its trade deal with Israel at €16 billion a year. This is supposed to be based on respecting human rights, which are clearly being broken. Please sign the petition: sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/stop_g...
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This story on privatised ethnic cleansing in Gaza isn't getting the attention it deserves.
Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn
July 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This story on privatised ethnic cleansing in Gaza isn't getting the attention it deserves.
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“Annihilate, smash, eradicate, erase, crush, shatter, burn, be cruel, punish, ruin, crush. Annihilate!”
www.timesofisrael.com/likud-minist...
www.timesofisrael.com/likud-minist...
Likud ministers urge Netanyahu to annex West Bank by the end of the month
Ahead of PM's trip to Washington and the Knesset's summer break, senior politicians suggest it is 'a propitious time to move forward' with controversial move
www.timesofisrael.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“Annihilate, smash, eradicate, erase, crush, shatter, burn, be cruel, punish, ruin, crush. Annihilate!”
www.timesofisrael.com/likud-minist...
www.timesofisrael.com/likud-minist...
Gaza Doctors Under Attack: documenting Israel's genocide of doctors and medical staff in Gaza. The documentary that BBC didn't show because of its Zionist board member Robbie Gibb, who has damaged the BBC and it's credibility as a news media.
zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...
zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...
WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See
Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.
zeteo.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Gaza Doctors Under Attack: documenting Israel's genocide of doctors and medical staff in Gaza. The documentary that BBC didn't show because of its Zionist board member Robbie Gibb, who has damaged the BBC and it's credibility as a news media.
zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...
zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...
Summer time reading & healing 📖😌
July 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Summer time reading & healing 📖😌
"Gaza must be eliminated" according to the only "democracy" in the Middle East with the most "moral" army in the world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi
Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Gaza must be eliminated" according to the only "democracy" in the Middle East with the most "moral" army in the world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hopeful 💗
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Hopeful 💗
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Europe's humiliation reaches new depths: As if yesterday’s cringey texts weren’t enough, Mark Rutte just called Trump 'Daddy.'...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' at summit | ITV News
YouTube video by ITV News
www.youtube.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Europe's humiliation reaches new depths: As if yesterday’s cringey texts weren’t enough, Mark Rutte just called Trump 'Daddy.'...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...
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The purportedly ‘post-colonial’ (temporal shift) world organisation has forever been a cover for western colonial world order. The benefit collected by politicians, white supremacists, & white feminists alike.
Bombing of Iran is totally unwarranted & unprovoked.
US empire is a threat to the world.
Bombing of Iran is totally unwarranted & unprovoked.
US empire is a threat to the world.
June 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The purportedly ‘post-colonial’ (temporal shift) world organisation has forever been a cover for western colonial world order. The benefit collected by politicians, white supremacists, & white feminists alike.
Bombing of Iran is totally unwarranted & unprovoked.
US empire is a threat to the world.
Bombing of Iran is totally unwarranted & unprovoked.
US empire is a threat to the world.
MAD Theory and Iran's nuclear weapons
June 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
MAD Theory and Iran's nuclear weapons
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Much needed history lesson www.ft.com/content/d9e7...
Regime change won’t stop Iran from pursuing nuclear ambitions
All recent Iranian leaders, from royals to mullahs, have sought this capability — future governments will too
www.ft.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Much needed history lesson www.ft.com/content/d9e7...
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'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-york-protest-israel-attacks-iran
'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans
Demonstrators say any further US involvement in Israeli attacks on Iran would be catastrophic for the world
www.middleeasteye.net
June 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-york-protest-israel-attacks-iran
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Is Fordo really the most important thing about Iran’s nuclear program or is the focus on it designed to drag the US into the war? Since Fordo is the only target that needs US planes and bunker buster bombs.
June 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Is Fordo really the most important thing about Iran’s nuclear program or is the focus on it designed to drag the US into the war? Since Fordo is the only target that needs US planes and bunker buster bombs.
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Marco Rubio's grandfather was undocumented in the US
So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order…
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
(h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
June 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Marco Rubio's grandfather was undocumented in the US
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Israel has a right to defend itself.
Iran has a right to be attacked.
This is the message we are being told by many European leaders, especially this shower of cretins at the German Embassy
Iran has a right to be attacked.
This is the message we are being told by many European leaders, especially this shower of cretins at the German Embassy
June 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Israel has a right to defend itself.
Iran has a right to be attacked.
This is the message we are being told by many European leaders, especially this shower of cretins at the German Embassy
Iran has a right to be attacked.
This is the message we are being told by many European leaders, especially this shower of cretins at the German Embassy
This is a declaration of war and genocide on Iran and all Iranians. This is the same shit show as Bush W. for Iraq. There are no nuclear weapons in Iran as the IAEA has confirmed various times and the CIA. So this is about regime change with Iranian lives being expendable.
June 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is a declaration of war and genocide on Iran and all Iranians. This is the same shit show as Bush W. for Iraq. There are no nuclear weapons in Iran as the IAEA has confirmed various times and the CIA. So this is about regime change with Iranian lives being expendable.
It is eerily quiet...where are the CONDEMNATIONS of Israel? Apart from the BS rhetoric of "de-escalation"? This de-escalation was never practiced by the US and the EU, since they have consistently supported Israel and its insanity and psychopathy. We know now more than ever who and what you are.
June 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
It is eerily quiet...where are the CONDEMNATIONS of Israel? Apart from the BS rhetoric of "de-escalation"? This de-escalation was never practiced by the US and the EU, since they have consistently supported Israel and its insanity and psychopathy. We know now more than ever who and what you are.
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BUT DO YOU CONDEMN ISRAEL
June 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
BUT DO YOU CONDEMN ISRAEL
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One of the things I most resent about AI is the way it has inserted itself, unwelcomed, between me and my students, especially the ones I don't know all that well yet. I hate that every time I read a piece of student writing a small piece of me is thinking "is this a robot or a person?"
Numerous teachers told me that they are wasting many hours of their lives giving thoughtful feedback to robots
June 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One of the things I most resent about AI is the way it has inserted itself, unwelcomed, between me and my students, especially the ones I don't know all that well yet. I hate that every time I read a piece of student writing a small piece of me is thinking "is this a robot or a person?"