basit kareem iqbal
@biqbal.bsky.social
anthropologist, editor. author of THE DREAD HEIGHTS: TRIBULATION AND REFUGE AFTER THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION (https://fordhampress.com/the-dread-heights-hb-9781531510312.html). bookmarking in the wasteland
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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New model findings "highlight the irreversible nature of Arctic climate change even under aggressive CDR scenarios."
This means we cannot entirely fix our broken climate, even if we could remove nearly a century of carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
And *this* means we must end fossil fuels.
This means we cannot entirely fix our broken climate, even if we could remove nearly a century of carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
And *this* means we must end fossil fuels.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
New model findings "highlight the irreversible nature of Arctic climate change even under aggressive CDR scenarios."
This means we cannot entirely fix our broken climate, even if we could remove nearly a century of carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
And *this* means we must end fossil fuels.
This means we cannot entirely fix our broken climate, even if we could remove nearly a century of carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
And *this* means we must end fossil fuels.
qunawi's i'jaz al-bayan (arabic edition) equinoxreligionlibrary.com/projects/i-j... looks so good
Iʿjāz al-bayān | Equinox Publishing
<i>Forthcoming, October 2025</i><br><br>
<b>Read the English-language introduction below</b><br><br>
<br>Ṣadr al-Dīn Qūnawī (d. 1274) is arguably the most important thinker of the generation followin...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
qunawi's i'jaz al-bayan (arabic edition) equinoxreligionlibrary.com/projects/i-j... looks so good
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can't really believe that this by me came out three years ago today. I wish desperately that the dynamics I described then had done anything other than accelerate, intensify, and expand so blatantly and so viciously late-light.com/issues/issue...
Death Drive Nation - Patrick Blanchfield
Turning again to 2020, the death drive reveals itself in the simple fact that, rather than dramatically change collective behaviors to prevent carnage and save lives, America doubled down on them.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
can't really believe that this by me came out three years ago today. I wish desperately that the dynamics I described then had done anything other than accelerate, intensify, and expand so blatantly and so viciously late-light.com/issues/issue...
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John Berger is a writer I've returned to again and again over the years. These essays—moving between Palestine, the war on terror, and the intimate toll of displacement and exile—are a critical reminder of what political writing can do.
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
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December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
John Berger is a writer I've returned to again and again over the years. These essays—moving between Palestine, the war on terror, and the intimate toll of displacement and exile—are a critical reminder of what political writing can do.
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The National Commission for the Missing: Questions and Disillusionment
@amermatar.bsky.social for @aljumhuriya.bsky.social.
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@amermatar.bsky.social for @aljumhuriya.bsky.social.
aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/11/2...
The National Commission for the Missing: Questions and Disillusionment
We Ask Only for Basic Human Dignity
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December 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The National Commission for the Missing: Questions and Disillusionment
@amermatar.bsky.social for @aljumhuriya.bsky.social.
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@amermatar.bsky.social for @aljumhuriya.bsky.social.
aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/11/2...
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Perhaps some of the harshest language al Sharaa has had for the United States and for Israel since assuming the formalities of the Syrian presidency. Calls them outright to be terroristic towards the Arab and Muslim people of the region and to the east.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa where his “real allegiances” lie, given his “past of being a terrorist.”
Al-Sharaa, a fmr. senior figure in al-Qaeda’s Iraq network who later founded its Syrian arm in 2011, said that if a terrorist is “one who kills innocent...
Al-Sharaa, a fmr. senior figure in al-Qaeda’s Iraq network who later founded its Syrian arm in 2011, said that if a terrorist is “one who kills innocent...
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Perhaps some of the harshest language al Sharaa has had for the United States and for Israel since assuming the formalities of the Syrian presidency. Calls them outright to be terroristic towards the Arab and Muslim people of the region and to the east.
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infinite scream
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
infinite scream
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“The situation today remains volatile, with no guarantees that Syria will survive.”
Yassin al-Haj Saleh looks back at the 20th century and the unruly history weighing on the “new” Syria, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Yassin al-Haj Saleh looks back at the 20th century and the unruly history weighing on the “new” Syria, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
The Unruly History That Weighs on the New Syria
To understand the challenges the country faces today, it's helpful to look back at three previous ‘beginnings’ in the 20th century
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December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“The situation today remains volatile, with no guarantees that Syria will survive.”
Yassin al-Haj Saleh looks back at the 20th century and the unruly history weighing on the “new” Syria, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Yassin al-Haj Saleh looks back at the 20th century and the unruly history weighing on the “new” Syria, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Agreed. Best yet on the utter disaster university administrators and AI oligarchs have enacted.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Agreed. Best yet on the utter disaster university administrators and AI oligarchs have enacted.
qifa nabki lithub.com/al-atlal-now... ended one course today with her earlier essay on the work of the witness... what does it mean to not try to leave unscathed
Al-Atlal, Now: On Language and Silence in Gaza’s Wake
It felt like failing—all of it. First the words, then their end. For twenty-four months you pushed your way to language, let language push through you—a desecration of articulation. Committing, cas…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
qifa nabki lithub.com/al-atlal-now... ended one course today with her earlier essay on the work of the witness... what does it mean to not try to leave unscathed
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“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
This happened *at a university* in Gaza.
And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... was wondering what he'd do
Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News
Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault has quit cabinet over the federal government signing Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... was wondering what he'd do
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Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
loved his readings of titian despite the humanism (pejorative) it delivers -- "like us, he has stumbled upon the scene, and also like us, he has stopped to look at the carnage. But he does this from the opposite direction, and therefore involves us in the frame"
Pity and Fear • EQUATOR
What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power
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November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
loved his readings of titian despite the humanism (pejorative) it delivers -- "like us, he has stumbled upon the scene, and also like us, he has stopped to look at the carnage. But he does this from the opposite direction, and therefore involves us in the frame"
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis
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This makes me physically ill. All hail the plagiarism machine that is destroying students’ ability to do everything: read, write, do research, think critically.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This makes me physically ill. All hail the plagiarism machine that is destroying students’ ability to do everything: read, write, do research, think critically.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.
alex dubilet - foucault, our contemporary read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a... looks great
Foucault, Our Contemporary | boundary 2 | Duke University Press
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November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
alex dubilet - foucault, our contemporary read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a... looks great
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New at PB: In a review of Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Chris Moffat describes Asif's quest to walk Lahore—a city that has transformed from one of gardens to one of concrete and walls, a “series of segregations."
Walking Lahore, Watching the World - Public Books
The new mosque's central dome dominates the town's skyline, but competes with an 80-metre-high replica Eiffel Tower, and a scale reproduction of Trafalgar Square.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New at PB: In a review of Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Chris Moffat describes Asif's quest to walk Lahore—a city that has transformed from one of gardens to one of concrete and walls, a “series of segregations."
the new issue of _religious studies review_ includes our 20th anniversary book forum on Saba Mahmood's POLITICS OF PIETY share.google/Jcwby87NDTpI...
Religious Studies Review: Vol 51, No 3
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November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
the new issue of _religious studies review_ includes our 20th anniversary book forum on Saba Mahmood's POLITICS OF PIETY share.google/Jcwby87NDTpI...
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My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
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props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody