Diana B. Greenwald
@dbgreenwald.bsky.social
associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | local politics | palestine | states, institutions, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | views mine but will strive to listen
"Knowing how institutions were constructed provides insights into how they might come apart," (Thelen 1999, p. 400).
February 5, 2026 at 1:55 AM
"Knowing how institutions were constructed provides insights into how they might come apart," (Thelen 1999, p. 400).
Starting in half an hour: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Educational Freedom in Palestine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In this special event, Palestinian scholars and activists working on the ground throughout Palestine and their international allies foreground the centrality of education to Palestinian life, identity...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Starting in half an hour: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Lexical algorithmic resistance" in >10k pro-Palestine Arabic-language Facebook posts Oct 7 2023-Apr 27 2024: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"As a cursive writing system, written from right to left with a dense morphological framework, the Arabic script presents significant challenges for...
"As a cursive writing system, written from right to left with a dense morphological framework, the Arabic script presents significant challenges for...
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"Lexical algorithmic resistance" in >10k pro-Palestine Arabic-language Facebook posts Oct 7 2023-Apr 27 2024: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"As a cursive writing system, written from right to left with a dense morphological framework, the Arabic script presents significant challenges for...
"As a cursive writing system, written from right to left with a dense morphological framework, the Arabic script presents significant challenges for...
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"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending":
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending":
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
If your recipe calls for a jalapeño “seeds removed“, just no.
December 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
If your recipe calls for a jalapeño “seeds removed“, just no.
Toddler holiday travel sleep schedule: 1
Peptide firming eye cream: 0
Peptide firming eye cream: 0
December 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Toddler holiday travel sleep schedule: 1
Peptide firming eye cream: 0
Peptide firming eye cream: 0
Reddit is telling me I can block and unshrink my cashmere sweater that accidentally went in *the dryer* (gah! I know), but is this false hope? I’ll report back. In a the meantime, please feel free to share carefully curated anecdotes of success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Reddit is telling me I can block and unshrink my cashmere sweater that accidentally went in *the dryer* (gah! I know), but is this false hope? I’ll report back. In a the meantime, please feel free to share carefully curated anecdotes of success.
French Army map of Mandate Syria in 1926. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
French Army map of Mandate Syria in 1926. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
Oof the title of this paper. Perfect strike. 🎳 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 125, No 2
Using newly collected data on association density in 229 towns and cities in interwar Germany, we show that denser social networks were associated with faster entry into the Nazi Party. The effect is ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Oof the title of this paper. Perfect strike. 🎳 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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An eerie read from the archives: "Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant" by Graham Usher, June 28, 1996: www.merip.org/1996/06/clos...
Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant - MERIP
On April 24, 1996 -- Israel’s forty-eighth Independence Day -- PLO leader Yasser Arafat made good on his 1993 pledge to the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to amend “those articles of the Pa...
www.merip.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
An eerie read from the archives: "Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant" by Graham Usher, June 28, 1996: www.merip.org/1996/06/clos...
Common terms and phrases in my book, according to Google.
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Common terms and phrases in my book, according to Google.
With a sickening amount of caffeine, truly anything is possible.
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
With a sickening amount of caffeine, truly anything is possible.
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
FYI: @aneraorg.bsky.social 's timeline of events in Gaza is an invaluable resource: www.anera.org/gaza-war-tim...
It also highlights the work of their teams, giving us a tiny sliver of a sense of what it has meant to do humanitarian work in Gaza over the past 26 months.
It also highlights the work of their teams, giving us a tiny sliver of a sense of what it has meant to do humanitarian work in Gaza over the past 26 months.
Two Years of War on Gaza: A Timeline of Events and Anera's Humanitarian Response - Anera
Explore a timeline of key events and Anera's ongoing efforts in response to the Gaza war, regularly updated with unfolding developments.
www.anera.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
FYI: @aneraorg.bsky.social 's timeline of events in Gaza is an invaluable resource: www.anera.org/gaza-war-tim...
It also highlights the work of their teams, giving us a tiny sliver of a sense of what it has meant to do humanitarian work in Gaza over the past 26 months.
It also highlights the work of their teams, giving us a tiny sliver of a sense of what it has meant to do humanitarian work in Gaza over the past 26 months.
Every year or two I think about this photo and wonder about this kid. Where is this young man now? It hit me again today, hard, almost exactly 8 years after the picture was originally taken. (Photo credit: Abed Alhashlamoun, European Pressphoto Agency)
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Every year or two I think about this photo and wonder about this kid. Where is this young man now? It hit me again today, hard, almost exactly 8 years after the picture was originally taken. (Photo credit: Abed Alhashlamoun, European Pressphoto Agency)
This is in the West Bank. Everyone should watch this footage. Amidst and on top of the continuous live stream of horrors from Gaza, this clip, too, will haunt me forever. www.dw.com/en/outrage-o...
Outrage over killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin – DW – 11/29/2025
In footage filmed by Palestine TV in the West Bank, Israeli security forces open fire on two men who appear to have surrendered. The UN has called the incident an apparent execution. WARNING: This rep...
www.dw.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is in the West Bank. Everyone should watch this footage. Amidst and on top of the continuous live stream of horrors from Gaza, this clip, too, will haunt me forever. www.dw.com/en/outrage-o...
This story is from last week - watch the video too: www.reuters.com/business/env...
The UN reports today that “some 1.5 million people still require “urgent support” with regard to shelter: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Most are living in tents like these.
The UN reports today that “some 1.5 million people still require “urgent support” with regard to shelter: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Most are living in tents like these.
Floods swamp homeless Palestinians' tents in Gaza as winter looms
Some tents completely washed away as floodwaters rose 40 to 50 centimeters above ground level.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This story is from last week - watch the video too: www.reuters.com/business/env...
The UN reports today that “some 1.5 million people still require “urgent support” with regard to shelter: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Most are living in tents like these.
The UN reports today that “some 1.5 million people still require “urgent support” with regard to shelter: news.un.org/en/story/202...
Most are living in tents like these.
”‘They want the international stabilizing force to come into Gaza and restore, quote unquote, law and order and disarm any resistance,‘ a senior official in Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. ‘So that’s the problem. Nobody wants to do that.’” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
International force at heart of Trump’s Gaza plan struggles to find takers
The U.S. administration is trying to drum up troop commitments, but concerns are mounting over whether foreign soldiers would have to use force against Gazans.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
”‘They want the international stabilizing force to come into Gaza and restore, quote unquote, law and order and disarm any resistance,‘ a senior official in Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. ‘So that’s the problem. Nobody wants to do that.’” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
There appear to be a number of simplistic takes on the broader implications of Israel's support for the Zaydi imamate during the North Yemen civil war, suggesting it is somehow surprising, or even ironic, now that the Houthis and Israel are staunch enemies. But... /1
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
There appear to be a number of simplistic takes on the broader implications of Israel's support for the Zaydi imamate during the North Yemen civil war, suggesting it is somehow surprising, or even ironic, now that the Houthis and Israel are staunch enemies. But... /1
Of all of the bell peppers, I suppose I will start with this one that my kid bit into in the grocery store. Welcome to my cooking show
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Of all of the bell peppers, I suppose I will start with this one that my kid bit into in the grocery store. Welcome to my cooking show
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It was my pleasure to guest edit this essay section of the Arab Studies Journal, in which @mesaglobalacademy.bsky.social scholars were asked to reflect on whether the MENA region is undergoing a "seismic shift": www.arabstudiesjournal.org
ARAB STUDIES JOURNAL
FALL 2025 VOL. XXXIII, NO. 1-2
www.arabstudiesjournal.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It was my pleasure to guest edit this essay section of the Arab Studies Journal, in which @mesaglobalacademy.bsky.social scholars were asked to reflect on whether the MENA region is undergoing a "seismic shift": www.arabstudiesjournal.org
Hind Khoudary reports IDF has moved deeper into Shuja'iya: “But the entire boundary has not been marked, so many Palestinians do not know exactly where it is...People say this is a cage, as they’re being pushed and squeezed into the western parts of Gaza.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Palestinians ‘squeezed’ as Israel moves beyond ‘yellow line’ in Gaza City
Move comes as Israeli attacks on bombarded enclave killed at least 32 Palestinians and wounded 88 others in 24 hours.
www.aljazeera.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Hind Khoudary reports IDF has moved deeper into Shuja'iya: “But the entire boundary has not been marked, so many Palestinians do not know exactly where it is...People say this is a cage, as they’re being pushed and squeezed into the western parts of Gaza.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...