Karim El Taki
@karimeltaki.bsky.social
Middle East IR, regional and global ordering, sovereignty, recognition, and other cool stuff
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Karim El Taki
@karimeltaki.bsky.social
· Nov 15
During the 2017-21 Gulf Crisis, when Qatar 🇶🇦 faced severe sanctions by the so-called Anti-Terror Quartet, it affirmed its "sovereignty." Yet it also sought to expand and make permanent the 🇺🇸 al-Udeid airbase, hardly a marker of sovereignty. How can we make sense of that?
📲 doi.org/10.1080/1943...
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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/
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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/
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?)
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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?)
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!
August 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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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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
May 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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....
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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...
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...
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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...
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...
Last few days to send us your abstracts! More below 👇
📢 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.’
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.’
January 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Last few days to send us your abstracts! More below 👇
📢 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.’
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.’
December 10, 2024 at 12:16 PM
📢 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.’
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.’
رحل بشار الأسد ولم يأتِ بعد المكان والزمان المناسبان.
December 8, 2024 at 10:17 PM
رحل بشار الأسد ولم يأتِ بعد المكان والزمان المناسبان.
Putin has sold out Assad. The price will be paid in Ukraine.
December 8, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Putin has sold out Assad. The price will be paid in Ukraine.
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.
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…
I’ve written on the need to see regional order as a continuous process of ordering—and…
December 8, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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.
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…
I’ve written on the need to see regional order as a continuous process of ordering—and…
November 30, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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…
I’ve written on the need to see regional order as a continuous process of ordering—and…
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🚨 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
open access link to the article 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Menasky
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 AM
🚨 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
open access link to the article 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Menasky
A war criminal with no principles agreeing to a ceasefire in principle. Pending reservations on 'details'.
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
November 25, 2024 at 12:30 PM
A war criminal with no principles agreeing to a ceasefire in principle. Pending reservations on 'details'.
The rule of law, liberalism, and the LIO altogether are antisemitic.
November 21, 2024 at 10:34 PM
The rule of law, liberalism, and the LIO altogether are antisemitic.
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 🥲
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
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu
November 20, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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 🥲
Nothing says ‘rules-based international order’ like ignoring the rules when you and your allies break them.
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Nothing says ‘rules-based international order’ like ignoring the rules when you and your allies break them.
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Since there is more interaction here, I'd like to take this opportunity to share my article 'A Brotherhood of Nations: Imagining the Nation-Based Order during the Springtime of Nations (1848), published a few days ago in @risjnl.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/8)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/8)
November 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Since there is more interaction here, I'd like to take this opportunity to share my article 'A Brotherhood of Nations: Imagining the Nation-Based Order during the Springtime of Nations (1848), published a few days ago in @risjnl.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/8)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/8)
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I am compiling a starter pack with some of the most exciting people writing about MENA. If you want to be added, please reply to this post.
November 17, 2024 at 3:24 AM
I am compiling a starter pack with some of the most exciting people writing about MENA. If you want to be added, please reply to this post.
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November 14, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Historically speaking, Israel is, in fact, Egypt; the area is filled with evidence of the presence of Egyptians. (We can keep doing this forever).
November 17, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Historically speaking, Israel is, in fact, Egypt; the area is filled with evidence of the presence of Egyptians. (We can keep doing this forever).
You watch Al Jazeera and Al Araby, and you hear that Hezbollah is reinvigorated and strong and making great strides. You zap to Sky News Arabia and Al Arabiya, and you learn that it’s actually the end of Hezbollah. What a schizophrenic Arab public sphere.
November 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
You watch Al Jazeera and Al Araby, and you hear that Hezbollah is reinvigorated and strong and making great strides. You zap to Sky News Arabia and Al Arabiya, and you learn that it’s actually the end of Hezbollah. What a schizophrenic Arab public sphere.
I’ve started dreading receiving WhatsApp messages from my family in Beirut. Every message now seems to inform me of an ever-closer airstrike by the IOF. This utter disregard for human lives continues and expands, with horror and terror everywhere in the capital and beyond.
November 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
I’ve started dreading receiving WhatsApp messages from my family in Beirut. Every message now seems to inform me of an ever-closer airstrike by the IOF. This utter disregard for human lives continues and expands, with horror and terror everywhere in the capital and beyond.
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A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3
November 9, 2024 at 8:53 PM
A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3
During the 2017-21 Gulf Crisis, when Qatar 🇶🇦 faced severe sanctions by the so-called Anti-Terror Quartet, it affirmed its "sovereignty." Yet it also sought to expand and make permanent the 🇺🇸 al-Udeid airbase, hardly a marker of sovereignty. How can we make sense of that?
📲 doi.org/10.1080/1943...
📲 doi.org/10.1080/1943...
November 15, 2024 at 7:12 AM
During the 2017-21 Gulf Crisis, when Qatar 🇶🇦 faced severe sanctions by the so-called Anti-Terror Quartet, it affirmed its "sovereignty." Yet it also sought to expand and make permanent the 🇺🇸 al-Udeid airbase, hardly a marker of sovereignty. How can we make sense of that?
📲 doi.org/10.1080/1943...
📲 doi.org/10.1080/1943...