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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Jun 20

My latest op-ed on #Iran-Israel war in the @thestar.com

"Western coverage often casts Iranians as a single, uniform bloc, either villains or oppressed. On the ground, however, reality shows a far more intricate, textured landscape."
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The Iran-Israel conflict is about more than just missiles. This is how Canada should respond

Why Iran’s inner turmoil, not its rockets, should guide Canada’s response.

www.thestar.com

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Jun 12

Reporter: "How imminent is #Israeli strike on #Iran"
#Trump: "I don't want to say imminent but it looks like something that could very well happen...#Iran can't have nuclear weapons"

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Jun 9

Downtown #Toronto right now!

#Palestine
#Gaza

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Jun 8

www.bbc.com/news/article...

National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles amid immigration raids unrest

They city sees a second day of clashes over raids by federal agents on undocumented migrants.

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Jun 5

بیایید هر روز با خود تکرار کنیم: ⁧‫#تجاوز‬⁩ جنسی بیش از آنکه ناشی از نیاز جنسی باشد، تلاشی‌ست برای سلطه بر بدن «دیگری». دیگریی، بدنی، که در طی فرآیندی تاریخی از انسانیت تهی شده است.

‏تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطه‌است و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Jun 3

Presenting my research @ the Canadian Communication Association @ 3:30PM today. Hope to see you there.

Here is the title:
"Reframing Narratives of Conflict: Media Representations of Bashar al-Assad’s Fall and the Moderation of #AbuMohamadal-Jolani"

#Congress2025
@CCA_ACdC

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Jun 2

جناب مستطاب فوتبالیست مملکت رسما اعلان کردن همه مردها می‌توانند متجاوز باشند (نهادینگی فرهنگ تجاوز) و برخلاف زمانی که زنها درباره آزارهای جنسی می‌نویسند، هجوم «البته نه همه مردها» را نمی‌بینیم (جنسیت‌زدگی و دفاع از ساختار مسلط مردسالار)
‏⁧‫#کره_جنوبی‬⁩

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 30

I'm glad the uneducated members of the Right have learned to hide behind the word 'activism'.

A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 29

امیدوارم. واقعا امیدوارم

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 29

بعید می‌دونم، تعداد زیادی از امضا کننده‌ها در فضای مجازی حضور دائم دارند و بعیده از ماجرا بی‌خبر باشند. برخی هم که بیشتر رسما کنار آزارگران دیگر ایستاده‌اند. متن بیانه هم که فبها!

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 29

#نرگس_محمدی زن مقاومیست. متاسفانه تجربه مکرارا کارکرد فرسایشی جوایز و نشانهای بین‌المللی را نشان داده.

برنده پس از مدتی تبدیل میشود به دستگاه صدور بیانه و مصاحبه‌های بی‌سر و ته. مثل این بیانیه زیر که فهرستی بلندبالاست از اصلاح‌طلبان حکومتی، تا آزارگر جنسی و مهره‌های امنیتی.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 20

My thoughts exactly!

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 12

Should we tell him that no political gift is ever free?

#AirForceOne

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 6

"Everyday in #Palestine children are being slaughtered, maimed, and starved to death....

What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 6

In light of #Trump's outright falsehoods, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social demonstrating insane amount of restraint not calling him out in his face!

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 6

According to #ElectionsCanada, a by election costs $1.7 million!

Just calling out the price tag for #Poliviere's ambitions.

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 2

1- #DamineKurek: I was given a "mandate", which means he was ordered by #PierrePoilievre to resign. #Poilievre though says he accepted Kurek's "offer" to resign.

2-Why should the #Canadian tax payer pay for a career politician's failed ambitions?Canada just held an election and #Conservatives lost!

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 5

One more thought:it seems like every other day, #Trump discovers a new way USians are being “taken advantage of” by foreign "Nations"

So... are American capitalist elites,pardon me, "job creators"really this gullible and unintelligent? Or is this just another distraction from a declining US empire?

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 5

Just when you think #Trump can't get any dumber, he resurfaces with something like this:

The movie industry in US is dying not because other Nations r taking advantage of USians (why is Nations capitalized?) it's because of the very nature of Capitalism, which goes where it can find cheap labour!

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 5

I guess everyone has a price! Even progressives like #AdamVaughan

#ThemeSpa
#OntarioScienceCentte

Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · May 5

Adam Vaughan joins Team Therme. He’s now a collaborator in the destruction of a public park at Ontario Place and the Ontario Science Centre.

He’s betraying everything his father’s progressive-urbanist movement stood for and the journalistic ethic he once espoused.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Adam Vaughan is the new face of Therme Canada, touting its spa at Ontario Place | CBC News

Former city councillor and ex-MP Adam Vaughan, long one of the sharpest critics of Doug Ford's plans for Toronto's waterfront, is now working for Therme Canada, the company developing a luxury spa at ...

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 2

Precisely my point. Why should the tax payer pay for PP's political opportunism? I thought the Conservatives were all about protecting the taxpayer!

The messaging is so convoluted, it leaves no doubt that there was no "offer" to resign

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 2

This is too delicious👇

Dear Woke Gods, is it too much to ask PP loses this one too?

Alex Willis @alexjwillis.bsky.social · May 2

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, find me the riding with the most diehard Conservative support of them all!"

"Fair PP, at home there is none like thee,
But over the Mountains is Damien Kurek's, see
With 82% approval, almost eighty-three,
A thousand times more popular than thou is he."

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 2

1- #DamineKurek: I was given a "mandate", which means he was ordered by #PierrePoilievre to resign. #Poilievre though says he accepted Kurek's "offer" to resign.

2-Why should the #Canadian tax payer pay for a career politician's failed ambitions?Canada just held an election and #Conservatives lost!

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · May 1

So #PeteHegseth’s next or is The Donald still pretending like that frat boy can be trusted with national defense?

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · May 1

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz didn’t work well with senior members of Trump’s team—and couldn’t prove that he was able to manage his own staff, reports The Atlantic:

Inside Mike Waltz’s White House Exit

Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper.

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Apr 30

Perhaps @schumer.senate.gov and his ilk of letter writing #Democrats wouldn't be so ineffective and inept, had they not been complicit in the dissent of #neoliberalism and their support of the 1%.

They know the limits of their politics and the doom that they help descend on the country!

Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · Apr 29

Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers

Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · Apr 30

I study authoritarianism & have also lived under one of the most viscous ones: #Iran

Cracking down on dissidents, anti-woke rhetoric, silencing of critical voices are all too familiar aspects of fascism & authoritarianism

I hope USians know today it's #MohamadMahdawi & #Palestine tomorrow it's you

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 30

A U.S. district judge ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent resident who was detained at his citizenship interview this month as part of a crackdown on Palestinian activists by the Trump administration.

Judge orders release of Columbia student arrested by ICE

Mohsen Mahdawi was detained as part of a broader crackdown by the Trump administration on international students. A federal judge ordered him released Wednesday.

www.washingtonpost.com