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Dr Roberto Mazza
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Historian of MENA and conspiracy theories: run, officiate basketball, editor JQ #podcaster
'If my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bike' (cit.)
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heissenstat.bsky.social
Pleased to contribute to this free collection of modern MENA primary sources

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Global Histories of MENA in the 20th Century - A Primary Source Collection - Digital Archive of the Middle East
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December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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As @blackmillgames.bsky.social continues its build up for ‘Gallipoli’ here’s a video where I drill down into some of the historical background! 🗃️

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The History Of The Ottoman Theatre | With Chris Kempshall
YouTube video by WW1 Game Series
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November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
just saying....I am not sure what's new here.
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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selenadaly.bsky.social
This week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my recent book Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War. If anyone has a commute they'd like to liven up with tales of war, take a listen! newbooksnetwork.com/emigrant-sol...
Selena Daly, "Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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October 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
The latest episode of Jerusalem Unplugged is with Elizabeth Imber author of Uncertain Empire, highlighting diverse and sometimes conflicting visions of Jewish political futures for Palestine
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Uncertain Empire with Elizabeth Imber | Jerusalem Unplugged Podcast
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October 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Happy to announce that the new issue of Jerusalem Quarterly 102 is now available online and in print

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Jerusalem Quarterly, Summer 2025 (Special Issue)
Latest Journal Issue | This issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly is a special issue dedicated to the works of Tawfiq Canaan (1882–1964), the foremost Palestinian ethnographer of the twentieth century; gue...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Happy to see the latest work of my good friend Lee Brice
drchristinah.bsky.social Dr. Christina Hotalen @drchristinah.bsky.social · Dec 31
It arrived today on the last day of the year, and I couldn’t be happier. It is very validating to see my name in a Cambridge University Press publication.
October 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Besides, not only Trump tends to disappoint, also Netanyahu, which has more reasons to see on of these 'if' failing than anybody else.
mehdirhasan.bsky.social Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Oct 8
If this deal holds, if it goes beyond the 1st phrase, if all of the hostages on both side are released, if Israel withdraws its troops & doesn't resume bombing, if aid gets in, then I'll give Trump credit.

But I count 5 "ifs" above. Let's see. Trump always tends to disappoint.
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · Oct 8
BREAKING: Israel and Hamas reach agreement on "first phase" of plan to stop fighting, release hostages and prisoners, Trump says.
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
robbyref.bsky.social
Se avete, e dovreste averne, ascoltate Pizzaballa su 6.30

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Pizzaballa: "Cercare segni di salvezza nella disumanità di Gaza" | VIVAVOCE
YouTube video by Chora Media
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October 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Here is the latest episode of Jerusalem Unplugged with Michael Kinnamon and Philip Graubart discussing their novels and Jerusalem.

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Fiction and Jerusalem with Michael Kinnamon and Philip Graubart | Jerusalem Unplugged Podcast
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October 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Meloni is now suggesting that the flotilla may lead to the failure of the ceasefire, as if there was one in place. The reality is that she's under a lot of pressure, should something happen to the flotilla, she may have to (unwillingly) take action so much is the popular support for Gaza now.
September 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
So in the of the rubbles and destruction, they found documents, I mean paper and folders. If it was not in the middle of a genocide, it could be a good joke.
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 30
The Israelis have started their usual disinfo campaign to smear the activists on the flotilla on their way to try and break the starvation siege of Gaza.
Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA EXPOSED: Official Hamas documents found in the Gaza Strip - now revealed for the first time - prove Hamas' direct involvement in the funding and execution of the "Sumud" flotilla to Gaza
September 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Maybe there's even some good in the plan, yet it doesn't take into account the larger picture of the West Bank, Palestine, the future of the people under Israeli rule, utltimately it's whitewashing Israel. I hope peace for the people of Gaza and accountability for those who bear responsability
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
So far Trump has regurgitated tropes, like the conflict is tousands of years old, that Israel left Gaza to Hamas peacefully etc etc..he essentially stated no state for the Palestinians, and then, what is the plan?
September 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Another @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode. I interviewed Elizabeth Imber discussing her latest book Uncertain Empire
Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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Elizabeth E. Imber, "Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism" (Stanford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
latest interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Paris Papamichos discussing his new book on Saloniki @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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September 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
The new episode of Jerusalem Unplugged with George Tsourous discussing boundaries within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is now out
@gorgiaspress.bsky.social

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Orthodox Choreographies with Georgios Tsourous | Jerusalem Unplugged Podcast
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September 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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heissenstat.bsky.social
Some wise advice on your academia.edu account.

It's probably time to delete it.
September 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.
Writing for Hannah Arendt: "And even if the Jews were to win the war, its end would find the unique possibilities and the unique achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed. The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry, Zionist and non-Zionist. The “victorious” Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy; economic development would be determined exclusively by the needs of war. And all this would be the fate of a nation that—no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)—would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors. Under such circumstances (as Ernst Simon has pointed out) the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defense interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large numbers of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people. Thus it becomes plain that at this moment and under present circumstances a Jewish state can only be erected at the price of the Jewish homeland."
September 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Why Historical Intelligence Is Your Strategic Advantage: The Case for Historical Consulting in Modern Decision-Making
In January 1990, when McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Moscow's Pushkin Square, 30,000 customers waited in sub-zero temperatures for their first taste of a Big Mac. For many Russians, this wa...
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September 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
We don't know yet anything about motivations, but given my experience teaching about conspiracy theories, I learned that at times those who are dissatisfied with something not happening may take a violent turn.
September 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Right from around the corner! I don't understand, and maybe there is nothing to understand here.
wesleymorgan.bsky.social Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · Sep 9
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
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September 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Just launched my historical consulting site - turns out institutions and businesses actually need someone who can explain why history matters for modern strategy.

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Historical Consultancy
Dr. Roberto Mazza Historical Consultant & Middle East Scholar Translating centuries of knowledge into strategic advantage
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September 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
Se ne e' andato Stefano Benni, il mio scrittore preferito, ho letto e riletto all'infinito Bar Sport, ogni volta vedendoci dentro qualcuno che conosco. Buon Viaggio e goditi una luisona paradisiaca.

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September 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
robbyref.bsky.social
My favorite tv series ever, each and one of them. I watched the original with my mum in Italy, she loved sci-fi and then that was the beginning.
tranquilitypress.bsky.social Tranquility Press @tranquilitypress.bsky.social · Sep 8
59 years ago today, Star Trek first aired in the US. A five-year mission that became six decades of imagination, inspiration, and community.

From Kirk to Burnham, DS9 to Lower Decks, every era has added something unique.

What was the first Trek you watched—and which one made you fall in love?
a picture of a space ship with the words these are the voyages on the bottom
Alt: a picture of a space ship with the words these are the voyages on the bottom
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September 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM