Manan Ahmed
@sepoy.bsky.social
historian, walker. Author, *A Book of Conquest*, *The Loss of Hindustan*, and, most recently, *Disrupted City*
https://history.columbia.edu/person/manan-ahmed/
https://history.columbia.edu/person/manan-ahmed/
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Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hazel V. Carby · Remembering the Future
I am reminded of the first maps I saw as a child, hanging on the walls of British classrooms. Of course, the colour that...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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my mother donated the loveliest desi thanksgiving meal to the elders crew in Minnesota at SEWA an organization started to combat domestic violence that now provides food and services for ppl in need
support their work: www.sewa-aifw.org/our-story
support their work: www.sewa-aifw.org/our-story
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
my mother donated the loveliest desi thanksgiving meal to the elders crew in Minnesota at SEWA an organization started to combat domestic violence that now provides food and services for ppl in need
support their work: www.sewa-aifw.org/our-story
support their work: www.sewa-aifw.org/our-story
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Well this is very bad.
How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Well this is very bad.
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New developments in Pakistan, such as Bahria Town in Lahore, are welcomed by Lahore’s elites. Protestors warn of corruption, land grabs, and accelerated environmental damage.
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.
www.publicbooks.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New developments in Pakistan, such as Bahria Town in Lahore, are welcomed by Lahore’s elites. Protestors warn of corruption, land grabs, and accelerated environmental damage.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Get hyped ppl! (am I doing this right?) @durba.bsky.social *The Future That Was*
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Get hyped ppl! (am I doing this right?) @durba.bsky.social *The Future That Was*
Tomorrow!
11/23: I will be giving a lecture "Lahore: Common Threads of Culture in Hindustan" at Ossining Public Library from 1-4pm Please come thru!
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Tomorrow!
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
By Safina Nabi: The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.
The Women Carrying Water—and the World
The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.
foreignpolicy.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
By Safina Nabi: The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.
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The forum on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley comes from an important discussion at the AHA and will be excellent for teaching and discussing this excellent book!
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November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The forum on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley comes from an important discussion at the AHA and will be excellent for teaching and discussing this excellent book!
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Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” tries to be at once a memoir, a philosophy tract, a historical novel, and “Candide” for the twenty-first century—but it doesn’t do any of them successfully.
A Philosopher After All
Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” tries to be too many things—and doesn’t quite succeed at any.
thebaffler.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” tries to be at once a memoir, a philosophy tract, a historical novel, and “Candide” for the twenty-first century—but it doesn’t do any of them successfully.
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
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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.
www.publicbooks.org
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."
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I interviewed the brilliant historian and editor in chief of the Journal of Palestine studies @srseikaly.bsky.social on learning about Palestine, the intersectionality of the Palestinian cause, and how to combat a system trying to make you stupid.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
It Could Happen Here | iHeart
It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens,...
www.iheart.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I interviewed the brilliant historian and editor in chief of the Journal of Palestine studies @srseikaly.bsky.social on learning about Palestine, the intersectionality of the Palestinian cause, and how to combat a system trying to make you stupid.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Anyone writing on NYTimes role (active and malicious) in platforming Rufo and leading coordinated attacks on Harvard (Gay), Columbia, UVA, Yale, Northwestern et al?
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Anyone writing on NYTimes role (active and malicious) in platforming Rufo and leading coordinated attacks on Harvard (Gay), Columbia, UVA, Yale, Northwestern et al?
Historian Chris Moffat updates *Disrupted City* by thinking about the shifting landscapes of Lahore since the 2000s.
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.
www.publicbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Historian Chris Moffat updates *Disrupted City* by thinking about the shifting landscapes of Lahore since the 2000s.
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
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I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world.
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.
Met Museum Workers Push to Unionize
Staffers at the New York City institution have filed a petition for a union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.
hyperallergic.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I love the @metmuseum.org. It enriches the lives of NY’ers and visitors from across the world.
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
That’s made possible by the people who make the Met run — the curators, educators and museum workers seeking to join @uaw.org
Congrats to Met Museum workers on filing for this historic union election!
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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When I think of all the incredibly talented, hardworking, and decent people I know who have had to leave academia for reasons they have no control over, and see shite like this, it does lean me towards the belief that huge chunks of academia are irredeemable.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When I think of all the incredibly talented, hardworking, and decent people I know who have had to leave academia for reasons they have no control over, and see shite like this, it does lean me towards the belief that huge chunks of academia are irredeemable.
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
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my mom is part of an amazing senior group in Minneapolis, which helps low-income ppl access vaccines, food, & transport through SEWA, an org that supports people facing gender violence, food and housing insecurity. We are buying everyone a thanksgiving meal!
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
South Asian | SEWA-AIFW | Minneapolis
This is the homepage for SEWA-AIFW, a South Asian nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN.
www.sewa-aifw.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
my mom is part of an amazing senior group in Minneapolis, which helps low-income ppl access vaccines, food, & transport through SEWA, an org that supports people facing gender violence, food and housing insecurity. We are buying everyone a thanksgiving meal!
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...