Yair Wallach is one of just two people I follow for political insights. Highly recommend his thoughtful comments (and his scholarly works on urban texts and ephemera also great).
If your political education took place in Israel-supportive spheres, the word Intifada has a negative, violent and menacing meaning for you.
If your political education happened in Palestine-supportive spheres, the word Intifada has a positive, liberatory and inspiring meaning for you.
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If your political education happened in Palestine-supportive spheres, the word Intifada has a positive, liberatory and inspiring meaning for you.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yair Wallach is one of just two people I follow for political insights. Highly recommend his thoughtful comments (and his scholarly works on urban texts and ephemera also great).
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I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
June 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.
Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org
@tennispodcast.bsky.social Been hitting refresh on podcast app for nearly three hours! In Indiana and waiting for you to weigh in on the 2025 men's final! Spectacular as I think? Or am I a prisoner of the moment? Or did I hallucinate it all?
June 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
@tennispodcast.bsky.social Been hitting refresh on podcast app for nearly three hours! In Indiana and waiting for you to weigh in on the 2025 men's final! Spectacular as I think? Or am I a prisoner of the moment? Or did I hallucinate it all?
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Highly Recommend! Yair Wallach wrote a great book on urban texts (ephemera), and he gave an engaging talk with students in my Arab-Israeli class last semester. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-je...
Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: A talk with Yair Wallach
Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: on Arabic and Hebrew texts in the streets of modern Jerusalem
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Highly Recommend! Yair Wallach wrote a great book on urban texts (ephemera), and he gave an engaging talk with students in my Arab-Israeli class last semester. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-je...
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Flagging #SHAFR2025 Second Book Workshop to take place the day before the conference begins in Arlington. I participated years ago and still go back to those notes! Now honored to lead the Women in SHAFR Committee organizing it. Consider applying! shafr.memberclicks.net/index.php?op...
CFA- SHAFR Second Book Workshop
shafr.memberclicks.net
February 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Flagging #SHAFR2025 Second Book Workshop to take place the day before the conference begins in Arlington. I participated years ago and still go back to those notes! Now honored to lead the Women in SHAFR Committee organizing it. Consider applying! shafr.memberclicks.net/index.php?op...
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The Aga Khan has died: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
The Aga Khan, philanthropist and spiritual leader, dies aged 88
Considered a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad, the Aga Khan spent billions on homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Aga Khan has died: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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It's crazy that this & previous governments (rightly) constantly hymn 'Britain's world-class universities' and (rightly) consistently identify them as central to national strategy, and yet pursue policies which are eroding, if not destroying, an asset that other countries would give anything to have
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says "it is no longer an option for us to continue as we are".
www.bbc.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It's crazy that this & previous governments (rightly) constantly hymn 'Britain's world-class universities' and (rightly) consistently identify them as central to national strategy, and yet pursue policies which are eroding, if not destroying, an asset that other countries would give anything to have
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It was my biggest fear when I first heard that cursive would no longer be taught in school, that so much history would be lost to future generations, and here we are.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.
The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
www.usatoday.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It was my biggest fear when I first heard that cursive would no longer be taught in school, that so much history would be lost to future generations, and here we are.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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📄 Ottoman document includes the testimony of the customs director of Izmir, affirming that the American merchant residing in Izmir is among those who are truthful and free from deceit, January 15, 1819 #americanhistory #19thcentury #1810s
January 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
📄 Ottoman document includes the testimony of the customs director of Izmir, affirming that the American merchant residing in Izmir is among those who are truthful and free from deceit, January 15, 1819 #americanhistory #19thcentury #1810s
What are the students in the back row signing? Photo of a school for the deaf in the late-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire from the LoC Abdulhamid II online collection, www.loc.gov/pictures/ite.... #ottomanhistory #signlanguage #nineteenthcentury
December 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
What are the students in the back row signing? Photo of a school for the deaf in the late-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire from the LoC Abdulhamid II online collection, www.loc.gov/pictures/ite.... #ottomanhistory #signlanguage #nineteenthcentury
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"With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now."
Fania Oz Salzberger
Howard Jacobson
Yair Wallach
and others
Fania Oz Salzberger
Howard Jacobson
Yair Wallach
and others
What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
www.newstatesman.com
December 4, 2023 at 3:19 PM
"With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now."
Fania Oz Salzberger
Howard Jacobson
Yair Wallach
and others
Fania Oz Salzberger
Howard Jacobson
Yair Wallach
and others
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I'm pleased to say that the festschrift I edited, The Social and Cultural History of Palestine: Essays in Honour of Salim Tamari, is now available in paperback, and with a 30% discount if ordered direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social with the code PAPER30: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-soc...
The Social and Cultural History of Palestine
The Social and Cultural History of Palestine
edinburghuniversitypress.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I'm pleased to say that the festschrift I edited, The Social and Cultural History of Palestine: Essays in Honour of Salim Tamari, is now available in paperback, and with a 30% discount if ordered direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social with the code PAPER30: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-soc...
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It's release day! UNMENTIONABLES is officially published and @stanfordpress.bsky.social is offering a 20% discount for copies ordered on their website (with code FAHRENTHOLD20): www.sup.org/books/histor...
December 3, 2024 at 3:06 PM
It's release day! UNMENTIONABLES is officially published and @stanfordpress.bsky.social is offering a 20% discount for copies ordered on their website (with code FAHRENTHOLD20): www.sup.org/books/histor...
This looks like a really interesting read!
And this is a book I don’t have to say I can’t wait to read it because I have read it and it is truly incredible and important. So, I can’t wait for all of YOU to read @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social ‘s book, Novels, Needleworks and Empire (currently discounted at @yalebooks.bsky.social
For everyone in your life, I mean those in the US and Canada, with academic monographs on their holiday wish lists, Yale UP is running the 30% sale code HOL30 until December 6th. This includes my book, too.
November 26, 2024 at 2:26 AM
This looks like a really interesting read!
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Do we do a #MarxistMonday? We've got #SocialistSunday but what about the followers of old Karl eh?
a group of people are watching a soccer game on a field .
ALT: a group of people are watching a soccer game on a field .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Do we do a #MarxistMonday? We've got #SocialistSunday but what about the followers of old Karl eh?
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Dear friends, please help us support the Palestinian writer and journalist Hedaya Shamoun and her family, who will be moving to Middletown this fall on a fellowship. Any amount helps. Thank you for your generosity. www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
Donate to Support Hedaya Shamoun's Safe Arrival, organized by Merve Emre
Over the past few months, we (Merve Emre, Isabella Hammad) have been working with the… Merve Emre needs your support for Support Hedaya Shamoun's Safe Arrival
www.gofundme.com
October 16, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Dear friends, please help us support the Palestinian writer and journalist Hedaya Shamoun and her family, who will be moving to Middletown this fall on a fellowship. Any amount helps. Thank you for your generosity. www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
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Please share! Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter, their effects, or critically engage with the Society's work. 1st prize £1250, 2nd prize £250; deadline 1/3/25 hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
August 29, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Please share! Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter, their effects, or critically engage with the Society's work. 1st prize £1250, 2nd prize £250; deadline 1/3/25 hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
If an American uses the term "car" while traveling through Western Europe in 1872, what form of travel do they mean? It seems railway travel often uses that word "railway" or "by rail." So is car the "diligence," the soon to disappear large carriage that goes between cities without railway lines?
August 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
If an American uses the term "car" while traveling through Western Europe in 1872, what form of travel do they mean? It seems railway travel often uses that word "railway" or "by rail." So is car the "diligence," the soon to disappear large carriage that goes between cities without railway lines?
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I agree. Pete Buttigieg would be a great VP choice.
My contention is that VP candidates do very little, but the best asset for a candidate or VP is their speaking ability to help sell the Prez's agenda. And Buttegieg is fantastic even in front of Fox News interviewers.
choose your fighter
July 26, 2024 at 2:11 AM
I agree. Pete Buttigieg would be a great VP choice.
For sale, Robert Norton's copy of The Mother's Recompense, dedicated to him by its author, Edith Wharton. File under too expensive for me, but still v. cool! www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-mother-s...
The Mother's Recompense.
The Mother's Recompense.
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her closest companion in later life, Robert Norton, on the front free endpaper, "R.N. from E.W., ...
www.peterharrington.co.uk
July 8, 2024 at 1:41 PM
For sale, Robert Norton's copy of The Mother's Recompense, dedicated to him by its author, Edith Wharton. File under too expensive for me, but still v. cool! www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-mother-s...
