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Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · Aug 5

A few words about my recent book: That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the #Iran - #Iraq War (New Texts Out Now) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4681...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jul 27

Only 73 aid trucks entered Gaza today—far below the 600 minimum needed—while three airdrops, overseen by Israeli forces, landed in dangerous combat zones, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8hrip9

Strikes on Gaza resume as Israel’s ‘tactical pause’ comes to an end

Six more Palestinians have starved to death today as Israel makes small increases in aid delivery.

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · Jun 20

Over decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has personally and insistently lobbied for U.S. intervention against Iran. A military campaign reliant on airpower alone is unlikely to spark a revolution. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

How Trump and Tehran Can Find an Eleventh-hour Exit from an Escalating War | International Crisis Group

As Israel’s Operation Rising Lion pummels Iran, the U.S. is weighing direct involvement to attack nuclear sites in the country, which could lead to a disastrous escalation. Washington should instead l...

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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · Jun 19

NY Times takes a look at the civilian death toll by Israeli strikes in Iran: "Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

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Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Islamic Republic has been on the US hit list since 1980 and has maintains the worst self PR in the world. Combine that with a vitriolic Iranian diaspora and Israeli propaganda machine and you get a different beast

Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · Jun 19

It was probably worse, like everyone here is saying. We were still in peak 9/11 insanity and I think Bush had higher approval ratings than Trump now. But the longer lead up to the conflict also differs. Saddam had been enemy #1 since 1990 and could only be replaced by bin Laden..

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · Jun 10

Dust That Never Settles by @amir-moosavi.bsky.social considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present.

#ReadUP

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Book cover for Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War by Amir Moosavi

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Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · May 17

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Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · May 16

But you're already there! Plus you'll feel really redundant after you read it 105 more times during the copyedits and proofs.

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KrazyTheeAlaskan™️ @krazytheealaskan.bsky.social · May 16

Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive

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Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · May 12

My book, Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War is now available for purchase. Please encourage your university or local library to get a copy. You can get a 20% discount from the publisher, Stanford University Press: shorturl.at/ZRGyw. The code is on the attached flyer.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 2

The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Apr 27

ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!

Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Mar 14

Ready made ad here for anyone who wants to primary schumer

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Mar 14

Trump praises Schumer for promising to vote with Republicans on the CR

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · Mar 14

Columbia and the next front on the war on academia - it’s not just punishing students. Trump’s demands that a private university adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and put MESAAC into receivership would do damage far beyond one campus. My new piece.

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Columbia and the next front in the war on higher education

It's not just punishing protestors - two of the government's demands are far worse.

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Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social · Feb 19

A great multi-year postdoc in Middle East studies at NYU's Kevorkian Center. Apply by March 24. apply.interfolio.com/163617

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Feb 18

Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration.

https://buff.ly/4k4uwpS

#Palestine #Israel

The liberal establishment is finally criticizing ethnic cleansing in Gaza now that they can blame Trump

Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians...

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · Feb 18

Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Feb 15

Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Feb 10

🚨 READ: Israel’s relentless attacks on the West Bank have forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/isra...

Israel has displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, UNRWA says

Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the West Bank has forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Dec 20

Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing.

Here’s a gift link.

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IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Dec 15

This man is a hero like very few. Ragheed Al-Tatari was an airforce pilot who refused an order to bomb Hama during Hafez Assad’s 1982 massacres. He spent 42 years in prison.

www.instagram.com/reel/DDmmFo1...

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