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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Aug 29

It was a wonderful workshop. Thank you for having me.

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ECD Group/ EISA @ecdeisa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Live at the #ProjectLab with @anahitaarian.bsky.social and Navnita Chadha Behera, diving into course design, teaching challenges, and strategies! 🎓✨

#EISAPEC25 #ECDgroup #Teaching

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ECD Group/ EISA @ecdeisa.bsky.social · Aug 22

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📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.

Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!

@anahitaarian.bsky.social

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Leonie Felicitas Jegen @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social · Aug 22

I look forward to facilitating this conversation on teaching & course design strategies at the upcoming #EISAPEC25 alongside @marionfoster.bsky.social for @ecdeisa.bsky.social

If you are around, join us in person for insights by @anahitaarian.bsky.social and #NavnitaCBehera & following exchanges!

ECD Group/ EISA @ecdeisa.bsky.social · Aug 22

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📝 Also happening on Aug 28, the ECD Project Lab on #CourseDesign.

Experienced scholars will offer their strategies on course design 💡 followed by an open and informal conversation on pedagogy & teaching strategies. Bring your own course programmes 📖 to share!

@anahitaarian.bsky.social

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jul 16

EU officials are playing their part as loyal members of the Axis of Genocide (Israel, US & the EU). There are only a handful of EU countries that oppose this travesty of justice openly & with clarity: Spain & Ireland, plus Norway as a EEA member.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

EU antisemitism tsar lobbied against Israel sanctions

The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a "sensitive" cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver.

euobserver.com

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jul 11

While the genocide of Palestinians continues, the EU also continues its trade deal with Israel at €16 billion a year. This is supposed to be based on respecting human rights, which are clearly being broken. Please sign the petition: sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/stop_g...

SIGN THE PETITION: SUSPEND THE EU-ISRAEL TRADE AGREEMENT. STOP THE GENOCIDE.

Right now in Gaza, people are being bombed, starved, and killed. Over 54,000 people have died — most of them civilians. Children are dying from hunger. Families are being shot while trying to get food...

sign.myvoice-mychoice.org

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Kevork Oskanian @drkevorko.bsky.social · Jul 5

This story on privatised ethnic cleansing in Gaza isn't getting the attention it deserves.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 4

Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · Jul 3

“Annihilate, smash, eradicate, erase, crush, shatter, burn, be cruel, punish, ruin, crush. Annihilate!”
www.timesofisrael.com/likud-minist...

Likud ministers urge Netanyahu to annex West Bank by the end of the month

Ahead of PM's trip to Washington and the Knesset's summer break, senior politicians suggest it is 'a propitious time to move forward' with controversial move

www.timesofisrael.com

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jul 3

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza

Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties

www.theguardian.com

Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jul 3

Gaza Doctors Under Attack: documenting Israel's genocide of doctors and medical staff in Gaza. The documentary that BBC didn't show because of its Zionist board member Robbie Gibb, who has damaged the BBC and it's credibility as a news media.

zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...

WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See

Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

zeteo.com

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jul 2

Summer time reading & healing 📖😌

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 30

"Gaza must be eliminated" according to the only "democracy" in the Middle East with the most "moral" army in the world.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi

Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 28

Hopeful 💗

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 27

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 27

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Jun 25

Europe's humiliation reaches new depths: As if yesterday’s cringey texts weren’t enough, Mark Rutte just called Trump 'Daddy.'...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' at summit | ITV News

YouTube video by ITV News

www.youtube.com

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 25

Rutte is the ultimate sycophant.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Jun 22

The purportedly ‘post-colonial’ (temporal shift) world organisation has forever been a cover for western colonial world order. The benefit collected by politicians, white supremacists, & white feminists alike.
Bombing of Iran is totally unwarranted & unprovoked.
US empire is a threat to the world.

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 19

MAD Theory and Iran's nuclear weapons

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 19

Many in the US political class are as genocidal as Israel is.

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Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social · Jun 19

Much needed history lesson www.ft.com/content/d9e7...

Regime change won’t stop Iran from pursuing nuclear ambitions

All recent Iranian leaders, from royals to mullahs, have sought this capability — future governments will too

www.ft.com

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 19

The shameless hypocrisy of Israel is boundless....

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Jun 19

'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-new-york-protest-israel-attacks-iran

'No war on Iran': New Yorkers rally against US and Israeli regime change plans

Demonstrators say any further US involvement in Israeli attacks on Iran would be catastrophic for the world

www.middleeasteye.net

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Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social · Jun 19

Is Fordo really the most important thing about Iran’s nuclear program or is the focus on it designed to drag the US into the war? Since Fordo is the only target that needs US planes and bunker buster bombs.

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 18

Absolutely disgusting, but it illustrates that Merz is a fascist, but a more acceptable version than the AfD for the German public; fascist light.

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Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 17

Can and will he be stopped?

Anahita Arian, PhD @anahitaarian.bsky.social · Jun 17

Says the man whose state has committed more coups on earth than any other country and who has sponsored terrorism and unleashed terror across the Middle East 🤯 is hat Kool Aid is he drinking?

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