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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · 6d

Within the latest from Arab Studies Quarterly 47.3 read “American Aid to Israel: Nature and Impact 1949–2024”scienceopen.com/hosted-documen… by Dr Abed-Rabbo. It is diamond #OpenAccess and free to read on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · 8d

Within the latest from Arab Studies Quarterly 47.3 read “American Aid to Israel: Nature and Impact 1949–2024”scienceopen.com/hosted-documen… by Dr Abed-Rabbo. It is diamond #OpenAccess and free to read on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social

Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · 14d

Within the latest ASQ 47.3 read Necropolitics and Neo-Orientalism: Theory and Practice www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... on how a nation, or a group of people, uses power, both military or political, to dictate how certain people in a region can live and how some must die. @scienceopen.bsky.social

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · 19d

Read the latest from Arab Studies Quarterly 47.3 scienceopen.com/journal-issue?… three articles: Autobiography: Affect, Critique, and Modernity, Necropolitics and Neo-Orientalism & American Aid to Israel on @scienceopen.bsky.social @ @jstor.bsky.social

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Jul 29

Within the latest #diamondOpenAccess Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read “The Legal Effects of the Maritime Border Demarcation Agreement on the Lebanese State” by authors Mohamad Mokdad & Omar Abou Taha www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @scienceopen.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · Jul 22

This #prize was established in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986 and is awarded to the best #PhD dissertation on a #MiddleEastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous year. (2/3)

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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎉A huge congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize:

- Joint Winners: Asma Abdi and Sara Abdel Ghany

- Joint Runners Up: Eirik Kvindesland and Kristine Sheets

Read more: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp (1/3)

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Jul 4

Within the latest #diamondOpenAccess Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read “Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die”: The Death of the Author, the Afterlife of the Tale” by authors Asma Hussein here on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @brismes.bsky.social

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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · Jun 20

@brismes.bsky.social has published a statement on escalating regional violence in the #MiddleEast. BRISMES expresses its deep alarm at Israel’s recent military aggression against Iran.

Read the statement in full: bit.ly/4l0pQB6

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Jun 27

In Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read ““ Usṭūrat Al-Jabal”: The Politics of Space in Hussein Barghouti’s Among the Almond Trees” by Abd El Latif et al. It’s Diamond #OpenAccess on @jstor.bsky.social & @scienceopen.bsky.social here www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum....

Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Jun 18

Within the latest Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read the poem “Even” by author Sher Chandley here scienceopen.com/hosted-documen… diamon#OpenAccessss on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social. ASQ was established in 1979 by the late Professors Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod.

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Jun 12

We’re excited to read Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 here bit.ly/ASQ47_2 with a range of articles and book reviews on Arabic culture, history and institutions. This issue spans art, society and #HumanRights. Subscribe for ASQ news bit.ly/ASQJournalNews @jstor.bsky.social @scienceopen.bsky.social

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Pluto Journals @pluto-journals.bsky.social · Jun 5

OUR JUNE NEWS IS HERE bit.ly/PJ_June25. Explore latest issue articles on ethical consumerism and degrowth, resilience in Zambia & Indonesia, Arab Studies, Palestine justice, Lebanon borders & our first African Journals Initiative issue! @journalfairtrade.bsky.social @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · May 13

Within the latest ASQ 47.4 read “No More Separation between Zion and Her Children”: Palestine as a Sacred Geography & the Roots of the Gaza Genocide by Adam A.H Yaghi diamond # OpenAccess www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · May 13

Within the latest ASQ 47.4 read “No More Separation between Zion and Her Children”: Palestine as a Sacred Geography and the Roots of the Gaza Genocide by Adam A.H Yaghi here diamond # OpenAccess here www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social

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Pluto Journals @pluto-journals.bsky.social · Apr 10

Signup to Pluto Journals news bit.ly/PJNews_subscribe to explore the latest diamond #OpenAccess social science issues & articles from our 20 radical publications on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Apr 3

Read the latest Arab Studies Quarterly Winter Vol 47, Iss 1 including an opening piece In Memoriam: Tareq Y. Ismael, two articles, an essay by the Editor and two poems about Gaza. It also includes book reviews, and the Books in Brief section. www.scienceopen.com/collection/5...

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Mar 7

Read author Joni Aasi’s article on the natural and built environment being the “silent victim” of Israel’s unprecedented bombardment of the Gaza Strip which caused more than 100,000 casualties and the forced displacement of most of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Feb 27

The latest Arab Studies Quarterly Vol 47, Iss 1 includes an opening piece In Memoriam: Tareq Y. Ismael, two articles, an essay by the Editor & two poems about Gaza. It also includes book reviews, and a Books in Brief section. mailchi.mp/aafaf6daca7b... @scienceopen.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

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Pluto Journals @pluto-journals.bsky.social · Dec 5

OUR DECEMBER NEWS bit.ly/PJDec24 brings an eclectic range of articles from whistle blowing in medicine, humour in economics to politicisation of football in Darjeeling! Our entire Pluto Journals Collection, and archive, is #DiamondOA and free to read on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social

OUR LATEST NEWS IS HERE https://bit.ly/PJDec24 with updates on the latest publications from the Pluto Journals #DiamondOA Collection. As the festive season approaches, we have a particularly eclectic range of articles to share with you, from whistle blowing in medicine, humour in economics, to Korean Neoliberal influence in Uganda and the politicisation of football in Darjeeling!

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Dec 5

Read “Ghassan Kanafani and the Urgent Questions of our Day” where Khaled Barakat discusses how Kanafani’s work and revolutionary political thoughts were relevant 50 years ago and are, perhaps, more relevant than ever. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... #OpenAccess

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Pluto Journals @pluto-journals.bsky.social · Nov 21

Our news bit.ly/PJNov24 brings the latest @reorient.bsky.social ReOrient Volume 9, Issue 1 special issue on The Qur’an and the Humanities & the significance of a purposefully multidisciplinary examination of the Qur’an & its myriad dimensions. #openaccess @scienceopen.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. ReOrient is an international, double blind peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish quality research on the newly emerging field of Critical Muslim Studies. We encourage a decolonial, post-positivist, post-orientalist and post-Eurocentric approach to the analysis of the historical and contemporary political, socio-economic, and cultural processes that are constitutive of the Islamicate in its widest-ranging permutations.

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Nov 29

Within our Special Double edition latest Volume 46 Issue 3-4, #Kanafani read “Conversation between the Sword and the Neck” by Nathan Mcilroy, musician, poet and lyricist based in Manchester, #OpenAccess
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Conversation between the Sword and the Neck within Arab Studies Quarterly 46, 3-4

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Nov 21

Within our latest Special double issue Arab Studies Quarterly Vol 46, Iss 3-4 read “Reflections on the Early Works of Ghassan Kanafani” by Author Louis Brehony, Amira Silmi, Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo & Malek Abisaab scienceopen.com/hosted-docum.... All articles are #diamondOA

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Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social · Nov 21

Our collection of journals contains titles focused on Islamophobia & its multiple manifestations in our contemporary moment. www.islamophobia-awareness.org. Islamophobia Awareness Month #IAM is a month-long campaign founded by a group of Muslim organisations and is held every November