Jay Crisostomo
@cjcrisostomo.bsky.social
Teaching Middle East at UMich: ancient languages & histories, intellectual history, and sporting cultures.
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Jay Crisostomo
@cjcrisostomo.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Bit of introduction:
I teach in Middle East Studies Dept at Univ of Michigan–Ann Arbor & director of grad program. Courses include languages/histories of the ancient MidEast, history of MidEast medicine, & history/politics of sports (esp ⚽️). Am also director of Center of MidEast & NAfrican Studies
I teach in Middle East Studies Dept at Univ of Michigan–Ann Arbor & director of grad program. Courses include languages/histories of the ancient MidEast, history of MidEast medicine, & history/politics of sports (esp ⚽️). Am also director of Center of MidEast & NAfrican Studies
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“This report underscores how the Civil Rights Act of 1964—which passed in response to years of nonviolent civil disobedience against racial injustice—is being misused to squash political dissent & speech that advocates for the human rights of Palestinians.”
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
Power & Pushback: New report details weaponization of antisemitism on campuses
A new report from the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association reveals how civil rights law has been used to suppress Palestine activism on U.S. campuses.
mondoweiss.net
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“This report underscores how the Civil Rights Act of 1964—which passed in response to years of nonviolent civil disobedience against racial injustice—is being misused to squash political dissent & speech that advocates for the human rights of Palestinians.”
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
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It should come as no surprise that the UK has effectively instituted a Gulf-style kafala system for low-paid foreign workers.
The majority of the casework I do involves people in similar situations to Kavin. Trapped in limbo unable to work and move on to new sponsors. The government's toughening up of rules and increase in costs has made the situation worse.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/migrants-...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/migrants-...
Migrant workers on legal visas trapped in modern slavery
Revealed: UK’s employment visas are causing thousands of legal migrant workers to end up in modern slavery
www.opendemocracy.net
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It should come as no surprise that the UK has effectively instituted a Gulf-style kafala system for low-paid foreign workers.
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You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.
Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.
tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.
Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.
tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.
Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.
tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.
Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.
tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.
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#Employment The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for the James A. Bellamy Professorship, with an anticipated start date of August 25, 2026.
mesana.org/resources-an...
mesana.org/resources-an...
Middle East Studies Association
The Department of Middle East Studies invites applications for the James A. Bellamy Professorship, with an anticipated start date of August 25, 2026.
mesana.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#Employment The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for the James A. Bellamy Professorship, with an anticipated start date of August 25, 2026.
mesana.org/resources-an...
mesana.org/resources-an...
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Historians of medicine (yes, you #histmed): what are the top 3 articles/books that people should be reading right now to understand the significance of the violent attack this weekend on the CDC? #OpenAccess, please, so people can actually get these in their hands.
August 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Historians of medicine (yes, you #histmed): what are the top 3 articles/books that people should be reading right now to understand the significance of the violent attack this weekend on the CDC? #OpenAccess, please, so people can actually get these in their hands.
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Went to the Tripoli derby at an empty stadium in Milan. Didn’t initially understand why it required such a massive police presence. It quickly became obvious.
Piece on how strange and chaotic 6 team playoff in Italy mirrors Libya’s current fault lines. ⚽️ 👮 🇱🇾 💰
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
Piece on how strange and chaotic 6 team playoff in Italy mirrors Libya’s current fault lines. ⚽️ 👮 🇱🇾 💰
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
An Unusual Soccer Finale in Italy Reveals Libya’s Frailties
www.nytimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Went to the Tripoli derby at an empty stadium in Milan. Didn’t initially understand why it required such a massive police presence. It quickly became obvious.
Piece on how strange and chaotic 6 team playoff in Italy mirrors Libya’s current fault lines. ⚽️ 👮 🇱🇾 💰
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
Piece on how strange and chaotic 6 team playoff in Italy mirrors Libya’s current fault lines. ⚽️ 👮 🇱🇾 💰
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
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Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.
"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna
"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna
July 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.
"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna
"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna
Appreciate the historical contextualisation and the importance of Abu Dhabi’s move to buy into Manchester City (in Part 2) is clearly explained & understood because of it
‘A gunman pumped two bullets into head of the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates’
Man City takeover story: so
much more than football
It’s rooted in Abu Dhabi history + childhood tragedy of chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Today’s It Was pod with @jonawils.bsky.social
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Man City takeover story: so
much more than football
It’s rooted in Abu Dhabi history + childhood tragedy of chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Today’s It Was pod with @jonawils.bsky.social
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It Was What It Was
Welcome to The Overlap's football history podcast, It Was What It Was.Each week Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper will be talking about the key episodes in football history that have shaped the footballi...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Appreciate the historical contextualisation and the importance of Abu Dhabi’s move to buy into Manchester City (in Part 2) is clearly explained & understood because of it
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“In response to receiving this document, I did what the FA clearly haven’t: I actually spoke to trans men and transmasculine people
Every single one said they disagreed with the way the declaration was worded.”
I wrote about the FA banning trans men on the sly 👇
transwrites.world/fa-trans-men/
Every single one said they disagreed with the way the declaration was worded.”
I wrote about the FA banning trans men on the sly 👇
transwrites.world/fa-trans-men/
July 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“In response to receiving this document, I did what the FA clearly haven’t: I actually spoke to trans men and transmasculine people
Every single one said they disagreed with the way the declaration was worded.”
I wrote about the FA banning trans men on the sly 👇
transwrites.world/fa-trans-men/
Every single one said they disagreed with the way the declaration was worded.”
I wrote about the FA banning trans men on the sly 👇
transwrites.world/fa-trans-men/
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My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff
As the IOC ushers in new leadership, Donald Trump’s second term is already wreaking havoc on LA 28 – and turning a global celebration into a national security crackdown
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
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⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person?
Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social
Free to read on link below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social
Free to read on link below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person?
Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social
Free to read on link below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social
Free to read on link below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
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This is very, very bad.
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing
By Ethan Sandweiss Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislati…
wfiunews.wordpress.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is very, very bad.
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
A new state law will likely force the closure of hundreds of low-enrollment programs at Indiana University. The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.
wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/h...
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Folks -- We've updated this piece, with a new headline too, to more accurately get at how dangerous this bill is re: letting Trump skirt the courts.
The contempt provision is gone, but the GOP is now trying to price ppl out of being able to sue the govt at all. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
The contempt provision is gone, but the GOP is now trying to price ppl out of being able to sue the govt at all. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
Senate GOP Strips Contempt Provision From Tax Bill — But Still Lets Trump Be King
They took language out of the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that limited courts' powers, but now want to price people out of being able to sue the government at all.
www.huffpost.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Folks -- We've updated this piece, with a new headline too, to more accurately get at how dangerous this bill is re: letting Trump skirt the courts.
The contempt provision is gone, but the GOP is now trying to price ppl out of being able to sue the govt at all. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
The contempt provision is gone, but the GOP is now trying to price ppl out of being able to sue the govt at all. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
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NEW POST 🗞️
A Timeline of Political Football Matches
"Football and politics shouldn't mix," they say - yet they inevitably do and always have done
Here's a chronology of significant political football matches and events 👇
Ping my suggestions for any missing #Skystorians
bit.ly/4dHe63W
A Timeline of Political Football Matches
"Football and politics shouldn't mix," they say - yet they inevitably do and always have done
Here's a chronology of significant political football matches and events 👇
Ping my suggestions for any missing #Skystorians
bit.ly/4dHe63W
A Timeline of Political Football Matches - Outside Write
Follow us on Social Media instagram youtube spotifyPolitics and football mix. I’ve put together a chronology of some of the most significantRead more...
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May 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
NEW POST 🗞️
A Timeline of Political Football Matches
"Football and politics shouldn't mix," they say - yet they inevitably do and always have done
Here's a chronology of significant political football matches and events 👇
Ping my suggestions for any missing #Skystorians
bit.ly/4dHe63W
A Timeline of Political Football Matches
"Football and politics shouldn't mix," they say - yet they inevitably do and always have done
Here's a chronology of significant political football matches and events 👇
Ping my suggestions for any missing #Skystorians
bit.ly/4dHe63W
In 2025 I’ve been outpublished by someone who has been dead since 2019. So that’s how productive I’ve been
May 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In 2025 I’ve been outpublished by someone who has been dead since 2019. So that’s how productive I’ve been
Oh this is the best news I’ve seen all day!
May 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Oh this is the best news I’ve seen all day!
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BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month.
The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
ICE backs down, says it will restore status of thousands of foreign students
Hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. on F-1 visas said they were informed their SEVIS records were suddenly terminated by DHS.
www.wusa9.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month.
The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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Our latest episode is now out where we talk to the @sepad.bsky.social team at @lancasteruni.bsky.social about their new report on politics and identity and football in the Middle East. Do have a listen! www.buzzsprout.com/2253650/epis...
Football and identity in the MENA region ft. the SEPAD research group - The FootPol Podcast
This week, Francesco switches seats—co-hosting and guesting—as he and Guy dive into a lively discussion about football in and from the Middle East, inspired by a brand-new report from the Sectarianism...
www.buzzsprout.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Our latest episode is now out where we talk to the @sepad.bsky.social team at @lancasteruni.bsky.social about their new report on politics and identity and football in the Middle East. Do have a listen! www.buzzsprout.com/2253650/epis...
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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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🎙️ New Podcast: Power Players
This week, we’re joined by journalist and author Ronny Blaschke to dive into the relationship between football, colonialism and power.
Power manifests itself within football in different ways.
Listen here ⬇️
open.spotify.com/episode/76Qr...
This week, we’re joined by journalist and author Ronny Blaschke to dive into the relationship between football, colonialism and power.
Power manifests itself within football in different ways.
Listen here ⬇️
open.spotify.com/episode/76Qr...
April 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
🎙️ New Podcast: Power Players
This week, we’re joined by journalist and author Ronny Blaschke to dive into the relationship between football, colonialism and power.
Power manifests itself within football in different ways.
Listen here ⬇️
open.spotify.com/episode/76Qr...
This week, we’re joined by journalist and author Ronny Blaschke to dive into the relationship between football, colonialism and power.
Power manifests itself within football in different ways.
Listen here ⬇️
open.spotify.com/episode/76Qr...