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May Darwich
@maydarwich.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, IR of the Middle East, University of Birmingham Author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East (CUP).
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · May 15
Pleased to have contributed to the APSA MENA Newsletter Thanks to the editors @dbgreenwald.bsky.social @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social @samershehata.bsky.social for putting together such an amazing collection!
My piece: zenodo.org/records/1533...
The Issue: zenodo.org/records/1538...
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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · Mar 17
Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.

Please help spread the word among interested candidates!

Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Mar 10
It was great to talk to @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social in the Political Worldview podcast. In the episode, we discussed the ongoing Gaza war and its impact across the region
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Adam Quinn @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social · Mar 10
Great new episode of my @politicalworldview.bsky.social podcast out now! 🎙️ This time I’m talking with the awesome @maydarwich.bsky.social about the war in Gaza and the fallout in the wider Middle East.
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Political Worldview Podcast @politicalworldview.bsky.social · Mar 10
🚨New episode out now: "Middle East after this War".🎙️ @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social talks to returning guest @maydarwich.bsky.social about the devastating effects of the war in #Gaza, and how they have reverberated through the wider region. #Egypt #Jordan #Saudi #Syria #Iran

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Adam Quinn @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social · Mar 10
Great new episode of my @politicalworldview.bsky.social podcast out now! 🎙️ This time I’m talking with the awesome @maydarwich.bsky.social about the war in Gaza and the fallout in the wider Middle East.
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Political Worldview Podcast @politicalworldview.bsky.social · Mar 10
🚨New episode out now: "Middle East after this War".🎙️ @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social talks to returning guest @maydarwich.bsky.social about the devastating effects of the war in #Gaza, and how they have reverberated through the wider region. #Egypt #Jordan #Saudi #Syria #Iran

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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Mar 7
Trump's proposal of forcibly displacing Palestinians of Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula puts Egypt on edge. I offer my reflections on what's at stake for Egypt in The Conversation theconversation.com/egypt-on-edg...
Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump
Since 1979, Egypt has been a central pillar of US policies in the Middle East.
theconversation.com
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Feb 15
Research in this piece was made possible by a grant from @carnegiecorp.bsky.social and part of the project more.bham.ac.uk/port-infrast...
Port Infrastructures, International Politics, and Everyday Life in the Horn of Africa
The Port Infrastructures, International politics and Everyday life project examines transregional relationships between the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Feb 15
Happy to share my recently published article in Cities.

Port infrastructures and the making of historical time in the Horn of Africa: Narratives of urban modernity in Djibouti and Somaliland

Co-authored with Jutta Bakonyi
doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...
Redirecting
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Jan 30
This research is part of the project: portinfrastructure.org. This research was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the authors.
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Jan 30
(4) Infrastructures are at the heart of social processes, which generate knowledge practices, constituting the international. They inscribe themselves in discourses, produce meaning, and shape identities, and they are thus part of the ideational underpinning of the international.
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Jan 30
(3) Infrastructures continuously transform the realm of the international through re-scaling and re-ordering spaces, polities, and people
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Jan 30
(2) The article adopts sociological definition of “the international” and emphasizes the centrality of materials and mobilities in thinking about the international.
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Jan 30
(1) The article examines how infrastructures matter in international relations. The IR discipline overlooked the role of these physical artefacts in shaping international relationships. The article calls for a novel infrastructural lens in the IR discipline
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May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social · Jan 30
Pleased to share our article co-authored with
Prof. Jutta Bakonyi published in International Studies Review
on Infrastructures and International Relations: A Critical Reflection on Materials and Mobilities academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
Infrastructures and International Relations: A Critical Reflection on Materials and Mobilities
Abstract. In a world of accelerated movements, this article examines how infrastructures matter in international relations. We first show that the Internat
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · Jan 7
An essential read/watch:

Inside Sudan’s Forgotten War: 150,000 killed, 11 million displaced

t.co/d9ZYudZ26q

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan
https://www.thetimes.com/article/ac1bcf2f-d59d-456c-b7bc-18096255bca6?shareToken=709dea9f0c99993834a6ab2af22970bd
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Dec 26
Year in a word: War in the Middle East

https://www.ft.com/content/40d3ecd8-1335-486e-8e08-93aed10d172c
Year in a word: War in the Middle East
From Gaza and Lebanon to Syria, the region has experienced a year of multiple devastating conflicts
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Dec 21
"This is a disturbing new development. I’ve been teaching at NYU for more than 30 years. I was at Princeton for eight years before. I’ve been around the block and have never seen anything remotely like this crackdown over the last year. It’s completely unprecedented and it’s solely about Palestine"
NYU professors barred from buildings say school is caving to pressure on Gaza
After joining pro-Palestinian sit-in, Andrew Ross and Sonya Posmentier were declared ‘personae non gratae’
www.theguardian.com
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Vera Kubenz she/they @verakub.bsky.social · Dec 18
My friend and former colleague from Gaza Prof Nazmi Al-Masri has asked me to share this funding raising link for the Islamic University of Gaza, who are continuing to teach students despite the ongoing genocide. Please share widely
#GazaGenocide
iugaza.ensany.com/campaign/7102
معًا من أجل مرونة التعليم العالي
لقد أدى التأثير المدمر للحرب المستمرة إلى عدم قدرة جميع الطلاب على تغطية نفقات الدراسة بعد أن فقدوا جميع ممتلكاتهم أثناء النزوح، ومع ذلك لا يزال لديهم الأمل الذي نشهده من خلال تسجيلهم للدراسة حتى أثنا...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Dec 18
Water war heats up: Israel seizes Syria’s Al-Wahda dam in strategic military push
IDF expands operations in southern Syria, taking control of critical water sources near the Yarmouk River.

www.jfeed.com/news-israel/...
Water war heats up: Israel seizes Syria’s Al-Wahda dam in strategic military push
IDF expands operations in southern Syria, taking control of critical water sources near the Yarmouk River.
www.jfeed.com
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Middle East Policy Council @mideastpolicy.bsky.social · Dec 16
Middle East Policy covers an article by @maydarwich.bsky.social, Morten Valbjørn, and André Bank that explores the war in Gaza as "a critical juncture whose ramifications for both regional and domestic politics...will reverberate for years to come." Read for free! mepc.org/commentaries...
A New Historical Juncture: Analyzing the Impact of the War in Gaza - Middle East Policy Council
An article in Middle East Policy’s Fall 2024 issue analyzes the impact of the Gaza war on regional dynamics, contrasting them with the pre-Arab Spring status quo. On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Dec 16
Since the fall of the al-Assad regime, Israel has attacked Syria to deepen the occupation of the Golan Heights.

So what is Israel trying to do there?

🔗: aje.io/hctk4o
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Dec 16
Israel has just killed Khalid Nabhan (“soul of my soul”), one year after they killed his granddaughter Reem
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Dec 13
Muawiyah Syasneh was 16 when his anti-Assad graffiti on a school wall led to his arrest, sparking protests that ended in civil war

Now, in the very same spot, he tells Bell True about the years-long war – and his role in bringing it to an end

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
I sparked Syria’s revolution as a teenage boy – now I’m here to finish it
Muawiyah Syasneh was 16 when his anti-Assad graffiti on a school wall led to his arrest, sparking protests that ended in civil war. Now, in the very same spot, he tells chief international corresponde...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Dec 9
The movement, which extended into and beyond a previously demilitarised buffer zone, was condemned 'in the strongest possible terms' by Egypt, which said it amounted to the 'occupation of Syrian land' and a 'severe breach' of a 1974 armistice deal. ft.com/content/5690c07a-9841-4339-b6ca-b3e98b241f1c
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · Dec 9
We’ve only just begun to uncover and discover how truly depraved, brutal, dark and barbaric the Assad regime was. Stories & evidence of brutality that go beyond the worst nightmares, not known even through testimonies of the living. This is going to be a long, deeply painful and disturbing process.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 6
Syrian rebel forces in just over a week have seized much of the country’s northwest from the government in a fast-moving attack, upending the once-stagnant civil war. They drove government troops from the western city of Hama, which had never before fallen into rebel hands. nyti.ms/3ZD3QUS
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