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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you Oliver! I hope you’ve been good

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you Sumita!

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · 21d

thank you adam!

Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you Bob!

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · 21d

So excited to hold my book! You can do so too in November! Leila Khoury's cover art captures the story of a contentious movement becoming something like a civil society in the depths of Syria's war. @cornellupress.bsky.social designed it beautifully. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Rana Khoury holding her book, Civilizing Contention: International Aid in Syria's War

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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.bsky.social · 29d

Excellent dive into the possible future of the new Syria.

From "The People, Power, Politics" podcast in cooperation with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Aug 29

A conversation that grew out of work w @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social alongside Daniel Neep, hosted by @emilykmscott.bsky.social. Recorded 2 months ago, but holds up and helps think about roles of state and society in Syria's future.

open.spotify.com/episode/3yIo...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Syria After Assad

Podcast Episode · New Books in Political Science · 08/29/2025 · 41m

podcasts.apple.com

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Sep 1

A published paper in a journal has cited a real chapter of mine, but in a hallucinatory way: a parenthetical citation is repeatedly used for content that is completely off the mark. Completely.

So.... that's disturbing.

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Aug 29

A conversation that grew out of work w @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social alongside Daniel Neep, hosted by @emilykmscott.bsky.social. Recorded 2 months ago, but holds up and helps think about roles of state and society in Syria's future.

open.spotify.com/episode/3yIo...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Syria After Assad

Podcast Episode · New Books in Political Science · 08/29/2025 · 41m

podcasts.apple.com

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Aug 7

I would love for someone who has experience in a social movement to zoom into my undergrad class this fall and share.

Minimal prep: orient us 5-10 min, then Q&A. In past, we learned about participation in uprisings in Syria and Hong Kong, and US labor (during a strike!).

Thanks!

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Aug 7

I would love for someone who has experience in a social movement to zoom into my undergrad class this fall and share.

Minimal prep: orient us 5-10 min, then Q&A. In past, we learned about participation in uprisings in Syria and Hong Kong, and US labor (during a strike!).

Thanks!

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Jul 25

thank you!

Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you!

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Jul 24

Good to know! What’s it called? And do you use it for Arabic?

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Jul 24

Good to know! Do you use it for Arabic?

Also, shouldn’t IRBs and journals be thinking about this issue? IRBs definitely but they’re individualized so it’ll be totally ad hoc for a while. But journals can centralize norms and expectations.

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Jul 24

Folks, are you using or have you considered using AI for transcription of interviews? I haven't seen much discussion or info re how one protects the data through the many apps/sites/clouds. Like this is from OpenAI's transcribe to text privacy policy:

To provide our transcription services, we may collect and process the audio or video files you upload, as well as any text data derived from those files (the “Transcription Data”).

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Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social · Jul 24

The adoption of AI into Canvas is framed here as reducing faculty workload and making students' lives easier. Not about student learning.

A feature for creating "flashcards for students to review," e.g., ignores that making flashcards *is* the learning.

www.chronicle.com/article/inst...