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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 3h

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/omar-yaghi-palestinian-refugee-wins-nobel-prize-chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry

The scientist was born and raised in a single room he shared with his family and cattle in a refugee camp in Amman

www.middleeasteye.net

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 3h

If you haven't yet, go learn from Prof Rashid Khalidi's "Short Course on Palestine" peoplesforum.org/events/guest...

Prof Khalidi lecturing at The People's Forum

Man on a bicycle with a flag of Palestine

Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 3d

yep

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

Courses on which admissions are paused include African American Studies, Chemistry (BA), Classics, French, German, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Jewish Studies, Religion and Statistics (BA).

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 4d

Everything is on fire but a day teaching in front of a paper formed, inked, colored, scripted, pasted, and held some 500 yrs ago (featuring a crushed testicle joke, natch) is a nice day.

the meddlesome monkey tale from kalila wa dimna at The MET https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453080

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 4d

Via @jennifercnash.bsky.social
19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop

Registration is free.
The line-up is amazing:
Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland.
Sign up! See you in Durham in March.

readymag.website/u2853933671/...

FTW 2026 Website

Built with Readymag—a tool to design anything on the web.

readymag.website

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault

When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro.

There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 5d

today's walk

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 6d

Remembrances from colleagues of Brinkley Messick (1946-2025)

In Memoriam - Brinkley Messick — Middle East Institute

www.mei.columbia.edu

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Indivisible Chicago-South Side @indivchisouth.bsky.social · 8d

👁️ Federal agents dressed in military gear in South Shore, near 75th Street & South Shore Drive - early Tues morning.

➡️ If you see anything like this - anywhere in Illinois - call the Family Support Network hotline for the IL Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR): 855-435-7693

Federal agents surround South Shore apartment building as DHS requests military deployment

Questions remain after the announcement that the federal government plans to send military personnel to the Chicago area.

abc7chicago.com

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 6d

I am honored to be a colleague (and student) of Rashid Khalidi and his public lectures on Palestine at The People's Forum have started. Please learn!

Short Course on Palestine Class 1: The Origins of The Hundred Years War

YouTube video by The People's Forum NYC

www.youtube.com

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 7d

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 7d

absolutely obsessed with this song rn

Cain Culto - KFC Santería feat. Sudan Archives (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Cain Culto

www.youtube.com

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 7d

Vanessa Diaz, co-author of "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" on his upcoming Super Bowl show:

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 7d

"As right-wingers melt down over the choice and many of Bad Bunny’s fans rejoice, what is clear is that everyone has an opinion on what is sure to be one of the most culturally significant performances in the history of the Super Bowl."

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance Is Historic -- And Controversial. Here's Why

The Puerto Rican star’s recently announced Super Bowl halftime show has major social and political implications.

www.rollingstone.com

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𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 @allthingsisheretoo.bsky.social · 7d

Goodnight everyone! I leave you with Damien Robitaille with Gurdeep doing “Pump Up The Jam.”

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 7d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 7d

I was in class all day but I wish I had been in the courtroom

Just out of the courtroom in Mohsen Mahdawi's Case

YouTube video by Katherine Franke

www.youtube.com

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 9d

THE MEME IS REAL

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 10d

today’s walk

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 15d

I’m sorry to learn that Jonathan Lear has died. His book Radical Hope is one of the deepest and wisest books I’ve read this decade. If you’ve not read it, I’d recommend it. It’s a book for the dark times we’re in.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 11d

The Weekly Read is “A Fox, a Few Chickens, a Theft: Three Stories, One Chain of (Unseen) Events” by Noha Fikry. The article appears in issue 45:2 of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Read this article for free through 11/30: buff.ly/Udamxo3

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Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb.bsky.social · 11d

Please check out this excellent interview with my fabulous @columbiaup.bsky.social colleague Alyssa Napier about her new list in sociology and black studies and the challenges of being a university press worker in our current climate

Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 12d

"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that."

newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...

Meet an acquiring editor at Columbia University Press

An interview with editor Alyssa M. Napier of Columbia University Press by Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works

newsletter.manuscriptworks.com

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 12d

I am really pleased that *A Book of Conquest* (2016) is now available locally in Pakistan via Sang-e-Meel Publications!

Pakistani edition of *A Book of Conquest*

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 12d

From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will. - Shiri Pasternak in Boston Review

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-t...

A Theory of the List - Boston Review

From runaway slave lists to Canary Mission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will.

www.bostonreview.net

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 12d

"When we say “we’ve lost our city” we mean that a civilization has been destroyed."

Sad Nights of the North | Doha Kahlout, Katharine Halls

After seven hundred days of death announcements, of lost faith, of suffering that has choked our breath and lined our faces, the nightmare of forced

www.nybooks.com

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 12d

Quick trip to the archive to snap a photo of Lala Har Dayal’s passport from 1918.

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