Wendy Pearlman
@wendy-pearlman.bsky.social
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Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/
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25 years ago, I interviewed Issam in Gaza for my book, "Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada." This week - after months of forced displacement, starvation, and living under bombardment - he returned to his destroyed home. He sent this photo.
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Motaz Azaiza shared this video of a street in Gaza before and after the Israeli genocide started

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When I message Palestinian friends, I often write that I "have no more words."

I will never use that expression again without thinking of this brilliant essay by Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a 19-year-old writer and poet in Gaza.

In @thenation.com. Please read it.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...
In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak
The human mind, faced with relentless pain, erects invisible barricades. Here, amid genocide, one of them is the ability to express our trauma out loud.
www.thenation.com
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Synaps is offering five fellowships to take part in its research project on the role of women in the economy. Researchers must be young graduates based in Jordan. Applications due October 6, details below ...

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Jordan fellowships 2025-2026
Synaps is offering five fellowships to junior Jordanian researchers to take part in its research project on the role of women in the economy.
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“Every half an hour to an hour, we get huge mass casualty event” Dr Nada Abu Al-Rub, an Australian doctor working in #Gaza

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Australian doctor in Gaza hospital says it’s a slaughterhouse
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Israel is continuing its campaign to erase Gaza City by systematically bombing residential high-rise buildings, schools, homes and tent encampments.
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Children in Gaza are wasting away. Malnutrition isn’t just hunger. It permanently scars a child's brain and body. I am calling on Trump to ensure unhindered humanitarian access into Gaza.
This Is What Malnutrition Does to Children’s Bodies
Why Gaza’s young are especially vulnerable.
www.nytimes.com
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"I urge every government, every leader and every citizen to ask: What will we say when our children and grandchildren ask what we did while Gaza was burned to the ground? Every act of genocide is a test of the humanity that binds us."

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Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide
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A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council issues its report:

“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza ... It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza.”

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UN commission of inquiry joins rising chorus that accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
A team of experts commissioned by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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“Families were filmed throwing their belongings out of windows in panic as they tried to salvage what they could after Israel gave them ‘minutes to flee’ the Mahna Tower in Gaza City before it was bombed and destroyed.”

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Panic as families given ‘minutes to flee’ before Israel destroys tower
Residents of the Mahna Tower in Gaza City were ordered to evacuate just minutes before it was bombed by Israel.
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>>> lifeline4gaza.com is a collaborative, open-source database tracking family campaigns and initiatives in #Gaza that are in urgent need of support. Visit, donate, and speak out to end the genocide.
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Without urgent, radical intervention, #Gaza faces total annihilation.

We call for an immediate end to evacuation orders used as a tool of forcible displacement, a lasting ceasefire and the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid at scale.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-th...
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NEW: What makes the relationship between the U.S. & Israel unique, one that can’t be captured by ordinary frameworks? It’s as if the two were a single entity - “AmericaIsrael” - which functions like a political religion, argues @bethhurd.bsky.social

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American Support for Israel Is a Political Religion
US policies reflect the entangled destinies of the two countries — as if they were merged into one
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"What is happening is more dangerous than just death.”

The courageous Maha Hussaini reports on Israel's horrific bombardment of Gaza City and forced expulsion of its people, and how Palestinians struggle to survive while being denied all means of life.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
Erasing survival: Israel destroys Gaza’s lifelines to force mass displacement
From solar panels to schools, Israel systematically destroys Gaza City’s last lifelines, leaving civilians with no choice but to flee
www.middleeasteye.net
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Academics: please read this text by a fellow academic in Gaza & act in solidarity
"How can I keep my mind sharp when my body has gone so thin & dehydrated? ...What does it mean to be a scholar when the conditions needed to think, teach & create are stripped away?"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
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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.

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Syria After Assad
Podcast Episode · New Books in Political Science · 08/29/2025 · 41m
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On July 4, JGR published "Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond: An interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh" by @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social . You can access from our official website. tinyurl.com/5pad2a82
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"You can't fight the messiness" - Sarah Al Saeid

How can we write about experiences of homemaking and displacement? Listen to Sarah's brilliant interview with Professor @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social about homemaking in the Syrian #diaspora. Find us on Spotify via 🔗 in bio

#syria #exile #messiness
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Israel has assassinated five Al-Jazeera journalists in Gaza in advance of its announced invasion of Gaza City. These final words from journalist Anas Al-Sharif must be a call to action.

End the genocide in Gaza.

egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2025/08/anas...
Anas Al-Sharif’s last message from Gaza to the world
After months of threats , Israeli Occupation Army kills Anas Al-Sharif.
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.
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We watched him live through starvation and bombardment and do his job and then we watched him die.