A few words about my recent book: That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the #Iran - #Iraq War (New Texts Out Now) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4681...

Only 73 aid trucks entered Gaza today—far below the 600 minimum needed—while three airdrops, overseen by Israeli forces, landed in dangerous combat zones, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8hrip9

Strikes on Gaza resume as Israel’s ‘tactical pause’ comes to an end

Six more Palestinians have starved to death today as Israel makes small increases in aid delivery.

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Over decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has personally and insistently lobbied for U.S. intervention against Iran. A military campaign reliant on airpower alone is unlikely to spark a revolution. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

How Trump and Tehran Can Find an Eleventh-hour Exit from an Escalating War | International Crisis Group

As Israel’s Operation Rising Lion pummels Iran, the U.S. is weighing direct involvement to attack nuclear sites in the country, which could lead to a disastrous escalation. Washington should instead l...

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NY Times takes a look at the civilian death toll by Israeli strikes in Iran: "Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

Israeli Strikes Kill Civilians Across Iran

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Patrick deHahn@pdehello.bsky.social · last yr.

AP: Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 639 people and wounded 1,329 others, a human rights group says

Dust That Never Settles by @amir-moosavi.bsky.social considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/middle...

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My book, Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War is now available for purchase. Please encourage your university or local library to get a copy. You can get a 20% discount from the publisher, Stanford University Press: shorturl.at/ZRGyw. The code is on the attached flyer.

The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.

ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!

Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Ready made ad here for anyone who wants to primary schumer

Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump praises Schumer for promising to vote with Republicans on the CR

Columbia and the next front on the war on academia - it’s not just punishing students. Trump’s demands that a private university adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and put MESAAC into receivership would do damage far beyond one campus. My new piece. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/columbia-a...

Columbia and the next front in the war on higher education

It's not just punishing protestors - two of the government's demands are far worse.

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A great multi-year postdoc in Middle East studies at NYU's Kevorkian Center. Apply by March 24. apply.interfolio.com/163617

Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration. https://buff.ly/4k4uwpS #Palestine #Israel

The liberal establishment is finally criticizing ethnic cleansing in Gaza now that they can blame Trump

Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians...

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Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.

🚨 READ: Israel’s relentless attacks on the West Bank have forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/isra...

Israel has displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, UNRWA says

Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the West Bank has forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA.

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing. Here’s a gift link. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor

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This man is a hero like very few. Ragheed Al-Tatari was an airforce pilot who refused an order to bomb Hama during Hafez Assad’s 1982 massacres. He spent 42 years in prison. www.instagram.com/reel/DDmmFo1...

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

I’m not really worthy to write anything about beautiful Syria today but they asked me to and so I tried through tears to write some words that are inadequate but here they are anyway: Dawn in Damascus @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/da...

Dawn in Damascus

In the end, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to say to the country he bludgeoned and bled, but what matters now is that his ‘forever’ rule is over

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Basic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235). The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2y ago

The absolute horrors of the Assad regime exemplified by Saydnaya prison. Many prisoners are not freed yet bcs the rebels cannot get to them as they are 3 floors underground. #Syria

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

Florida State University had to cancel 432 courses because the state won't allow teaching about gender theory or post-colonialism, and the University of Texas system is restricting teaching about critical race theory and queer theory, and yet we're still doing this sort of story?

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 2y ago

As contempt for cancel culture and self-censorship on college campuses continues to drive a political divide across the country, Jon Wertheim reports on a new start-up university, the University of Austin. Sunday on 60 Minutes ⏱️

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky