The Zero-Sum Game of #Gender Justice and National Liberation: Anti-Gender Mobilization, #Diasporic Harassment, and Academic Freedom after the 2026 Massacre of Iranians and the #US-Israeli #War on #Iran www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/1...

The Zero-Sum Game of Gender Justice and National Liberation: Anti-Gender Mobilization, Diasporic Harassment, and Academic Freedom after the 2026 Massacre of Iranians and the US-Israeli War on Iran

In January 2026, large-scale and nationwide protests broke out in Iran. The protests, which were violently suppressed by the state, killing thousands of people, revealed, once again, many people’s des...

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If you are looking for a summer read that explores #childhood #trauma, coming of age, and #exile, consider reading #Exilium. It is accessible worldwide. In the Netherlands and Belgium, it can be bought here: www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/exil...

If you are looking for a summer read that explores #childhood #trauma, coming of age, and #exile, consider reading #Exilium. It is accessible worldwide. In the Netherlands and Belgium, it can be bought here: www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/exil...

Join our Book launch next Wednesday at the UvA library | From the Margins: Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity @aissr.bsky.social register here: aces.uva.nl/content/even...

Join our Book launch next Wednesday at the UvA library | From the Margins: Migrant Academics' Narratives of Precarity register here: aces.uva.nl/content/even...

A crucial edited volume that will be of great interest to our RUTA communities

Dr Ladan Rahbari@ladanrahbari.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From the Margins: #Migrant #Academics' Narratives of Precarity is online #openaccess: tinyurl.com/4x83var5 Thank you our fantastic contributors who trusted us with their critical, sharp, and beautiful #autobiographical and #autoethnographic essays. @openbookpublish.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

From the Margins: #Migrant #Academics' Narratives of Precarity is online #openaccess: tinyurl.com/4x83var5 Thank you our fantastic contributors who trusted us with their critical, sharp, and beautiful #autobiographical and #autoethnographic essays. @openbookpublish.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

👏 @ladanrahbari.bsky.social & Olga Burlyuk- another crucial volume, so many perspectives! Glad to have been invited to share what it’s been like as an ‘East European scholar’ in various corners of Western academia, esp in an increasingly far-right Germany www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity

From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity is the much-anticipated second volume following Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe published in 2023, and ...

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#Let’smakeithappen If there are at least one million valid signatures by EU citizens & if the threshold is met in at least 7 EU countries, a proposal for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement must be submitted to a vote at the European Council eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

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Give your support !

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Wie willen de Iraniërs als nieuwe leider(s) als het regime valt? ‘We weten weinig over wat de bevolking nu denkt’

Wie kunnen het overnemen als de Islamitische Republiek aan haar eind komt? Socioloog Ladan Rahbari, die Iran in 2015 verliet, kent genoeg kandidaten. Die zijn niet allemaal even serieus te nemen. ‘De ...

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"Although the country lives under a brutal dictatorship, the regime has failed quite dramatically in its attempts to impose its ideology on society. Given the scale of resources it has at its disposal, this defeat is extraordinary." www.sestry.eu/statti/ladan...

Sestry | Ладан Рахбарі: «Сила може змусити людей замовкнути, але не здатна вбити прагнення жити з гідністю»

Докторка Ладан Рахбарі — соціологиня, яка досліджує іранські міграційні й соціально-політичні процеси і порушення прав людини. В інтерв’ю Sestry вона розповідає про жіночий опір, колективну травму піс...

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Iranerne vil af med præstestyret, men der ophører enigheden også for de 90 millioner mennesker, mener iransk forsker, der advarer mod at lade sig rive med af shahens søn, Reza Pahlavis synlighed. @ladanrahbari.bsky.social globalnyt.dk/er-vesten-ve...

Er Vesten ved at forelske sig i en rig PR-prins, som iranerne ikke vil have? | Globalnyt

De iranske protester er angiveligt stilnet en smule af, men det er kravet om et nyt Iran næppe. “Indtil mullaherne ligger i ligklæder bliver denne nation al ...

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The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Press’s January Sale. (1/8)

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Wie willen de Iraniërs als nieuwe leider(s) als het regime valt? ‘We weten weinig over wat de bevolking nu denkt’

Wie kunnen het overnemen als de Islamitische Republiek aan haar eind komt? Socioloog Ladan Rahbari, die Iran in 2015 verliet, kent genoeg kandidaten. Die zijn niet allemaal even serieus te nemen. ‘De ...

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🔔 Reminder: #DecolonizingBodies seminars this week! 📅 8 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Fear w/ @psimonetto.bsky.social & Prof. Ashley Mears 📅 9 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Dignity w/ @ladanrahbari.bsky.social 🎙 Key speaker both days: Prof. Walter Mignolo 👉 Register: lnkd.in/eUyWH5Ke See you online!

🔥Great event!🔥 Please join us for the second and third Decolonizing Bodies seminar, organized by the formidable @carorabasarucki.bsky.social. With guest of honor Walter Mignolo, discussing decoloniality, bodies and emotions with Ashley Mears, @psimonetto.bsky.social and @ladanrahbari.bsky.social

Carolina Rabasa Rucki@carorabasarucki.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔔 Reminder: #DecolonizingBodies seminars this week! 📅 8 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Fear w/ @psimonetto.bsky.social & Prof. Ashley Mears 📅 9 Dec, 15–17 CET — Embodied Dignity w/ @ladanrahbari.bsky.social 🎙 Key speaker both days: Prof. Walter Mignolo 👉 Register: lnkd.in/eUyWH5Ke See you online!

US: At least 55 Iranians deported, hundreds more at risk, advocacy group says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/at-least-55-iranians-deported-hundreds-more-at-risk

US: At least 55 Iranians deported, hundreds more at risk, advocacy group says

The National Iranian American Council tells Middle East Eye that the community was targeted following the Israel-Iran '12-day war'

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My fellow academics: the @aaup.org is doing amazing work, successfully! defending faculty and universities against attacks from Vought/the Trump administration. Proud to be a member. It takes only 3 minutes to join, to support them fighting the good fight for all Americans ✊ www.aaup.org

AAUP Home

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My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

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We (a group of academics and scholars) are calling for an immediate end to #Israel’s war against #Iran and #Palestine. If you support this call, please add your name to the petition here. Thank you! #solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

[Petition] Stop the war on Iran!

Stop the war on Iran! For peace, justice and democracy Tehran and many other Iranian cities are reeling under Israeli attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians, while destroying residential area...

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The masks are coming off: human values and international law seem to count for nothing anymore. This was already evident when the world did nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza. As you read this, Israel is still killing civilians who are already displaced & starving. www.standaard.be/opinies/je-k...

Je kunt tegelijk tegen ayatollahs en tegen Netanyahu zijn

Zelfs wie het Iraanse regime haat en meedeed aan de Mahsa Amini-protesten, ziet de Israëlische bombardementen als een externe aanval die gestopt moet worden, schrijft Ladan Rahbari. Al zijn er altijd enkele royalisten die de aanval toejuichen.

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Netanyahu’s illegal unilateral attack on Iran risks a full-blown war. These strikes directly undermine the U.S. diplomatic efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program. Talks were planned for Sunday, but Netanyahu chose to attack. We must not be dragged into another Netanyahu war.

Like many other #Iranians living outside the country, I’ve been watching anxiously and worrying sick about my family, friends and loved ones in Iran. When they can get a stable enough internet connection, they tell me about the constant fear and uncertainly they’re living in.

We had the great honor of hosting Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social at the Amsterdam Center for Gender & Sexuality this week. We learned about his amazing research on club nights & the book Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution @aissr.bsky.social

🕺🏽The Closure Epidemic: Why are gay bars disappearing? What comes next? Join our Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality this Friday for @aminghaziani.bsky.social’s talk on queer nightlife’s joyful, mobile reinvention 👇 23 May | 15:30 – 17:00 🔗 arcgs.uva.nl/content/even...

The Closure Epidemic. How disruptions affect queer nightlife - ARC-GS

Discover how queer nightlife is evolving beyond bar closures in Amin Ghaziani’s talk on club nights, joy, and urban sexualities.

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"We must act now in the interest of human life and dignity. Here is an urgent plea to #Dutch higher education institutions to cut ties with #genocide and refuse #police on campus!" #Academia #Netherlands #palestine #actnow #sign openletter.earth/nederlandse-...

We are looking for a #PhDstudent in the NWO-VIDI project “Iran’s Secular Shift” which investigates Iran’s evolving secular landscape using mixed-method; an opportunity to contribute to a pioneering study on non-religion, atheism & secularism in #Iran @pooyan1983.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture

In this position you explore Iran's Secular Shift, examining how atheism, non-religion, and calls for mosque-state separation are expressed in visual culture.

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If you are interested in #nationalism & #diaspora, see my paper “Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus”: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians. I explore some diasporic Iranians' pro-Israeli sentiments online #proxynationalism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social

‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians

This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing p...

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If you are interested in #nationalism & #diaspora, see my paper “Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus”: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians. I explore some diasporic Iranians' pro-Israeli sentiments online #proxynationalism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social

‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians

This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing p...

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My paper 'Dual #Nationality, Anti-Citizenship, and Xeno-Racism: Online Tropes on #Migrant (In)gratitude, and (In)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,' is now published in the #British Journal of #Sociology. #xenoracism #dualnationality #Iran onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British dual citizen, was detained by the Iranian state from April 2016 to March 2022 and charged with spying and propaganda activities against the Iranian state...

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