Every single word here rings true, and the fact that the suggestions here sound so radical is a real measure of how far gone we currently are. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-d...

UK devolution must extend to its authoritarian universities

Institutions whose managers are unaccountable to their staff can never be truly civic universities, says Krzysztof Nawratek

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My new article 'Witnessing undone: silence, noise and the enabling of genocide in Gaza' is out with @ccc-journal.bsky.social as part of the special issue 'Palestine as Communicative Epistemology' share.google/5lyWNkp9r3tg...

Witnessing undone: silence, noise and the enabling of genocide in Gaza

Abstract. This article examines the converging roles of legacy news media and official political speech in enabling genocide to take place in Gaza. Drawing

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Thursday 19 Feb, 18:30: Join @omarghazzi.bsky.social , @desfreedman.bsky.social & @liliane11.bsky.social to discuss how the mainstream media has covered the war on Gaza and the ongoing dispossession and suffering of Palestinians forms.office.com/pages/respon...

New doctor! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @nsalem.bsky.social Salem who recently passed her viva. Her thesis is titled ‘Museums, Technological Imaginaries, and Subjectivity in the Future-Tense.' 1/2

I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on Allgra Lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'. allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-sti...

Do walls still have ears? - Allegra Lab

How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and speech in

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Next up on panel 1: @omarghazzi.bsky.social from the London School of Economics and Political Science, presented on 'History and Memory.'

We are recruiting two LSE fellows @lsemedia.bsky.social (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested

The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.

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In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

These Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza are so depraved, so disturbed, that it's difficult to even know what to say 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...

So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻

So we should not use this because "you don’t know where the data goes".. as opposed to data going to the likes of Elon Musk, which is totally fine :/ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek

Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state

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13 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Omar Al-Ghazzi (@omarghazzi.bsky.social). On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...

Covering or covering up? Mediating the war on Gaza

CAMRI Research Seminar with Omar al-Ghazzi (London School of Economics)

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My book announcement is live! The official print release date is June 6, 2025 (with an earlier online release in April). Very happy to do virtual or in-person book talks for your class, department, speaker series, activist group, etc. - please reach out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Just another day of Israeli occupation... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israel admits soldiers used ambulance in raid on refugee camp

Families seek justice after a raid on Balata camp in the West Bank resulted in the death of an 80-year-old woman and another civilian

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"The demographic overhaul at New College of Florida is perhaps the first real-life attempt to counteract the so-called "feminization" of education": well, maybe the first attempt that's so brazen, but AA for men is a poorly-kept secret at many private schools. reason.com/2023/08/16/n...

New College of Florida embraces affirmative action for men

In an attempt to make the student body more conservative, Christopher Rufo says the school is actively "rebalancing" the ratio of male and female students.

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Two private jets owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, release as much carbon as an Amazon employee in the US would in 207 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days

Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create

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Day 3 of our @iasnuq.bsky.social 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass with @omarghazzi.bsky.social on historical methods @nuqatar.bsky.social

The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms

U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.

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That's one way to say Israel is an expansionist violent settler state. Hands off Syria!

Hend Amry@libyaliberty.bsky.social · 2y ago

Uhhhhhhh

"Palestine is most dangerous country.." what an outrageous and shameful headline that obscures that it's Israel that is killing journalists en masse www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Palestine is most dangerous country for journalists, Reporters Without Borders says

Press freedom NGO describes Israeli killing of reporters working in Gaza as an ‘unprecedented bloodbath’

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Pics of scantily clothed Bashar Al-Assad are going viral on Syrian social media. Whether authentic or not, the point is that he is subjected to a public stripping of authority (& masculinity). Similar to the fairytale on the emperor's clothes, he lost his clothes as he lost power.

📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’

Disturbing that Saidnaya was also a party town. Families used to go dance, eat & drink in dozens of restaurants and clubs near this torture centre. This encapsulates what the fallen regime represents, how it hid its extreme brutality in plain sight and implicated Syrians in it.

Unimaginable. The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened. A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.” “What happened?” a woman asks “The Regime fell. You are free.” #Syria 🇸🇾 (🎥Credit: Galyarahal)

JUST IN: Footage of Syria's rebels liberating secret underground floor at Sednaya Prison, where an estimated 150,000 Syrian civilians were being held without trials.

How good it feels to write the words 'the former regime'

Amnesty international: «La population palestinienne de Gaza victime d’un génocide» www.amnesty.fr/actualites/r...