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Samar Al-Bulushi

@samar42.bsky.social

Political Anthropologist @UCIrvine * New book: War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States and the War on Terror. 🍉

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Transition Security Project@transitionsec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PANEL EVENT: Securing The Future? War and Peace in a Warming World Join us at London Climate Week with @samar42.bsky.social, @adriennebuller.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long and Lorah Steichen. 🗓️ Fri 26 June ⏰ 6.30-8.30PM 📍 Science Gallery, London, SE1 9GU 🎟️ luma.com/ohafnco9

Securing the Future? War and Peace in a Warming World · Luma

Panel Discussion and Live Podcast with The BREAK—DOWN. Co-sponsored by the Transition Security Project This event is part of the Climate Security Forum @…

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Samar Al-Bulushi@samar42.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For 20 years, Somalia has served as a laboratory for US-led unchecked forever war, yet has failed to garner significant critical attention & analysis. As bombs fall on Iran, now is the time to confront how decades of presidential over-reach got us here. arabcenterdc.org/event/us-pol...

US Policy toward Somalia: Regional Geopolitics and Somali Americans - Arab Center Washington DC

Experts discuss the Trump administration's policy toward Somalia and its regional and domestic implications.

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Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 12mo ago

Breaking: NBC reports that satellite images show troop movements and formations indicating a possible imminent major ground operation in Gaza. The network says it is unclear whether Israel intends to launch a new offensive or if the maneuvers are meant as a negotiating or pressure tactic.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 12mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: Commercial satellite images show the Israeli military building up troops and equipment near the border with Gaza that would support a possible new ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave, according to three U.S. officials and a former official who viewed the imagery.

Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · last yr.

American-Moroccan scholar @HishamAidi traces #Morocco’s role in Afro-Arab solidarity—first via the #Fanon-inspired Souffles publication (1966-72), then through the Afro-Arab Forum in Asilah (1980), grounded in Senghor’s vision of civilisational métissage. buff.ly/j3foTp6

Senghor, Asilah and “Afro-Arab Civilization” - ROAPE

Hisham Aidi offers a compelling account of how Morocco became a key site for competing political and cultural discourses in support of African and Arab pan-African solidarity. He shows that a…

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement

A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW — Emails show Mohsen Mahdawi pleading for months to Columbia for help. He asked about an FBI visit to his home & a mysterious break-in. He also asked Columbia to publicly clarify a lie the Trump admin would later cite to justify detaining Mohsen. No response. He was detained a month later.

Emails Show Mohsen Mahdawi Pleaded with Columbia for Protection for Months Before ICE Detained Him

“Is this how Columbia cares for its students?” the green card holder asked less than a month before his arrest this week.

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Silky Shah@silkys13.bsky.social · last yr.

For @truthout.org I wrote about Mahmoud Khalil’s detention, how Trump is capitalizing on the normalization of incarcerating immigrants to enforce his creeping fascist agenda, and why this moment calls for us to bridge across our movements for social change. truthout.org/articles/kha...

Khalil Case Shows How Migrant Justice and Palestine Solidarity Are Tied Together

The detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was made possible by the normalization of deportation.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent piece by two dear friends @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social & @themorningsnows.bsky.social about the cyber truck & its uncanny similarities to the Casspir, the tank by which the Apartheid regime brutalized Black south Africans during Elon's childhood. 1/ slate.com/news-and-pol...

Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.

Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores@insurgentthought.bsky.social · last yr.

“As anthropologists, we are witnessing a doubling down on the discipline’s classical roots where a Palestinian woman can only occupy the savage slot–she can only speak as an object of research, through the colonizer’s narrative of her” www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

On Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologist

by Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross)

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained

"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

25 hours after Mahmoud Khalil was detained in a Columbia-owned apartment building — Khalil’s whereabouts are still unknown & Columbia has still not commented

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

Zack Stanton@zackstanton.bsky.social · last yr.

A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

Documents reveal how military contractors want to take over mass deportations

The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.

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Stuart Schrader@stschrader1.bsky.social · last yr.

Student activists wrote a pretty devastating article condemning JHU’s links with the military-industrial complex www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025...

Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory researches efficient forms of genocide

Today, the APL’s “mission areas” are still arms-racing, reflecting the US military’s paranoia of losing its absolute hegemony in science and technology. The APL supplies artificial intelligence, auton...

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