Hatim El-Hibri
@sayshatim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut opinions mine. he/him
OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
Remote
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NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today! The issue features a suite of articles reflecting on two years of student encampments and struggles for academic freedom and against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
Campus Politics–Palestine and the New University Order
Spring 2026
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Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today.
A fantastic piece by @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social, explaining where those viral Iranian AI lego videos came from, and the generational experiences informing them. Narges is one of the best placed researchers to explain the social worlds of Iranian media and digital life 1/2 nymag.com/intelligence...
In the Room With Iran’s Social Media Savants
The new generation of IRGC content creators is younger, quicker, and less afraid of the U.S.
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Support MERIP! One of the best sources for perspectives on the SWANA/MENA region, that gives you complexity with you needing to already be an expert
Middle East Research and Information Project@merip.bsky.social · 4mo agoSUPPORT MERIP! From April 1 to May 7, MERIP is participating in Delco Gives. Every donation of $10 or more helps us expand our impact. Read more about the fundraiser and give below!
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
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“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.
Collective Bargaining is One Solution to Ending Higher Ed Worker Exploitation – I Should Know.
One adjunct professor argues that without the legal leverage of collective bargaining, she is a 'sitting duck' for institutions to profit from her expertise while leaving her vulnerable to financial i...
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Postdoc in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for next academic year. Applications are due April 6. Please share and apply.
Hello, if you are looking for reliable resources to follow as things escalate in Lebanon, I've got you ! Now is an especially good time to check out these accounts since there is very little media coverage of what's going on in Lebanon ! go.bsky.app/Bwe7hSf
PITCH US: MERIP's editors are inviting open pitches for our Summer 2026 issue on Visual Art and Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa! Read more and pitch at the link below.
Call for Pitches—Visual Art & Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa
MERIP is seeking pitches for our Summer 2026 issue exploring visual art and cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. We invite submissions that center artistic practices and cultural…
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Re: Trump seizure of Venezuelan oil and its sale via traders Vitol and Trafigura means that the money goes into a Qatari bank account and out of the hand of Venezuela’s creditors. Vitol and Trafigura have been big donors to Trump. So, the oil capture benefits *some* capitalists, but not others.
Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.
A Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate
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Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!
Marc Steinberg@msteinbrg.bsky.social · 9mo agoSuper excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby. "We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs." virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
Data centers, non-disclosure agreements and democracy • Virginia Mercury
We fear that the widespread use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and a larger ethic of secrecy regarding data-center development curtails meaningful debate and impairs local democracy, write guest ...
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Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 9mo agoFunded opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars!
Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South@iasnuq.bsky.social · 10mo agoApplications are now open for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia! 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…
A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens' voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks.
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Deadline: Sept 15, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool
POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info: pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
Call for Proposals: POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops 2025-2026 - Project on Middle East Political Science
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-...
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Not convinced. Citing your paternal lineage only works as a flex if you can credibly do it in a language with formal conventions for it, eg Arabic "Andrew, Ibn Mario Ibn Andrea" or Icelandic, "I'm Andrew Mariosson"
Ben Rosen@benrosen.bsky.social · 12mo ago*after getting my head punched clean off my neck in the first round* ah but now it’s round two
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...
Introducing SHAMS — the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies! Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media. 🗓 May 14, 2025 ⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut
Join me this Sunday to watch a rly good doumentary on the class struggle and labour movement that led up to the 1975 outbreak of civil war in Lebanon. www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...
📢 TIMEP joins 59 Lebanese and international partners in solidarity with independent media outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby intended to target them for their financial accountability reporting timep.org/2025/03/26/i...
In Solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone Amid A Coordinated Campaign
TIMEP joins 59 of partners in solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby.
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