Very happy to announce that I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the publication of my forthcoming book The Platform Fix. 🥳

It will be part of their Labor & Technology series, edited by Winifred Poster. @labortechresearchnetwork.org

Amazing! very much looking forward!

Palestijnse kinderen gemarteld in de Israëlische cel: rapport Save the Children wijst op onhoudbare situatie Kindermishandeling: Zo’n 350 Palestijnse kinderen in Israëlische gevangenissen worden gemarteld, seksueel misbruikt en uitgehongerd. Sinds 7 oktober 2023 is hun situatie enorm verslechterd. Een…

Zo’n 350 Palestijnse kinderen in Israëlische gevangenissen worden gemarteld, seksueel misbruikt en uitgehongerd. Sinds 7 oktober 2023 is hun situatie enorm verslechterd. Een explosief rapport hierover van Save the Children werd aanvankelijk onder Israëlische druk niet gepubliceerd.
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Call for interest: MARS staff exchange programme - Leiden University MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a research visit at one of our partner universities? Then you might want to join the Leiden team of…

Do you work at Leiden U & research migration outside the West? Please see our #CfA to participate in MARS: Non-Western Migration in Global Perspective - an EU-funded Marie Curie consortium for a secondment/research visit at one of our global partners: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

There are no adequate words. Solidarity my friend.

Looking forward to launching Limin Teh's fascinating account of Chinese miners in Japanese Manchuria tomorrow at Leiden University. Please join us to the discussion and celebration if you're in the vicinity!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Labour importism: its rise and reproduction in the Arab Gulf States This article explores labour importism (LI) as a process of labour provisioning whose organising principle is the importation of temporary migrant workers. The analysis is developed around the Arab...

I've published a new article

Labour Importism: Its rise and reproduction in the Arab Gulf States

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Gulf Between Us I was seven when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The memories of a child are vague and grainy, and I cannot vouch for their fidelity, but three images have stayed with me with the sharpness of things tha...

"The question of who speaks for the Gulf...is... not a matter of political representation. It is a question of which lives are legible enough to count as affected, and which populations are visible enough to warrant a story." @miraalhussein.bsky.social
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#CfA: deadline this week!
Are you a PhD student or are you a supervisor of a PhD student working on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula?

Apply to the AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2026! Fantastic opportunity!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CGS Seminar - Crystal Ennis (Leiden). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CGS Seminar - Crystal Ennis (Leiden). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Looking forward to speaking about my book #MillennialDreams this evening with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social in her Exeter CGS seminar series. Join us at 18:00 CET universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch Picturing Scholasticide is a traveling exhibition initiated by staff and students of Leiden University to publicize the social and legal effects of Israel's effort to destroy Palestinian institutions ...

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

The article draws on my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran", now available in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social and included in its January Sale through its website (40% off automatically applied at checkout until January 31; use JAN40 in North America).

Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...

Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.

Join us to celebrate and discuss @libertychee.bsky.social 's important new book this Friday! I'm very much looking forward to the event. #migration #polisky

So real.

So pleased to see that Crystal Ennis's (@crystalennis.bsky.social) book, MILLENIAL DREAMS IN OIL ECONOMIES: JOB SEEKING AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR IN OMAN is the winner of this year's AGAPS Book Award

It was brilliant speaking with my colleagues about our ten year journey, and debating what we consider the most critical political economy questions of today.

(Will write more on this soon!)

Many thanks Arang! Means a lot coming from you. Many congratulations also to you for this acknowledgement and especially the Roger Owen Book Award! So well deserved!

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social for the well earned award for her brilliant book. I am thrilled that Making Space for the Gulf was also recognized by AGAPS

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social - I indexed this book, and the reward is richly deserved!

I am so honoured to receive this award from such a distinguished review committee, and to see my book in such great company next to @keshavarziana.bsky.social .

2025 book award winners

To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...

Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/gulf/events/

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!

Familiaaaaarrr 🤣

Racism motivated the securitisation of our campus.

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The Myth of Israeli Innovation Israel has long relied on Western patrons for arms and backing—even as it has cast itself as a security “innovator” the West can’t afford to do without.

Allies and critics alike have bought into the narrative of Israel as a hub of high-tech military "innovation." But, as the scholar Rhys Machold explains in his new piece, this story obscures the true motor powering Israel's violence: Western backing.

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