In Algeria, Pope Leo countered Trump with a message of peace, but he missed a chance to honor the Tibhirine monks, who modeled the kind of coexistence the pontiff has been championing — and the U.S. president has maligned. | @erinclarebrown.bsky.social
“I thought it was me as a doctor,” Mr. Napoleon said of the Antoine-Jean Gros' image of him as Christ-like figure healing lepers in Jaffa in 1804, which he deleted after an outcry. “Only the fake news could come up with that.”
Floated negotiation proposals for long-lasting peace:
1) Rename to "Strait of Trumpmuz"
2) Google relabels it the "Iranian Gulf"
3) Agree to split ship toll receipts, paid in crypto, US portion goes to $Trump meme coin
Latest Britbox find is "Blue Lights" - police drama in Belfast - some say Irish "Wired" though I'm not sure about that. Super interesting so far (not a total mind break like MM though)
“While Gen Z 212’s slogans and hashtags are new, the underlying message of citizens weary of government indifference is not.”
Good Samia Errazzouki analysis of Morocco’s latest protest movement.
arabcenterdc.org/resource/mor...
We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
In Morocco in the 1930s, hundreds of women and girls were trapped by the French authorities inside the walls of Bousbir — Casablanca’s red-light district and a tourist destination for Europeans. Catherine Phipps uncovers their stories for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
TWO DAYS LEFT to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 7th, COB. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
DEADLINE EXTENDED! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 7th, COB. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
Help! Teaching an Intro to the Middle East in spring and looking for a short reading to assign that covers the rise/politics/context of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia in 21st century?
Grateful to @centuryintl.bsky.social for the chance to bring together, update, and expand some of my writing on maps and Middle Eastern borders
tcf.org/content/repo...
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social ‘s history of Middle Eastern border creation, richly illustrated with historical maps, shows that there is nothing exceptionally conflict-prone about the shape of regional states. (4/5)
Universities like UT Austin have shown that they will place ideology and political power ahead of the most vulnerable students, faculty, and staff they serve.
Fight against the closure of Black, Latino, and Gender Studies at UT Austin. Support our students.
#Blacksky #polisky
A great opportunity for Middle East scholars looking to workshop their first book.
Thanks SO much ya'll! (Also where'd you end up on the latest T Childers album with new producer?)
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...
In the latest bulletin of the Syrian Studies Association there's a report by Michael Provence on the current state of the Syrian national archives.
They'll be an important resource for any future Syria, but they're in a precarious state.
www.syrianstudiesassociation.org/ssa-bulletin
An opportunity for those working on Islam in the Americas!
18,500 names
wapo.st/3IRLZn6
#sociology job!
“The challengers, led by the AAUP, say the administration’s efforts to revoke green cards and visas from pro-Palestinian campus activists amount to proof of a policy of “ideological deportation” that has terrified noncitizens in higher education and chilled their speech.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Rabat Casbah views of Bouregreg valley development area
Brilliant read about Franco-Algerian Nutella affair
"It was about nostalgia, memory, injustice, nationalism, globalization, decolonization, protectionism, racism, identity, immigration, invasion—the same things that all arguments are about nowadays, transposed to the realm of spreadable snacks."
Shadow puppets for xtra credit
Congrats!!!
From France 2, a profile of my Yale colleague Jeffrey Wickersham and the attacks on science in the USA. www.franceinfo.fr/replay-magaz...
Totally interesting and important story but headline somewhat misleading:
Fact is that close to 200K African colonial troops were deployed to fight in Indochina;
100s "found new life" in SE Asia,
but 100Ks fought, were injured, died, returned home transformed. More history on this needed!
Life-long Mavs fan (as in, I went to a game in the inaugural 1980 season),
and this season has been OD, as the kids say.
But somehow we have a new day
Still shell-shocked, but this time in a good way!
#MFFL #Dallas #Mavs
www.theringer.com/2025/05/12/n...
This is satisfying on SO many levels
