Thank you for the kind words! I fear the book was not very accessible to many outside our field. Someday I hope I can write on the same topic but more accessibly.

In the Caucasus, philology has been years ahead of the decolonial turn. This is from @rrgould.bsky.social’s magisterial “Writers & Rebels. the Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus” in 2016.

Removed Jackson School Middle East Center director speaks out Removed Jackson School Middle East Center director speaks out

“I want students to be resilient. It's a very difficult time right now to have hope. But we must exercise our agency. We can't just be passive and let warmongers destroy everything on our planet. We must fight back. This is an existential fight.“ www.dailyuw.com/article/remo...

ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026 – Shortlist Announcement In response to the call published by ESCL, twenty-seven edited volumes were submitted for the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026. After reviewing the submissions, the ESCL Excell…

Delighted to share that Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory (pub’d by @oxunipress.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the European Society of Comparative Literature’s Excellence Award
escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/e...

Thank you:)

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

book cover for Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory, featuring a medieval Persian miniature

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Grateful to all chapter authors for contributing to @balaghas.bsky.social’s effort to rethink literary theory beyond Eurocentric paradigms

Colleagues in comp lit, translation, & global literary theory please DM or write to our distributor Paul.Cockburn@liverpool.ac.uk if you’d like a reviewer copy

ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026 – Shortlist Announcement In response to the call published by ESCL, twenty-seven edited volumes were submitted for the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026. After reviewing the submissions, the ESCL Excell…

Delighted to share that Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory (pub’d by @oxunipress.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the European Society of Comparative Literature’s Excellence Award
escl-selc.eu/2026/04/05/e...

Brenda Gould asks Senator Ron Wyden to end arms sales to Israel (Medford, OR Town Hall 3 April 2026) YouTube video by Poetry & Protest (Rebecca Ruth Gould)

Proud of my mother Brenda Gould @451book.bsky.social who addressed Oregon Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov on Friday 3 April at his Medford Town Hall meeting and called on him to block US arms sales to Israel

youtu.be/QDZiXzZCO48?...

Solidarity with Aria Fani, an excellent scholar of Persian and comparative literature.

Last week, Jawad Abu Nasser was kidnapped by Israeli forces last week, and tortured in front of his father to force a confession.

Speaking exclusively to The New Arab, his mother Waad shares the harrowing account of Jawad's ordeal and the devastating changes in his health: youtu.be/3TGa1GxAqI8?...

An online archive honoring the Palestinian scholars, teachers, and university researchers martyred in Gaza during the genocide

rememberinggazascholars.org

Problems with the link - here’s the correct one:

open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...

An online archive honoring the Palestinian scholars, teachers, and university researchers martyred in Gaza during the genocide

rememberinggazascholars.org

Why Iran isn't breaking w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | Politics Theory Other Get more from Politics Theory Other on Patreon

My recent interview on the podcast Politics Theory Other with Alex Doherty

@poltheoryother.bsky.social
@redandinexpert.bsky.social

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I wrote about Lebanon in the NYRB: “A strong state cannot emerge out of an all-out assault, let alone out of occupation. War begets not peace but capitulation, and all capitulation will beget—at the price of so much death and destruction—is a new modus vivendi."

Ce n'est pas un beau coucher de soleil… mais un ciel où la poussière se mêle à des histoires brisées.
Au milieu des décombres, la vie tente encore de respirer, et l'espoir continue de résister.
Un jour de plus s'écoule, et nous nous accrochons à ce qui reste de notre patience et de notre force. ✨

Translation in a Time of Genocide. Lecture on Gaza and The Lighthouse Collective at UPR Mayagüez. YouTube video by Poetry & Protest (Rebecca Ruth Gould)

My talk on translating Palestine at The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, where Palestine 🇵🇸 solidarity is alive and well.
Great questions from an engaged audience! One of the few places in the US where a conversation like this is a possible in an institutional setting

youtu.be/Gs1Gk0s51ys

Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…

Help 80+ kids from Gaza who were detained in Israeli prisons!!!

We now have three weeks left to make it happen... power this project bringing six days of workshops, a recovery kit, and more!!! Funds will go towards materials and facilitation. chuffed.org/project/hmg

Translation in a Time of Genocide. Lecture on Gaza and The Lighthouse Collective at UPR Mayagüez. YouTube video by Poetry & Protest (Rebecca Ruth Gould)

My talk on translating Palestine at The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, where Palestine 🇵🇸 solidarity is alive and well.
Great questions from an engaged audience! One of the few places in the US where a conversation like this is a possible in an institutional setting

youtu.be/Gs1Gk0s51ys

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers! In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken...

LOADS of new students arrived this week at Spark Space, and your support helped them access electricity & internet for their studies 🫶🏾

These aren’t just utilities. People accessing remote jobs and classes means food on the table—and resilience.

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

#BRISMES2026 | We are deeply grateful to Gaza-based artist Osama Hussein for the official illustration of this year’s conference, "War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide."

Check out Osama’s work here: instagram.com/os.hussen/

#AcademicConference #MiddleEastStudies #GazaArtists

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

How a Labour Government Helped to Crush Iran’s Workers’ Movement As the Second World War came to a close, the rise of Iran's workers' movement posed a growing threat to British capital – so a Labour government set about crushing it for a generation.

tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/attl...

Beyond antisemitism Recent works on antisemitism from the Jewish left forge a new path but ultimately fail to escape the limits of the term itself

Excellent critique of recent books on antisemitism from @josephfinlay.bsky.social in @vashtimedia.bsky.social

"If we adopt the frame of antisemitism orthodoxy we remain bound by its contours. As Audre Lorde taught us, the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house"

shorturl.at/uNy60

“How Gaza Changed the World”

My review of two new books on the Gaza genocide by Gilbert Achcar @saqibooks.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social and Avi Shlaim @irishpages.bsky.social

rgould.substack.com/p/how-gaza-c...

I was privileged to be able to attend the launch of the European Legal Support Centre's Index of Repression today. It holds 964 cases of repression of pro-Palestine speech/action since 2019, just the tip of the iceberg. The index is very user friendly - www.index-of-repression.org/uk/platform