Columbia facilitated ICE detaining a Palestinian student while his wife, 8 months, pregnant watched. I just can’t.

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How the most unpopular US president got reelected Polygraph | Newsletter n°288 | 24 Jan 2025

"Harris mixed an uninspiring domestic policy w/ a violent & deeply unpopular foreign policy ... this toxic combo. didn’t drive voters to the right, it drove them to the couch ... disengaged voters stayed there on Election Day." - @stephensemler.bsky.social www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...

we'd like to get to 5K followers here so that more people can hear about the work we are doing. can folx help us by circulating our pinned post and sharing if you've taken a workshop or have purchased a book from our online curated bookstore (run by @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social)??

Decolonizing Power: Rethinking the Politics of Art and Religion Conference Wednesday, November 19, 2025 – Thursday, November 20, 2025  Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

CFP! Right before AAR, submissions due end of this month

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Here’s how some Philly high school students built a library from scratch. ‘Kids just kept coming, renewing books.’ “We all grew up without a library,” one KHSA senior said. “That had an effect on a lot of kids."

"What if a grp of students at a Philly high school that never had its own library created one from scratch?" Stories like this are always 🥰, but they remind us (as the article notes) of systemic problems: the Philly School District has TWO full-time certified school librarians across 216 schools! 🎁

Some excellent, fresh scholarship on the Global Middle Ages! Krisztina Ilko on the tombstone of a fourteenth-century Italian woman discovered in Yangzhou, China.

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As someone who previously worked for HRW, I can attest that the organization is extremely careful using the term “genocide.” They resisted applying it in Yugoslavia and Darfur. The fact that they use the term here is highly meaningful.

It’s coordinated. Moms For Liberty is going after books telling immigrant children they belong

If you use Amazon, this is free for you. Amazon pays it. While you're binging Squid Game or whatever, spend a few seconds in the app to make a giant company give your drivers five bucks.

Also— maybe Assad put children in there, but even worse, it’s highly possible those children were born in there.

Regardless of what happens next, these videos have me in tears. May all the notorious prisons be emptied, may all the people be free.

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

And for any journalists on here, a plea— I know it’s not technically required to ask someone before using their social media posts in a story, but it’s common courtesy and could save someone a lot of grief.

I really, really miss working at an institution where not everything was newsworthy. #exhausted

With news of a ceasefire deal for Lebanon being announced in the next 24 hours, the bombing in and around the capital has intensified to the highest degree.

They did the same in 2006, in the few days before applying the ceasefire, they just emptied their stockpile on Lebanon.

Madness truly.

The #Beirut skyline at the moment following multiple Israeli airstrikes #lebanon

What is happening in the north is beyond comprehension, and the Israeli government and IDF have gone out of their way to ensure that the media has a hard time reporting it. Myself and @farrahfazal.bsky.social gathered some testimony, but it is one sliver of the horrors.

Palestinian olive harvest under threat from Israeli settler attacks and restrictions Harvesting olives is an economic necessity for many Palestinians, but it is increasingly precarious.

Palestinian olive harvest under threat from Israeli attacks and restrictions flip.it/A89LYz

Recovering Arab Trans History: Masoud El Amaratly, the Folk Music Icon from Iraq's Marshes - Ajam Media Collective Masoud El Amaratly is an Iraqi singing legend, his voice evoking the lush marshes of southern Iraq with lament, melancholy and longing. He is not only one of Iraq's most famous singers; he is also one...

Going down a rabbit hole on Iraq's Marsh Arabs (as I periodically do) and came across this fascinating piece examining normalized transgender identities in the Marshes in the early 20th century

Workshops 4 Gaza Workshops for Gaza is a group of autonomous writers, artists, and educators organizing online classes and workshops to raise money for Palestinians.

if you haven't signed up for a workshop already, please check out the available sessions that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social has on their site. frankly, if i could attend them all, i would -- all proceeds directly support palestinians in gaza.

Follow @workshops4gaza.bsky.social — and sign up for one of their great workshops too!!

What more could you want from the Middle East Medievalists Bluesky than a Middle East Medievalists starter pack?
Connect with Middle East Medievalists MEMbers on Bluesky. If you are a MEMber of MEM and want to be included, let us know.
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“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged” The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percen...

Overwhelming evidence for crimes against humanity.

www.hrw.org/report/2024/...

hello bluesky im deena! im an egyptian comics artist. i wrote, illustrated and translated a graphic novel called shubeik lubeik. it is about buying and selling wishes in a world that regulates and puts a price on everyday people’s wants and needs. its not very different to our world.

Are you a graduate student, or do you know a grad student, working on the fragment and histories of colonialism? Please consider submitting an abstract to or circulating the CFP for the Roskil Symposium run by the MA candidates in my department! www.umass.edu/art-history/...

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Finally!!!!!

Excellent, the only one of these I haven’t read and enjoyed is the Teller of Small Fortunes— it’s now on my list!! Thanks!

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :

are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.

*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.

*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.

maybe you're not being negative *enough*