The same AHA whose council vetoed a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza which had been approved by its members? 🤔 Curious if there is a module on how leadership of democratic institutions fails to live up to the moment.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

There’s a new season of Radio ReOrient in town from @reorient.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! In this first episode we discussed the Islamophobia of the war on Iran with our guests. 🌙

Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 🎙️

NEW: The Board of Immigration Appeals just denied Mahmoud Khalil’s bid to throw out his deportation case.

However, Mahmoud can't be legally detained again until his habeas appeals process is exhausted in federal court. We'll keep defending his right to live in this country and speak freely.

www.jstor.org/stable/27377... glad to say that you can know read my review of @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Flooded Pasts (@cornellupress.bsky.social) online if you have JSTOR access (I believe this includes free accounts). Nice to have this more widely available as I really appreciated the book

World-leading classicist gave female student unwanted ‘slobbery kiss’ An investigation into Simon Goldhill, 69, a professor of Greek at King’s College, Cambridge University, upheld complaints of professional and sexual misconduct

As @saranahmed.bsky.social has written: An abuser does not just have a network. An abuser is a network.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Glasgow colleagues affiliated with GLINTS are organising a workshop on 18 June with the title 'Trans studies at a crossroad: decolonisation, anti-gender politics and the future'. It looks like it will be fab! The CFP is here: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_... and the deadline for abstracts is 3 May.

No paywall copy of the article in the Times about unwanted sexual advances by Simon Goldhill at Cambridge. Thank god students in 21st century report this shit and the universities take it seriously archive.ph/2026.04.09-1...

we haven’t updated everything but Crips for eSims for Gaza is almost at $3,333,333 raised. YES THAT IS TWO COMMAS. #ConnectingGaza

bit.ly/eSimsRUs

I cant stop thinking about this genocidal post. Openly, brazenly, recklessly genocidal.

Please, if you can, if you have any fight left in you, contact your representatives.

Screenshot of Trump’s tweet

Note that this “civilisation” goes back 47 years according to Trump - ie to the beginning of the Islamic Republic.

Note that Trump knows that divorcing Muslims from the ancient past will legitimate genocide against them because that’s exactly what the Zionists did in Palestine.

Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon by Nelly P. Abboud On April 1, 2026, in the context of Israel’s illegal invasion of Lebanon and criminal targeting of the country’s civilian populations and heritage sites, the UNESCO c…

🚨🏺🩸🇱🇧 NEW: "Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon" by Nelly P. Abboud: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/s...

Pasts Imperfect (4.2.26) This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen, and Christopher Londa discuss writing, labor, and enslavement in Roman antiquity. Then, a new book on Venice and the Mongols, how ancient Maya communities made...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! 📚 This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen & Christopher Londa discuss enslaved readers & writers in Roman antiquity. Then, Venice & the Mongols, a podcast on Cahokia, ancient astrological practices, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.

Sara Ahmed (@feministkilljoys) Ten years ago this month, I resigned from my post and my profession in protest at the failure of my institution to deal with the problem of sexual harassment. It was a lot to give up. But it was neces...

10 years. A love letter to diversity workers. And gratitude for my complaint collective. substack.com/@feministkil...

Title page of A Workshop of Eloquence: A Collection of Gazan Literature from Late Antiquity, by Chance E. Bonar. Above the title is the logo for Dar al-Kalima University Press.

Proofs day for A Workshop of Eloquence: A Collection of Gazan Literature from Late Antiquity!

I'm grateful to be working with DAK University Press in Bethlehem and a Gazan Arabic translator to offer an introduction and selection of translated texts by, from, and about late ancient Gaza.

US/Israel now bombing university campuses — the same places that were the sites of anti-regime protests a few weeks ago. And I wonder what provosts and deans of US universities on Qatar and the UAE are thinking this morning

The refusal to acknowledge or to do anything about the complicity of archaeology with this violence is why I won't participate in the @asor-research.bsky.social meeting again this year.

#BoycottASOR

This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide perpetrated by Israel and its patrons, especially the United States. They were members of the global intellectual community, and we are all impoverished by the loss of their contributions that would have enriched the worlds of the humanities and sciences. The liquidation of these colleagues squandered the many years of higher education and training they embodied, often acquired with great personal and collective effort. The death of so many of our colleagues is a massive blow to higher education in Palestine: they were the teachers of the rising generation who were to take their places as the writers, theologians, social scientists, engineers, and doctors who would help to weave the social fabric and develop the world of knowledge in Palestine. We record their lives in a spirit of grief for their loss and admiration for their accomplishments and to demand that their killers face accountability for their crimes.

REMEMBERING GAZA SCHOLARS A group of academics have spent the past 18 months creating an archive that commemorates the lives of Palestinian scholars killed by Israel. 83 of our colleagues, so far, have bios; the group's work continues rememberinggazascholars.org

Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968 In the two decades following the Nakba, Palestinian writers faced an impossible task: preserve their language, culture, and heritage under occupation. This groundbreaking anthology, edited by legendar...

Now available for preorder - Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968 by Ghassan Kanafani, with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi

the whole thread.

With Gaza’s Libraries in Ruins, Palestinians Fight to Preserve Historical Memory More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.

More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.
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Eid Mubarak from all of us at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social, especially to those resisting occupation and oppression around the world. 🌙

🚨🚨🚨 ISRAEL THREATENS TO BOMB TYRE, INCL. ITS ANCIENT CITY
"This places one of the most significant UNESCO sites in the E Mediterranean under direct threat & constitutes a serious violation of internatonal humanitarian law, amounting to a war crime, given the protected status of cultural property"

Israel issued overnight orders for residents of Tyre—one of southern Lebanon’s largest cities & surrounding neighborhoods & refugee camps housing about 74,000 Palestinians to move north of the Zahrani River, including Shabriha, Hamadiya, Jal al-Bahr, Al-Bass, Rashidiya, and Burj al-Shamali.

I am so thrilled to see this book out! Thanks to the editors for inviting me to contribute a chapter entitled "Bint al-Nil: On the Modern Racing of Ancient Egypt" 🐍🖤

So @asanews.bsky.social emailed its membership its refusal to put a petition to Boycott, Divest, & Sanction Israel up to a vote, one that already had 438 signatures. This undemocratic decision, they wrote, is because they're worried about membership dropping.

Well do I have news for you.

Mark your calendars! Next Wednesday, on the 25th of March, Professor Mahmoud Hawari of Bethlehem University will present on the topic of Israeli settler colonialism and the erasure of Palestinian cultural heritage #archaeology #🏺

Students pass three out of four referendum items All referendums — with the exception of the clubs services fee — passed during this year’s AMS elections.

Congratulations to students who successfully passed AMS referendum calling on UBC Senate to cut ties with Israeli universities that uphold apartheid.

It passed 8,894 in favour - highest voter turnout for any referendum item this election!

UBC: Cut ties with apartheid!

ubyssey.ca/news/referen...

One of the great things we have at OU Classical Studies is scholarships for MA students who are either teachers working in state schools or UK Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic students.

You can find out more and apply here: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

"Epistemic disobedience is…necessary because there is no way out of the coloniality of power from within Western categories of thought. Epistemic disobedience takes us to a different place...to spatial sites of struggles & building rather than to a new temporality within the same space." W. Mignolo

Selections from Etel Adnan’s Beirut 1982