Ok, for real, why are so many of the few job postings in Middle East Studies that are tenure-track at Indiana University Bloomington this year - I saw a 3rd(!) one today posted.
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I am not sure academia in the USA is a good match for me when I constantly have to assess if the university is at most one hour from a major city with direct transcontinental flights
A rather large list of scholars, think tank specialists etc in the anglophone sphere for the SWANA region
I’m still floored at how low the pay for postdoctoral fellows are at so many universities. Like, how do you expect your fellow to live near your university if half their pay goes to rent at least
Go read my article “Global Revolution Starts with Palestine: The Japanese Red Army's Alliance with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” at “Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.” It’s free!
read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/arti...
Not a problem, I’ll send you the syllabus in a moment. I’ll caveat that it’s light on the readings
Coming out next month with Pluto Press is "She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World." I have a chapter "Shigenobu Fusako: From Japan to Palestine in World Revolution" in it www.plutobooks.com/978074534824...
in case you’re wondering how Threads is going, it’s people responding earnestly to stolen dril tweets
“bluesky won’t have any debate because it’s all left-leaning folks” - person who has never been in a room with two leftists
Kandy Muse sitting alone in the club
The mood while here waiting for more codes
I'm going to be teaching a seminar this fall titled "Queer and Feminist Cinemas of the Arab Middle East and North Africa" - super excited and creating a fun list of films from the 1960s onwards from 🇱🇧🇹🇳🇲🇦🇪🇬🇵🇸🇦🇪 and potentially more
Me realizing I got here before all my academic friends and colleagues 😭
Today is the 23rd anniversary of the liberation of South Lebanon from
Israeli occupation and its puppet government the South Lebanese Army that started in 1978. Alf mabrouk!