It’s strange to scroll through this depraved timeline today and be confronted with so many invocations of “illegal.” As if “the law” and its juridical kith hold any relevancy or power three years into a live-streamed genocide.
🚨🏺🩸🇱🇧 NEW: "Silence Is Not Neutral: An Archaeological Update from Lebanon" by Nelly P. Abboud: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/s...
Poster abstract submissions are open for one more week for the #BANEA conference in London, 22-24 April 2026. A great opportunity for students and early career researchers to showcase their research in an international conference! #archaeology #westasia #neareast
🚨🚨🚨 ISRAEL ANNOUNCED THE ATTACK OF THE ENTIRE HISTORIC CITY OF TYRE, INCL. ARCHAEOLOGICAL + HERITAGE SITES www.instagram.com/p/DWAjVuJDKW3/
🚨🚨🚨 🇮🇱 BOMBED NEXT TO THE UNESCO SITE OF BAALBEK
This adds to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 axis targeting of a series of heritage sites in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon over the past week (see post 👇 🧵)
This is a wonderful opportunity for a researcher with expertise in landscape archaeology to contribute to work that speaks directly to contemporary heritage policy and sustainability.
#Archaeology #LandscapeArchaeology #EasternMediterranean #MiddleEast #AcademicJobs
The role focuses on collecting and evaluating archaeological and environmental data alongside heritage sustainability policies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, with fieldwork expected in Cyprus and Jordan.
🚨 New job alert!
We are recruiting a Research Fellow in Landscape Archaeology (Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East) at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social funded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk.
Details and application: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU914/r...
A piece related to this topic was published by an Egyptian scholar based in the UK 3 months ago. It is not referenced in the Guardian piece so here it is
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2025/12/ancestors-dignity-cannot-wait-for-repatriation/#
Thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for giving me the opportunity to pursue this project.
Archaeology very often goes hand in hand with territorial claims and has always been political, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean. E.g. why are Palestinian objects in the British Museum? Why is Palestinian heritage actively eradicated? Why is "heritage protection" used to annex territories?
The British Museum and Palestine: On Misinformation, Zionist Lobbying, Cultural Erasure, and Complicity in Genocide #archaeology #🏺everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/the-british-m...
In spite of the Safe Space Policy being clearly stated at the beginning of the meeting, Prof. XXXXX targeted me by name, calling for my resignation from my position as Editor of the society's journal. Furthermore, his misuse of my title, referring to me as "Miss Kamash", felt deliberately demeaning. This intimidating behaviour explicitly contravenes the EAA Safe Space Policy. Although he was muted, for which I was grateful, I experienced a panic attack following his comments and did not feel safe to speak for the remainder of the meeting. This was further compounded by not only Prof. XXXXX being allowed to remain in the online meeting, but also being invited to take the floor again after the break. This gives me strong concerns about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy. On a broader point about the effectiveness of the Safe Space Policy, I also note that members whose position aligned with that of Concerned EAA were repeatedly and persistently accused of anti-Semitism throughout the meeting. This is a serious accusation that should not be levelled without due care and evidentiary support. Its use as a blanket accusation seems to have been designed with the explicit aim of silencing and intimidating members aligned with Concerned EAA, which again contravenes the Safe Space Policy and should have been dealt with more robustly during the meeting.
Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏
Wonder what Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars did (or not) about Palestine in 2025? Here's a 80-item timeline!
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...
🏺The conference "Urban Heritage in Crisis in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine" was SO special!
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
This week! Make sure to register online!
I am deeply honoured and grateful to be part of the 2025 cohort @leverhulme.ac.uk Congratulations to all the awardees!
📅 For details on deadlines, visit: www.banea-lcane.co.uk/banea-2026
🌊 Maritime archaeologists working in the Eastern Mediterranean can apply for a career development grant from the Honor Frost Foundation honorfrostfoundation.org/2025/05/08/c...
#BANEA2026 will take place in London, 22–24 April 2026, under the theme Production and Consumption of Knowledge in the Archaeology of West Asia.
Planned sessions include history & historiography, maritime archaeology, museums & heritage, among others.
I have a new article out today in Public Humanities, where I try to find some words for how historicide is (and has always been) a project of European colonialism - and I try to find some words for the historians who continue to support it. 🇵🇸✊🏻
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The moral compass of many (white) archaeologists was clearly lost already a while ago (if they even had it). The President of the EAA also signed a support letter for Isr*el in April 2024, after the killing of 34,535 Palestin*ans and injuring 77,704, destroying hospitals/universities, etc.
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
Given the EAA has gone back on excluding Israeli institutions from the conference - and is also trying to prevent @archagainstaparth.bsky.social from protesting in their sessions - it’s time to walk away until they can find their moral compass. blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
Over 1200 signatories asking the EAA to boycott Israeli institutions complicit w genocide and yet its executive board decides to cave in to Zionist bullies while attempting to silence @archagainstaparth.bsky.social 🤡
Executive board members + EAA emails listed here: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/About/EA...
A scholar from Ariel University was recently excluded from WAC as it is recognized that this is a university of illegal occupation.
Columbia U deserves to lose its accreditation: Not over the false claims of the Trump gvt, but over its failure to protect academic freedom
Thrilled to join @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social as co-author of this @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social oped
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...