Hussein Rashid, PhD

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.

And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

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Most of the world looked at what Israel did to Gaza and recoiled in horror.

Biden’s White House defended and armed it, with some aides pretending to have felt bad about it.

Trump’s Pentagon said it had some notes.

@UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social adjunct faculty member Dr. Hussein Rashid recently took part in a fascinating conversation on the Doha Debates Podcast exploring this cultural moment through the lens of comic book superheroes, addressing the question “Are superheroes the moral leaders of our time?”

Photo of Dr. Hussein Rashid with the quote, “[Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor] has allowed [Shia Muslim’s] to see that they are really welcomed in this city.”

“[Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor] has allowed [Shia Muslim’s] to see that they are really welcomed in this city,” stated @UnionSeminary.Bsky.Social adjunct faculty member Dr. Hussein Rashid on his recent appearance on Spectrum News NY 1.

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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

There are many ways that NYC residents can fight to fund our public libraries:
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If you maintain your work and business WITHOUT generative "A.i.," you will be ahead of the game when these companies jack up their prices before crashing and burning.

Also, your work won't be trash.

I know this will be great, given the contributors.

Thank you my friend

Thank you my friend.

MUSLIM FUTURES Launches on Kickstarter – A Bold New Vision Begins - COMIC CRUSADERS Let’s turn the volume up on this one because this isn’t just a Kickstarter launch.

Great interview with @thatkarimahmad.bsky.social about our #MuslimFutures volume:

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and don't forget to back us at:

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for reasons unbeknownst to me, I have the urge to pull up a piece I did for @religiondispatches.org back in 2012 and misreading #Iran, nuclear development, and think veneer of Christian nationalism. Plus ça change…

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Boosting with all the endorsements I have! 🫶🏽👏🏽❤️

Angelique Roche Author Talk and Book Signing Another historical night at Baldwin & Co! Come meet local author Angelique and learn about the history of Juneteenth and the woman behind it

Join us March 24th at Baldwin Books for an incredible conversation about First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and #Juneteenth with New York Times Bestselling author @farrahrochon.bsky.social!

and I'm going to ask for direct boosts (and I appreciate the indirect boosts I see). @gwillow.me @annaleen.bsky.social @jricole.bsky.social @gregpak.net @gregpak.com @klg19.bsky.social @edidin.bsky.social @angeliqueroche.bsky.social @mattduss.bsky.social @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social happy to chat 2!

MUSLIM FUTURES A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

OK folks, we're about half way through our #MuslimFutures #Kickstarter for #Ramadan. Help Muslims tell their own authentic stories. My essay deals with #Shiism, queer narratives, and #gender beyond a binary. I play a little with language too. :) Prose and #comics

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The Evolution of Magneto Podcast Episode · Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men · S1 E516 · 1h 13m

The @xplainthexmen.bsky.social episode with @asherelbein.bsky.social on #Magneto and the #XMen is so good. Thanks @edidin.bsky.social for introducing me to his essay. What does solidarity mean and look like? and can the victims of genocide commit genocide?

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The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."

Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.

[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

MUSLIM FUTURES A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

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Here's a little creative joy this #Ramadan. #MuslimFutures

MUSLIM FUTURES Launches on Kickstarter – A Bold New Vision Begins - COMIC CRUSADERS Let’s turn the volume up on this one because this isn’t just a Kickstarter launch.

OMG thank you so much, @comiccrusaders.bsky.social for this extremely generous shoutout for our MUSLIM FUTURES anthology! I honestly got emotional reading it, y'all are the best! 🤎
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I’m tired of genocidal fascist billionaires

What’s wild is while I was offline for most of the day, a guy in a documentary I watched, an American and ex policy/intelligence guy said and I paraphrase here, “History matters to the rest of the world while Americans treat it like a pejorative.” And seeing some posts now and just wow.

I think you can worry about American Islamophobia without minimizing American antisemitism. People literally shoot up synagogues in this country, it’s not an imaginary problem or a matter of microaggressions against bourgeois knowledge workers, which is how I see fellow leftists describing it

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

With the exception of Rouhani, Iran's efforts have mostly been ignored or rejected by the Americans. The one successful agreement barely lasted 2 years before the US breached its promise. So whenever you hear US officials claim Iran rejected diplomacy, know how blatantly they are lying to you.

What have these people done?!

Once again our first thoughts should be of human cost of conflict in Middle East, price paid and risks incurred by innocents.