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Kashmiri Women Authors Are Defying Censorship and Prejudice via @truthdig.bsky.social
This is an incredible chart from Al Jazeera.
It shows just how barbaric US foreign policy has been, bombing ten countries this century.
The United States is a nation addicted to war.
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Michelle Lynn Kahn (@michellelkahn.bsky.social) on βForeign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration and Turkish-German Historyβ (Cambridge University Press)
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In NLR 157: an interview with Ervand Abrahamian.
A leading historian of modern Iran on the power structures of the Islamic Republic and the long-incubated American-Israeli assault.
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Liberating Iran from world heritage sites π‘
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here β where he should have been safe.
The cruelty is endless.
March 1 deadline! Apply for our APSA MENA Research Development Group to workshop a paper toward journal submission, create mentorship networks, and build a cohort.
PhD students and other early career scholars of MENA politics (including Turkey!) are welcome to apply.
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Vivian Maier, Fire Escape Shadows
For obvious reasons the dictators are always ugly inside out and make one want to throw things at their depictions.
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Canβt Pardon Prince Andrew
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Canβt Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/
Another victory for General Winter
From Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, or Book of Surprises, a 14th century Arabic manuscript compiled β and possibly illustrated β by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani.
Please support @thenation.com. Today, the magazine is suspending the publication of any writing that is not about Gaza, and there will be no pieces published that are not written by people who are in or from Gaza. In "A Day for Gaza," Mohammed R. Mhawish exposes the hollowness of the ceasefire.
This is civic action.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
βWe hope to breach the silence that has descended around Gaza, and to do so by offering a microphone to some of the 2 million people whose stories demand to be told. We owe its peopleβand the hundreds of our fellow journalists who have given their lives to bring us the truth from Gazaβnothing less.β
Over the years, Helen Giunaishvili (Ilia State University) has written four posts on the digitization of Georgian and Persian manuscripts preserved at Georgiaβs Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts.
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Liam is back home.
He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody.
(Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)
New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.
Wish I had more confidence it was anywhere NEAR "ending."
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Adnan Khan on the growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports from Europe, the role of migrant labour in the sector, and the human toll
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πΊοΈ An Ottoman Map of #America, 1908 #oldmap #map
Hundreds turn out for at least two demonstrations in Tucson, Ariz., including some 300 along Congress Street near Grande Avenue, January 24, 2026, to protest federal agents fatally shooting a
They are defunding science, education, and public health to provide billions and billions for ICE.
For the most part it seems to me that the people who dwell on Dearborn, or the Rio Grande Valley, or how Chinese or Iranian diaspora voted in California, etcetera, are doing so because they think it's one of the more respectable ways to launder racial disdain.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate facing deportation, βis a New Yorkerβ who should be allowed to remain in the city.
They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.
-AimΓ© CΓ©saire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)