At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.
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I sometimes think abt that time Yale asked me to do an expedited-promotion-to-full review for a guy who’d just gotten tenure, who’d been out on rsch leaves for 3yrs, had maybe taught 3 classes in the past 6yrs — and who was being poached by another Ivy. I realized: oh, you’re not hiring *colleagues*
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
If Turkey falls, Pakistan. If Pakistan falls, China. If...
I'm baffled at how little attention the 2024 Israeli invasion-bombing-assassination campaign in Lebanon is getting as people analyze how we got into this war. What factor (more significant than US reticence, imo) kept Israel from fighting a regime-change war in Iran before now? Hezbollah.
Cover of The Borders of Responsibility: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea by Kiri Olivia Santer. The cover is black and features two boats at night on a dark sea. The larger white boat has lights on and reads “GUARDIA COSTIERA”. The smaller blue boat is full of people. The title is written in an off white in a sans serif font above. The subtitle is below the ships in a light grey. The author’s name is below in a yellow orange.
In "The Borders of Responsibility," @kirisanter.bsky.social outlines the legal systems that allow Europe to return migrants who cross the Mediterranean to their countries of origin and to evade legal responsibility for rescuing them. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/wLzdbX6
Lebanon is a tiny country, making these "evacuation" orders little more than a mass forced displacement designed 2 collectively punish & terrorize the pop. These "area bombardments" r also completely prohibited under intl law as indiscrim attacks that are not directly at specific military objects.
It is amazing to me that the US has just launched its biggest most illegal war since Iraq 2003, that has killed over 1000 Iranian civilians, and that is reverberating around the region and world and still, STILL, most people on this app are oblivious to it. This is a deeply self-absorbed country
Aerial photos of the destruction of the Senate house release by BBC Persian
Modern photo of the Senate Palace showing its iconic, Persepolis influenced columns. A man on a bike in the front.
The former Palace of the Senate, an architectural icon of Tehran, has been almost completely razed. Built in the 1950’s by Heidar Ghiyayee, it was the seat of the Upper Chamber in the Pahlavi period, for a short while the seat of the IRI Majlis, and then that of the Khobregan Council. Horrible!
Read more about Maven+'s deployment in Gaza
Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-iranian-girls-killed-double-tap-strikes-minab-school
today at the newsletter, free: an adapted excerpt from my book Wild Faith, about evangelical Christian prophecies about war in the Middle East and the end of the world & how they influence US foreign policy:
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1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]
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We do not collaborate with The New York Times.
Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours.
The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable.
So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it.
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Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team
“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”
lmaooo GET EM
In India, AI deepfakes of the deceased are a lively business Self-taught small creators are using AI tools to recreate the dead for special events. https://scroll.in/article/1091074/in-india-ai-deepfakes-of-the-deceased-are-a-lively-business
WSJ: Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, he was dead. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit-cc46c5f7?st=T2CF33&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Literally nothing good is coming out of this Slop Machine
It's absolutely surreal how no one is talking about the Iran war in daily life. No one is discussing it and they seem oblivious. This conflict is spiraling and deteriorating in a way that it will substantially disrupt daily life for most of the world for the first time in decades.
It's almost like they tested this all on Palestine, the world did nothing, and they took that as permission to expand. Just like everyone who was paying attention said they would.
“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.”
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US marines did open fire. Took long enough for this to come out.
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Yes! (*The Future That Was* is also available to be read in all ensuing months)
Adil is always on point x.com/adhaque110/s...
If you have 50 minutes, Nilo Tabrizy, Ida Nikou, and I talked about Iran with KALW
UNESCO listed Golestan Palace (which predates the princeling and his grandfather's pretense to the throne) before and after US/Israeli liberation efforts
My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.
Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳
Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."
Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
#Sinology 🀄️📚
It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.
They are slaughtering our people and getting away with it x.com/dropsitenews...
Thank you Prof @msjamshidi.bsky.social for your posts.
We also went from 68 to faculty when I started tt to around 32 now while going up to 70,000 students. Our lecturers have held steady. Obviously classes are bigger. I can teach 100 students in 2 classes a semester at a so called r1
