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Amir Moosavi

@amir-moosavi.bsky.social
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Reluctant reverse commuter teaching about Persian and Arabic lits and some other things. I just finished writing a book and it comes out in June: www.sup.org/books/dust-never-settles

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Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A few words about my recent book: That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the #Iran - #Iraq War (New Texts Out Now) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4681...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/07/2025
Only 73 aid trucks entered Gaza today—far below the 600 minimum needed—while three airdrops, overseen by Israeli forces, landed in dangerous combat zones, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8hrip9
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Strikes on Gaza resume as Israel’s ‘tactical pause’ comes to an end
Six more Palestinians have starved to death today as Israel makes small increases in aid delivery.
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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 20/06/2025
Over decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has personally and insistently lobbied for U.S. intervention against Iran. A military campaign reliant on airpower alone is unlikely to spark a revolution. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
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How Trump and Tehran Can Find an Eleventh-hour Exit from an Escalating War | International Crisis Group
As Israel’s Operation Rising Lion pummels Iran, the U.S. is weighing direct involvement to attack nuclear sites in the country, which could lead to a disastrous escalation. Washington should instead l...
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
NY Times takes a look at the civilian death toll by Israeli strikes in Iran: "Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
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Israeli Strikes Kill Civilians Across Iran
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Dust That Never Settles by @amir-moosavi.bsky.social considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/middle...
Book cover for Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War by Amir Moosavi
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KrazyTheeAlaskan™️ @krazytheealaskan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive
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Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My book, Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War is now available for purchase. Please encourage your university or local library to get a copy. You can get a 20% discount from the publisher, Stanford University Press: shorturl.at/ZRGyw. The code is on the attached flyer.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/04/2025
ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!
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Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/03/2025
Ready made ad here for anyone who wants to primary schumer
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Columbia and the next front on the war on academia - it’s not just punishing students. Trump’s demands that a private university adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and put MESAAC into receivership would do damage far beyond one campus. My new piece. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/columbia-a...
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Columbia and the next front in the war on higher education
It's not just punishing protestors - two of the government's demands are far worse.
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Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A great multi-year postdoc in Middle East studies at NYU's Kevorkian Center. Apply by March 24. apply.interfolio.com/163617
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18/02/2025
Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration. buff.ly/4k4uwpS #Palestine #Israel
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The liberal establishment is finally criticizing ethnic cleansing in Gaza now that they can blame Trump
Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians...
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/02/2025
🚨 READ: Israel’s relentless attacks on the West Bank have forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/isra...
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Israel has displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, UNRWA says
Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the West Bank has forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing. Here’s a gift link. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This man is a hero like very few. Ragheed Al-Tatari was an airforce pilot who refused an order to bomb Hama during Hafez Assad’s 1982 massacres. He spent 42 years in prison. www.instagram.com/reel/DDmmFo1...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
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Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I’m not really worthy to write anything about beautiful Syria today but they asked me to and so I tried through tears to write some words that are inadequate but here they are anyway: Dawn in Damascus @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/da...
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Dawn in Damascus
In the end, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to say to the country he bludgeoned and bled, but what matters now is that his ‘forever’ rule is over
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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Basic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235). The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Florida State University had to cancel 432 courses because the state won't allow teaching about gender theory or post-colonialism, and the University of Texas system is restricting teaching about critical race theory and queer theory, and yet we're still doing this sort of story?
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
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Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The US worked hard to remove Chapter VII language from the latest UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire and the release of hostages, and then vetoed it anyway. 14 for, 1 against. Utterly depraved.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, MiSC scholar Natalia Molina wrote about how Trump’s appointment of Tom Homan as the nation’s next “border czar” is a “stark reminder of how easily history can repeat itself when we fail to confront it.” A thread 🧵⤵️ 1/7 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Opinion: Trump's border czar and a history we should not forget
The next administration is gearing up for mass deportations. When 'repatriation' happened in Los Angeles nearly a century ago, U.S. citizens were expelled.
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