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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The curious case of the missing #couscous: @arthurasseraf.bsky.social is very droll in this @vittles.bsky.social piece ..."let me make a very specific threat: I will come to your house, make a Yorkshire pudding from a packet...eat it cold & call it a Sunday roast ” open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

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The curious case of the missing couscous

Why, in a city that has everything from tacos to tteokbokki, is it hard to find couscous? Arthur Asseraf investigates. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Historian-as-investigator: here's @arthurasseraf.bsky.social on the problem of couscous in London and, beautifully, on the toxic sauces of nostalgia. An essay that makes you want to eat, read, gather. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-curiou...

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The curious case of the missing couscous

Why, in a city that has everything from tacos to tteokbokki, is it hard to find couscous? Arthur Asseraf investigates. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Glad to see this roundtable on Colonisations Notre Histoire out! It was great to read Rose Ndengue, Robert Aldrich, Jennifer Boittin and Brett Rushforth look at the volume from different perspectives, and to have the opportunity to respond to what such a project can and cannot do

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A successful fieldtrip to the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park, staffed by the enthusiastic NRC volunteers 🙌 Dr Arthur Asseraf and his Special Subject students left inspired by the history, development and future of radio communications. @arthurasseraf.bsky.social @pembroke1347.bsky.social

Dr Arthur Asseraf, Associate Professor in the History of France and the Francophone World, takes his Special Subject students on a fieldtrip to the National Radio Centre in Bletchley Park

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Can I ask for help? I’m not sure how to use this platform (or any social media) anymore. I’ve been away bc it all feels a bit useless with the world right now. But when I was on Twitter a lot, it gave my work meaning - since then I feel in a bit of a crisis professionally, and stuck. Tips welcome!

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

JOB!!! Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty. It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27. @camhistory.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...

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Senior Teaching Associate [Temporary Cover] at University of Cambridge

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Senior Teaching Associate [Temporary Cover] opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I want to send a very sincere Fuck You to Columbia University, let me be specific: Columbia was where I started learning Arabic, and in my class were at least three Orthodox Jewish women who consistently bodied everyone else due to their excellent Hebrew grammar. 1/

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Camille Lefebvre @camillelefebvre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Podcast indispensable dont 1 phrase résonne avec ce qui se joue ces dernières années autour de la place des legs coloniaux dans notre présent du Sahel à Mayotte, de l’Algérie à la Kanaky-Nouvelle Calédonie « On a jamais aussi bien connu le phénomène colonial et on ne l’a jamais aussi peu reconnu »

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

As things are getting worse for Palestinians, our ability to protest this abroad is shrinking. Some UK universities (like mine) are trying to ban demonstrations for 🇵🇸 please consider donating to legal costs to resist this, esp. if you’re based at a university/in the UK donorbox.org/studentprote...

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DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST: SUPPORT SOAS & CAMBRIDGE STUDENT ENCAMPMENTS FOR PALESTINE | European Legal Support Center (Powered by Donorbox)

Help us defend the right to protest on our campuses! We are witnessing intensified repression and criminalisation of student-led protests, and your support is as crucial as ever to fight back. ...

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

PSA: I’m sorry I didn’t answer your email. Yes, all of you. I have a very heavy admin job atm and cannot respond to as many requests for media, conferences or writing projects as I would like this year (especially if they’re far away). But keep bothering me and I’ll do my best!

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We did not pay anyone for this review I promise

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A surprise to find that our book “Colonisations: notre histoire” which came out in 2023 is in this week’s @londonreview.bsky.social Especially great because of how seldom books in foreign languages get reviewed in English 👇🏼 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rahmane Idrissa · The Time of the Whites: The Will to Colonise

The will to colonise has not disappeared. Colonisation may be gone from much of what used to be the French empire, but...

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New record: not once but twice in one day have I received mail and email intended for Assef Ashraf (my taller, more attractive colleague who works on a different continent)

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

me: trying to fit Palestine into one model colony or another does not help us politically people: but you’ve never heard my perfect model An explanation of why this doesn’t work 👇🏼 1/

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And here for more discussion 👇🏼

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

‘It is peculiar that some people gaze upon the occupation, fragmentation, and genocide of Palestinians and, as a precondition for supporting their liberation, demand that they specify exactly what a liberated Palestine would look like.’ Reposting bc some of the end was missing last week!

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The Algeria Analogy

We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predictoutcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.

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Laura O'Brien @lrbobrien.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“We should ask not whether what unfolded in 🇩🇿 is especially similar to 🇵🇸, but how reading these histories together might help us consider what decolonization feels like not as an end point, but as an ongoing process.” The always-great @arthurasseraf.bsky.social on Algeria and Palestine.

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The Algeria Analogy

We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predictoutcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"Settler colonialism relentlessly politicizes movement and dwelling, but the basic act of staying or going is not, in itself, indicative of a person’s political position."

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My essay on the Algeria/Palestine comparison, and what we do with it now, is now out and free to read and share on the Jewish Currents website:

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Fuck the American Historical Association

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Julien Le Mauff @julienlemauff.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"Sortir Fanon de son autel n’implique peut-être pas seulement de retrouver l’homme derrière l’icône, mais rend aussi nécessaire de penser notre présent racial..." @arthurasseraf.bsky.social a lu pour @laviedesidees.bsky.social le 'Frantz Fanon' d'Adam Shatz @edladecouverte.bsky.social.⤵️

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Dans La Vie des Idées, ma lecture de la dernière biographie de Frantz Fanon par Adam Shatz, ou, comment retrouver l’homme derrière le mythe c’est bien mais peut-être pas suffisant

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Our Fall/Winter issue is almost here! Featuring work from @maricohen.bsky.social @arthurasseraf.bsky.social @soljbrager.bsky.social & others, a special collaboration with @hyperallergic.com and so much more. Subscribe today to get it—and save 25% with code WINTERBLUESKY. jewishcurrents.org/subscribe

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Mathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Pour @vintagearab.bsky.social Le Maghreb des ondes Tiré du roman d Amira Ghenim le désastre de la maison des notables

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Syrian TV broadcasts a still image with the words: The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you. Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Watching the news from Syria this week, hopes and anxieties that had been kept frozen for a decade are thawing. I feel like I'm time-traveling, feeling things I had not felt since 2015. Now more than ever, Syria is the true test of people's politics.

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Aujourd'hui à Tunis, premier séminaire du cycle "Penser la question palestinienne depuis le Maghreb" J'interviendrai dans la deuxième et troisième séance, les 10 et 11 janvier prochains

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Y a-t-il déjà un fan club de Solenn de Royer et ses chroniques de cour de Macron dans Le Monde, ou faut-il le créer?

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

everybody on this app is making starter packs and nobody is posting

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

For those who don't know me 👋 I'm a historian 🥸 at the University of Cambridge 🇬🇧 In my Lost Twitter Kingdom, I posted about the Maghrib 🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳 🇫🇷 French colonialism and politics Orangina 🍊 and, for some reason, Emily in Paris I am committed to the liberation of Palestine in our lifetime 🇵🇸 🍉 1/ 👇

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Un petit fil pour vous résumer par épisode la série documentaire "Le Maghreb des Ondes" cette semaine, sur laquelle j'ai eu le plaisir de travailler avec la reine du son elle-même @vintagearab.bsky.social 👇 1/

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dzcalling.bsky.social @dzcalling.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ma mère me racontait qu’à la fin des années 40 début des années 50 un de ses oncles était un mordu de la radio et un grand fan de Nehru en Inde. Il n’arrêtait pas de le dire “Nehru a dit, Nehru a annoncé etc..”

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Vintage Arab @vintagearab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

« Le Magheb des Ondes » c’est aujourd’hui 🥳. À partir de 16h en podcasts sur le site et les appli et à partir de 17h en direct sur @franceculture Une série LSD en 8 épisodes qui raconte comment la radio a accompagné le Maghreb vers l’indépendance. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Merci beaucoup Emmanuel, pour le soutien de France Culture et LSD pour ce projet: ÉCOUTEZ "LE MAGHREB DES ONDES" 📻🇩🇿🇹🇳🇲🇦!

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