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basit kareem iqbal

@biqbal.bsky.social
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anthropologist, editor at mcmaster university. author of THE DREAD HEIGHTS: TRIBULATION AND REFUGE AFTER THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION (fordhampress.com/the-dread-heights-…). bookmarking in the wasteland

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 6h
news.mcmaster.ca/red-wilson-8... what future?????
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$8-million gift from Red Wilson will launch Futures Institute at Wilson College
Discover how Red Wilson’s $8M gift will support the Futures Institute at Wilson College and help McMaster students explore ideas shaping the future.
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 11/09/2026
I dug through Canadian media archives to pull out a sample of the bloodthirsty commentary that dominated pages post-9/11, including from: Christie Blatchford, Rosie DiManno, Margaret Wente, Mark Steyn, Andrew Coyne, Marcus Gee, Rex Murphy and Paul Wells. www.readthemaple.com/remembering-...
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Remembering Canadian Media’s Post-9/11 Bloodlust
The media was responsible for helping create an environment where people begged for war, racist laws and attacks on civil liberties.
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
heard some of this over the years from a family member who works there, but the full picture is quite something. that brainworm life
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lawn signs are up! countdown to reelect @nrindernann.bsky.social in ward 3. the flowers have taken over though, october is for the asters
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people is decimating the guardrails that protected us all. Private sovereignty is advancing steadily, while national sovereignties—Venezuela, Cuba, and Lebanon—are undermined and others—Palestine—are preempted from being realized at all.” Noura Erakat:
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Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2026
‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
dylan fagan on witchcraft - deadly words in the breakup of the indonesian new order muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
every time i leave my chair --
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Such a depressing political reality right now…
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
diana allan on campus next week
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
jill lepore, artificial education www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
laysa li-'irq zalim haqq brill.com/view/journal... what if the law did not convert time-based possession into legal title????
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No Legitimate Right Arises from a Root Planted by an Oppressor: A Comparative Study of Islamic Property Legitimacy and Adverse Possession
Abstract This article undertakes the first systematic comparison between the Prophetic legal maxim laysa li-ʿirq ẓālim ḥaqq “No legitimate right arises from a root planted by an oppressor” and the Ang...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The Good Road" by Carlota McAllister situates Guatemala’s early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it in a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/5rm5G8l
over of The Good Road: A K’iche’ Revolutionary Theopolitics by Carlota McAllister. The cover features a mural of a red truck carrying a group of people with two people behind it pushing. The title is in white serif letters across the center. A red background fades upward into the photograph. The subtitle is in smaller white serif text beneath the title, below is a dotted line then the author’s name in pale yellow italics.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden... Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows." Annie Dillard (1945—2026), "Sojourner"
Photograph of a page from Annie Dillard’s “Sojourner,” showing the passage: “These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden, when human life as it unrolls goes ill, when we lose control of our lives or the illusion of control, and it seems that we are not moving toward any end but merely blown. Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. Even nature is hostile and poisonous, as though it were impossible for our vulnerability to survive on these acrid stones. Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows. Even if things are as bad as they could possibly be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and wing.”
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Debt and Refuge is out! "By foregrounding subjectivity rather than victimization, Debt and Refuge elegantly reveals complexities of gender and displacement—whether in the context of developmentalism or war." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography ow.ly/EHc050ZNBZx #ReadUP
Book cover of Debt and Refuge: Syrian Farmworkers and the Politics of Displacement in Lebanon by China Sajadian
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
proofs magic
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/09/2026
A retired archaeologist and his friends unearthed remains inside a Dutch church that may or may not belong to D’Artagnan, the French historical figure upon whom Alexandre Dumas based the main character in “The Three Musketeers.”
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How One Man’s Quest for a Musketeer’s Bones Got Him Locked Up
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
randy being fancy archive.is/KdPrj
archive.is
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
aged well
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
my kingdom for hwdsb schoolbuses that only run <30 min late
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
'Gaza's Gravediggers' argues that international institutions and rights groups failed to classify Israel's genocide in Gaza, exposing complicity:
newarab.com
Who enabled Israel’s genocide? Norman Finkelstein answers
Book Club: ’Gaza’s Gravediggers’ argues that international institutions and rights groups failed to classify Israel’s genocide in Gaza, exposing complicity
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 09/09/2026
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel's engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/isra...
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Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel’s engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones,…
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Naya Lekht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸ניה לכת
@LekhtNaya
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“Every country has bad actors, agitators, hooligans, extremists, and criminals. Yet virtually no one treats them as proof of some deeper national pathology. We do not routinely speak of “French violence,” “Australian extremism,” or “South African criminality” as though the actions of a fringe automatically define an entire society.”
From futureofjewish.com
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Which political constituency in Israel wants an end to the occupation?
Naya Lekht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸ניה לכת
@LekhtNaya
What occupation?
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The great ships in Bruegel's Icarus, like the wax & feather wings, exemplify extreme technology and mankind's hubris. Bruegel was rather skeptical about modernity. Today is his day.
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So delighted our university campus store removed the books section to make space for what really matters
A display of McMaster University branded athletic wear in a section of the store labeled “lululemon”
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the giller prize without genocide money is just canada reads is this something
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the school board is encouraging teachers to use copilot to make things easier. instead grade 8 classlists were hallucinated on day 1 reading reviews earlier this week, came across two published in reputable journals clearly generated by ai. delusions of grandeur at the end of the genre alas
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Eliot lowkey foreseeing the vibes of social media
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-de...
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Gaza’s destroyed sewage system linked to ‘rare’ algae bloom shutting Israeli desalination plants
Five of Israel’s six water plants shut as scientists probe whether Gaza wastewater fuelled the bloom
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
jeffrey sacks - thinking about the law and genocide in palestine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... reading adania shibli's MINOR DETAIL against the production of legal personhood
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Thinking about the law and genocide in Palestine
This article offers a reading of Adania Shibli's 2017 novel Tafṣīl Thānawī (Minor Detail) in relation to the law and genocide in Palestine. Taking as a point of departure the reflection on language...
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
makhlouf - spectral afterlives: ghayath almadhoun and paul celan's palestinian migrations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Spectral afterlives: Ghayath Almadhoun and Paul Celan’s Palestinian migrations
Ghayath Almadoun’s 2017 “Al-Ḥalīb Al-Aswad (Black Milk)” borrows its title from a master trope of Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge (Death Fugue),” arguably the single most canonical poem about the world of ...
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
not a city functioning how we want, but a city functioning how we deserve
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 04/09/2026
This is the government of Canada’s scientific finding. It is true. It is also a terrible message. Here’s what’s also true: 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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Changes to Canada's climate now 'irreversible,' federal report says
The impacts of climate change in Canada are now largely irreversible and average temperatures are expected to rise by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century, a new government report warns.
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
organizing (with @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social and milad) the final event before my year of khalwa
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
AAA and AAR schedules both out, feeling the fomo
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
James Baldwin wisdom
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is so terrifying. Will this finally motivate us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
thread
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
there's nothing wrong with loving theory, by @kukukadoo.bsky.social archive.ph/wFrlr "the books and essays that make up this genre can be as much palinode as polemic" YES
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/08/2026
Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, giant of resistance art, dies aged 79 aje.news/2xzmvt
Suleiman Mansour was among the Arab world’s most renowned visual artists and the creator of the iconic Palestinian painting Mount of the Bearers. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]Rituals under Occupation (1989), one of Suleiman Mansour’s most prominent works, captures the suffering of Palestinians living under occupation and their daily resilience. In this oil painting, a highly symbolic funeral scene unfolds: vast crowds carry the coffin of a Palestinian, draped in the Palestinian flag and depicted as a large cross, evoking the Christian narrative of the crucifixion of Christ. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]The Portrait (Portrait of a Man; 2017 and 2019), clay and acrylic on wood. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]Olive Grove depicts a natural landscape of stone terraces and olive trees. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... joud's new article - the gulf states, hellish
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Wine and Zam Zam: governing food, drink, and Islam in Dubai
This article explores how the UAE – and the emirate of Dubai in particular – regulate food and drink with the aim of governing Islam. It lays out how a series of food-related initiatives have left ...
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
agamben (july 27 2026): trump and netanyahu do not come from outside www.quodlibet.it/giorgio-agam...
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Giorgio Agamben, Stato e anomia II - Quodlibet
Edizioni Quodlibet - Volumi pubblicati, Appuntamenti, Recensioni e Anteprime - Acquista con sconto del 15%, spedizioni gratuite in Italia per acquisti sopra 29 euro.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/08/2026
Michael Ondaatje’s disregard for the established boundaries through which genres were defined taught writers to spell out their own liberation in a similar fashion. Read one writer’s reflection on Ondaatje’s influence. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vPIYZP
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The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work
Michael Ondaatje had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of “The English Patient,” teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation.
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"I approach this topic from the perspective of being a flawed yet practicing Christian ... Regarding the accusation that we were selling to Israel: we are guilty as charged" haldimandpress.com/pro-palestin... how foul, next door
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Pro-Palestine protesters target Cayuga business over Israel shipments | The Haldimand Press
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
mcmaster embarrassing itself mmai.degroote.mcmaster.ca/full-time-ma...
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Program: Master of Management in AI and Analytics | Master of Management Programs at DeGroote
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