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Hosam Aboul-Ela

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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it's blissful because it's depressing to see how many dozens of amazing candidates there are for every one job, but it's not blissful that i don't get the jolt that comes from reading about great new projects and that my department might never get another tt line.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
dear academic sky, how do you refer to your doctoral advisees in rec letters? i have always used their first names, not wanting to fashion a pretend formality, but i have been blissfully away from search committees for a few years and haven't recently checked to see if the protocols have changed.
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All of these things require well-compensated faculty with small enough teaching loads that they can devote considerable time to each class.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Late last year we were shocked to learn that a 10-lb tumor was strangulating my partner's heart. One Sat morning in early January, at 7am, as he sat in a hospital bed waiting for the oncologist, his insurance co called to inform him that they'd be denying his scans + hospital stay. America! 🇺🇸
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Math is a humanities discipline. ✊
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not your translator by Fady Joudah
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
really worth reading: www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/2...
koreatimes.co.kr
[COVER STORY] Trump's America is losing Koreans - The Korea Times
Koreans are increasingly viewing the U.S. unfavorably, with less trust as a partner than before, according to a recent survey released by Washingto...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yes, scrutiny of false claims is legitimate media business. But this is about proportion. He wasn't a politician, let alone PM or President. He wasn't running a major corporation. And his sins were tiny by comparison to what some of those people get away with. This was a one-off, page 14 story.
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Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Northwestern to close its African Studies program. Founded in 1948, it was the first academic program focused on Africa in the US. An immeasurable loss to US understanding of a critical part of the world. thepurplewire.beehiiv.com/p/scoop-nort...
thepurplewire.beehiiv.com
SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
and even if you are not in academia you can see the inconvenience of putting the 2 biggest holidays one month away from each other
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
another argument against thanksgiving is that it sabotage the fall semester for students and teachers
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
No one could honestly spend years of their life ensconced in academia and emerge with scathing critiques of Black people and ONLY Black people being unfairly advanced or promoted. To construct such a narrative requires extreme levels of intellectual dishonesty, internalized anti blackness or both.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“This catalog documents and expands on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2026 exhibition To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, curated by Dr. Patricia Akhimie, the Director of the Folger Institute and an internationally recognized scholar in the field of premodern critical race studies.”
press.uchicago.edu
To Hear Her Speak
Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.This catalog documents and expands on the...
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Inshallah 🤲
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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Check out my CFP, "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature," for ACLA 2027. It will be online, and there are plans for a follow-up publication.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A joint statement by Israeli NGOs, Friday 24 July: ‘Urgent call to the international community to take immediate action to stop Israel's violence and prevent pogroms by settler militias and the Israeli army across the West Bank. 🧵
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ok USA you got like 7 minutes of break you can squeeze in 19 concerts now
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is for Egypt, as*holes.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
new in 2030: muppets sing during hydration breaks
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is the way the world cup ends Not with a bang but a whimper
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
by now England-France had already like 17 goals
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"My field of scholarship had become a legal and criminal minefield." Arabic Literature professor Huda Fakhreddine reviews a recent "Law & Order" episode: lareviewofbooks.org/article/law-ord…
A screenshot of a woman testifying in Law and Order
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
huda fakhredinne on u.s. pop culture and the complicity with genocide: lareviewofbooks.org/article/law-...
lareviewofbooks.org
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
an excellent oped by my brilliant colleague daniel College outcomes should not be measured just on lifetime earnings www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
dallasnews.com
College outcomes should not be measured just on lifetime earnings
Liberal arts programs support social mobility, civic education and STEM success. Lifetime earnings is a limited measure of a fulfilling and productive life.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
mabruk ya misr. they put up an awesome fight against all odds.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
it's true that the var goal review was downright stupid but people are going nuts in my feed about how unjust a match it was and i have come to realize i don't agree. egypt lost because they spent every last bit of their stamina in the 1st 70 minutes then lost their composure as well.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
til i have so many friends who watch the world cup but don't know any other egyptians it's almost impossible to watch the game because of all the text messages
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My kid after that game - "why do they take everything away from us" (Referring to the goal they stole from Egypt, but really applicable to being an Arab at every level)
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
go egypt
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
congrats to cr. i have nothing against him. just don't like throwing out merit in exchange for privilege.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
lol he's despondent
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
am i stupid or is it weird that cristiano ronaldo starts but bernardo silva doesn't?
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In a recent email, the Scholars in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine again call for a boycott of SCMS. I worry that they won't have the momentum that they had last year and I also would love to attend SCMS this year (I miss you folks!). But, I can't justify breaking a boycott.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Egypt arriving late as Egyptians do
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Jadine (JD) Pluecker @jdpluecker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
May a thousand translator notes bloom....
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“Girgis, who served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in spring 2026, is known in part for co-authoring ‘What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense,’ which argues that marriage is inherently a union between a man and a woman. He has not yet accepted the offer, the faculty member said.”
thecrimson.com
Harvard's Viewpoint Diversity Push Turns to Faculty Hiring | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard is moving its commitment to “viewpoint diversity” from rhetoric into faculty hiring — but as new searches take shape, professors remain divided over whether the goal is to hire conservatives, ...
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
this is where I've gone too
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
same
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A clear, cordial, but devastating critique of Omer Bartov's new work by a brilliant genocide scholar Martin Shaw: martinshawx.substack.com/p/israel-did...
In Israel, Bartov compares the Jewish state to Nazi Germany; but Germans who recognized the enormity of Nazism, like the writer Thomas Mann, advocated its defeat, rather than the benign intervention Bartov seeks to shock Israel out of its genocidal state—and that was ultimately how it ended. The ethnonationalist Zionist state is not an equivalent world power, but its US sponsor (which is) is also adding Israeli characteristics to its rich indigenous supply of authoritarianism and imperialism.

It is not fanciful to believe that this axis will also need to suffer defeat, and that those who wish to change Israel may have to call for this. There is no soft landing in sight for Gaza, and there may not be for Israel, either.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
mine too but we both work at universities and know what they are like and in the current environment where even our own bosses slam us and misrepresent us i am not sure who else would be with us
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
not that either of us have been in a college seminar anytime recently but they must be just sitting around a table spewing sesquipedalian verbiage for hours on end without understanding what each other are saying...
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
i had the best dissertation director. her motto, which infuriated her self-impressed advisees and colleagues, was: "never blame the students. "
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Some thoughts about Mali and the Sahel. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/04/m...
foreignpolicy.com
Mali Is the Key to Understanding Africa’s Trajectory
The West ignores the warning signs in the Sahel at its own peril.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
can she bring an end to the plato bashing?
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
we vow that from now on all speakers will express only the unified will of the institution, which will be determined in advance to reflect the views of the board of trustees
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/texa...
dallasobserver.com
Texas GOP’s Anti-Sharia Crusade: The Dangerous History of State Islamophobia
You can forgive historians if they are overwhelmed by a sense of déjà vu as they witness the hate and vitriol aimed at Muslims by Texas Republicans today.
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
what kind of mentalist would fail to foresee this?
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Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Wholesome footage of people from south Lebanon returning home www.instagram.com/reel/DXPvSyb...
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