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Ghazal Asif

@ghazalfarrukhi.bsky.social
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Anthropologist interested in religion, gender, and law in South Asia / Sindh | Asst Prof @LifeAtLUMS

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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Using weapon remnants, satellite images, witness accounts, here's our report on the U.S. airstrike on a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed 5 and wounded 67. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...
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In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A long thread on the checkered credentials of the academics who initiated the media campaign to take down Arday.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
TT opening in #IslamicStudies at Stanford: Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies
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Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies. We seek candidates specializing in pre-modern Islam; regional foc...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/05/2026
"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Friends! Support brilliant scholar-activist @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social. Dr. Jalalzai, a feminist Islamic Studies scholar & public intellectual. Provost at Trinity University denied her tenure despite unanimous faculty support at every level. Please contribute and/or share! shorturl.at/CIiCC A 🧵
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Donate to Stand with Sajida for Free Speech and Justice, organized by Judith Norman
Our friend Dr. Sajida Jalalzai was denied tenure because of her free speec… Judith Norman needs your support for Stand with Sajida for Free Speech and Justice
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’m not a laws of war expert but it’s my impression that just the threat to commit genocide is a war crime. Threatening to destroy a civilization is a war crime, whether or not you carry through. Not that the sort of people who support Trump care.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is an area where deterrence theory only gets you so far. The truth is the president is a mentally declining racist who is facing strategic defeat by people he considers “animals.” This should probably factor into our nuclear risk assessments.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
But here’s the thing: killing begets killing & genocide more genocide. Israel & US (under Democrats) partnered to wipe out Palestinians using these same “radical” justifications, so why are we shocked they’re doing the same to Iran under this monster?
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So he's just openly announcing a genocide on social media.
Post by Donald J. Trump on Truth Social: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!"
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of Sharif University of Technology people - Wikipedia
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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Postdoc in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for next academic year. Applications are due April 6. Please share and apply.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.
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‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed
Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.
Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon.

History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/03/2026
I'm out of words here
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It’s raining oil in Tehran. They have set fire to, bombed &polluted our city. For those who do not die in the blazes they set or in the buildings they bomb, so many will develop chronic health problems. This is the US/Israeli recipe for erasure of a people - the “Gaza playbook” x.com/fpleitgencnn...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/03/2026
Exclusive: US Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two US officials said — a rare use of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply escalate tensions in the country amid protests over the killing of Iran's leader reut.rs/4u6iscA
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Exclusive: U.S. Marines fired on protesters storming consulate in Karachi, officials say
U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday—a rare use ​of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/02/2026
"The strategic initiative has a bigger plan for us all. You’re suffering now, but if you fight through the pain and work extra hard in support of the new strategic initiative, you’ll taste the sweet afterlife of a successfully executed strategic initiative." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...
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Introducing Our Lord and Savior, the College’s New Strategic Initiative
Higher education faces looming threats from every direction. Dwindling enrollments. The demographic cliff. The enduring myth that professors have t...
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In a new essay for Public Books, François Furstenberg—”the aging history professor”—marvels at the glassy, atria-adorned buildings rising up on the Johns Hopkins campus—funded by donors, costing more than the donors gave.
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The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'" www.reuters.com/world/early-...
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Exclusive: Early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza blocked by US envoys to Israel
U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire...
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
this new year’s eve, as “third world” is wielded by the racist, xenophobic incarceration machine called homeland security, a reminder that self-proclaimed Third Worldism was about imagination, building worlds of flourishing for the most people, & a direct confrontation against authoritarianism
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The Friday Times @thefridaytimes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
IHC declares religion-based advertisements for sweepers and sanitary workers unconstitutional, calling them discriminatory and degrading. Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/16-Dec-2025/... #IslamabadHighCourt #minorityrights #Pakistan #discriminatoryjob #Ads #sanitationworkers #Constitution
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Islamabad High Court Bans Religion-Based Job Ads For Sanitation Workers
IHC declares religion-based advertisements for sweepers and sanitary workers unconstitutional, calling them discriminatory and degrading
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 26/11/2025
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New at PB: In a review of Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Chris Moffat describes Asif's quest to walk Lahore—a city that has transformed from one of gardens to one of concrete and walls, a “series of segregations."
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Walking Lahore, Watching the World - Public Books
The new mosque's central dome dominates the town's skyline, but competes with an 80-metre-high replica Eiffel Tower, and a scale reproduction of Trafalgar Square.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’”
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Baruch History Department @baruchhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨Tenure-track job🚨 Applications close on November 15, 2025 for an assistant professor position specializing on the history of South Asia at @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37877043...
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Baruch College - Assistant Professor - History of South Asia - New York City, New York (US) job with Baruch College | 37877043
Job Title: Baruch College - Assistant Professor - History of South Asia  Job Description: “At Baruch College we believe that student success is eve...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.
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Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
There a one-year Assistant Instructional Professor in Hindi position in my department at Chicago open, for a visiting role from Jan-December 2026. Tell your Hindi teaching friends! networks.h-net.org/jobs/68970/u...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"more than 1.2 million people have been displaced from the overall Indus delta region in the last two decade"
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Death of a delta: Pakistan's Indus sinks and shrinks
Salt crusts crackle underfoot as Habibullah Khatti walks to his mother's grave to say a final goodbye before he abandons his parched island village on Pakistan's Indus delta.
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Ghazal Asif @ghazalfarrukhi.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I contributed a short essay to the new issue of ReOrient: Critical Muslim Studies, as part of a forum along with Abdulkader Tayob and Humeira Iqtidar responding to SherAli Tareen's book "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire". www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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Corruption, Friendship, and Women’s Bodies
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!) doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Narendra Pachkhédé on C.M. Naim who "refused both the nostalgia of the diaspora and the sentimentality of cultural nationalism. His was a critical love – tender, exacting, and utterly unsentimental."
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C. M. Naim and the Many Lives of Urdu
He stood, ultimately, for what might be called the aesthetics of ethical clarity. His writing was never merely beautiful, it was responsible.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I’m thrilled to finally share my article on citizenship, caste, and exit control at the time of the India-Pakistan partition out now on first view in Modern Asian Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians
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Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Bonded citizenship: Caste, Partition, and the prevention of exit
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
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A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
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Ghazal Asif @ghazalfarrukhi.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
My brilliant, beautiful friend Megha Sharma Sehdev left us all far too soon last week. anthropology.jhu.edu/2023/08/27/o...
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Obituary:  Megha Sharma Sehdev (1981-2023) | Anthropology
With immeasurable grief and regret we announce the untimely death of our beloved alumna Megha Sharma Sehdev who took her own life on August 17, 2023.  Megha was born in Windsor, Ontario.  She had a....
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
JOB ALERT: Georgetown Qatar is hiring open rank in South Asian history! GU-Q has such a vibrant Indian Ocean studies community. Open period, particularly interested in work related to environmental or gender history 🗃️ www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?…
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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
4-position Cluster Hire in Asian Studies @umbc.bsky.social cahss.umbc.edu/cluster-hire/?fbclid…
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Ghazal Asif @ghazalfarrukhi.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
Ok I’m here I guess. Thanks @sepoy.bsky.social for the secret password to this place
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