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svl @droseph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yemen has been brutally punished for not wanting to be dominated by Gulf cartel despots.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hundreds of Jordanian political, legal and other figures sign an open letter calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Jordan in a rare public challenge to the government www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...

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Some Jordanians Dare to Speak Out Against U.S. Troop Presence

Hundreds of political, legal and other figures signed a public letter warning that Jordan’s close alliance with the United States poses a risk.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/05/2026

We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

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Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The Journal of Democracy lives at CDDRL now! Excited to see this partnership grow and flourish. @jodemocracy.bsky.social @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social

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Jillian Schwedler @jillianschwedler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I gave and you should, too! MERIP is a treasure!

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 26/04/2026

Please join us for a discussion of Scholasticide in Gaza. The resilience of Prof. Junina defies attempts to erase Palestinians. Please LMK if you have any issues with links. Attn: @diplomatofnight.com @erinbiba.bsky.social @observer46664.bsky.social

From Scholasticide to Knowlash:
Reimagining Academic Freedom in Gaza
Dr. Ahmed Junina
Al Aqsa University, Gaza
Respondents: Siraj Ahmed (CUNY),
Karim Mattar (U of Colorado),
Vasuki Nesiah (NYU), & Sara Pursley (NYU)
Moderators: Britt Munro (CUNY)
& Tony Alessandrini (CUNY)
Register:
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CÉRIUM @cerium-udem.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🙏 Many thanks to @jillianschwedler.bsky.social for her excellent talk at CÉRIUM as part of her residency. L’une des plus grandes spécialistes du Moyen-Orient qui a répondu généreusement aux questions des chercheur(euse)s, des étudiant(e)s et du grand public. 🤩 Passionnant ! @fasudem.bsky.social

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ezra Klein now agrees with the One State Reality thesis: “that might have been a controversial claim when it was made. But what has happened since Oct. 7 has made it an undeniable reality.” Enjoy our podcast. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-lynch-telhami.html

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Opinion | Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’

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Jonathan Wyrtzen @jonathanwyrtzen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“I thought it was me as a doctor,” Mr. Napoleon said of the Antoine-Jean Gros' image of him as Christ-like figure healing lepers in Jaffa in 1804, which he deleted after an outcry. “Only the fake news could come up with that.”

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CÉRIUM @cerium-udem.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

💡 Vous avez envie de mieux comprendre le Moyen-Orient ? Pourquoi ne pas le faire avec LA grande spécialiste de cette région du monde Jillian Schwedler lors de sa conférence grand public jeudi prochain ! 👇 @jillianschwedler.bsky.social @hibazerrougui.bsky.social @fasudem.bsky.social

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trump: Cave or we kill you all. Iran: no Trump: Ok what if we give you everything you want and stop bombing you Iran: um ok Israel: shit, we better bomb Lebanon Lebanon: wtf Iran: wtf Vance: nobody mentioned you Pakistan: they were literally in the text Trump: … I totally won Iran: u ok?

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Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

All of these people who have offered bullshit analysis about Iran for the past 10-20 years, should just stay quite. Don’t add more harm to what you have done. Media has to hold these “Iran experts” accountable for ripping up the JCPOA, predicting revolution at every turn, and so much more

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Jillian Schwedler @jillianschwedler.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

So honored and excited about this residency!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New York: Something really cool is coming to Hunter. We're bringing in a Virtual Reality project, called the Phoenix of Gaza, that takes you into Gaza pre-genocide. It is one of the most moving things I've seen. Each night is crowned with a panel of amazing speakers. RSVP ASAP, space is limited.

THE PHOENIX OF GAZA
HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY
Wednesday April 15 & Thursday April 16, 2026
Blackbox Theater: Hunter North 543
For two days Hunter is hosting the Phoenix of Gaza, an immersive experience that uses Virtual Reality to invite the viewer into life in Gaza in 2022 & 2023 - to weddings, street life & monuments since destroyed. Each day will end with a panel of artists & writers imagining what it means to archive against erasure & cultivate life
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Jillian Schwedler @jillianschwedler.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I’ve been reading applications for multiple organizations and awards for the past couple weeks, and I’m shocked at how many people think that a semi structured interview is ethnography. Underlines the need for qualitative methods training!

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Lebanese military blocks the road to the US Embassy to prevent protesters from going there: Image Source: (Marwan Bou Haidar/The Public Source) From an excellent piece by Ziad Abu-Rish on the colonial roots of Lebanese army's deliberate ineffectiveness. thepublicsource.org/lebanese-arm...

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CÉRIUM @cerium-udem.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

💫 Dans le cadre de sa résidence au CÉRIUM, @jillianschwedler.bsky.social, prof. éminente en science politique @cuny.edu, nous offre cette conférence grand public, en anglais, animée par notre chargée de recherche sur le Moyen-Orient, @hibazerrougui.bsky.social : cerium.umontreal.ca/nouvelles-et...

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I really think Hesgeth believed Iran would get knocked out in the first round and there was no need to plan for everything that was obviously going to happen next, Israel knew better but kept that to itself, Trump was incurious and easy to persuade, and nobody in administration dared push back.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.” Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“Gulf states can no longer believe the United States can or will protect them from existential threats. And even as they are forced to openly cooperate with Israel in its war, they increasingly view it as a threat.” My new piece on the Gulf and the Iran war. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...

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The United States Could Lose the Gulf

Iran’s attacks on its neighbors are a reminder that the United States cannot protect them.

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.

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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Collective Bargaining is essential… @local6741.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aaupmason.bsky.social Don’t cut higher ed workers out!

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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

NEW: "Reconstruction and Ruin" the Winter 2025 Issue of Middle East Report is now live! This issue captures the challenges facing ordinary people in the Middle East as the warfare politics of dispossession and division continue amidst efforts to rebuild urban landscapes.

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Reconstruction and Ruin

Winter 2025

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I’m going to be speaking at Princeton 2/11 and Yale (with Rob Malley) on 2/13, with my official NYC stop with the incomparable @jillianschwedler.bsky.social in the middle. If you’re in any of those places please please come out for the conversation!

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Trump, during an "economic" speech today in Detroit, can't help but fixate on "wine mom gangs," saying they're "doing these fake riots." They go practice. They go to areas, they take hotel rooms, and they all practice together. It’s a whole scam. We’re finding out who’s funding all this stuff."

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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

All of our articles — the entire archive going back to 1971! — as well as our podcasts, newsletters and other content are available for free. We depend on our readers to keep it going. Please make a donation now!

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SUPPORT MERIP'S CRITICAL WORK BY DONATING For 50 years, MERIP has published critical analysis of Middle Eastern politics, history, and social justice not available in other publications. Our articles…

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization is a bad idea because it isn’t one. As if little things like truth or reality still matter when there are rabid partisan extremists to feed and nurture. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/the-muslim-b...

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The Muslim Brotherhood still isn't a terrorist organization

I have a new piece out in Foreign Policy (gift link) arguing against the Trump administration's executive order designating branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. It was a stra...

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AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The Southern Transitional Council is betting that if the South can be united under its leadership it can cordon the South off from the Houthis in the North, utilize oil and gas revenue, and create a stable and functioning state. – Gregory D. Johnsen agsi.org/analysis/the...

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The New South Yemen - AGSI

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This year’s memorials take on particular poignance as the Trump administration has restricted how trans people can live publicly and privately while also eliminating federal data collection about anti-trans hate crimes and ending funding for an LGBTQ suicide hotline. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Graphic of 5 candles in the Trans flag colors of blue pink and white. Text reads Transgender Day of Remembrance November 20

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AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

An end to the fighting would mean the Houthis are left with only the territory they currently control, none of which holds the economic resources the group will need to survive into the next decade. – Gregory D. Johnsen

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Three Futures for the Houthis After Gaza - AGSI

The Houthis will likely use the deal in Gaza as an opportunity to regroup while looking to continue the fight in the future.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/11/2025

“The data, compiled by the Middle East Studies Association and the American Association of University Professors and relying on publicly available records, offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation…has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.”

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Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows

A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Mamdani is attacked for not embracing Israel's Jewishness. But as I noted in 2021 what's unique is the US stance: "There is no case except Israel’s where the US actively advocates for a form of ethno-nationalist state that discounts large portion of its population" www.brookings.edu/articles/ame...

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America must rethink its unique and contradictory advocacy of Israel’s Jewishness | Brookings

Shibley Telhami argues that the United States' unique advocacy for Israel specifically as a Jewish state conflicts with the notion that states should represent and treat all their citizens equally, wh...

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Jordan is really in a political vise — it’s dependent on Israel for power and water, but Israel’s war in Gaza has created a chasm between the regime and its people.

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It is all about political priorities. And popular pressure becoming louder than special interests and self-serving deals.

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org

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Transition Security Project

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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

EVENT: Honoring Joe Stork, Live in DC! Join MERIP on 11.22.25 at Busboys and Poets 450K Street for a special event honoring Joe Stork, our co-founder and longtime editor. Featured speakers include Aslı Bâli, Sarah Leah Whitson, Joel Beinin and more! Click for info and to RSVP

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Honoring Joe Stork, Live in DC - MERIP

JOIN MERIP for a special live event honoring our co-founder and longtime editor, Joe Stork, who passed away nearly a year ago. On November 22nd from 7-10PM we’ll be gathering […]

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