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lambda nordica @lambdanordica.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The first issue of 2026 is here! "Queering National Histories", a special issue edited by Elsi Hyttinen and íris Ellenberger, examines queer lives and histories situated within political, power-relational, and cartographical peripheries in the Nordic countries. publicera.kb.se/lambdanordic...

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Vol. 31 No. 1 (2026): Queering National Histories | lambda nordica

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Very grateful for my supervisors, Karin Aggestam and Rola El-Husseini (@rola-husseini.bsky.social), faculty discussant Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social), and examiners Michal Grahn (@grahn.bsky.social), Mo Hamza, Helle Rydström, Markus Holdo (@markusholdo.bsky.social) & Magdalena Bexell.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Ph-Done, as they say. I’m feeling relieved to be done, happy to have passed, privileged to have so many wonderful friends around me, tired after a hectic week, and excited for what comes next.

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Had the pleasure to serve on the examination committee today at Lund University for @jwa.bsky.social brilliant PhD dissertation on feminist activist solidarity and mobilization in Egypt and Tunisia. An insightful work, rich both theoretically and empirically.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

To be awarded a PhD, you first have to ”defend” your thesis. In Sweden, this is a public event—anyone can come and ask questions. Thus, the thesis is nailed to the wall of the department in advance, where it can be read. Luckily, it can also be read online: portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati...

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Time, Difference, and the Transnational: Feminist Activism and Solidarities in Egypt and Tunisia

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

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Was It Something The Democrats Said?

A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

One of the best parts about summer is that I have more time to officiate weddings, and today is an extra special occasion as I will be officiating my first gay wedding, and the first one ever in the Swedish House of Nobility.

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Jonathan Morgan @jnthnmrgn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

”I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today” - Alex de Waal

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“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find

The starvation crisis in Gaza is deepening under Israel’s brutal blockade and amid regular massacres of civilians attempting to secure aid at the only officially sanctioned aid sites, run by Israeli t...

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Krass analogi kanske, och jag menar inte att det är vad som sker i USA nu, men om någon föreslår ”en slutgiltig lösning” är det rimligt att göra motstånd och absurt att kräva en ”alternativ lösning.”

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Därtill analysen att Demokraterna är reaktiva (sant) och visionslösa (sant) skenar iväg något när reportern säger att: ”de har inga lösningar på migrationsfrågan.” Kan det inte vara så att problembeskrivningen skiljer sig?

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

USApodden (SR) översätter ICE till ”migrationsmyndigheten.” Tycker inte riktigt det fångar vad ICE är, inte heller förklarar det något om protesterna mot ICE.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

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Lund Academics for Palestine @luacademicsfp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is important and significant but Uppsala University, and all higher education institutions in Sweden, should also cut ties to Israeli institutions. Israeli academia is embedded and complicit in apartheid and genocide.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Received a Call for Papers for a conference. Participation fee is USD 200 which includes coffee breaks, refreshments at the venue, and “a CD containing abstracts of all presented papers.” A CD? Might as well offer a floppy disc!

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Det som tidigare verkat omöjligt har hänt. Jag håller med Hanif Bali.

Hanif Bali ifrågasätter beslutet att ersätta den nationella säkerhetsrådgivaren Tobias Thyberg. Bali menar att agerandet öppnar för att alla som någonsin skickat utmanande bilder på dejtingsajter kan bli utpressade eftersom det kan leda till att man förlorar jobbet.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 25/03/2025

the best I’ve seen

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Om du missade det så är detta instruktionerna ☝️ @jesperwiklund.bsky.social

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Stafettpinnen lämnades igår över till @jesperwiklund.bsky.social. Jesper, meddela gärna idag eller imorgon vad det blir för drink 🍹

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Ah, du hann kommentera innan. Instruktionerna finnes i separat kommentar :)

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Jesper, om du inte är bekant med konceptet: Allt du behöver göra är att välja en drink, publicera ditt val här på Bluesky, gärna med recept, och använd hashtag #drinkklubben. På torsdag blandar klubben din drink och lägger upp bilder. Nästa helg väljer du din efterträdare.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Dags att utse efterträdare för #drinkklubben, så jag nominerar min bror @jesperwiklund.bsky.social!

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Kan såklart varieras på många sätt, t.ex. tequila eller vodka istället för mezcal. Tabasco istället för Worcestershire. Clamato istället för tomatjuice. Har man Tajin så blandar man med fördel det med salt och rimmar glaskanten. Det centrala är något tomatigt, något kryddigt och något öligt.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

När det börjar bli varmare så börjar jag dricka Michelada! Nyligen hörde jag om Mezcal Michelada, så det blir mitt bidrag till #drinkklubben. Lika delar Mezcal och tomatjuice, lite limejuice, några skvättar Worcestershire sauce, och toppa upp med ljus lager. Gud vad törstig jag blev nu!

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Dåså, tack för förklaringen! Har en drink i åtanke, postar om en stund och taggar :)

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Jag kan nog acceptera nomineringen, men är inte bekant med konceptet. Någon som vill ge en briefing på vad jag ska göra/vad som förväntas av mig?

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Tack så mycket, Caroline! 💕

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Super excited to join the lambda nordica editorial board as book review editor. lambda nordica is an open-access academic journal of LGBTQ studies, the oldest of its kind in the Nordic region, and it’s been an invaluable resource in my studies so I’m thrilled to be part of developing it further!

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The latest meltdown on “the other app” shows both what it could be at its best (a place to find out about really cool new research and connect with the cool people behind it) and what it has become (hordes of bots and trolls harassing a young female scholar for daring to be proud of her achievement)

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Youssef Chouhoud @chouhoud.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Friends, my colleague has an amazing student who got accepted to an Ivy League MA program in international affairs: A Palestinian, first-gen, Muslim woman. The cost of the program is prohibitive. Can anyone point me to funding sources that can help cover her tuition? #menasky #poliscisky

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

After spending too much time on “the other app” coming here is such a breath of fresh air. Rather than genocide apologia and bots, my timeline here is filled with Palestinian voices, solidarity, and good politics.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Returning to Egypt for the first time in five years, this spring. Will be a visiting PhD student at the Center for Economic, Legal and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) in Garden City. All my Egyptian friends, hit me up if you are in town in March/April/May.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

”As Palestinian queers, our struggle is not only against social injustice and our rights as a queer minority in Palestinian society, but rather, our main struggle is one against Israel’s colonization, occupation and apartheid; a system that has oppressed us for the past 75 years" - PQBDS

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Rola El-Husseini @rola-husseini.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Scott Long uploaded his entire library of books on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf and epub). It's a little over 1700 books. Nearly all are in English. You can download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13 GB). And feel free to share this.

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Palestine - Israel - Google Drive

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Preparing slides for my students in Intro to Middle Eastern Studies. Gonna talk about (among other things) sex and Orientalism.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Going to ISA in San Francisco in April 🤩 Super excited as this will be my first non-MESA conference in the US, and my first time on the west coast.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

My hearing-impaired self really love Americans for the fact that they speak so loudly!

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Oh, sounds interesting! Maybe I can draw some inspiration. I’m teaching two units on a course called “Political Cinéma” next semester, one on gender & sexuality and one on postcolonial cinema. Would you mind sharing the syllabus?

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

The app formerly known as Twitter just announced they will remove the block feature. Expecting user experience to take a dive so I’m hoping that Bluesky will take off instead.

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

As of today, I am officially allowed to officiate weddings in Sweden!

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Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Was asked to write a chapter for a handbook. Was a bit embarrassed that I handed in my first draft a few days after the given deadline. Turned out I was the first one to submit, and six months later there are still four contributors who have not submitted theirs. Must be stressful being an editor!

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