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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ignorance is productive for social orders, writes @karimeltaki.bsky.social (@rug.nl). Read more about how ignorance has been functional for diverse kinds of world orders to succeed: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag048

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My article on ignorance as constitutive of international order has now found a home in print. I argue that every international order, including the liberal order, rests on systematic practices of ignorance production. Do have a look if you haven’t already! doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

All international orders depend on systematic ignorance production. That’s what I argue in my fresh-out-of-the-oven @iajournal.bsky.social article.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Over the past two days, @kaoutarghi.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, to rethink the concepts of 'state' and 'regime' in the Middle East and North Africa.

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Are you a researcher working at a EU university? Are you fed up with our institutions turning a blind eye to genocide? Consider signing this. uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Something about the algorithm here feels off. Sure, it’s better than the racist sexist shithole Twitter has become. But it somehow manages to be consistently boring, keeping the spicy and interesting bits that do exist away from me. (Or is it me who hasn’t “trained” the algorithm to know me enough?)

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Wow, hunger really went rogue in Gaza. And that food! So rude of it to stop going in. If only someone would kindly tell it to go in and the dying to stop!

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Contemporary Levant @contemplevant.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: @karimeltaki.bsky.social reviews A lost peace: great power politics and the Arab-Israeli dispute, 1967–1979 by Galen Jackson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A lost peace: great power politics and the Arab-Israeli dispute, 1967–1979

Published in Contemporary Levant (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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António Ferraz de Oliveira @antoniofdo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Last few days to send us your abstracts! More below 👇

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue in Middle East Critique entitled 'Rethinking State and Regime in the Middle East and North Africa: Conceptual, Historical, and Methodological Clarifications'

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

رحل بشار الأسد ولم يأتِ بعد المكان والزمان المناسبان.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Putin has sold out Assad. The price will be paid in Ukraine.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A week was the answer. Thinking of all the Syrians, Palestinians, Lebanese, and others who have suffered under this brutal regime. I think we’re allowed to rejoice for a bit, though only a bit, before panicking about what comes next with the jihadis-turned-freedom-fighters controlling much of Syria.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

How long until the Assad regime collapses? Just days after Netanyahu's threat to the Syrian regime, Turkish-backed jihadis have taken Aleppo and Hama, with rumours of a coup attempt in Damascus. I’ve written on the need to see regional order as a continuous process of ordering—and…

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Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🚨 New article alert: I surveyed the methods and source selection of articles on Saudi Arabia that were published in area studies journals. What do we study when we study Saudi Arabia? open access link to the article 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Menasky

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A war criminal with no principles agreeing to a ceasefire in principle. Pending reservations on 'details'.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The rule of law, liberalism, and the LIO altogether are antisemitic.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thank God the left is in charge for now in the US. Can’t imagine how bad and inhumane things will become when the Republicans take the helm in two months 🥲

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Nothing says ‘rules-based international order’ like ignoring the rules when you and your allies break them.

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Arthur Duhé @arthurduhe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Since there is more interaction here, I'd like to take this opportunity to share my article 'A Brotherhood of Nations: Imagining the Nation-Based Order during the Springtime of Nations (1848), published a few days ago in @risjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/8)

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Omar Abolnaga @omarabolnaga.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I am compiling a starter pack with some of the most exciting people writing about MENA. If you want to be added, please reply to this post.

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Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm building a Gulf Studies starter pack! Send me relevant handles! #menasky go.bsky.app/RM9Y7Rm

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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Historically speaking, Israel is, in fact, Egypt; the area is filled with evidence of the presence of Egyptians. (We can keep doing this forever).

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

You watch Al Jazeera and Al Araby, and you hear that Hezbollah is reinvigorated and strong and making great strides. You zap to Sky News Arabia and Al Arabiya, and you learn that it’s actually the end of Hezbollah. What a schizophrenic Arab public sphere.

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’ve started dreading receiving WhatsApp messages from my family in Beirut. Every message now seems to inform me of an ever-closer airstrike by the IOF. This utter disregard for human lives continues and expands, with horror and terror everywhere in the capital and beyond.

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 09/11/2024

A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

During the 2017-21 Gulf Crisis, when Qatar 🇶🇦 faced severe sanctions by the so-called Anti-Terror Quartet, it affirmed its "sovereignty." Yet it also sought to expand and make permanent the 🇺🇸 al-Udeid airbase, hardly a marker of sovereignty. How can we make sense of that? 📲 doi.org/10.1080/1943...

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Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The end of the Cold War sparked debates about the decline of sovereignty, but today, this norm is increasingly invoked on a global scale. How can we understand this fall and rise of sovereignty? 📲 doi.org/10.1177/1369...

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