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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listen to the incisive analysis in this episode, then listen to the one on disarming Hamas. Then say thank you and ask @danaelkurd.bsky.social to record an episode on developments within the Green Line so we can get a fuller picture of what’s happening on the ground in Palestine.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You have caused profound and lasting damage to significant parts of my life. So forgive me if I find your displays of nationalistic fervor and celebration not merely obnoxious but deeply distasteful.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes?Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful Cries...

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nothing makes you confident about the field of political science than a cruise through the insanity that is psychology.The disconnect between the scholarly literature in psychology and what some therapists apply is fucking wild. It's more insane when you dive into the reductive shitshow that is...

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

لَا تَعْجَبَنْ لِلَئِيمٍ هَدَّ مَكْرُمَةً ... إِذَا رَأَى عَوْرَةً أَوْ كَسْرَةً وَثَبَا

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ladies, take your pick 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The new episode of Ghain is coming out in a few days! Here is a preview. We talked to Libyan Scholar Ali Ahmida about his book Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History. Stay tuned! youtu.be/twABcjcwbeI?...

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Teaser | The Forgotten Genocide in Libya under Italian Rule.

YouTube video by Ghayn Podcast | بودكاست غين

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Translation.They will bomb and target critical infrastructure in the Arab Gulf countries that opposed,and continue to oppose this ridiculous war. Fuck this reactionary messianic regime that has no place in the 21st century. Yes, you can be opposed to this war and still be against the regime in Iran.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hi, the chapter you submitted almost two years ago just passed per review. Here are 1000 comments. You have until August 30th 😱😱😱

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New worst sentence just dropped

John Fetterman “And now, I think Bill Maher said something very insightful.”

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In Germany this is called the otterbahn.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Who still argues the UK is a great power anyway? Lol

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

trump's iran policy is at 28%; even lower than his approval. D approval has to be near 0. Israel and AIPAC approve of Trump's Iran policy. Trump's Iran policy is the most salient aspect of his middle east policy now. If you are in a D primary, would you want to associate yourself with AIPAC? 1

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This... and it's not up for debate thx. youtu.be/Z4pgzvQjg3A?...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Grateful to @ghoshworld.bsky.social for this review of our handbook

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

And now, we can sleep comfortably knowing some semblance of divine justice was exacted tonight. Take that, you losers.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"...these developments do nothing to resolve what the BoP actually is: a US-designed architecture for managing Palestinians, not one for facilitating their self-determination." arabcenterdc.org/resource/ham...

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Hamas Dissolves its Government in Gaza, but the Board of Peace Remains the Problem

On July 6, 2026, Hamas’s Gaza government announced that it had dissolved its Emergency Committee, the body that has run the enclave since October 2023, and would fully transfer its administrative auth...

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nonsense. Complete Nonsense. FIFA needs to be cleaned up.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I always tell my Arab and Palestinian friends. Read treacherous alliance, and you will understand why this shady character isn't your friend.

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

How can we safeguard federal science policy decisions from political interference? Today, @jbd-phd.bsky.social, Joe Reed, and I have a new essay out with @knightcolumbia.org on reimagining federal scientific integrity, given progress and trials of past decades. knightcolumbia.org/blog/envisio...

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Envisioning Federal Scientific Integrity As a Tool to Protect Democracy and Fight Corruption

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Opposing an ongoing genocide our government is funding isn't some unreasonable purity test—it's a baseline moral expectation. Just as no progressive should tolerate Nazis, Holocaust denial, or creepy antisemitic conspiracy theories, no progressive should be comfortable with an ongoing genocide.Easy.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Very exciting news! Huge thanks to @danaelkurd.bsky.social for all the incredible work she put into this volume—and for having the patience of a saint throughout the process. 🙈🙉🙊

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This album’s release is closer to the moon landing than to the present day

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Friends: an exciting announcement for anyone into Middle Eastern studies. Starting next Sunday, Ghayn (غين) relaunches as a multilingual podcast hosted by yours truly. Episodes cover Arab democracy, the Italian genocide in Libya & Egypt's ideological history. Less hot takes, more depth.

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Society & Culture Podcast · بودكاست غين منصّة معنية بمناقشة أهم الكتب في مجالات العلوم الإجتماعية والانسانيات التي كتبت عن المنطقة العربية أو من كتاب وكاتبات منها.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There is just so much to unpack in Van Jones' tweet. What exactly is the expected base level stance on Israel if you are a moderate? Oh, country that is currently engaging in an ongoing genocide don't worry... We still support you.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I am all for a dynamic and diverse party. But fear mongering and deliberately mischaracterizing a significant portion of your own base isn't exactly an "energized" response.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/06/2026

They're saying the quiet part out loud now. Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly/Superhuman: “We’re doing a huge pedagogical upheaval in education,” she said, calling it a “burn it down moment. We’re just in the early stages.” Burn down higher ed without any plan to rebuilt. Gift link.

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Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We are so screwed...pack your bags, boys.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

زَلَّتْ بِيَ القَدَمُ النَّفُوسُ فَأَصْبَحَتْ تَبْكِي عَلَى مَا قَدَّرَتْ تَقْدِيرَا لَوْ كُنْتُ أَعْلَمُ أَنَّ الدَّهْرَ يَخْدَعُنِي مَا كُنْتُ أَجْعَلُ لِلْخِدَاعِ سَبِيلَا لَكِنْ خُطِئْتُ وَلَمْ أُبْصِرْ عَوَاقِبَهَا وَاليَوْمَ أَجْنِي مِنَ الخَطَاءِ غَلِيلَا المعتمد بن العباد

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For context. In Operation Cast Lead, Israel killed about 1400 people (1167 civilians). So Israel killed just as many people in Gaza during a supposed "cease fire" stage. Monsters.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

وَما أَهجُوكَ أَنَّكَ أَهلُ هَجْوٍ ** وَلَكِنِّي أُجَرِّبُ فيكَ ضَرْبي وَهَل عارٌ عَلى شَفَراتِ سَيْفي ** إِذا جَرَّبتُها في جِلْدِ كَلْب

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Watching Ahmed Jibril's 2004 Witness on an Era interview is such a disorienting encounter with Palestinian history. Beyond the narrative of a Syrian proxy emerges a formidable military strategist who sought an alternative to Arafat's ineptitude, only to become a Syrian gun for hire.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Great host. Great guest. Check it out.

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New It Could Happen Here @danaelkurd.bsky.social shares her family’s Nakba stories, the process of discovering an Israeli connection, and what she takes away from understanding intergenerational trauma. linktr.ee/ICHHpod

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A Foreign Affairs article titled "America has lost the Arab world" used polling data to argue that recent American policies had tanked Arab public opinion of the US. That is indeed true - but I would argue America never had the Arab world to begin with. arabcenterdc.org/resource/ame...

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America Never Had the Arab World: The Ruins of the Liberal International Order

A recent Foreign Affairs article by Amaney Jamal and Michael Robbins of the Arab Barometer public opinion project carries a blunt headline: “America Has Lost the Arab World.” Drawing on surveys conduc...

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

You really have to have a serious inferiority complex or a petty penchant for extrapolation and sensationalization to slip an unrelated paragraph into an article just to make a personal, thin-skinned point. I would link the article, but some people aren't worth the attention.

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luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The images from Gaza are unbearable.A grandfather whose only recourse is painting his obliterated family. A father visibly broken and barely holding himself together as his toddler can't recognize him after months of separation.Enough to outrage anyone with a modicum of human decency.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My analysis for Foreign Policy on the Board of Peace (gift link) Tl;dr it's a dangerous gift, putting it mildly foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/27/t...

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Trump’s Board of Peace Will Help Strong Countries Dominate Weak Ones

In Gaza, it will legitimize Israeli land grabs and ethnic cleansing.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

If you're a journalist who needs an expert to talk about events in southern Yemen, I've been following this issue on an almost-daily basis for close to a decade now.

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