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Maral Karimi

@maralkay.bsky.social
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PhD, Social Justice Education, @uoft. Lecturer @uoft @tmu Author: Iranian Green Movement of 2009: Reverberating Echoes of Resistance(2018) rowman.com/ISBN/9781498558679/The-I…

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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An open letter to Iran's political prisoners, signed by Angela Davis, Judith Butler and Rashid Khalidi, refused both the Islamic Republic's repression and the US-Israeli war. Susan Abulhawa responded by defending the regime. My response is in the slides.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I was honoured to write the summer feature for #Herizon, Canada’s leading critical #feminist magazine: “War in the Name of Iranian Women: Feminist Rhetoric, State Propaganda, and the Media Production of Consent.” herizons.ca/article/war-...
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War in the Name of Iranian Women
Why and how are the bodies and sovereignties of Iranian women appropriated and weaponized to justify imperial intervention and oppression? This article reflects on the logics of empire that deny Irani...
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Informed Perspectives @informedops.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Peace talks between Iran and the US continue this week. #CdnMedia, contact these experts for comment: Dr. @maralkay.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/4vetav8f Catherine Morris - tinyurl.com/356bwhzx Somia Sadiq - tinyurl.com/2f448a78
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
wrote this 4 @thewalrus, roundtable of experts on war w #Iran on April 6. Despite so-called #ceasefire, strategic asymmetry remains unchanged “For the Iranian regime, pressure is read as existential threat; concession is only possible if it extends regime survival.” thewalrus.ca/iran-war-exp...
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Experts Size Up Trump’s Options in Iran. None Look Good | The Walrus
US objectives appear increasingly incoherent
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Informed Perspectives @informedops.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"We need humanitarian intervention, we need policy intervention & we need to understand the agency of Iranian people. War negates all of that." @maralkay.bsky.social via Wendy Kaur @yahoocanada.bsky.social Media, contact Karimi @ tinyurl.com/3stwujwy #IranWar ca.news.yahoo.com/iran-war-its...
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Iran war: It's normal for Canadian-Iranian diaspora to disagree — 'Iranians are not a monolith' — but beware the 'war machine'
"No country spends millions of dollars to take out a regime just to leave it to the people to do with it what they want," expert Dr. Maral Karimi says.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 11/03/2026
Opinion: I wrote a book about resistance movements in Iran. This is what Canada needs to do now, writes @maralkay.bsky.social
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I wrote a book about resistance movements in Iran. This is what Canada needs to do now
Iran is not a monolith, nor is there a simple divide between good and evil.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My contribution to @thewalrus.ca on what the coverage of #IranWar is missing: External war does not automatically produce democratic transition. It can strengthen the very security institutions that suppressed the #WomanLifeFreedom movement. thewalrus.ca/iran-foreign...
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Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran | The Walrus
The questions that aren’t making it into the battlefield dispatches
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
From fears of a wider war to Canada’s stance under international law, what comes next after the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) and Jon Allen (@utoronto.ca), former Canadian ambassador to Israel.
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Can the U.S.-Israel Strikes on Iran Escalate into a Wider War? | The Rundown
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“I’m not comfortable with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu deciding who the good guys and bad guys are in the world.” — former Canadian ambassador Jon Allen (@utoronto.ca) on the attack on Iran, with @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) & @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
was quoted in @LeDevoir on rising U.S.–Iran tensions: U.S. intervention would likely begin w limited targeted strikes on nuclear sites not #regimechange, warning Iranian lives risk being instrumentalized amid escalating rhetoric & internal repression #IranProtests media2.ledevoir.com/images_galer...
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I sat down with Jayan Jeganathan @JeyanTVO of @TVO for an in depth conversation on #IranProtests, Trump's plans for Iran and the opposition. Watch full video tonight on TVO or later on YouTube (I shall post). Special thanks goes to @PreetiBhuyan for producing.
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Iran is going to be an extremely tough pill to swallow for [Trump]... he doesn't have an endgame in Iran," @maralkay.bsky.social (@torontomet.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social, tonight on The Rundown at 8pm | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I’ll be speaking live on CBC Radio across multiple regional programs discussing #IranProtests Starting 2:30 pm local time, airing coast to coast to coast, including Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Halifax, Calgary… You can listen on CBC radio live, by tuning into regional station #DigitalBlackoutIran
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
‎In solidarity with protests across Iran, Kurdish regions have gone on strike. As the images show, shops are closed, no foot traffic, and even street vendors have complied. ‎⁧‫#بژی_کوردستان‬⁩ ‎⁦‪#IranProtests2026‬⁩
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Elon is a fascist
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My latest op-ed on #Iran-Israel war in the @thestar.com "Western coverage often casts Iranians as a single, uniform bloc, either villains or oppressed. On the ground, however, reality shows a far more intricate, textured landscape." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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The Iran-Israel conflict is about more than just missiles. This is how Canada should respond
Why Iran’s inner turmoil, not its rockets, should guide Canada’s response.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Reporter: "How imminent is #Israeli strike on #Iran" #Trump: "I don't want to say imminent but it looks like something that could very well happen...#Iran can't have nuclear weapons"
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Downtown #Toronto right now! #Palestine #Gaza
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles amid immigration raids unrest
They city sees a second day of clashes over raids by federal agents on undocumented migrants.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
بیایید هر روز با خود تکرار کنیم: ⁧‫#تجاوز‬⁩ جنسی بیش از آنکه ناشی از نیاز جنسی باشد، تلاشی‌ست برای سلطه بر بدن «دیگری». دیگریی، بدنی، که در طی فرآیندی تاریخی از انسانیت تهی شده است. ‏تجاوز نتیجه مناسبات قدرت و سلطه‌است و نیاز جنسی نقش ثانوی داره.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Presenting my research @ the Canadian Communication Association @ 3:30PM today. Hope to see you there. Here is the title: "Reframing Narratives of Conflict: Media Representations of Bashar al-Assad’s Fall and the Moderation of #AbuMohamadal-Jolani" #Congress2025 @CCA_ACdC
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
جناب مستطاب فوتبالیست مملکت رسما اعلان کردن همه مردها می‌توانند متجاوز باشند (نهادینگی فرهنگ تجاوز) و برخلاف زمانی که زنها درباره آزارهای جنسی می‌نویسند، هجوم «البته نه همه مردها» را نمی‌بینیم (جنسیت‌زدگی و دفاع از ساختار مسلط مردسالار) ‏⁧‫#کره_جنوبی‬⁩
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I'm glad the uneducated members of the Right have learned to hide behind the word 'activism'. A term that represents the very ideals they fear: equity, fairness and anything that just may level the playing field for the marginalized.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
#نرگس_محمدی زن مقاومیست. متاسفانه تجربه مکرارا کارکرد فرسایشی جوایز و نشانهای بین‌المللی را نشان داده. برنده پس از مدتی تبدیل میشود به دستگاه صدور بیانه و مصاحبه‌های بی‌سر و ته. مثل این بیانیه زیر که فهرستی بلندبالاست از اصلاح‌طلبان حکومتی، تا آزارگر جنسی و مهره‌های امنیتی. x.com/nargesfnd/st...
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My thoughts exactly!
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Should we tell him that no political gift is ever free? #AirForceOne
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Everyday in #Palestine children are being slaughtered, maimed, and starved to death.... What is happening in #Gaza is not a matter of opinion. It is not complex in the way morality is made complex in order to excuse paralysis"
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
In light of #Trump's outright falsehoods, PM @mark-carney.bsky.social demonstrating insane amount of restraint not calling him out in his face!
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
According to #ElectionsCanada, a by election costs $1.7 million! Just calling out the price tag for #Poliviere's ambitions.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just when you think #Trump can't get any dumber, he resurfaces with something like this: The movie industry in US is dying not because other Nations r taking advantage of USians (why is Nations capitalized?) it's because of the very nature of Capitalism, which goes where it can find cheap labour!
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I guess everyone has a price! Even progressives like #AdamVaughan #ThemeSpa #OntarioScienceCentte
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is too delicious👇 Dear Woke Gods, is it too much to ask PP loses this one too?
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1- #DamineKurek: I was given a "mandate", which means he was ordered by #PierrePoilievre to resign. #Poilievre though says he accepted Kurek's "offer" to resign. 2-Why should the #Canadian tax payer pay for a career politician's failed ambitions?Canada just held an election and #Conservatives lost!
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
So #PeteHegseth’s next or is The Donald still pretending like that frat boy can be trusted with national defense?
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Perhaps @schumer.senate.gov and his ilk of letter writing #Democrats wouldn't be so ineffective and inept, had they not been complicit in the dissent of #neoliberalism and their support of the 1%. They know the limits of their politics and the doom that they help descend on the country!
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I study authoritarianism & have also lived under one of the most viscous ones: #Iran Cracking down on dissidents, anti-woke rhetoric, silencing of critical voices are all too familiar aspects of fascism & authoritarianism I hope USians know today it's #MohamadMahdawi & #Palestine tomorrow it's you
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CBC Pitchbot @cbcpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
BREAKING: Pierre Poilievre asks US President Trump for political asylum
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Donald, Canadians not only reject you and your hallucination authoritarian word vomit, they are also rejecting your opportunistic wanna be #PierrePoliviere #CanPoli
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Get out and vote today 🇨🇦Canada! And vote #Liberal if you want inclusivity, dignity, prosperity and enduring democracy for the country.
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Dr_MonkeyPunch 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇨🇦 @drmonkeypunch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Canada, don't trump yourselves. Vote Mark Carney!
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I guess it’s settled, Im not going to be at #MESA conference this year. “Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States | CBC News
The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it released updated travel advice today due to the "political landscape" created by the Trump administration and reports of some Canadians encounte...
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm teaching W.E.B Du Bois's "The Souls of White Folk" tomorrow. That's it, that's all.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
1-مسئله فقط بهاره هدایت نیست. ما با فضایی روبه‌روایم که نقد «خودی» را برنمی‌تابد، معتاد به کیش شخصیت است و به‌جای بحث بر سر محتوا، نقد را شخصی می‌کند. در چنین فضایی، گفت‌وگو خفه می‌شود و بازنگری غیرممکن می‌شود.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
1-مسئله فقط بهاره هدایت نیست. ما با فضایی روبه‌روایم که نقد «خودی» را برنمی‌تابد، معتاد به کیش شخصیت است و به‌جای بحث بر سر محتوا، نقد را شخصی می‌کند. در چنین فضایی، گفت‌وگو خفه می‌شود و بازنگری غیرممکن می‌شود.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Canadians born in Iran, Afghanistan turned away at U.S. border after Trump executive order on terror threats
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A good first step. Yet, I think this blunder by @MarkJCarney is as much about epistemic ignorance of sexism as it is about #Quebec. To mix up a most horrifying massacres of women at #ÉcolePolytechnique, is indicative of the speaker's gender blind spots www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney apologizes to Montreal massacre survivor running for Liberals after getting name and school wrong | CBC News
Liberal Leader Mark Carney named the wrong university as the site of the 1989 Montreal massacre on Tuesday — and flubbed the last name of the survivor who is running with his party.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
More evidence of @realDonaldTrump & co.’s commitment to #FreeSpeech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pro-Israel group says it has ‘deportation list’ and has sent ‘thousands’ of names to Trump officials
Betar US is among far-right groups supporting Trump effort to deport students involved in pro-Palestinian protests
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#MAGA Whining abt free speech yet their understanding of it: Witch hunts,unleashing #ICE on students such as #RanjaniSrinivasan 4 participating in pro-Palestinian protests,cutting grants 2 universities such as @COLUMBIAUNIVERS for allowing said protests www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Instead of using his platform meanningfully and asking #Trump & his 2 puppetts sitting to his left real questions, this dimwit asks wartime president #Zelensky why he "doesn't wear a suite", because many Americans take issue with that! Vein, superficial, and just plain inept.
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Maral Karimi @maralkay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dumb & Dumber! USians must be proud!
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