🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Thanks to the amazing editorial team of @merip.bsky.social 💖💞💖 020
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If you’re curious about how queen Elizabeth appears as a food blogger ranking Cairo’s best Koshari carts, or how Al-share’ beats Bashar Al-assad à la WWE style, check my latest article on AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital Kitsch with @merip.bsky.social www.merip.org/2026/08/the-...merip.orgArab AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital KitschAs Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the subsequent regional war reshape the Arab internet, AI-generated slop has emerged as a new form of digital kitsch and political fantasy fueled by precarious labor. 145
Reposted by 🍉نرمينS Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026If you have ever wondered how certain male family members got through life with the personality and moral compass of a wild pig, you will enjoy this podcast by M Gessen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThe IdiotTrue Crime Podcast · Series · The New York Times writer M. Gessen is widely known for their award-winning writing about totalitarianism, terrorism and the erosion of human rights. Now, M. is examining... 021
Reposted by 🍉نرمينZeinobia @zeinobia.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Egyptian X-File: What was that international conspiracy that Akher Saa issue no.926 spoke about? egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2025/07/egyp... 011
Reposted by 🍉نرمينInstitute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Chaired by Dean @mkraidy.bsky.social, this panel concluded with an engaging Q&A session. Don’t forget, we’re live at Booth #1 until 5:00 p.m. at the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan Building. Other panels for the day: bit.ly/4ky8RFt 032
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Always an absolute pleasure to think with thinking with this stellar group of scholars 010
Reposted by 🍉نرمينYezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Fresh from the press: my latest Carnegie paper: The Second Republic: The Remaking of Egypt Under Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi carnegieendowment.org/research/202...carnegieendowment.orgThe Second Republic: The Remaking of Egypt Under Abdel-Fattah el-SisiEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is building a new republic defined by a social ethos of “nothing for free,” a new form of state capitalism, and hyperpresidential powers set within a military g... 061
Reposted by 🍉نرمينUntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 20/01/2025How does a genocide sound? Amid bombs, missiles, explosions, what silences does it impose? And what sounds can an international solidarity front produce? How can one exploit reverberation, exercise echo? How can all frequencies be occupied to finally make the inaudible present?untoldmag.orgSonic Liberation Front: Radio between art and militancy in Palestine - UntoldRadio Alhara and other community radios amplify Palestinian resistance, blending music, politics, and global solidarity to challenge colonial violence. 0147
Reposted by 🍉نرمينWalid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Happy to announce that @untoldmag.org is now on Bluesky! Follow us, and let us know what you think of the content we are publishing. And if you want to contribute to the magazine, please get in touch! untoldmag.orguntoldmag.orgUntold MagTransnational editorial room hosting critical debates and coverage of the interconnected local, regional, and global issues that characterize our world. 012
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It is the good cleansing crying dear Shannon. The one of “I am not alone” and it is much bigger than me, operating on multiple levels. I think this whole current system needs to abolished as you said, we are far beyond reform measures now. The institution needs to be rethought and built anew 020
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I cried wallahi, the amount of none sense I have been coerced to do without any recognition is just sickening 120
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 19/12/2024“The whole thing is a supplemental gift economy that bolsters the industry’s bad business (and management, and pedagogical, and…) practices. We fill in the gaps of an unstable apparatus we didn’t design and would rather reform or abolish” 010
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 19/12/2024“yet the distributed, voluntary labor required to sustain those infrastructures isn’t written into most folks’ job descriptions.” 100
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 19/12/2024“manufacturing all kinds of tests and rituals and administrative labor to deem people worthy of advancement. The entire academic enterprise also depends upon these systems of external support and validation — support through external grants, external validation as a means of quality assurance” 100
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 19/12/2024“The entire academic enterprise depends upon reifying power differentials between ranks and classes, keeping people hungry to advance, cultivating jealousies and resentments, disincentivizing solidarities, 100
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 19/12/2024As a recently hired assistant professor in the midst of a genocide and unprecedented budget cuts, I read this and cried. What the hell are we doing in these institutions? 310
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 07/12/2024That’s great, and if you happen to remember any other texts please don’t hesitate to send it my way. الف شكر يا فيصل 000
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 06/12/2024@layalftouni.bsky.social @faisalhamadah.bsky.social if you have written anything related, would be so glad to assign. If not, would really appreciate your recommendations. It could also be a public writing piece, not necessarily academic 200
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I am teaching an MA course called “Experimental Fieldwork” and the students asked to read texts that focus on protests & social movements. Any recommendations that focus on students movements for Palestine either historically or contemporary? 111
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Also, maybe this is an important to process to collectively rethink, what are writing and who are writing for after all of these revelations 010
🍉نرمين @nerminelsherif.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Same here, and i guess everywhere, bas yalla let’s encourage each other. A writing group for resistance 110