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Omar Al-Ghazzi

@omarghazzi.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Every single word here rings true, and the fact that the suggestions here sound so radical is a real measure of how far gone we currently are. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-d...
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UK devolution must extend to its authoritarian universities
Institutions whose managers are unaccountable to their staff can never be truly civic universities, says Krzysztof Nawratek
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My new article 'Witnessing undone: silence, noise and the enabling of genocide in Gaza' is out with @ccc-journal.bsky.social as part of the special issue 'Palestine as Communicative Epistemology' share.google/5lyWNkp9r3tg...
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Witnessing undone: silence, noise and the enabling of genocide in Gaza
Abstract. This article examines the converging roles of legacy news media and official political speech in enabling genocide to take place in Gaza. Drawing
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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Thursday 19 Feb, 18:30: Join @omarghazzi.bsky.social , @desfreedman.bsky.social & @liliane11.bsky.social to discuss how the mainstream media has covered the war on Gaza and the ongoing dispossession and suffering of Palestinians forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 18/08/2025
New doctor! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @nsalem.bsky.social Salem who recently passed her viva. Her thesis is titled ‘Museums, Technological Imaginaries, and Subjectivity in the Future-Tense.' 1/2
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on Allgra Lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'. allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-sti...
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Do walls still have ears? - Allegra Lab
How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and speech in
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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Next up on panel 1: @omarghazzi.bsky.social from the London School of Economics and Political Science, presented on 'History and Memory.'
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We are recruiting two LSE fellows @lsemedia.bsky.social (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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LSE Fellow in Media and Communication
LSE Fellow in Media and Communication, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-align:...
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
These Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza are so depraved, so disturbed, that it's difficult to even know what to say 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
So we should not use this because "you don’t know where the data goes".. as opposed to data going to the likes of Elon Musk, which is totally fine :/ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek
Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state
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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
13 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Omar Al-Ghazzi (@omarghazzi.bsky.social). On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...
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Covering or covering up? Mediating the war on Gaza
CAMRI Research Seminar with Omar al-Ghazzi (London School of Economics)
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Hanna E. Morris, Ph.D. @hannamorris.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My book announcement is live! The official print release date is June 6, 2025 (with an earlier online release in April). Very happy to do virtual or in-person book talks for your class, department, speaker series, activist group, etc. - please reach out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of book with statue of liberty and a hazy sun following wildfires
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Just another day of Israeli occupation... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Israel admits soldiers used ambulance in raid on refugee camp
Families seek justice after a raid on Balata camp in the West Bank resulted in the death of an 80-year-old woman and another civilian
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"The demographic overhaul at New College of Florida is perhaps the first real-life attempt to counteract the so-called "feminization" of education": well, maybe the first attempt that's so brazen, but AA for men is a poorly-kept secret at many private schools. reason.com/2023/08/16/n...
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New College of Florida embraces affirmative action for men
In an attempt to make the student body more conservative, Christopher Rufo says the school is actively "rebalancing" the ratio of male and female students.
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Two private jets owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, release as much carbon as an Amazon employee in the US would in 207 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days
Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create
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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Day 3 of our @iasnuq.bsky.social 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass with @omarghazzi.bsky.social on historical methods @nuqatar.bsky.social
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
That's one way to say Israel is an expansionist violent settler state. Hands off Syria!
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"Palestine is most dangerous country.." what an outrageous and shameful headline that obscures that it's Israel that is killing journalists en masse www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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Palestine is most dangerous country for journalists, Reporters Without Borders says
Press freedom NGO describes Israeli killing of reporters working in Gaza as an ‘unprecedented bloodbath’
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Pics of scantily clothed Bashar Al-Assad are going viral on Syrian social media. Whether authentic or not, the point is that he is subjected to a public stripping of authority (& masculinity). Similar to the fairytale on the emperor's clothes, he lost his clothes as he lost power.
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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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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Disturbing that Saidnaya was also a party town. Families used to go dance, eat & drink in dozens of restaurants and clubs near this torture centre. This encapsulates what the fallen regime represents, how it hid its extreme brutality in plain sight and implicated Syrians in it.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Unimaginable. The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened. A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.” “What happened?” a woman asks “The Regime fell. You are free.” #Syria 🇸🇾 (🎥Credit: Galyarahal)
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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
JUST IN: Footage of Syria's rebels liberating secret underground floor at Sednaya Prison, where an estimated 150,000 Syrian civilians were being held without trials.
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
How good it feels to write the words 'the former regime'
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André Gunthert @gunthert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Amnesty international: «La population palestinienne de Gaza victime d’un génocide» www.amnesty.fr/actualites/r...
Amnesty International, This is Genocide
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Juliette Duclos-Valois @jduclosvalois.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
📣 On 04/12 from 12:30 to 2:30 the seminar 'Ecologies & the living in crises and wars', I coordinate w/ Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, welcomes @omarghazzi.bsky.social for a presentation entitled:«The post-conflict status that never arrives: Arrested futurity as Lebanese meta narrative» Pm me 4 Zoom link
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Visited Athens for the first time over the weekend.. Loved the urban detail and the familiarity of its Beirut vibes!
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 29/11/2024
This shocking ad has flashed up on the advert section on the @skynewsrss.bsky.social app. What an appalling and offensive advert. I did not press the link to ‘learn more’ but surely Sky can’t endorse this view of the UN org UNRWA. Does anyone know what this advert is even for?
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Random question to Turkish scholars, is it advised to refer to the country as Türkiye in academic research? Or is that performative?
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
188 Palestinian journalists killed in the last 14 months.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“I realized that all of these abhorrent offenses were done by people I knew from my university class.” In South Korea, a country with among the highest household internet availability in the world, deepfake sexual abuse has skyrocketed. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
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The Gendered Battle Over Digital Sexual Abuse in South Korea
Despite the country’s trailblazing laws, campaigners say more is needed to tackle the causes of a recent spate of pornographic deepfakes aiming to humiliate women and girls
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Glad to start my visiting professor position at EHESS in (snowy) Paris. My first talk today discusses the urgent issue of media coverage of war on Gaza @cnrs.bsky.social
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
My friend Camila Vergara (Uni. of Essex) has had her Eugen Kogon Lecture on “Corrupt republics: oligarchy, war, and the destruction of nature” on 20 November at Darmstadt Uni. cancelled, because her hosts believe she shouldn’t say what she thinks about the war in Israel-Palestine. #academicfreedom
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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My book, Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge, is out today from @ucpress.bsky.social! It’s a book about the politics of digital technologies and why they matter, for social justice activists and for all of us. Order it here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...
Graphic on black background with the cover of a book titled "Appropriate Negotiate Challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies". The author is Elisabetta Ferrari and it's published by University of California Press. At the top, "Out today" is written in bold letters. There is a QR code which links to the book's page on the University of California Press website.
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Dr Andreas Krieg @andreaskrieg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The images Israel has been producing on a daily basis for over 13 months will haunt the "liberal world" for decades
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“There are political actors who have been obsessed with the idea of fundamentally transforming American higher education, and they have jumped into the space made open by accusations of antisemitism” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Trump likely to use antisemitism claims to launch crackdown on US universities
Schools brace for cuts and investigations as the president-elect and his advisers make them a prime target of their ‘anti-woke’ crusade
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The mainstream coverage of this story has been (another) spectacular failure in journalism
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
i am continually aghast that we are witnessing the most widespread slaughter of journalists in modern world history and it is not topic A in the media industry. where the hell is the outrage??? www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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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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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
With every Israeli airstrike you scan in your head where family members and friends and their relatives live to know who to message first #beirut #warcrimes
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is today across the road from our home.. of course you wouldn't know or care that Israel is murdering many civilians and destroying neighborhoods if you believe media language on "strongholds" and "targeted assassinations"
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Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
UNESCO to demand protection for Lebanon's historic monuments, not least the ruins at #Baalbek, which are threatened by Israeli actions. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/07/u...
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Unesco calls for emergency session to protect Lebanese heritage sites
Israeli strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon have damaged and threatened several important monuments, while Baalbek remains in peril
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
America's backyard = Peru
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Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Social media have felt hostile for so long. I'm trying to remember what it's like to want to say something.
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