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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I expected more from the pop historians though
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Surely those people have some standards though? (maybe don't answer that question)
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The positive thing about the book is that it has immediately made every single other book I have read seem better by comparison. Completely worthless. It's really insane that people have given it good reviews.
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It reads like it took less than that.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first literary study of the Arab world’s Soviet entanglements, examining how Arabic writers have retold and reimagined their Soviet and Russian sojourns. Red Mecca by @margaretlitvin.bsky.social is now available. Learn more: buff.ly/saptvIz #Literature
Red Mecca: The Life and Afterlives of the Arab-Soviet Romance by Margaret Litvin
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Interview: I talked to the analyst Jaser AbuMousa about what life is like in Gaza today, and the devastation of his own family. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today
Nearly a year after the ceasefire in Gaza, the analyst Jaser AbuMousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'
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Fear and anger as university set to announce 'massive course and programme closures'
Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My first piece of writing on a new project, a biography of James Sanua, Egyptian-Jewish anti-colonial satirist of the 19th century. evergreenreview.com/read/the-his...
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The Historians of a Nation Are Not Careless Men
Evergreen Review
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In the bits of the today programme that I have heard discussing Ed Miliband's sanctions, they have interviewed a spokesman for the Israeli government, the US ambassador to Israel, someone from Labour Friends of Israel, and government ministers. No Palestinians or even Palestinian perspective.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Very excited to be part of this outstanding conference on the two Sudans in New York 9/18-19. If you’re in town definitely RSVP - tremendous lineup, critical themes. cshgcah.org/sudan/
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Workshop on the Two Sudans - CSHGCAH
We invite you to attend the upcoming Sudan Workshop, a two-day event dedicated to deep analysis and discussion of the historical, political, and cultural dynamics shaping Sudan and South Sudan. Regist...
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The first selections of Raja Shehadeh's archive are online. Including (eventual) his own diaries going back to 1967, his father's papers, and more. A hugely significant resource humanities-collections.exeter.ac.uk/dame/s/en/it...
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Open call for Sudanese fine artists from around the world to participate in an art project. Each selected artist will receive €800 to produce an artwork. Details and link to apply here: www.instagram.com/gz_kampala/p...
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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 12/08/2026
For the last 2 years, I've been directing a secret project, helping Raja Shehadeh safeguard the diaries he has written daily since teenage - literally millions of words, going back six decades. It's quite a story. Join us: > Thu 3 Sep > 3pm UK time > Free to register: llc.ed.ac.uk/raja-shehadeh
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From Palestine to Scotland: Celebrating the Raja Shehadeh Archive | Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World | Literatures Languages and Culture
Join internationally acclaimed Palestinian writer, lawyer and activist Raja Shehadeh on 3 September 2026 as he marks the accession of his extraordinary personal archive to the University of Edinburgh'...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m glad that there’s been more coverage of this, but I must also point out that we - the actual Lebanese - have been saying that Israel’s goal is to make south Lebanon unliveable for nearly 2 years. I said this myself multiple times. We are simply not believed *because* we are Lebanese.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 06/08/2026
“The paramedics Israel is targeting in Lebanon are volunteers — jeopardizing their lives not to earn a living, but to help in their spare time,” writes Mary Turfah. The risks they’re taking are clear. And they are offered the option to leave. Very few of them do.
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‘If I Leave, Who Is Going to Rescue People?’
In Lebanon, Israel’s bombs have wounded thousands, including my family. I visited the paramedics risking their lives to save them.
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eva lucía @evalucia.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
so excited for Nada Elia’s Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms, out from @versobooks.bsky.social on October 6. writers and reviewers let me know if you’d like an early copy!
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There should be no doubt: What we are witnessing in West Bank is a sustained ethnic-cleansing campaign that exploits every incident to escalate, as the world is preoccupied with the threat of economic ruin from another war initiated by Israel and the US. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
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Israeli settlers burn, vandalize two mosques in West Bank, reports say
Palestinian reports said heavy damage was caused to a mosque in Qusra, where settlers also vandalized and stole property from residents; footage and reports also showed settlers setting fires to farml...
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
From one of the Arabic lit listserves. Because why would anybody need or want to learn about Arabic or Islam right now? (To say nothing of the not “right now” reasons…) Petition to stop huge humanities cuts at Exeter: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Truth is a Mango "There’s a saying in Arabic, al-sidq mangah: the truth is a refuge. Or, as one of my cellmates pronounced it, in colloquial fashion: al-sidq manga. Truth’s a mango." Ahmed Naji on prison literature: asnaje.substack.com/p/truth-is-a...
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Truth is a Mango
I can’t think of any literary genre that lies as habitually about its subject, or is as artistically lazy while claiming authenticity, as prison literature.
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hope this doesn't turn into another British Library situation!
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
River of Jordan is a classic
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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
If you want to read an extract of my book, All Roads Lead to Rome, before you commit to buying, the lovely @jonnelledge.bsky.social has much of the intro in this week's newsletter! bsky.app/profile/jonn...
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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The paperback version of ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME is coming out soon! And with an even more stunning cover 🥰
The paperback book cover of All Roads Lead to Rome: why we think about the Roman empire daily by Rhiannon Garth Jones. A full colour statue of Augustus is in the centre of a lovely cream mosaic background. Quotes promoting the book say "A fresh look at how Rome still shapes the world today" from Jonn Elledge and "This book will change the way you think about world history" from Raphael Cormack.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
An introduction to our new book by editor Ibtihal Mahmood: arablit.org/2026/05/01/m... And you can sign up for serialized installments here: mayziadeh.substack.com
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May Goes On: (Re)-Introducing May Ziadeh
On May 1st—yes, May in May—the English translation of Sawanih Fatat (Musings of a Young Woman) by May Ziadeh arrives as the second title in ArabLit’s ERASED, NOT FORGOTTEN series, following Out of …
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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A tremendous loss. Muzan was a dedicated writer and activist of the Sudanese Revolution. Her writings and talks are invaluable portals of radical, liberatory, and transformative political thought. Here is a thread of some them:
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
What archive is that in? The Prefecture du Police?
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Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Finally a chance to see much-praised documentary ‘Khartoum’, streaming on BBC4 tonight and then on iPlayer (in UK). #Sudan www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Four - Storyville, Khartoum
Against the backdrop of conflict in Sudan, five Khartoum residents search for freedom.
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My review of Hannah Lillith Assadi's new book about her father and exile, Paradiso 17 www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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The dark shadow of Palestinian exile
Hannah Lillith Assadi’s latest novel, Paradiso 17, draws on her father’s displacement
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Giving a talk that will present some of the early findings in my research for a biography of James Sanua- Abou Naddara cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_eve...
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Raphael Cormack | “How Jewish was James Sanua?”
Raphael Cormack | “How Jewish was James Sanua?” Raphael Cormack, Assistant Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, United Kingdom In conversation with Jessic...
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I'm excited to share this new essay, which offers a glimpse into my current book project: a biography of Shaykh Imam. I hope this piece will appear in Arabic soon and if anyone has a story to tell about Imam, please reach out. I would love to hear it. 🎶 doi.org/10.1017/S002...
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
ArabLit Quarterly Spring 2025: GRIEF (PDF) The GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly brings readers & writers together into a space of shared rage, shared love, and a shared way forward. We share in the horror of seeing small children covered in the grime of cement dust and smoke; the horror of…
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ArabLit Quarterly Spring 2025: GRIEF (PDF)
The GRIEF issue of ArabLit Quarterly brings readers & writers together into a space of shared rage, shared love, and a shared way forward. We share in the horror of seeing small children covered in the grime of cement dust and smoke; the horror of manufactured hunger and deprivation; the horror of a whiteboard on which healthcare workers have written REMEMBER US. We share in the grief-rage of people kidnapped by governments, of climate collapse, of profit margins wedged open far enough to swallow people whole.
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Martyn Weeds @martynweeds.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Just finished the excellent ‘Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age’ by @raphcormack.bsky.social - a highly readable account of fakirism, spiritualism and occultism in the 20th century, approached through the lives of two key figures: Tahra Bey and Dr Dahesh.
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Happy US Publication date to HOLY MEN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC AGE. It's been a slog but it's finally here! @wwnorton.bsky.social wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Happy US Publication date to HOLY MEN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC AGE. It's been a slog but it's finally here! @wwnorton.bsky.social wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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