Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiMT @madiha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I see so-called leftists out here aping the right, putting together lists, targeting signatories, continually posting incendiary bs. Have you lost your minds? 121
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiMT @madiha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Solidarity is not an easy needle to thread. There can be disagreements and debates, but what's happening is not that. Instead, it's trolling, targeting, and attack. You're treating flesh and blood people, many of whom have long solid histories of activism, as if they've committed high treason. 031
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiMT @madiha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So, I'm really shocked at the level of vitriol leveled against signatories of that Iran letter. In the wake of Jason Arday, this is how y'all want to deal with what should have been a genuine discussion? Really? 111
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiAdrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Last Friday I was lucky enough to chair a panel feat. very brilliant @samar42.bsky.social Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long and @lorahsteichen.bsky.social @transitionsec.bsky.social we talked about the links b/w climate and conflict, & how we build a more peaceful world www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ6X...youtube.comWar and Peace in a Warming World w/ Samar Al-Bulushi, Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long, Lorah SteichenYouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN 197
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiTransition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 15/06/2026PANEL EVENT: Securing The Future? War and Peace in a Warming World Join us at London Climate Week with @samar42.bsky.social, @adriennebuller.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long and Lorah Steichen. 🗓️ Fri 26 June ⏰ 6.30-8.30PM 📍 Science Gallery, London, SE1 9GU 🎟️ luma.com/ohafnco9luma.comSecuring the Future? War and Peace in a Warming World · LumaPanel Discussion and Live Podcast with The BREAK—DOWN. Co-sponsored by the Transition Security Project This event is part of the Climate Security Forum @… 1811
Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 09/03/2026For 20 years, Somalia has served as a laboratory for US-led unchecked forever war, yet has failed to garner significant critical attention & analysis. As bombs fall on Iran, now is the time to confront how decades of presidential over-reach got us here. arabcenterdc.org/event/us-pol...arabcenterdc.orgUS Policy toward Somalia: Regional Geopolitics and Somali Americans - Arab Center Washington DCExperts discuss the Trump administration's policy toward Somalia and its regional and domestic implications. 011
Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Grateful for the chance to be in dialogue on this topic! 0134
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl... 22614
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/08/2025Breaking: NBC reports that satellite images show troop movements and formations indicating a possible imminent major ground operation in Gaza. The network says it is unclear whether Israel intends to launch a new offensive or if the maneuvers are meant as a negotiating or pressure tactic. 38144
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiReview of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025American-Moroccan scholar @HishamAidi traces #Morocco’s role in Afro-Arab solidarity—first via the #Fanon-inspired Souffles publication (1966-72), then through the Afro-Arab Forum in Asilah (1980), grounded in Senghor’s vision of civilisational métissage. buff.ly/j3foTp6roape.netSenghor, Asilah and “Afro-Arab Civilization” - ROAPEHisham Aidi offers a compelling account of how Morocco became a key site for competing political and cultural discourses in support of African and Arab pan-African solidarity. He shows that a… 094
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.thehandbasket.coUS “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangementA State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same. 14941432303
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiNisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts. chuffed.org/project/work... 118282
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiThe University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Congratulations to Shakirah E. Hudani on her book Master Plans and Minor Acts winning the ISA Peace Studies Section, Best Global South Scholar Book Award and being shortlisted for the ISA Global Development Studies Book Award. Learn more here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAG. #AAG2025 063
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025NEW — Emails show Mohsen Mahdawi pleading for months to Columbia for help. He asked about an FBI visit to his home & a mysterious break-in. He also asked Columbia to publicly clarify a lie the Trump admin would later cite to justify detaining Mohsen. No response. He was detained a month later.zeteo.comEmails Show Mohsen Mahdawi Pleaded with Columbia for Protection for Months Before ICE Detained Him“Is this how Columbia cares for its students?” the green card holder asked less than a month before his arrest this week. 151062456
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025"The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced, 4 million of those to neighbouring countries." 013691
Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Looking forward to this event @LSE on Thursday! 074
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiNisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025We are excited to announce our second workshop4sudan on Transformative Justice with the amazing artist, organizer, writer and educator Rania Al Muggamar @raniawrites.bsky.social on April 2nd at 6:30 pm (EDT) Via Zoom. Sign up today!!! sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su... 04529
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiSilky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 15/03/2025For @truthout.org I wrote about Mahmoud Khalil’s detention, how Trump is capitalizing on the normalization of incarcerating immigrants to enforce his creeping fascist agenda, and why this moment calls for us to bridge across our movements for social change. truthout.org/articles/kha...truthout.orgKhalil Case Shows How Migrant Justice and Palestine Solidarity Are Tied TogetherThe detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was made possible by the normalization of deportation. 020675
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Excellent piece by two dear friends @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social & @themorningsnows.bsky.social about the cyber truck & its uncanny similarities to the Casspir, the tank by which the Apartheid regime brutalized Black south Africans during Elon's childhood. 1/ slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comElon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships. 5180104
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiSiddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025"writing heartbroken" 194
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.” 36056791813
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiSonia Le Gouriellec @morningafrika.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Deadly skies: Drone warfare in Ethiopia and the future of conflict in Africa: ecfr.eu/publication/...ecfr.euDeadly skies: Drone warfare in Ethiopia and the future of conflict in AfricaDrone warfare is increasing in Ethiopia and across Africa. These foreign-supplied weapons risk prolonging wars and can help drive governments further away from the West… 045
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 11/03/2025“As anthropologists, we are witnessing a doubling down on the discipline’s classical roots where a Palestinian woman can only occupy the savage slot–she can only speak as an object of research, through the colonizer’s narrative of her” www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...americananthropologist.orgOn Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologistby Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross) 24118
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."zeteo.comSCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm." 11787293153
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/202525 hours after Mahmoud Khalil was detained in a Columbia-owned apartment building — Khalil’s whereabouts are still unknown & Columbia has still not commented 8548242
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with. 121295485
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiNisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025We are happy to launch Workshops4sudan to raise funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan. Our debut series features the writer and abolitionist @williamcson.bsky.social and the organizer, artist and social justice educator @raniawrites.bsky.social. To sign up go to: sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...sudansolidarity.comWorkshops4Sudan – Sudan Solidarity Collective 1131118
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 17227
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiZack Stanton @zackstanton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.politico.comDocuments reveal how military contractors want to take over mass deportationsThe group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties. 144751484
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiDr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Brilliant interview on New Books Network with @samar42.bsky.social on her study of Kenya’s policies on and experiences of political and economic integration into the ‘War on Terror’: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...podcasts.apple.comSamar Al-Bulushi,Podcast Episode · New Books in Islamic Studies · 17/02/2025 · 1h 9m 001
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The only thing I know about the Super Bowl is this. 216245
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiMelissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one. 18084442186
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiStuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Student activists wrote a pretty devastating article condemning JHU’s links with the military-industrial complex www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025...jhunewsletter.comHopkins Applied Physics Laboratory researches efficient forms of genocideToday, the APL’s “mission areas” are still arms-racing, reflecting the US military’s paranoia of losing its absolute hegemony in science and technology. The APL supplies artificial intelligence, auton... 0135
Reposted by Samar Al-Bulushitreekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 08/02/2025More than 500 #LongBeach students walk out in protest of Trump immigration policies #LBUSD lbwatchdog.com/more-than-50...lbwatchdog.comMore than 500 LBUSD students walk out in protest of Trump immigration policies'My parents fought for my future, so I will fight for theirs,' read one student's sign. 532579
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiVeena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025In case you missed it, the US is now prioritizing refugee status and humanitarian relief for Afrikaners “who are victims of racial injustice.” 🤢🤮 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govAddressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South AfricaBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 53413
Reposted by Samar Al-Bulushigrosmorne29.bsky.social @grosmorne29.bsky.social · 28/01/2025It’s publication day! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...press.princeton.eduThe Anthropology of White SupremacyAn anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropology 1128
Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Grateful to @faisalahali.bsky.social for the invitation to engage his insightful questions about my book! 042
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiNisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024A few months ago some comrades and I put out a piece on Sudan’s counterrevolutionary war for which we interview 4 Sudanese and South Sudanese activists in Sudan/the region. We wanted to center the non-elitist, revolutionary voices of ppl who hve bn organizing agst the Sudanese state for decades. 45422
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiAzad Essa @azadessa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024My Latest: A review of Refaat Alareer’s book ‘If I must die’ The book pays tribute to a literary icon who looked to elevate the power of storytelling as a means to engineer a vision of Palestinian liberation www.middleeasteye.net/discover/ref...middleeasteye.net'If I must die': An anthology of a stubborn, brilliant life in GazaNew book pays tribute to Refaat Alareer, a literary icon who looked to elevate the power of storytelling as a means to engineer a vision of Palestinian liberation 0122
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Solidarity with Amazon workers as they take on one of the largest and most powerful corporations in world history to win basic dignity and respect on the job. We are with you all the way. teamster.org/2024/12/team...teamster.orgTeamsters Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon in American History(WASHINGTON) – The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19. The nationwide action f 04610
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Check out an interview with Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson about their recent book "The Ethnographer's Way." newbooksnetwork.com/the-ethnogra... 1328
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/12/2024🚨 Israeli tanks have entered the Syrian town of Quneitra, near the occupied Golan, from the demilitarized zone, accompanied by shelling of nearby areas. This follows increased IOF deployment in the Golan yesterday, and the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime today. 1721382
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan. 449343014670
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/11/2024Chad has said it is ending its defence cooperation agreement with former colonial power France, a move that will require French soldiers to leave the Central African country. 🔗: aje.io/wdtwyu 1332361
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiNews Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 29/11/2024@ABC: At least 75 people were killed in two air strikes in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, according to Gaza’s civil defense. abcnews.linkMain link in OG tweethttps://abcnews.link/fVCVSST 034
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiKareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Smoke and devastation after an Israeli strike hit a residential building in central Beirut early this morning, damaging buildings and houses all around. At least 11 people dead, relatives awaiting news of many more. 094
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiSUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Ending day 1 of #AAA2024 on a super high note, with a visit from Samar Al-Bulushi, author of War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror. 0214
Reposted by Samar Al-BulushiRemember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Human rights groups demand action on enforced disappearances in Garissa eastleighvoice.co.ke/northern-ken...eastleighvoice.co.keHuman rights groups demand action on enforced disappearances in GarissaThe activists demanded collective action to end the impunity with which state apparatus allegedly violate the rights of victims of enforced disappearances. 031