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Samar Al-Bulushi

@samar42.bsky.social
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Political Anthropologist @UCIrvine * New book: War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States and the War on Terror. 🍉

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I see so-called leftists out here aping the right, putting together lists, targeting signatories, continually posting incendiary bs. Have you lost your minds?
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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Solidarity 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.
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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So, 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?
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last 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...
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War and Peace in a Warming World w/ Samar Al-Bulushi, Adam Hanieh, Guillaume Long, Lorah Steichen
YouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN
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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
PANEL 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/ohafnco9
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Securing the Future? War and Peace in a Warming World · Luma
Panel Discussion and Live Podcast with The BREAK—DOWN. Co-sponsored by the Transition Security Project This event is part of the Climate Security Forum @…
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Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
For 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...
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US Policy toward Somalia: Regional Geopolitics and Somali Americans - Arab Center Washington DC
Experts discuss the Trump administration's policy toward Somalia and its regional and domestic implications.
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Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Grateful for the chance to be in dialogue on this topic!
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/08/2025
Breaking: 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.
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
American-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/j3foTp6
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Senghor, Asilah and “Afro-Arab Civilization” - ROAPE
Hisham 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…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
SCOOP — 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.
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US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement
A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We 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...
Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Congratulations 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
Text: ISA PEACE Best Global South Scholar Book Award Winner.
Image: book cover of Master Plans & Minor Acts.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
NEW — 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.
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Emails 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.
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Aparna 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."
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Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Looking forward to this event @LSE on Thursday!
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We 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...
Picture of a beautiful Black woman with black curly hair layered on top of her head, wearing a yellow V neck shirt against a grey background wearing traditional Sudanese silver hoop earrings. On the top of the image are the words workshops4sudan in yellow, followed by the words Transformative Justice, Wednesday April 2nd, 6:30-8:30 pm {EDT} Virtual {Via Zoom}. Rania El Muggamar Transformative Justice. Rania El Muggamar is a Sudanese Artist, Abolitionist, Community Organizer, and Social Justice Educator based in Tkaronto (Treaty 13). Workshops4Sudan Photo: Marco Kovacevic.
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
For @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...
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Khalil Case Shows How Migrant Justice and Palestine Solidarity Are Tied Together
The detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was made possible by the normalization of deportation.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Excellent 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...
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Elon 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.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"writing heartbroken"
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
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Sonia Le Gouriellec @morningafrika.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Deadly skies: Drone warfare in Ethiopia and the future of conflict in Africa: ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Deadly skies: Drone warfare in Ethiopia and the future of conflict in Africa
Drone 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…
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Jairo 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...
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On Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologist
by Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross)
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
SCOOP—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."
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SCOOP: 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."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
25 hours after Mahmoud Khalil was detained in a Columbia-owned apartment building — Khalil’s whereabouts are still unknown & Columbia has still not commented
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We 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...
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Workshops4Sudan – Sudan Solidarity Collective
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism with Davarian Baldwin, Johanna Fernandez, Sarah Haley, Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, on Tuesday March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/haymarketbooks/1611646
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Zack Stanton @zackstanton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A 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.
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Documents reveal how military contractors want to take over mass deportations
The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Brilliant 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...
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Islamic Studies · 17/02/2025 · 1h 9m
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The only thing I know about the Super Bowl is this.
Protestor holding up a Palestinian flags. Reads “Sudan and Gaza”
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Melissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Student activists wrote a pretty devastating article condemning JHU’s links with the military-industrial complex www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025...
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Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory researches efficient forms of genocide
Today, 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...
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
More than 500 #LongBeach students walk out in protest of Trump immigration policies #LBUSD lbwatchdog.com/more-than-50...
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More 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.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In 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...
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Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa
By 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
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grosmorne29.bsky.social @grosmorne29.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It’s publication day! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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The Anthropology of White Supremacy
An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropology
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Samar Al-Bulushi @samar42.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Grateful to @faisalahali.bsky.social for the invitation to engage his insightful questions about my book!
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A 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.
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Azad Essa @azadessa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
My 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...
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'If I must die': An anthology of a stubborn, brilliant life in Gaza
New 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
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Solidarity 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...
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Teamsters 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
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Check out an interview with Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson about their recent book "The Ethnographer's Way." newbooksnetwork.com/the-ethnogra...
Cover of The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design by Kristin Peterson & Valerie Olson. Cover features a dark purple background. There is a rectangle outlined in yellow enclosing the title lettering. Yellow lines extend out from the innermost rectangle, creating a gradient border that fades from yellow to purple at the outermost edges of the cover.
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Drop 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.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/11/2024
Chad 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
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News 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.
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Main link in OG tweet
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Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Smoke 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.
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SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Ending 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.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Human rights groups demand action on enforced disappearances in Garissa eastleighvoice.co.ke/northern-ken...
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Human rights groups demand action on enforced disappearances in Garissa
The activists demanded collective action to end the impunity with which state apparatus allegedly violate the rights of victims of enforced disappearances.
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