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Soha Bayoumi

@sbayoumi.bsky.social
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Cairo-born, Baltimore-based academic: health humanities, Graphic Medicine, Egypt, Middle East, feminisms. Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS) Director of Fellowships | Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) She/They

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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
52. According to CNN, "there have been at least 52 school shootings in the United States so far this year, leaving at least 28 people dead and 48 others injured." 52. That's more than one shooting per week.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Whistleblower complaint confirming that the Trump Administration weaponized anti-semitism claims to attack and pressure universities #academicsky #highered
democrats-judiciary.house.gov
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That’s awesome, Armanc. Congratulations!
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“We have found, to our consternation, considerable groupthink within the professoriate on matters that are otherwise widely debated. This academic monoculture stifles heterodox viewpoints on disputed questions such as the safety of vaccines, the square root of four, and the earth’s topology.” 👌🏽
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/05/2026
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection.
propublica.org
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Honored and excited to work more closely with wonderful colleagues to explore new things the intersection of health/medicine and comics can offer and to amplify the incredible work done by artists, practitioners, patients, caregivers, and scholars in the field of graphic medicine.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
With all the hubbub around the Strait, you'd think *some* English speakers in politics or the media would know how to pronounce Hormuz...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What a shame! Therapy is NOT speech. The only dissenting voice, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote in her summary, "The Constitution does not pose a barrier to reasonable regulation of harmful medical treatments just because substandard care comes via speech instead of scalpel."
nytimes.com
Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
According to B’Tselem: Between 2023 and 2025, Israel killed 1,221 Palestinians in the West Bank. The vast majority by the military, with 31 killed by settler militias. Since the beginning of 2026, 24 Palestinians have been killed, including 18 by the military and 6 by settler militias.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
She was never charged with anything, and the people involved in her detention at any step should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their abuses. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/u...
cnn.com
Palestinian protester held in immigration detention for over a year is released | CNN
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman detained by immigration authorities for over a year after she was arrested at a protest at Columbia University amid Israel’s war in Gaza in 2024, has been released fr...
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
33 year old Leqaa Kordia has FINALLY been released after one year in ICE custody. (📷: @gazamom) Leqaa came to the US ten years ago on a student visa. She was detained for her participation in a Palestine protest, held 1,500 miles away from home, and kept in harrowing conditions.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Finally, Leqaa Kordia is free!
apnews.com
Last protester in immigration detention after Trump’s campus crackdown has been released
A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I’m OK with the Oscars snubbing Brigitte Bardot in their in memoriam segment #justsaying 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Yesss, Javier ♥️♥️♥️
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Not sure if this means where the plastic is coming from or where it’s going
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ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social @ithinkwellhugh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
PhD students: Use an agenda for meetings. Keeps meetings on track and deals with your questions. Download free template www.ithinkwell.com.au/resources #PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc #AcademicChatter
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/03/2026
Iran has notified UNESCO that U.S.-Israeli strikes have damaged two historical sites: Tehran’s grand bazaar and Golestan Palace, a complex in the Iranian capital known as the “Versailles of Persia." Follow live updates: wapo.st/40r8B3D
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/03/2026
A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i
A large crowd, amid which are two vehicles bearing stages and a small elevated monument with people standing on its platform. A headline reads: Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School. Photo by Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency, via Associated Press
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The NYT style guide
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 27/02/2026
Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.
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Reed Abelson @reedabelson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My latest: New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...
nytimes.com
New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
A belated congratulations, Christy!!
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
A moment worth recording: my first time getting 11/11 on the @nytimes.com news quiz. The sports questions usually get me, but since this time, they were all Olympics-related, I managed to get them all right! I guess I'm that competitive 😅 🏆 #newsolympics
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I love this so much.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
MAHA report written by AI and includes hallucinations. So. On. Brand.
washingtonpost.com
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Join us this Thursday at 6 pm ET for the next Center for Progressive Research webinar on US Empire & Global Justice, featuring Profs. Sa'ed Atshan and Sebastian Gil-Riano who discuss the place and future of the US Empire & the possibilities of solidarity www.progressiveresearch.org/events/event...
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#AcademicSky: consider adding your name to this letter of joined resistance for faculty from the 60 universities targeted by the Trump Administration--with around 5K signatures already. Faculty from other universities are also welcome to add their names as allies
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March 20, 2025 Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education: You are on the frontlines ...
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies is recruiting for the 2025-2026 fellowship supported by the Mellon Foundation. It’s a great opportunity for BIPOC/Queer scholars to connect, seek mentorship, and work in a space of solidarity and community. Spread the word!
bbqplus.org
Apply to the Fellowship — The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Please consider signing this petition to university administrators urging them not to comply with or abet lawless violations of human rights by the federal government.
docs.google.com
Please Sign This Petition on Behalf of Constitutional Rights
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
DOGE is terminating NEH staff and cutting grant funding. Please contact your representative to urge them to stop this. This link makes it very easy for you to do that. #Savethehumanities
p2a.co
URGENT: Save the NEH
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Thank you, MESA and AAUP!
theguardian.com
US academic groups sue White House over planned deportations of pro-Gaza students
Trump administration is accused of inciting ‘climate of repression’ and stifling free speech on campuses, including Columbia University
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Good news for Yunseo Chung!
nytimes.com
Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate
The administration has been seeking to arrest and deport Yunseo Chung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child, after she participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Horrific
theguardian.com
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank before being handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The horror resumes
apnews.com
Live updates: Hundreds killed as Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in ongoing talks to extend the Gaza ceasefire.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
How can a country that does this host the World Cup next year? No person traveling to the US is safe. bsky.app/profile/news...
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
MESA Board Statement on the repression of academic freedom in the United States
mesana.org
Middle East Studies Association
In the current national climate, as institutions of higher education and their mission of critical inquiry face unprecedented attack, MESA unequivocally supports efforts to stand up for freedom of exp...
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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Well, there it is folks. The official ADL position is support for Trump secret police to illegally detain and deport green card holders if they are part of pro-Palestine protests. If and when DHS starts doing this to citizens, count on the ADL to continue its support. This is who they are.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Donald Trump on eggs and other high-priced groceries: August 2024: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One." March 2025: "Shut up about egg prices."
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/03/2025
“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.” Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here: www.aaup.org/news/governo...
aaup.org
Governor Should Withdraw CUNY Interference
After New York governor Kathy Hochul earlier this week ordered the City University of New York to remove a job posting for a professorship in Palestinian studies, AAUP president Todd Wolfson is urging...
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
And this is how the @nytimes.com chooses to cover this scandal. Shameful!
New York Times headline featuring Trump and Zelensky reading “Showdown Points to Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution”
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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism. A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."
"Miami Herald article: Why were 2 people shot in Miami Beach? Suspect told cops that he 'saw 2 Palestinians' -- by David J. Neal"
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“If anyone should ‘not forget nor forgive’ one day, it will be the Palestinians, after 100 years of torment, including the prisoners who were released on Saturday,” writes Gideon Levy.
haaretz.com
If anyone should 'not forget nor forgive,' it's the Palestinians
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I'm baffled by his confidence about the feasibility of this illegal ethnic cleansing plan. Egypt and Jordan have been adamant in refusing this, and so has Saudi Arabia. Is this now just for local consumption by his base (which I don't think cares that much about this), or is something else going on?
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Soha Bayoumi @sbayoumi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Photo of protests from different cities. Caption reads: There were 50 protests at all 50 state capitols yesterday and the media isn’t covering it. YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What corporate media aren’t showing you.
borowitzreport.com
The Resistance is Here
What corporate media aren’t showing you.
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