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Sham Jaff

@shamjaff.bsky.social
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Journalist. Berlin. Recently built a platform for journalism centered on Asia, Africa, and the Americas. gishty.com. There, I write different newsletters on what you missed from the “Global South”: (good) news and good literature.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Germany’s political debate right now is basically every party shouting at the public, “no, THEY’RE the ones who don’t take antisemitism seriously!!!!”
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Neutralität verlangt, Behauptungen fair zu prüfen. Sie verlangt nicht, der mächtigsten Stimme die meiste Sendezeit zu geben.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
how they text in Chile
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Stella @lecieldeparis.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Hauptstadtjournalismus dieser Tage
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 23/09/2026
This happens in the US too. The media reports on every crazy sounding thing Hasan Piker has said in probably thousands of hours of streaming, but Ben Gvir makes statements of genocidal intent over and over, to the point that the ICJ ruled on it, and nothing happens.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why does a statement at a Die Linke event become evidence against the whole party, while statements by Israeli ministers are so often treated as individual views?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For decades, major newspapers and broadcasters had enormous power to decide which political demands sounded reasonable. Social media has weakened that control.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When the topic of redistribution is treated as seriously as right-wing extremism, the political centre reveals what it considers most threatening: not the erosion of equal rights, but the redistribution of power and property.
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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wer "Ausländer raus!" und "Mieten runter!" gleichsetzt, ist nicht gemacht für das Amt des Bundeskanzlers. #Merz #Hufeisen
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you are relieved that the AfD did not win Berlin, I understand (me too). The Left came first, while the AfD received around 16% of the votes. But there’s something else that I’d like you to pay attention to. I think it’s equally important: who gets counted in Berlin’s democracy and who does not.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I haven’t met a Scrum master in a really long time. Are they still around?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has the worst PR consultants. This would have been an easy win. The threshold for artists is so low.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
SEO used to determine whether you were discoverable. Now AI systems may increasingly determine whether you exist in the information chain at all. Long live curation.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Save democracy” will not carry an anti-authoritarian alliance for very long if people experience democracy as unaffordable housing, collapsing services, insecure work and no sense of a future.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
For non-German readers following what is happening in Sachsen-Anhalt, I think this question matters far beyond Germany. Several countries are currently seeing the normalization and electoral growth of parties that are openly nationalist, anti-immigration and increasingly authoritarian.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Frage an euch: Welche Geschichte über Sachsen-Anhalt werden wir am Tag nach der Wahl wahrscheinlich hundertmal lesen, obwohl sie eurer Meinung nach falsch oder zumindest unvollständig ist?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Eventually no one is gonna believe anything on the internet once AI slop gets even more advanced. Welcome back, text. And factchecking.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I wish the right was right about there being a globalist left-wing network.
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der Freitag @freitag.de · 06/08/2026
Schon vor dem Kinostart tobte ein Kulturkampf um Nolans „Odyssee“. Doch all das verblasst neben einer Klage aus der Westsahara: Ein Filmfestival wirft dem Regisseur vor, auf besetztem Gebiet gedreht zu haben. Von @shamjaff.bsky.social (F+)
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Kann man die „Odyssee“ guten Gewissens schauen? Dieser Vorwurf spricht dagegen
Schon vor dem Kinostart tobte ein Kulturkampf um den Blockbuster: zu „woke“ besetzt, zu wenig griechisch. Doch all das verblasst neben einer Klage aus der Westsahara: Ein Filmfestival wirft Nolan…
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ich hätte einen anderen Titel gewählt, aber ich habe etwas über die Westsahara schreiben dürfen. Ein britischer Filmemacher durfte nämlich dort einen Film drehen.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think Big Take (the industry that’s forcing everyone to publish takes online without too much research because speed trumps expertise these days) is making us all a bit dumber.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
„Die Rechte queerer Menschen aus dem ‚Globalen Süden’ werden plötzlich sichtbar, wenn sie zur Selbstinszenierung Europas oder zur Abwertung migrantischer Gesellschaften dienen.“ Ja oder nein?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Eure Posts hier erreichen vor allem Menschen, die ihr mit einem einzelnen Beitrag vermutlich nicht überzeugen werdet. Sprecht stattdessen mit Mitmenschen, befreundet oder verwandt. Steht im Privaten laut und sichtbar für queere Menschen ein.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If Jesus can be white, Helen can be black.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I’m saying this very nicely but you have to stop treating Zohran Mamdani like a Kpop idol.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Dinner-party-ready facts” *cries in academia*
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
2026: even mannequins know the selfie angle
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It’s remarkable (not in a good way) to think that entire neighborhoods in my hometown Slemani in Kurdistan have been built to imitate European cities.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“You HAVE to watch The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm” Kurdish dads: 720p upload with Arabic, Chinese and English subtitles all on at once
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Arabs be like intelligence artificial.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
More and more people forgetting to stay in touch because they got distracted.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Danger Dan has the kind of danger level that comes with complimentary tote bags at literary festivals.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just how much are alien invasion movies/series a reversal of the colonial perspective?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That halftime show healed the world.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
He did itttttt
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Is everyone pretending “Country Roads” is about *their* country?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Imagine explaining to aliens that one of humanity’s greatest traditions is 80,000 people screaming “Freed from desire”.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Don‘t worry, Germany. Argentina is still in it. You still have a chance.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Is this a good time to tell you that Paraguay's ruling Colorado Party spans the spectrum from the centre-right to the hard-right?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hot take: ChatGPT will save intellectual elitism.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The cruel part of writing is that readers only see the final draft.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Remember the time when most adults didn’t understand just how much we relied on Iran not closing the Strait?
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Dear Peruvian colleagues, are you okay? This is a journalist's dream and nightmare at the same time
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Oxford, I’m coming for you 🤝
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Annika Schneider @wortschneiderei.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Die Journalistin @shamjaff.bsky.social will unseren Blick auf die Welt verkomplizieren – auf eine schöne Art und Weise, wie sie sagt. Ich habe mit ihr darüber gesprochen, welche Themen, Länder, Menschen viele deutsche Medien vernachlässigen und was Sham dagegen tut: uebermedien.de/116858/meine...
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„Mit Respekt und Neugierde“: Diese Journalistin schreibt einen Newsletter über die ganze Welt | Podcast
Im Newsletter „What happened last week?“ schreibt Sham Jaff über Teile der Welt, die in Medien zu kurz kommen – und über die Menschen dort.
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Übermedien @uebermedien.de · 26/05/2026
🎧 Wenn sie Nachrichtenmeldungen lese, habe sie das Gefühl, viele Orte auf der Welt gar nicht zu verstehen, sagt die Journalistin @shamjaff.bsky.social. In ihrem Newsletter schreibt sie seit 2014 über Themen und Menschen, die in deutschen Medien zu kurz kommen. uebermedien.de/116858/meine...
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„Mit Respekt und Neugierde“: Diese Journalistin schreibt einen Newsletter über die ganze Welt | Podcast
Im Newsletter „What happened last week?“ schreibt Sham Jaff über Teile der Welt, die in Medien zu kurz kommen – und über die Menschen dort.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/05/2026
Autocrats don’t just attack educational institutions; they seek to turn them into “a place that breeds the values of authoritarianism, suspicion, hostility,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat tells @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. Listen to the full episode of “Autocracy in America”: theatln.tc/4xDXZcjA
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I didn’t know Bob Dylan was still alive.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Pentecost is the least commercialized Christian holiday. Nobody also truly remembers/knows what it’s about (unless, of course, you are Christian or religion is important for you). Love it.
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I personally know people who write an article in 30 mins now using AI. It makes me feel so depressed.
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