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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

@simonwfuchs.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com

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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 10h
Ein Landtag, der nicht davor zurückschreckt, #Tillschneider zu seinem Vizepräsidenten zu machen, wird doch kaum kalte Füße bekommen, Siegmund zum Ministerpräsidenten zu küren. Es wird einem Angst und Bange in dieser Zeit der Steigbügelhalter.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our edited volume (with Thomas Pierret) "Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa" (Edinburgh UP, 2025) is now out in paperback - and available with a 30% discount! Check it out here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-utopian...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beiläufige Vernichtungsdrohungen vor der UN. #Iran
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Leaked reports, travel warnings, high alert: #Iran
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I beg to differ:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Back to April 13, with a twist. If the US is charging now, it's a bit hard to make the argument that Iran's toll/service fee plans are illegal.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In beautiful Nablus in the northern West Bank over the weekend, the home of famous Knafeh and soap - with it surroundings becoming a major hotspot of settler violence.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Whatever this entails, exactly:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Strange framing here. As if Israel was in any way reluctant to resume massive strikes on Iran instead of actively pushing the US to return to all out war.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Unser Gastbeitrag heute auch in der gedruckten Ausgabe der FAZ:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We are 20 days into the MoU-induced negotiations and Trump says: "They are scum, they are sick people." "To me, I think it's over." #Iran
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(1/3) Grateful for Ian Campbell's thorough and generous review of "Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa" (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) in the latest issue of Science Fiction Studies: the edited volume that @ThomasPierret and I put together is "well-framed, well-edited, well-sourced,
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My former colleague Johanna Pink (University of Freiburg) is hiring: two postdoc vacancies for her ERC Advanced Grant Project "TabA – Tafsīr beyond Arabic"⬇️
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ein Mitglied der israelischen Regierung:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Fwiw, Iranian sources "close to the negotiating team" dispute the accuracy of the Bloomberg report on the MoU. According to Tasnim, the wording of clause 1 (end to war on all fronts) and the stipulations regarding Hormuz are "not correct", without providing any futher details.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
On some websites, the good old internet still exists in 2026, inclusive midi background music:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Finally some promising news beyond the noise. May there not be any further hurdles for the MoU on the last stretch (what the outcome of the actual negotiations may bring is a totally different matter)!
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Welcome to the land of deep distrust and the kingdom of absurdity where nothing is ever agreed upon.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Tense calm" with the "minor" exception of Lebanon, that is (and Gaza, and Hormuz).
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Monitoring the situation"
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hier auch noch der ganze Artikel:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hab langsam den Überblick verloren - wer übt Selbstverteidigung gegen wen aufgrund von wessen Aggression?
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Reuters photographer Ammar Awad captured today in the West Bank the extent to which the forever wars/ceasefires of the New Middle East have become almost absurd (while claiming so many civilian lives in Lebanon/Gaza/etc.):
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Well...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Will it all be over as quickly as it began? The Revolutionary Guards have announced that they have delivered a "painful" response to Israel and that military operations have now ceased.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Here we go again - back at war, it seems after Israek struck targets in Iran ane missiles were launched from Yemen...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We are living in the weirdest timeline:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Things are looking pretty bleak this evening:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In this beautiful, AI-driven world we live in, another great and VERY helpful suggestion for a background image by PowerPoint for one of the slides I am preparing on Hyderabad - and the Congress Party's approach toward Indian princely states in general:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Covering #Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s (according to Augustus Richard Norton, Amal and the Shiʿa : Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon. University of Texas Press, 1987, p. 3):
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
(1/2) Fascinated by the caption to this 1979 photo (held at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library), which sums up pretty well the extent to which Lebanon and the Middle East is (still) often misunderstood: "Palestinian or Lebanese soldiers pose for a photo at Beaufort Castle
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Here we go: According to Tasnim, a source close to #Iran's negotiating team denies that the text has been finalized, contrary to what Axios and Bloomberg have reported so far. Once this is the case, Iran would let the world know via #Pakistan.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Waiting for the Iranian denial - required commitment to "unrestricted" movement in the Strait of Hormuz and some vague promises that the US will be discussing sanction relief and unfreezing assets (Tehran wanted to see at least the second upfront) is probably not good enough...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This Reuters photograph, published in the NYT today, gives us a good sense of how tremendous the problem of #Hormuz actually is. See: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/w...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Not a coincidence, I would think, that Tasnim just republished an excerpt from Mojtaba Khamenei's first message as Supreme Leader, dated 12 March 2026, in which he "advised" that all US-bases in the region should be shut down as soon as possible.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sorry, es hat ein bisschen gedauert - vielen Dank für Dein Interesse!
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
With Asim Munir not heading to Tehran tonight, we can safely assume that there is no breakthrough in the negotiation between the US and Iran. Back to an increasingly unstable and dangerous trajectory.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Es ist mittlerweile mehr als müßig, hier Sinnhaftigkeit/Strategie zu vermuten...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
One of the consequences of the war against Iran: places of Christian pilgrimage at the Sea of Galilee (Primacy of St. Peter, Mount of Beatitudes, Capernaum), brimming with groups and buses at normal times, are completely deserted.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
One of the consequences of the war against Iran: places of Christian pilgrimage at the Sea of Galilee (Primacy of St. Peter, Mount of Beatitudes, Capernaum), brimming with groups and buses at normal times, are completely deserted.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Here we go again: an entire region to be left in the dark what this will mean for our lives tomorrow:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
My @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social colleagues Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai trace the starvation of #Gaza over the past three years. Depressing figures and evidence, presented as moving visual storytelling: bearing-witness.com/starvation-s...
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Multiple reports and videos of anti-aircraft fire over West Tehran a couple of minutes ago: #Iran
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The astonishingly meager results after 6 weeks of war and a month of ceasefire according to the CIA, as reported by the @washingtonpost.com:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
With the region full of "ceasefires" that are hardly worth their salt and war(s) still on the horizon, what keeps me going is to teach (hopefully) meaningful seminars this semester that comprise both South Asia and the Middle East:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The mystery to what extent Mojtaba Khamenei is in charge continues: the Iranian President meets with him for 2,5 hours and the only information we get is that Pezeshkian was impressed by the "humble and deeply cordial" (motawaze'ane ve-'amiqan samimi) style of Iran's Supreme Leader.
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hier auch noch der Printartikel - und es muss natürlich Wiebke Iding heissen:
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
4x Alarm in den Emiraten heute, Verwundete in Oman, Trumpsche Drohungen, "Routineflüge" in Israel - "Operation Project Freedom" hat bereits eine Kette an Reaktionen angestossen, die unaufhaltsam auf eine Rückkehr zum Krieg hindeutet.
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