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Tamir Moustafa

@tamirmoustafa.bsky.social
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Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. tamirmoustafa.com/books

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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Fantastic writing tips by Marcus Rediker. pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...
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Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated
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APSA MENA Politics Section @apsamena.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Just under 2 weeks to go for Research Development Group applications! Deadline is March 1. Early career scholars get detailed comments from senior scholars to help turn papers into journal submissions. Great feedback + mentorship opportunity! We meet Sept 2. Info: web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
❤️
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Someone’s working to monetize this with an app, no doubt.
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
More US academics are freaking out about the “department of war” than they are about an actual genocide being enabled by their government.
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Truth in advertising.
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I’m not on board with every statement in this piece, but it needed to be written and is well worth reading.
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Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Pretty amazing that the university president who on more than 3 occasions in the past 18 months called police onto campus to arrest faculty and students, started the new school year by telling students “Question those with the urge to silence or cancel others,” nyunews.com/news/2025/08...
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Mills takes the stage to welcome class of 2029 - Washington Square News
Kicking off her third year as university president, Linda Mills welcomed thousands of first-year students at Radio City Music Hall during two showings of NYU’s biannual Presidential Welcome Reality Sh...
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
RIP Sonallah Ibrahim: scoopempire.com/remembering-...
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Remembering Sonallah Ibrahim: The Novels That Defined A Literary Legend
Egypt has lost one of its most important storytellers. Sonallah Ibrahim, the legendary novelist whose books have shaped how generations see Egypt and the Arab world, passed away at the age of 88 after...
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A strange editorial that treats the new offensive as a misconceived, "unworkable" counterinsurgency strategy rather than what it demonstrably is: an ethnonationalist campaign of genocide which, within its own monstrous logic, may well be "workable". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Israel’s Gaza takeover plan: a destructive act that must be stopped | Editorial
Editorial: Benjamin Netanyahu has embarked on an operation that guarantees fresh miseries and will solve absolutely nothing
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Alexis Henshaw @profhenshaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Fondly recalling my own experience with NSF review... in which one reviewer questioned why fieldwork couldn't just be done on Zoom and another referred to feminist IR as not a "well-established body of research." 🫠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline - Volume 23 Issue 2
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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Concord NH
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Nailed it.
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
To be clear, this executive order does not “mistake” dissent for bigotry, it purposefully conflates the two. This toxic politics is at one and the same time anti-Palestinian and antisemetic.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I got an Egypt starter pack kicked off. I'm sure I'm missing many brilliant folks. Please flag accounts I should add! go.bsky.app/7ujBLzQ
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Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We noticed there wasn't a starter pack on authoritarian politics yet – Now there is! go.bsky.app/UFHn7sS Spread and ask to join!
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
It's touching to read all the tributes to James C. Scott and his scholarship. But I wonder how many political scientists paying tribute would reject his scholarship if they were reviewing it for the APSR, because it doesn't fit within the strictures of the discipline. It is fitting that he opened….
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
Polisky, this may be a long shot, but I wonder if anyone knows of an empirical study that examines how the peer review process may inadvertently work against some research methods while benefitting others. Here’s an example of what I’m after: Austin Ranney, the APSR editor in the 1960s…
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Polisky At moments like this, do you wonder why political science is so distant from politics and so obsessed with "value-neutrality"? This article helps to explain why. doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Polisky "I don't see why it's necessary to so flatly exclude large areas of our discipline." James K. Pollock, April 9, 1964, reacting to the draft policy for the NSF Political Science Program. For context, see "Political Science as a Dependent Variable" in PoP: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Polisky It’s publication day for “Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline”   I hope you’ll have a look and join me in considering how the NSF shaped political science and the social sciences more generally.
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Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
OMG, these allegations are bananas. Let’s see how this shakes out at the nytimes.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
"On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation
As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
The Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. For New Lines, she describes the whiplash of absorbing atrocities across multiple decades and reflects on worlds overturned.
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Memory Voids and Role Reversals
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Emily Tamkin on the anti-war movement on the Jewish left. “‘It felt powerful to be in grief with community, with people who are able to mourn both Israeli and Palestinian dead.’“ slate.com/news-and-pol...
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What the Jewish-Led Protests Against Israel’s Actions Look Like Right Now
At the White House, hundreds pleaded: “How dare you use my grief to justify killing innocent civilians in my name?”
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
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Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrate��...
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
An important statement from MESA on the unfolding catastrophe and academic freedom. mesana.org/advocacy/let... Menasky Polisky
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Middle East Studies Association
The MESA Board of Directors is heartbroken by the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives over the last week. There can be no justification for the targeting of civilians. We join our members directly a...
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Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
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Lack of water worsens misery in besieged Gaza as Israeli airstrikes continue
In the besieged Gaza Strip, 2.3 million people don’t have access to clean, running water because of Israel’s decision to cut off water and electricity to the enclave while pounding it with airstri...
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