Join us on October 18 at 5:30-7:30 pm for Arabic Glitch: a book launch + AR exhibit at 6020 HSSB at UCSB. Taking from the virtual and bringing back into the material, Laila Shereen Sakr will discuss her new book with George Legrady , Constance Penley, and Sherene Seikaly.

I had missed this: among the many crazy and offensive Trump statements in recent days, he also told a right-wing website that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” which is a straight-up white supremacist/neo-Nazi talking point.

Twitter is unusable.

quoted in this!!

Hoping friends at Morgan State are safe. This is just so awful.

Hospitalisation of Iranian girl leads to claims against ‘morality police’ theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

An objective and not a partisan observation: The House Democrats are a bigger tent than the House Republicans — they encompass a wider range of constituencies and voices — and yet Pelosi managed to keep it all together.

This week, over 100,000 Armenians became refugees and the world didn’t really care. One of the last communities of indigenous Armenians turned into diaspora, like the rest of us. You have no idea how painful that is to watch, for children to always question where they’re from,…

Canada ambassador to the UN

It took 27 years for an arrest in Tupac Shakur's Las Vegas killing. Why? latimes.com/california/sto…

Our thoughts with Khaled's friends, family, readers, publishers, editors, agent, & of course Leri. What a loss to us all.

arablit.org/2023/10/01/wri…

Today in 9/11 case, FBI agent Frank Pellegrino is testifying about his interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in January 2007. This was called a 'clean team' process to get past CIA torture. But the FBI wasn't clean, as I explain in this 2018 article.

thenation.com/article/archiv…

#Guantánamo is most enduring manifestation of the US “war on terror.” It's materially and symbolically central to US #torture , war crimes, and other violations. This article traces legacy of the prison and military commissions across 4 administrations.

annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

I... don't think I've ever seen anyone take the House Oversight Committee to church before, but that's exactly what happened here.

On the anniversary of the death of Gamal ‘Abd al-Nasir, after whom I was named in the age of hope, I am sharing again this eulogy for my father published in 2014.
What is hurting you most? a cardiologist asked my father. The crisis in Syria, he replied. theatlantic.com/international/…

Just 11 adults are responsible for 60% of requests of ban books from school libraries nationwide, according to a Washington Post analysis of the 2021-2022 school year. washingtonpost.com/education/2023…

I respect and support innovation in science and technology. I am against theft, cheating, fakery, dishonesty, and equivocation. It’s not “fair use” to exploit pirated and unlicensed materials and profit from work without the creator’s consent.

Here to report a theft. I spent three decades of my life to write my books. The Al large language models did not 'ingest' or 'scrape'
'data.' Al companies stole my work, time, and creativity. They stole my stories. They stole a part of me.

All of my books were used, 30 years of work.