Unpopular take from watching highlights: the DNC (and it coverage) was a mirror image of the RNC, including people bragging about being billionaires and cringe-worthy celebrity stunts. 🥸🫣 And gaslighting the genocide of 🇵🇸 Palestinians, of course.

I don’t want the most lethal fighting force in the world, I want to go to the doctor.

If you need a palate cleanse after all the DNC coverage, here is a May Day illustration in the 🇩🇿Algerian newspaper, Alger Républicain, from 1964. Long live the the union between the workers and the fellahin!

I'm thrilled to be a fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb in Tunis 🇹🇳 for the next seven months. Looking forward to having some time to continue researching the history of sociology in the post-colonial Maghreb (as well as 🇩🇿 Algerian debates on Fanon) w/a fantastic group of scholars.

Take Two: I revisted the Palestine Poster Project Archives. Put together by Dan Walsh while undertaking a Masters degree, the archive continues to grow.

My reaction when French 🇫🇷 people insist on serving my homemade hummus 😋 on a blini (which is basically a glorified pancake 🥞). 😳😱

Everyone should read Sara Rahnama’s amazing work (and aspire to be as cool as she is!). I do both of these things :)

While I'm posting about amazing colleagues working on 🇩🇿, I'm really looking forward to reading this! Congrats Terrence Peterson!

The kernel of Hizbullah was formed in 1982 after Lebanese fascists aided and abetter by Israeli units under the command of Ariel Sharon raped, disemboweled and massacred thousands of Palestinians and working class Shi'a in Sabra and Shatila, Beirut. 1/

New series on Gaza from Dar Tibaq: a set of reflections on Gaza by major Arab writers (Hoda Barakat, Adania Shibli, Jokha Alharathi and 30 more); a book of testimonies by Gazan writers; a study of Western attitudes towards Gaza by Marwan al-Ghafouri entitled Fascism for Beginners

It's still August. 🙈 I'm not ready for this fascism 2.0 on college campuses, (esp. NewYorkUniversity where Zionists are now a "protected class"). Rather than taking a 🏖️🌞 holiday like normal people, university ☠️ admins seemingly went to "police state" 👮🚔 summer camp?

Indeed. There is so much moralizing outrage at the state of academia and so little actual organizing (in terms of overall proportion of faculty).

Looking forward to listening to this! Am also a big fan of the podcast.