Ksenia Arapko

meanwhile, every second person who i know in london right now has covid... dry cough everywhere, no one is masked, it's the start of university term.
good luck everyone.

54. Recognition, the United Nations and the Question of Palestine In this episode, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Professor Ardi Imseis (Queen’s Law School, Canada) for a timely conversation about international law, the United Nations, and the long struggle for

I was lucky enough to sit down with Ardi Imseis and discuss the law, politics and history of the recent Western recognitions of the State of Palestine for Called to the Bar: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Book cover of How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt Omar by Youssef Cheta

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance

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At least 48 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since dawn <article data-history-node-id="429575" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-48-palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-48-palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least 48 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 48 Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza since dawn on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.&nbsp;</p> <p>At least 13 of those killed by aid seekers, the report said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

At least 48 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-48-palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-dawn

🚨 Israeli naval forces have illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Communications have been cut. The status of participants and crew remains unconfirmed.

This is an attack on unarmed humanitarians. We call on governments and int'l institutions to demand their immediate safety and release

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian home, fell olive trees in West Bank There have been more than 2,400 settler attacks on Palestinian property since October 2023, with over 3,000 displaced.

There have been more than 2,400 settler attacks on Palestinian property since October 2023, with over 3,000 displaced.

Couldn't ask for a better person to undertake this adventure with 🥰

New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

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My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

Sending our love back, and hope our paths cross again asap! ♥️

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A few weeks into our one year of funded Mandarin language study in Taiwan!

We feel extremely blessed to be given the chance to learn a language that we've yearned to acquire, all while living and breathing it in a very special place.

To a year of Chinese, tea, and badminton!

I interviewed Flint Taylor, Fred Hampton's & the Chicago Black Panther Party's, lawyer who helped uncover the CPD/FBI's role in his execution and the execution of other members.

We discussed historical & present day policing issues in this piece:

truthout.org/articles/50-...

In a piece for @verfassungsblog.de I critique a recent Hamburg court decision that Marx is an enemy of the German constitution. (English translation out soon)

PRESS @dn_osama_rabee We are witnessing an unforgiving night in Gaza, as the occupation's airstrikes set the sky ablaze. 8:49 PM • 8/20/25 • 3.6K Views

Israel is conducting airstrikes on Gaza City.

Earlier they targeted an internet distribution site there and are trying very hard to prevent news from getting out.

here’s the full discussion on the tasks of literary criticism! on a paper of Leo Löwenthal’s—ft. Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Schachtel, Pinthus, Soudek

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Deleuze’s Newly Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent A newly translated edition of seminars on painting by Gilles Deleuze are chaotic and magnificent.

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson Listen now | Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute On Culture & Society

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric
Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio)
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/models-of-...

It's kind of an insane example to make, given the centrality of the wool and silk trades to European economic integration and industrial development. Even if you wanted to be a philistine about the value of historical scholarship, you could at least be competent at it.

State Capitalist Mutations under Trump 2.0 - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Economic historians may thus remember Trump 2.0 as the great accelerator of 21st-century state capitalism, a historically specific form of capitalism whereby the fusion of private and state capital re...

Handing over the hosting of @iliasalami.bsky.social from USyd - thanks to @garethbryant.bsky.social - to UQ - thanks to @shaharhameiri.bsky.social and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social with this piece of his on state capitalism as your catch up reading.

'Today, the opacity of the mechanisms by which sanctions work secures the impunity of those who impose them' - Jessica Whyte (2023)

Just a reminder for #historians that I am constantly updating this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical historical documents. Nearly 1000 listed from around the world in many languages!

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

A fascinating exploration of Chinese reception of Egyptian antiquity by our visiting fellow Tian Tian!

Now online: 'Geert Reuten: A Fond Recollection' by Marcel van der Linden.

49. The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change What are the consequences of the International Court of Justice's recent Advisory Opinion on climate change, especially for the small island developing States who spearheaded this initiative? Associ

Have you been waiting for the #CalledToTheBar take on the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change? Of course you have! And it's out! In it @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social speaks with @mwewerinke.bsky.social and Dylan Asafo, both advocates in the proceedings -
soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

"No-one takes responsibility," says Shim Jin-tae, an 83-year-old survivor. "Not the country that dropped the bomb. Not the country that failed to protect us. America never apologised. Japan pretends not to know. Korea is no better. They just pass the blame - and we're left alone."

Coming March 2026