Erik O’Barr

Tapping the sign: professors today have enough trouble getting students to *read* - let alone "stepping them in leftist dogma"?

(NYTimes says what?)

Here are some places to donate $$ to help. In south FL, there are places to donate provisions.

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It is a pet peeve of mine, but adding "neo-Ottoman" to a headline or book title is almost always just giving a thin coat of bullshit patina to one's argument.

There are times when the term has analytical heft. Those times are pretty infrequent.

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If the world was just Mick Foley would be the CEO of WWE

One Thousand and One Kisses is available for order on Amazon. Please use the links below to find your local Amazon marketplace. We'd appreciate it if you could recommend the title to your university or local library.
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First published in Istanbul by Amedi Publishing House in weekly installments between 1923 and 1924, these anonymously written stories blend humor and eroticism, offering saucy examples of early twentieth century romantic comedy.

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

So much going on. But I want to keep the continuous resistance of Boğaziçi academics in our minds. For their sake, for all our sake.

Today marked the 1166th vigil. Demonstrators are protesting a government-imposed rector, curbs on academic freedom, and the targeting of students and faculty.

AFAIK Weiss had a very successful undergraduate career in which she wasn’t silenced (and in fact was involved in campaigning against specific professors) so this is an excellent take

Remembrances from colleagues of Brinkley Messick (1946-2025)

Join OTSA on October 24, 2025, for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, from 12:30-2:00 PM CT via Zoom! northwestern.zoom.us/j/97676602573

A wide range of academic organizations has signed a letter calling on the Department of Education to reinstate the Title VI program. For those not familiar, Title VI funds foreign language and area studies programs. The funding has prepared generations of students for international work and research

Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West Turkey Book Talk #254 – Perin Gurel of the University of Notre Dame on “Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America’s Wife, America’s Concubine” (Cambridge University P…

New episode 💯💯

Perin Gurel on “Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America’s Wife, America’s Concubine” (@universitypress.cambridge.org)

The book explores the political and cultural history of Turkey–Iran comparisons from the Cold War era to today

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Congratulations to Samuel Hodgkin, winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize for, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism with Cambridge University Press. #ASEEESPrizes
See all winners: buff.ly/nwIZZjj

An incredible resource:

CHP Fights Back: 72 Hours of Tactical Wars Against Erdoğan’s Siege Thousands of delegates are pushing CHP to an extraordinary congress to outmaneuver a civil court that ignored the YSK, and the move inspires a legal challenge to annul the 2017 referendum.

A good review of what is going on. open.substack.com/pub/turkeylo...

Turkish state takes over Haberturk TV, 120 other firms in fraud probe The move effectively increases Turkish authorities’ control further over Turkey’s mainstream media.

NEW: Turkish authorities took over Haberturk TV + 120 other firms on Thursday and issued detention warrants for 10 executives on charges of money laundering, tax evasion and large-scale fraud.

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A great opportunity for Middle East scholars looking to workshop their first book.

Middle East Studies | Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press is running an end of summer sale with 50% off on all titles until September 8.

Check out Empire of Refugees and many brilliant books in Middle East Studies and other subjects!

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Middle East Studies Association The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Science invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Palestinian Literature and Culture

#Employment The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Palestinian Literature and Culture.

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Ando's work has highlighted how bad we are at defending the humanities.

Eg, "humanities classes are cheap to offer and more than pay for themselves."

Bro, THEY KNOW. That's why they want to double your classes and cut half your faculty. So they can take even more of that money for other stuff.

A Photographer’s Pipe Dream: Capturing New York’s Vast Water System In a new edition of his book Waterworks, Stanley Greenberg documents his adventures through the city’s 200-year-old network of reservoirs, aqueducts and sewers.

“Photographer Stanley Greenberg wants to educate New Yorkers, and everyone else, about [the NYC water system]. In 2003, he released Waterworks… Now he’s back with a new edition that puts a greater emphasis on the parts of the system that are hiding in plain sight.“

"Generative AI didn’t usher in any revolutionary improvement... yet many describe a dramatic disruption in wages & working conditions over the last two years [as] the marketing and pop culture of 'powerful AI' encourages & permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have."

We lost another inspiring scholar, RIP Messick. I’m grateful for your The Calligraphic State which made me (over)think several issues taken-for-granted about Muslim cultures 🙏

Another day, another letter begging my electeds to save one of the programs that made my career possible. This time, State Department programs at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Save the CLS scholarship and CAORC!

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If you’re a US scholar of the Middle East, you surely benefited from ARIT or ACOR or ARCE etc at some point. Time to speak up!

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

medieval illumination of a figure blowing a trumpet

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity.
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...

6.1 earthquake in western Turkey. Herkese çok geçmiş olsun

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