The Islamic Republic of Iranβs Chastity and Hijab Law and the Weaponization of Womenβs Economic Vulnerabilities
Iran's draconian hijab bill is now in limbo.This great piece by @kahal.bsky.social uses the occasion to do a deep dive into how women's economic gains have both empowered them & made them vulnerable to economic punishments seen in that bill. Must read! www.brandeis.edu/crown/public...
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same! it's been a (long) while!
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19.12.2024 18:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Beyond Assad: The Rise of Hayβat Tahrir al-Sham and Syriaβs Uncertain Future
This Crown Conversation with Haian Dukhan & Daniel Neep
is genuinely excellent. From misconceptions re: what Assad's fall means for the region to prospects for the future of #Syria, it manages to provide insight through the uncertainties. Great read. www.brandeis.edu/crown/public...
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YouTube video by Crown Center for Middle East Studies
Life and Death Under Humanitarian Law in Gaza and Beyond Source
A new Crown Center for Middle East Studies seminar recording, which Iβll be watching later: βLife and Death Under Humanitarian Law in Gaza and Beyond.β youtu.be/GESiDI4Ieck?...
16.12.2024 20:35 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Gonna try this here: #skystorians: What articles do you like to use to teach historical methods to undergrads?
I'm aware of the classic books, but I would like some shorter & accessible pieces.
Thanks! And please reshare!
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Iran's Kentucky Fried Chicken store first opened in 1973 but since it did not have the rights, it was called TFC Tehran Fried Chicken.During the revolution, they distributed free fried chicken to the demonstrators some of whom didn't accept it cuz of rumors that it was poisoned. Random fact for 2day
11.12.2024 11:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system
The textbook for Zrinka Stahuljakβs winter 2025 course is generated by the Kudu platform.
Huh? Isnβt this what weβre doing anyway? βinstead of a professor lecturing about historical facts β because those are all in the textbook β they can instead focus on things like βHow do we think about this particular text? and How can we think about it differently?β newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
10.12.2024 20:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βUnlike in 2016, when Iranian ground forces complemented Russian air support in the siege of Aleppo, neither patron demonstrated the will or capability to launch a similar counteroffensiveβ¦For Russia and Iran, Assad was their man until he wasnβt.β @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
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a small white dog standing on a wooden floor with the hashtag russellmadness
ALT: a small white dog standing on a wooden floor with the hashtag russellmadness
Reading US foreign policy experts pontificate on Syria and Iran is like watching a dog chase its tail but less funny.
09.12.2024 19:36 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Syria doesnβt have to be Libya, Yemen, or Iraq 2.0. Syrians will hopefully carve out a system that will bring justice, equality, and tolerance. I have no reason to doubt them. I do have many reasons to doubt foreign states near and far.
08.12.2024 16:24 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm reminded of how important it is to acknowledge the sense of release that such moments hold even as that emotion is full of foreboding & even if (or when) things take a turn for the worse. (Along with endless op-eds the titles of which @nytpitchbot.bsky.social has already written :-)
08.12.2024 09:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm writing about revolutionary joy in Iran 79, trying to separate post-revolutionary anguish & disappointment from the moments in which a people freed of a dictator felt a singular sense of happiness & possibility. With the toppling of Assad in Syria & release of long time prisoners
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The Backstory Behind the Fall of Aleppo
New Lines reports exclusively on the details leading up to Aleppo's fall
Here it is. With exclusive details & insights, our deep look at what really went down in #Aleppo - with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
02.12.2024 19:07 β π 82 π 40 π¬ 2 π 12
A guy gets up & says Hello my name is Igor. If everything is so good then why is everything so bad? A year later the same apparatchik goes to the same town & gives the same speech about how things are great in the Soviet Union. A guy gets up and says Hello. If everything is so good, where's Igor?
29.11.2024 09:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Listening to the Harris campaign staff on @podsaveamerica.bsky.social say they ran a good campaign but were defeated by time reminds me of my favorite Soviet joke. An apparatchik goes to a small town & says how things are great in the Soviet Union.
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Professor at the Middlebury Institute, member of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and former member of the State Department's International Security Advisory Board.
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Medieval/Early Modern historian of Iran, Central Asia and India at Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada
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Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean
Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
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Associate Professor of Anthropology β’ Author of Feeding Iran β’ Kinship and Migration, Religious Relationality β’ Politics and Life History β’ Views my own
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
I study the intersection of RELIGION & INFRASTRUCTURE
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Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Associate prof in Political Sociology UvAmsterdam #MigrantAcademics #media #migration #nationalism #Islam #Iran #diaspora #gender Former FWO fellow, member@AmsterdamYoungAcademy "Migrant Academics Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe"
