@rasmuselling.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian
”Resultatet af revolutionen var forfærdeligt og noget, mange iranere ikke ønskede. At visse monarkister blandt eksiliranerne forsøger at få opstanden til at se ud som en vestlig sammensværgelse, det er dog historisk revisionisme."
www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/kan-d... @rasmuselling.bsky.social
HVAD SIGER IRANERNE?
Har prøvet at samle udtalelser fra iranske systemkritikere, aktivister, civilsamfundsaktører i respons på Israel-Irankrigen. Spred gerne til #dkmedier og andre med interesse i hvad iranerne tænker om den frygtelige situation. Link i kommentar nedenfor
Spændende afsnit af Verden ifølge gram med @rasmuselling.bsky.social @pukdamsgaard.bsky.social og Anders Jerichow.
Altid en fornøjelse at høre tre vidende mennesker, der også giver plads til forskellige analyser og perspektiver.
www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/verde...
Hermed #dagenshelikopter. Dagens gæst er @rasmuselling.bsky.social
13.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Hvis man er interesseret i Iran, kan jeg varmt anbefale @rasmuselling.bsky.social's "Irans moderne historie". Den er fremragende.
Vælges lydbogen, vil man opleve Karsten Pharaos fine, fine oplæsning.
Jeg havde den sjældne og store fornøjelse at få lov at tale om persisk poesi i dansk radio: Layal Freije interviewede mig om at studere i Iran, om at oversætte persisk poesi og om Omar Khayyam for @radio4dk.bsky.social i programmet "Det Lykkelige Arabien". Lyt med: radio4.dk/podcasts/det... #Iran
26.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Jeg havde den sjældne og store fornøjelse at få lov at tale om persisk poesi i dansk radio: Layal Freije interviewede mig om at studere i Iran, om at oversætte persisk poesi og om Omar Khayyam for @radio4dk.bsky.social i programmet "Det Lykkelige Arabien". Lyt med: radio4.dk/podcasts/det... #Iran
26.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1So Olmert’s an anti-Semite - at least according to the brazenly distorted definition of that word, which has been weaponized across the world to crush freedom of speech for a year and half (and before that).
26.05.2025 06:55 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
26.05.2025 05:22 — 👍 2683 🔁 2138 💬 159 📌 342Godmorgen og velkommen som del af flertallet, Danmark.
29.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nu vågner vi op og indser hvordan det er at være en del af det globale flertal, der til enhver tid kan blive trynet, forulempet, skidt på og trampet ned af amerikansk imperialisme. Vi bør faktisk takke Trump-regimet og dets fanatiske fanskare i de amerikanske medier for dette wake up call.
29.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Vi glemte eller benægtede den pris, Undtagelsen kostede for utallige ikke-hvide, ikke-europæere, ikke-danskere, som aldrig blev begunstiget eller benådet af Reglen. For millioner af vietnamesere, irakere. “Det sker jo aldrig for os, USA’s bedste venner”
29.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Vi opfattede os selv som beskyttet af Undtagelsen for Reglen, fordi Reglen beskyttede os. Vi lullede os selv i søvn i den falske tryghed, som amerikansk imperialisme kastede som skygge over vores lillebitte land.
29.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Men DK har i al den tid tilhørt et mindretal. De, som meldte sig under de amerikanske faner: kapitulerede, servicerede det amerikanske imperium, fortalte os selv at vi var USA’s bedste venner, gav USA tropper til at dø i USA’s ulovlige krige. Fortalte vores børn at USA var verdens bedste land.
29.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I 70+ år har størstedelen af verden været udsat for US imperiets exceptionalisme. Netop denne selvforståelse som frigjort fra historiens tøjler, alt for egen vinding: at true sig til fordele, kuppe statsledere, bombe civilbefolkninger, anytime, anywhere. Den store Undtagelse, der bekræftede Reglen.
29.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0VELKOMMEN TIL RESTEN AF VERDEN, DANMARK
På prime time amerikansk tv siger Fox værten Watters: “We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history.”
Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
28.03.2025 23:01 — 👍 1340 🔁 421 💬 42 📌 50How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants.
US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
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The problem with the fascist Trump regime and its envoys is that they don't really care about stuff like Geneva Conventions or international norms and standards ushered in by the Pax Americana. So how do we even condemn them if they don't exist in the same universe?
28.03.2025 21:03 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote something for @thenation.com about Alabama PHd student Alireza Doroudi's abduction at the behest of Marco Rubio. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
28.03.2025 19:30 — 👍 85 🔁 37 💬 2 📌 2
It's like spearing a seal in a breathing hole but... Why is he not wearing a suit? And did he ever once say "thank you" to the people of Greenland for hosting that great big US military base since 1951?
28.03.2025 20:48 — 👍 328 🔁 75 💬 7 📌 0These are forced disappearances. The videos look exactly like those from any autocracy. They remind me of my work on forced disappearances and targeted killings in Egypt in 2015. If I learned anything from this research it's that being silent doesn't protect you from becoming a target yourself.
26.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 291 🔁 121 💬 4 📌 4Good accounts of modern Armenia? Preferably easy reads for travel purposes but ofc also very interested in the research-based lit. Many thanks for your suggestions!
14.03.2025 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reuters: SDF signs agreement w/ Damascus.
"...all civilian and military institutions in northeast Syria will be integrated within the state, which will thus take over control of borders, airports and oil and gas fields."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
NYC friends: I think this one’s worth it, even if you’re not much of a protester. The case seems very specific & individual, I know. But Trump’s seizure of this lawful resident—& celebration of it, w/ promise of more arrests to come—may well be a rubicon.
10.03.2025 19:01 — 👍 321 🔁 102 💬 5 📌 1Absolutely horrifying how freedom of speech and academic freedom is under massive assault in the US right now. Like it has been for some time across Europe.
10.03.2025 19:11 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really good news. We need everyone to move over here and abandon that other space permanently
10.03.2025 15:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
