@hizmir.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient. Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
My latest: A contribution to "The Political Economy of Dissent" volume edited by Peter Blunt, Cecilia Escobar and Vlassis Missos. Honoured to be included alongside scholars such as Noam Chonsky and Yanis Varoufakis.
My latest: A review of Michael Muhammad Knight's "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism"
jstor.org/stable/4883444…
The ReOrientations blog, part of the Critical Muslim Studies project, has published a pedagogical pack for teaching Islamophobia. The pack primarily draws on resources produced by ReOrient and the Critical Muslim Studies project.
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criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/teaching-isl...
Can't believe that the US political party that was OK with capitulating to committing genocide is OK with capitulating to fascism, nobody could've seen this coming
The fourth episode of the new season of Radio ReOrient is now available.In this episode Saeed Khan and myself take a trip to Muslim Sicily, via a new book edited by Nuha Alshaar and a contributor to the book, Shainool Jiwa.
newbooksnetwork.com/muslim-sicily
The third episode of this season of Radio ReOrient is now available! In this episode, Saeed Khan and Chella Ward sat down with Dr Aliyah Khan to discuss Muslimness in the Caribbean, drawing on Aliyah’s book Far From Mecca and ongoing important work in this area.
newbooksnetwork.com/aliyah-khan-...
The idea that US standing globally plummeted with that White House meeting is hilarious. It plummeted to "openly genocidal apartheid evil" over the last two years globally. That meeting just got it to plummet in the remaining like 25 Western countries that used to have shared interests with the US.
Ramadan Mubarak All!
Dallas fans, and Nico himself, will be haunted by this photo for decades to come.
#basketballsky #basketball
Saw a tik tok recently in which Gill Scott-Heron explained what he meant by "the revolution will not be televised". It is a liberal idiom pointing to change simply coming from within individuals. Reminds me of the third verse of J Cole's "High for Hours"
The revolution will be televised.
The second episode of the new season of Radio ReOrient is here! In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history.
newbooksnetwork.com/adnan-husain
"The UAE and Saudi Arabia" - which are both heavily involved in arming for the killing in Sudan "are positioning themselves to benefit from the fallout of the war."
Boycott the UAE. Boycott Saudi Arabia.
Frankenstein is being haunted by his monster.
Vance defending free speech in Europe while suppressing free speech at home is the same as Lord Cromer, in the late 19th/early 20th C. telling Egyptians about the rights of women whilst being president of the Men’s League for Opposing the Suffrage of Women’ at home.
Coloniality applied in Europe.
We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com
The first episode of the new season of Radio ReOrient, part of the @reorient.bsky.social project is now available! You can listen to the episode here:
open.spotify.com/episode/6JI0...
Choose 31 video games that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One game per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.
Day 27
#GameSky #VideoGames #gaming #games 👾🎮🕹️
Me in 1999: “That South Park movie was wacky, imagining an American imperialism so deranged that they decide to invade Canada in a crusade of censorship. 😂”
Me in 2025: 😐
Oh that is a scathing review! I throughly enjoyed Mishra’s “From the Ruins of Empire” (Age of Anger less so) so was hoping this would be a good intervention.
Brought to my attention by this excellent interview with the author:
youtu.be/el9cg_V-N_g?...
The book I’m moving on to…
The review I’ve been writing of this book has been submitted and accepted! I can finally move on!
Choose 31 video games that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One game per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.
Day 26
#GameSky #VideoGames #gaming #games 👾🎮🕹️
Legend.
"The halftime show was boring."
Look, you may not be familiar with the genius of Kendrick Lamar and couldn't quite hear the lyrics and don't know the backstory and the symbolism went over your head, but trust me when I say you'll want to read an analysis of it and rewatch. A true masterpiece.
thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight
Choose 31 video games that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One game per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.
Day 25
#GameSky #VideoGames #gaming #games 👾🎮🕹️
Choose 31 video games that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One game per day for 31 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just an image.
Day 24
#GameSky #VideoGames #gaming #games 👾🎮🕹️
