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Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.
Rubio just cancelled all of them
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Today's #MustReads:
Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid www.thenation.com/article/poli... by @elienyc.bsky.social
Everything @emilyctamkin.bsky.social says here about Trump’s executive order on antisemitism is correct. slate.com/news-and-pol...
31.01.2025 15:56 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin.
My latest in @thenation.com
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
Fucking hell
"The head of the World Health Organization...said he and his United Nations colleagues were preparing to board a plane at Sanaa airport when it came under Israeli bombardment.
"One of our plane's crew members was injured. At least two people were killed."
Egypt’s secret police, Homeland Security, continued throughout the year targeting all forms and shades of dissent, both online and offline, keeping citizens incarcerated in an endless labyrinth of fabricated cases, dubbed by rights lawyers as a process of “rotation”.
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
The board of the Istanbul Bar Association is under investigation for statements regarding the killings of Daştan and Bilgin, as well as the memorial in Istanbul, where lawyers from the Bar Association were also detained.
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News site T24 and journalist Seyhan Avşar are under investigation for a news story and a social media post, respectively, related to the deaths of Daştan and Bilgin.
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Dozens of people, including journalists, were detained during memorials in Turkey for Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, two Kurdish journalists killed in Syria by an alleged Turkish drone attack
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#BREAKING Kurdish journalists Nazim Dastan and Cîhan Bilgin were killed in a Turkish drone strike while travelling in their car in the Sirrin (Sarrin) district south of Kobani (Kobanê), northeast Syria, yesterday, on 19 December 2024.
Kurdish journalists Nazim Dastan and Cîhan Bilgin were killed in a Turkish drone strike while travelling in their car in the Sirrin (Sarrin) district south of Kobani (Kobanê), northeast #Syria, yesterday, on 19 December 2024 #Rojava
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No less than six (!) PhD scholarships announced at our fantastic department. 2 are open calls for anyone (+1 open call for Danish MA’s) and 1 is reserved for Turkish Studies in our Mid East Section. Please spread the word!
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PhD research grant from Orient Institut Istanbul
#menasky
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Terrific keynote address by professor Thomas Diez on why “normative power Europe” failed in the Turkish case (& beyond) at the opening of the 9th CEST Symposium in Copenhagen yesterday. Props to my co-convener @joakimparslow.bsky.social & symposium coordinator Reuben Silverman for making it happen.
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What made normative power Europe fail in TR-EU relations? In a keynote at #CEST today, I argued one overlooked aspect was the EU actors' mishandling of hegemonic strategies. Thanks @paultlevin.bsky.social @joakimparslow.bsky.social for the invitation (and the photo) @iratut.bsky.social
21.11.2024 22:24 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Important, devastating reporting by @cheesemanab.bsky.social
"The disruption suffered by children in Lebanon goes far beyond the physical, emotional and psychological ravages of war...The UN has warned of a “lost generation.”
Big news! We’re ready to launch first call for book proposals in our new Modern Iran series at Bloomsbury/IB Tauris. DM me if you have questions. Look forward to strong proposals 🙏📚
15.11.2024 15:03 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1All US based?
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Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately 'day after day', UK surgeon tells MPs - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-british-surgeon-tells-mps-account-nasser-hospital
14.11.2024 07:50 — 👍 163 🔁 83 💬 4 📌 9UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: “Israel’s executive & military leadership & soldiers have intentionally distorted jus ad bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.”
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