M. Christopher Low

Just signed a contract with the @uofupress.bsky.social for the publication of the volume I co-edit with @kmkentel.bsky.social, “Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City” 🎊

Congratulations! Tebrikler! We are so excited to work with you on this exciting project!

Super excited about the new MA we are launching next academic year (in September 2025) at Exeter. I have been reviewing loads of MAs elsewhere and designed a programme that helps both those who are looking for critical intellectual engagement, AND paths to career development.

How Business Metrics Broke the University In a recent interview with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo pivoted from his usual focus on the ideological biases of higher education...

Universities used DEI to attract students and then used the backlash to gut faculty power and faculty governance. And not enough people have noticed. www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

It's a bad sign that I, a US professor with two kids who will be applying to college in the next few years, am exploring the process of them applying to universities outside of America. The Trump administration is on the verge of destroying US higher education, where we have long been a world leader

Screenshot from Heller’s article in latest New Yorker quoting donors targeting faculty

Silicon Valley is coming for faculty governance. The vultures are circling the corpse of the neoliberal American university. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Today would be yet another good day for university presidents to loudly, collectively, & publicly start defending our institutions & industry. The silence is deafening & frankly, incomprehensible. What exactly are you waiting for? How many Columbias, Maines, & Johns Hopkins will it take?

The Middle East Center @uofuhumanities.bsky.social and @uofupress.bsky.social are pleased to announce the launch of a new book series, Transregional Middle Easts!

uofupress.com/series/Trans...

From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes Written byRaseef22 This post by Mohamed Yousry, was first published in Arabic by Raseef 22* on February 15, 2025. This edited version was translated into English and published on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement.  ( Global Voices ) –…

From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes

Congratulations, Marc!

What is the Middle East? I'm thrilled to announce publication of my hopefully provocative new Element!

What is the Middle East? I’m thrilled to announce the publication- and free download - of my new, hopefully provocative Cambridge Element on the theory and practice of regions and area studies. Get it now and let me know what you think!

abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

CFA: Journal of Global History development editing workshop — #AsianStudies scholars with an interest in global history should check out this new opportunity. Application deadline is March 1.

https://buff.ly/4hom5U7

Mysterious airstrip appears on a Yemeni island as Houthi rebel attacks threaten region The airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, which rises out of the Indian Ocean, could provide a key landing zone for military operations patrolling that waterway.

UAE building airstrips and ports around Red Sea and Horn is about far more than “Houthi threat to region”

apnews.com/article/yeme...

War, Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier This talk analyses the role that concepts of “nature” played in the context of Ottoman imperial governance in the Province of Yemen from its establishment in the early 1870s to the end of Ottoman rule...

Excited to join Leiden’s Yemeni Studies Lecture Series with Simon Fraser’s Thomas Kuehn!

January 27, 6PM (GMT +1) on Zoom

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

Congratulations!

How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science A stronger R&D base, they hope, will transform their countries’ economies. Will their plan work?

The Gulf states will drastically increase their spending on R&D to become scientific hubs

"That means no longer being seen as just a pool of readily available funds for Western universities. “We want equal participation and benefits"
www.economist.com/science-and-...

Next stop… Ubud, Bali 🇮🇩 🏝️ 🌺🌴🌿🐒🦜

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore

This looks great! Congratulations!

This looks great, and hopefully teachable!

Chinatown, Singapore

Hainanese Chicken Rice & Laksa

Masjid Jamae (Chulia), Singapore

Chinatown, Singapore

Kampong Glam, Singapore

Haji Lane, Singapore