Amro Ali

The Palestinian Futures Fund - Leonard Education Organization The Palestinian Futures Fund is a higher education scholarship initiative led by university faculty and staff across the United States who stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom. As people of conscience at institutions of higher learning, we believe that support for justice in Palestine and free Palestinian futures

A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously!

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(HT @nsdoud on X)

New Generative Al Tools Available Gemini Google's generative artificial intelligence (Al) assistant, Gemini, is now available systemwide at the University of Minnesota. Gemini can: • Summarize information • Answer questions • Provide feedback on the tone of your writing • Create stock images • Assist with writing code • Brainstorm ideas

Cool, so the message from UMN to students is that they can use AI to summarize, answer questions, edit writing, and write code. This really doesn’t jibe with the university giving professors autonomy over how we want AI used (or not used) in our courses.

Voici mon article sur Hannah Arendt dans le monde arabe, publié dans le magazine français Philosophie. Vous pouvez également le retrouver sur mon site web.
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I have a piece (in French) on Hannah Arendt in the Arab world that has just been published in a special edition of the French philosophy magazine, Philosophie. Unfortunately, it is paywalled, but I'll later publish the English version elsewhere or on my site.
www.philomag.com/philosophes/...

Insane that Israel will be able to compete in the world cup and olympics while systematically murduring every Palestinian athlete.

thanks man, I just tried it and it didn't yield anything, but good to know about this for the future.

هو فين ممكن ألاقي مسلسل 'أهل إسكندرية' بتاع بلال فضل اللي اتمنع في 2014؟ في مكان ممكن أتفرج عليه؟

Next week in Bologna

The Al Saoud Library is a gem of Casablanca. Well-resourced and elegantly situated, it overlooks the ocean, a feature that should be mandatory for all coastal cities. It brings knowledge and nature into quiet harmony.

This is despite passport control being the first point of contact that sets the tone for your journey. Kudos to Oman and its beautiful people.

Passport officer at Muscat airport: "Welcome to Oman, it seems it's your first visit to Oman, hopefully it won't be your last," he said smiling. You see how easily hospitality can be done? This trait is becoming rare at many airports that greet you with frowns & interrogations.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

All I understood from this is that the Trump administration will be coming soon to the University of Buffalo with knives and pitchforks

Opinion | Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family

Unspeakable evil. "Twenty-four hours before she was killed, it was announced that a documentary focusing on Hassouna’s life in Gaza since the Israeli offensive began would be debuted at a French independent film festival that runs parallel to Cannes." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you.” - Cavafy #Alexandria

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits That would put America on the same level as China for espionage The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…

EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits

US sees biggest drop in Australian visitors since Covid as travellers avoid Trump’s America Almost 4,600 fewer people went to the US in March compared with the same time last year, according to government data

“Overseas arrivals to the US from all origins dropped 11.6% in March, the government data showed”

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Alexandria in an infinite loop 🌊

Brace yourself for public figures to be even smaller and more cowardly than you thought possible, and some neighbors and family, too. (Even if you thought they couldn't disappoint you any more than they have.) But we can't give ground. This is deliberate evil. They're testing how far they can go.

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded.

It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
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38. Once they finally took me to the medical center, the nurse took my temperature. She said "you need to take that thing off your head" and took off my hejab without asking my permission. I told her you can't take off my hejab and she said this is for your health. After a few minutes I put my hejab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen. 39. I had a third asthma attack at the Louisiana facility. Again, this happened in the cell and other woman knocked on the window to get the attention of the officers. I was told that the nurse would come to the cell to see me. She took me outside for a short bit and told me that it was all in my mind. She finally took me to the medical center but I was not treated for my difficulty breathing. The nurse left the room and didn't answer my questions 40.I had a fourth asthma attack on Wednesday March gth around noon. I used my inhaler and waited for it to pass. I was in pain and very scared but I didn't ask to go to the medical center because I don't feel that they address my medical needs. 41. I don't feel safe at the medical center because of my prior experiences there. They complain when I go there and speak to me in an insulting and condescending manner. They also write information in my medical records that is not accurate. The doctor and nurses there are rude and uncaring.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

This whole deportation of students in the name of stopping antisemitism literally makes everyone who is not a Christian white citizen unsafe. Including and especially Jewish people. And that some folks can’t see that is beyond me.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

And where, pray tell, do these expected beliefs come from? On what basis do you determine what a person's expected beliefs are? I'm sure it has nothing to do with ethnicity or national original, that would be crazy.

Where did U.S. humanities grants go? To projects from a baseball film to AI research From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now, the government has terminated those grants.