Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here β where he should have been safe.
The cruelty is endless.
March 1 deadline! Apply for our APSA MENA Research Development Group to workshop a paper toward journal submission, create mentorship networks, and build a cohort.
PhD students and other early career scholars of MENA politics (including Turkey!) are welcome to apply.
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Vivian Maier, Fire Escape Shadows
16.12.2025 18:12 β π 85 π 21 π¬ 1 π 0For obvious reasons the dictators are always ugly inside out and make one want to throw things at their depictions.
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Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Canβt Pardon Prince Andrew
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Canβt Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/
20.02.2026 20:00 β π 6675 π 1426 π¬ 83 π 49Another victory for General Winter
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From Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, or Book of Surprises, a 14th century Arabic manuscript compiled β and possibly illustrated β by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani.
09.02.2026 21:26 β π 82 π 12 π¬ 4 π 1Please support @thenation.com. Today, the magazine is suspending the publication of any writing that is not about Gaza, and there will be no pieces published that are not written by people who are in or from Gaza. In "A Day for Gaza," Mohammed R. Mhawish exposes the hollowness of the ceasefire.
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This is civic action.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
βWe hope to breach the silence that has descended around Gaza, and to do so by offering a microphone to some of the 2 million people whose stories demand to be told. We owe its peopleβand the hundreds of our fellow journalists who have given their lives to bring us the truth from Gazaβnothing less.β
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Over the years, Helen Giunaishvili (Ilia State University) has written four posts on the digitization of Georgian and Persian manuscripts preserved at Georgiaβs Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts.
Read more on our blog β¬οΈ
Liam is back home.
He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody.
(Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)
New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.
29.01.2026 21:17 β π 58 π 19 π¬ 2 π 3Wish I had more confidence it was anywhere NEAR "ending."
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Latest episode, from last week ππ
Adnan Khan on the growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports from Europe, the role of migrant labour in the sector, and the human toll
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turkeybooktalk.com/2026/01/20/a...
πΊοΈ Mehmed EΕref
πΊοΈ An Ottoman Map of #America, 1908 #oldmap #map
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Hundreds turn out for at least two demonstrations in Tucson, Ariz., including some 300 along Congress Street near Grande Avenue, January 24, 2026, to protest federal agents fatally shooting a
25.01.2026 02:56 β π 18 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0They are defunding science, education, and public health to provide billions and billions for ICE.
25.01.2026 23:11 β π 70 π 41 π¬ 1 π 0For the most part it seems to me that the people who dwell on Dearborn, or the Rio Grande Valley, or how Chinese or Iranian diaspora voted in California, etcetera, are doing so because they think it's one of the more respectable ways to launder racial disdain.
25.01.2026 22:40 β π 141 π 31 π¬ 3 π 0New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate facing deportation, βis a New Yorkerβ who should be allowed to remain in the city.
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They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.
-AimΓ© CΓ©saire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
Why is he still writing? Why??
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Careful out there
ICE makes multiple arrests in Tucson Friday, including outside a school
They consider (or want) their base to be the "good billionaires"...if they should ever find such people.
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Insightful. Iran encircled by "Competing death cults" π±
Iranβs Three-Body Problem www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals π¦ββ¬πͺΊ
bbc.com/travel/artic...
This is really, really great.
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