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What an amazing way to end this semester ❤️ - with a deeply moving discussion of Hope & Home in the Syrian Diaspora with amazing speakers, Sarah Bassisseh, Salma Flayhan, Alhakam Shaar & Wendy Pearlman, followed by a beautiful concert of Jaffa Trio (lnkd.in/dtYk5sx7) at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

🎆I'm extremely proud to announce a special @interactfu.bsky.social publication:

TALKING VIOLENCE - a new student-led podcast series dedicated to the many faces of violence, from its visible effects to its hidden structures.

Born out of an undergraduate seminar at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social's

The 2nd inspiring event in a row. It *is* not only possible but also urgently necessary to speak about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, especially at German universities!

Thank you Hanna Al-Taher and Caro Vargas for your clarity and courage to speak at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social today 🙏

Very much looking forward to tomorrow's discussion w/Hanna Al-Taher and Caro Vargas at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social on traveling antagonisms and the tensions between erasure and tokenization of Palestinians in Western academia!

📍18:00 at Thielallee 67, Berlin!

Cool stuff happening this week @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social - if you're in town, join us!

Mit @tagesspiegel.de habe ich über unsere Forschung zu Palästina-Solidarität und dem repressiven Umgang mit Protest in Berlin gesprochen. Vielen Dank an Andreas Busche, der dem Thema Raum gegeben hat - bei der Berichterstattung der letzten Monaten keine Selbstverständlichkeit!
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Next week will be busy! Join us at one (or all) of these events @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social:

14 July: Gaza nicht allein lassen
16 July: Silence, Surveillance, Solidarity
18 July: Hope and Home/Jaffa Trio

Way to end the semester!

More info: www.interact.fu-berlin.de

Ich freue mich, spontan bei diesem Panel @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social dabei zu sein:

Gaza nicht allein lassen. Solidarität und Handlungsoptionen in Deutschland

Mit Ilham Bani Odeh (Transaidency/ SAWA), Oren Ben Zvi (Friends of Standing Together) und yours truly.

14/07/2025, 18:00, Thielallee 67

INTERACT conversations #8 | 16 July 2025 Silence, Surveillance, Solidarity

🎆Save the Date!

The next event in our INTERACTconversations series is on 16 July 2025 at 6pm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social:

Silence, Surveillance, Solidarity: Palestinian Academics as Space Invaders in Western Academia

w/Hanna al-Taher and Carolin Vargas
www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/INTERAC...

Join us if you'd like for this talk about my joint research with @becomingothers.bsky.social and @thaddaea.bsky.social on Palestine solidarity in Germany.

Tonight, 18:00, via Zoom 👇

Sneak peak for our next @interactfu.bsky.social INTERACTconversation #8 with Hanna AL-Taher & Carolin Vargas on July 16, 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social on:

SILENCE
SURVEILLANCE
SOLIDARITY

Palestinian Academics as Space Invaders in Western Academia

If you are in Berlin: Save the date!

After the event is before the next event!

Next Tuesday, I will give a substitute lecture for my cancelled talk at Uni Witten-Herdecke on logics, drivers and dilemmas of Palestine solidarity protests in Germany. Not on campus but online, at the invitation of the Witten-Herdecke students!

Tune in! 👇

Very much looking forward to this @interactfu.bsky.social conversation on Solidarities between @myriahmed.bsky.social, Simin Jawabreh, @naikaforoutan.bsky.social and Ahmed Isamaldin on Thursday!

Wie sehen uns heute um 18:00 an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!

Join us next week at FU Berlin, Thielallee 67, 6pm!

More info @interactfu.bsky.social: share.google/Wn1JCgBQi7h5...

What does it mean for scholars to be in solidarity with struggles around them? How can academic engagement move beyond rhetorical expressions of support toward real practices of care, resistance, and accountability?

SAVE THE DATE for this event @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social next week!

My joint article "The Challenges of Mobilizing after Emergency Events-Linking Debates on Transformative Events and Human-Made Disasters" w/@myriahmed.bsky.social & İdil Deniz Şakar was just published! This was a major collaborative effort I'm very proud of! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Very happy to welcome @sarahbassisseh.bsky.social as a visiting researcher in the RG "Radical Spaces" at @interactfu.bsky.social! Follow Sarah's amazing work on the legacies of authoritarianism in Syria and their effects on political paticipation!
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Incredibly proud to see my joint article with @becomingothers.bsky.social on "Multi-Perspectivity & Ethical Representation in the Context of Gaza & October 7: Addressing the Semantic Void" published by DAEDALUS - the official journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, in a..

Third Space - frontviews Programme   Vernissage Fri 23 May 2025 5 – 9pm with Performance at 6pm Spells for Beginners: Summoning A Ghost Database by Theemetra Harizani   Wed 28 May 6pm...

Very happy to announce the exhibition "Third Space" at HAUNT in Berlin, which I am honoured to be part of as part of a collaboration with the visual artist Timo Herbst frontviews.de/exhibition.p...

As part of the exhibition, we are also hosting a talk w/ Timo Herbst, Rebecca Pokua Korang, @becomingothers.bsky.social, and me on 28 May 2025 on the fragility of images, the risks of testimony, and the ethics of visibility:

"Fragments of Solidarity: Ethics, Evidence, and Echoes of Resistance"

PROOFS PROOFS PROOFS 🥰

This joint paper w/my @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social colleagues @myriahmed.bsky.social and İdil Şakar links the debates on disaster events and on the effects of violence on protest by studying the aftermath of the Beirut blast, Derna dam collapse and 2023 Turkey earthquakes.

Expertisedienst

Expertise-Dienst zum #8.Mai: 80 Jahre Kriegsende und Befreiung vom #Nationalsozialismus.
Folgende Wissenschaftler*innen stehen honorarfrei für Interviews zur Verfügung:
www.fu-berlin.de/presse/exper...

Konfliktforscher Jannis Grimm, @jannisgrimm.bsky.social, Freie Universität
▶️ www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/... (7/15)

Out now! The introduction to our Special Issue on ‘South-South security cooperation and the (re)making of global security governance’ (with MM Mueller) is now out @ejisbisa.bsky.social

Available #openaccess at: doi.org/10.1017/eis....

Papers of the special issue out (so far) include 👇

Zwischen Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Palästina-Solidarität Article Zwischen Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Palästina-Solidarität was published on March 31, 2025 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 38, issue 1).

Im FJSB ist heute mein Artikel mit @becomingothers.bsky.social zu den Palästinaprotesten an deutschen Hochschulen erschienen. M.W. Wissens handelt es sich um die erste empirisch fundierte Studie zum Thema.

Darin untersuchen wir die Mobilisierungsdynamiken an..
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🔔Das Timing könnte kaum besser sein. Während Francesca Albanese in Berlin spricht, ist mein gemeinsamer Artikel mit Marcus Schneider zur deutsche Aussenpolitik erschienen!

"Staatsräson vs. Weltordnung: Gaza als Feuerprobe wertebasierter Außenpolitik im Globalen Süden"

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🔔Timing could hardly be better. As Francesca Albanese speaks in Berlin, my joint article with Marcus Schneider was just published in ZfAS.

To my knowledge it's the first study of the effect of Germany's stance on Gaza on its soft power abroad. (in German but worth translating)
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Today is a good day. Aside from a snowy Berlin, my joint article w/@myriahmed.bsky.social and Idil Deniz Sakar "Mobilizing after Emergency Events: Linking Debates on Transformative Events and Man-Made Disasters" about the Beirut Blast, Derna Dam Collapse, and Turkey Earthquakes was accepted!