Omar Al-Ghazzi

New doctor! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @nsalem.bsky.social Salem who recently passed her viva. Her thesis is titled ‘Museums, Technological Imaginaries, and Subjectivity in the Future-Tense.' 1/2

Do walls still have ears? - Allegra Lab How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and speech in

I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on Allgra Lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'.
allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-sti...

Next up on panel 1: @omarghazzi.bsky.social from the London School of Economics and Political Science, presented on 'History and Memory.'

Here is the link to the second post: LSE Fellow in Media and Communications (Global Media & Communications)
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We are recruiting two LSE fellows @lsemedia.bsky.social (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.

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In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.

There are no words.

These Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza are so depraved, so disturbed, that it's difficult to even know what to say 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...

So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻

Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state

So we should not use this because "you don’t know where the data goes".. as opposed to data going to the likes of Elon Musk, which is totally fine :/
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Covering or covering up? Mediating the war on Gaza CAMRI Research Seminar with Omar al-Ghazzi (London School of Economics)

13 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Omar Al-Ghazzi (@omarghazzi.bsky.social).

On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...

A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza Abstract. Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the f

The newly formed Editorial Collective of Communication, Culture & Critique stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We call on our colleagues to stand against Israeli apartheid and the effects of genocide in Gaza. 🇵🇸 academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

Cover of book with statue of liberty and a hazy sun following wildfires

My book announcement is live! The official print release date is June 6, 2025 (with an earlier online release in April). Very happy to do virtual or in-person book talks for your class, department, speaker series, activist group, etc. - please reach out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Israel admits soldiers used ambulance in raid on refugee camp Families seek justice after a raid on Balata camp in the West Bank resulted in the death of an 80-year-old woman and another civilian

Just another day of Israeli occupation...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

New College of Florida embraces affirmative action for men In an attempt to make the student body more conservative, Christopher Rufo says the school is actively "rebalancing" the ratio of male and female students.

"The demographic overhaul at New College of Florida is perhaps the first real-life attempt to counteract the so-called "feminization" of education": well, maybe the first attempt that's so brazen, but AA for men is a poorly-kept secret at many private schools.
reason.com/2023/08/16/n...

World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create

Two private jets owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, release as much carbon as an Amazon employee in the US would in 207 years
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Day 3 of our @iasnuq.bsky.social 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass with @omarghazzi.bsky.social on historical methods @nuqatar.bsky.social

Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.

The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

That's one way to say Israel is an expansionist violent settler state. Hands off Syria!

Palestine is most dangerous country for journalists, Reporters Without Borders says Press freedom NGO describes Israeli killing of reporters working in Gaza as an ‘unprecedented bloodbath’

"Palestine is most dangerous country.." what an outrageous and shameful headline that obscures that it's Israel that is killing journalists en masse
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Pics of scantily clothed Bashar Al-Assad are going viral on Syrian social media. Whether authentic or not, the point is that he is subjected to a public stripping of authority (& masculinity). Similar to the fairytale on the emperor's clothes, he lost his clothes as he lost power.

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue in Middle East Critique entitled 'Rethinking State and Regime in the Middle East and North Africa: Conceptual, Historical, and Methodological Clarifications'

📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’

Disturbing that Saidnaya was also a party town. Families used to go dance, eat & drink in dozens of restaurants and clubs near this torture centre. This encapsulates what the fallen regime represents, how it hid its extreme brutality in plain sight and implicated Syrians in it.

Unimaginable.

The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened.

A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.”

“What happened?” a woman asks

“The Regime fell. You are free.”

#Syria 🇸🇾

(🎥Credit: Galyarahal)

JUST IN: Footage of Syria's rebels liberating secret underground floor at Sednaya Prison, where an estimated 150,000 Syrian civilians were being held without trials.

How good it feels to write the words 'the former regime'

Amnesty International, This is Genocide

Amnesty international: «La population palestinienne de Gaza victime d’un génocide»
www.amnesty.fr/actualites/r...

📣 On 04/12 from 12:30 to 2:30 the seminar 'Ecologies & the living in crises and wars', I coordinate w/ Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, welcomes @omarghazzi.bsky.social for a presentation entitled:«The post-conflict status that never arrives: Arrested futurity as Lebanese meta narrative»
Pm me 4 Zoom link

Visited Athens for the first time over the weekend.. Loved the urban detail and the familiarity of its Beirut vibes!