@sayshatim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut opinions mine. he/him
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
01.12.2025 15:03 — 👍 613 🔁 343 💬 6 📌 21Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!
11.11.2025 02:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby.
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
Funded opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars!
29.10.2025 21:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…
Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social.
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool
POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info:
pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
Not convinced. Citing your paternal lineage only works as a flex if you can credibly do it in a language with formal conventions for it, eg Arabic "Andrew, Ibn Mario Ibn Andrea" or Icelandic, "I'm Andrew Mariosson"
09.08.2025 11:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@aaup @aaupmason.bsky.social
My latest!
"Some film-makers have been wary of US cultural imperialism happening through the market dominance of Netflix and other US streamers. Others have rushed to the streamer to sign deals that will gain their films and TV shows a global audience."
theconversation.com/netflix-give...
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
i'm so sorry to hear of this. this decision in no way reflects the caliber of your work
09.05.2025 16:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
aoir.org/riskyresearc...
Introducing SHAMS — the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies!
Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media.
🗓 May 14, 2025
⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut
Join me this Sunday to watch a rly good doumentary on the class struggle and labour movement that led up to the 1975 outbreak of civil war in Lebanon.
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📢 TIMEP joins 59 Lebanese and international partners in solidarity with independent media outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby intended to target them for their financial accountability reporting timep.org/2025/03/26/i...
26.03.2025 13:07 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
cover of 'the digital double bind' by Zayani and Khalil'
Very happy to see my essay on Mohamed Zayani and Joe Khalil's The Digital Double Bind is now out: "A New Footing for the Study of Digital Media in the Arab World," t.co/VgzH5iN1Uk
the book is here:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
New from me in LitHub: The lack of solidarity from the American media has led directly to its current death spiral. Where is the moral courage at newspapers and journalism schools? Where is the outrage of the press corps? Silence = death, lithub.com/stenographer...
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Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply. Thank you!
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
10.03.2025 17:10 — 👍 1403 🔁 417 💬 242 📌 635Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
On the allure of "technocratic government" and elite capture
19.02.2025 13:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
18.02.2025 02:12 — 👍 12058 🔁 2732 💬 92 📌 1051. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
The Platform Lab’s third public report, on Platform Regulation, is out!! Edited by Colin Crawford and featuring some brilliant insights & ppl writing short reflections on episodes and issues of platform regulation. Do read!
www.theplatformlab.com/platform-reg...
Never believe that anti- Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
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“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
On behalf of Sensory Studies legend & ringleader David Howes, re-sharing the Uncommon Senses V cfp, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia U in Montreal. Deadline is Jan 20. A wonderful conf & v welcoming community. Please circulate & happy to answer questions!
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...
✨ Two-year postdoc opportunity ✨
Please spread word about our postdoc at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social.
We are particularly interested in candidates whose work connects media industries, the production and circulation of popular cultural forms, and novel expressions of citizenship.
Prepping for my spring grad media industries seminar, I put together my latest "recent industry books" list (2023-2025). docs.google.com/document/d/1...
*Lots of great ones but PLEASE let me know if you have suggestions for additions!
*What new media industries books do you recommend assigning?
Zeina Al-Halabi for Megaphone News - "Scenes from Post-Assad Damascus"
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