Bahruz Samadov

Many Ukrainians used to enthusiastically support Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War, seeing it in very simple terms.

Good analysis. Taliban brought security to the Afghan people - one of the tenets of their legitimacy claim

British MPs appeal to Azerbaijan government to free detained academic In letter to Ilham Aliyev, campaigners urge release of Gubad Ibadoghlu after pre-trial process halted indefinitely A group of British MPs have called on the Azerbaijan government to free an academic from the London School of Economics and Political…

#Azerbaijan #Politics British MPs appeal to Azerbaijan government to free detained academic: In letter to Ilham Aliyev, campaigners urge release of Gubad Ibadoghlu after pre-trial process halted indefinitely

A group of British MPs have called on the Azerbaijan government to free an academic from…

Cover of the book Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, edited by Juan Meneses

Very excited to see the amazing cover for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, a (great!) collection of essays I am editing that will appear with @uminnpress.bsky.social and guided by the peerless @lpennywark.bsky.social!

New York judge rules RFK Jr. will not appear on state ballot The ruling, if upheld, could lead to challenges in other states where his campaign used an address in New York’s suburbs to gather signatures.

A New York judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on the state’s ballot in November after he falsely claimed that he lived at a friend’s house in New York on his qualifying petitions.

They sold it

Black and white portrait of Sema Yıldız from the early 1970s. She is depicted in a close-up shot with her hair styled in soft waves. Her makeup is accentuated, with bold eyeliner and long lashes, highlighting her expressive eyes. She is smiling subtly, exuding a sense of elegance and charm.

A black and white, full body portait of Sema Yıldız, a famous Turkish belly dancer, in 1967. She is dressed in a traditional belly dancing costume, adorned with intricate beadwork and accessories. The costume features a jeweled bra, a belt, and a flowing skirt. She is posing with one arm raised, holding a part of her skirt.

Sema Yıldız is a Turkish belly dancer and actress, known as the first dancer to perform in the Ottoman era Topkapi palace, as well as for her expertise in Romani dance.

“I used to refuse to make comparisons to the Holocaust bcs I wholeheartedly believed that nothing could be compared to what the Nazis did. I don’t believe that anymore, not just bcs of the daily mass murders, but bcs of how banal evil is in mainstream Israeli discourse.” ~ @ayoub.bsky.social

Proud to be Britain's crypto colony

Как иранский Азербайджан чуть не стал «новой территорией» СССР: отрывок из книги Михаила Крутихина «Иранские агенты Кремля» Создание марионеточных «народных республик» с целью их «присоединения» к России — Абхазии, Южной Осетии и «ЛДНР» — не изобретение Путина. Михаил Крутихин в книге «Игра в революцию: Иранские агенты Кремля», вышедшей в издательстве Freedom Letters, рассказывает, как СССР десятилетиями проводил тайную политику в Иране, в результате которой левые и светские силы потерпели крах и после свержения шаха не смогли противостоять исламским аятоллам. Одним из драматичных эпизодов была послевоенная попытка Сталина создать в иранском Азербайджане «советскую республику» и отторгнуть ее от Ирана. The Insider публикует главу из книги.

How Iranian Azerbaijan Almost Became a "New Territory" of the USSR: Excerpt from Mikhail Krutikhin's book Iranian Agents of the Kremlin

of life discarded by the seamless narrative of progress and reason."

J. Webster, Dreaming in Exile or the Exile of Dreams

"For Benjamin and Adorno, thinking had to be a melancholic science, a work of mourning with no finality or purging of the dead, in concert with a history of unspeakable atrocities. What would make writing praxis? Benjamin spoke of writing as a writing of the ruin, rescuing the luminous fragments

A black and white photo of a dancer, Rafiga Akhundova, likely from a performance. She is a young woman in a dynamic pose, looking upwards with her arms gracefully raised above her head, like adjusting a headpiece adorned with beads and feathers. She wears a decorated costume with intricate beadwork and patterns, emphasizing her athletic form.

Rafiga Haji gizi Akhundova (Rəfiqə Hacı qızı Axundova; 1931 – 2024) was an Azerbaijani ballet dancer, ballet master and People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1970).

This a great article, check it out - everything you need to know about Azerbaijan

“The Kremlin is also releasing dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as part of the agreement, a European official said on condition of anonymity.”

But at least we pay quite well 😭

A cider maker? 😉 A car full of apples in Azerbaijan just west of the Tien Shan mountains. Photographer David Fiekle #cider #apples #Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has what Rumelili describes as 'peace anxiety'.

@anadoluagency: ❝The martyrdom of brother Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will strengthen the deep and unbreakable bond between the Islamic Republic of Iran and dear Palestine and the Resistance❞

• The Iranian Foreign Ministry confirms the death of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas group, stressing that i

The Left, the Liberalist and other progressives should actually learn from this strategy. We shouldn't be scared to say that there are bad Muslims who think sex slavery is fine and bad immigrants who don't want to work (I'm saying that as an immigrant and Muslim)

I read recently an article which claims that Trumpism is metapopulist. Basically it makes "the people" inclusive (there are good immigrants) and exclusive (there are bad immigrants) at the same time. So it's not authoritarian in a strict sense. I think that play makes Trumpism strong and appealing

Good job Ryan, you can also check my articles on the topic. Good luck!

🚨 Riots in New Caledonia expose an emerging France-Azerbaijan rivalry. Discover the historical context, geopolitical stakes, and what this means for the future: www.ryanjhite.com/2024/07/30/n... #NewCaledonia #France #Azerbaijan #Geopolitics

The image depicts Amache Prowers, a prominent figure from the late 19th century. She is shown seated, dressed in a dark, formal Victorian attire complete with a ruffled lace collar and a brooch.

Amache Ochinee Prowers, also known as Walking Woman (c. 1846–1905), was a Cheyenne activist, advocate, cattle rancher, and operator of a store on the Santa Fe Trail.
She became an important mediator after her father, a Cheyenne peace chief, was killed during the Sand Creek massacre of 1864.

UN climate summit host Azerbaijan fails to tackle flaring, analysis shows BP and Socar among culprits, according to satellite data examined by campaign group

#COP29 host Azerbaijan is failing to tackle its flaring of methane, the most potent greenhouse gas

According to Global Witness analysis of satellite data, flaring emissions have risen 10% since Baku last submitted emissions data to the UN www.ft.com/content/3747...

Another reason to hate Stalinism. All her life she was fighting against nationalists and then she was detained as a nationalist just like many other bright communists (some of them were national - but never nationalist) who simply didn't like Stalinism that much

She was a very brave woman of her time. Coming from a famous Karabakh khan family, she was against the feodal oppression and accepted the Bolshevik revolution and played her role in the early women's movement in Azerbaijan.

'Bahruz Samadov, a researcher at Charles University in Prague, argues that the Aliyev government instrumentalizes the anti-colonial narrative for authoritarian purposes by focusing solely on France’s colonial history while ignoring the colonial past of ... its close partner Britain.'

One more to join the BRICS? While favouring both China and Russia, Azerbaijan remains aloof from democracy and human rights - more so than ever before

Hey! Here is my new article about the BRICSisation of #Azerbaijan - the country joins the authoritarian club; also, I wrote about the discourse of #multipolarity.

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Podcast | Is Azerbaijan a champion of anti-colonialism? Bahruz Samadov talks about Azerbaijan’s ‘performative’ support of anti-colonial movements in French overseas territories.

Recently talked to @ocmedia.bsky.social about performative anti-colonialism in #Azerbaijan

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