basit kareem iqbal

“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.”

This happened *at a university* in Gaza.

And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.

The 2025-26 Pembroke Publics Lecture
Judith Butler
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Cv...

Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault has quit cabinet over the federal government signing Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... was wondering what he'd do

MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post) MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025    By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...

Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...

Pity and Fear • EQUATOR What images of cruelty reveal about the limits of power

loved his readings of titian despite the humanism (pejorative) it delivers -- "like us, he has stumbled upon the scene, and also like us, he has stopped to look at the carnage. But he does this from the opposite direction, and therefore involves us in the frame"

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis

*Chronicle of Higher Education* cover: “Leading in the AI Era: Set the Agenda. Innovate with Integrity.” Ad copy for the issue: “As higher education adapts, the challenge isn’t just adopting new tools — it’s aligning innovation with an institution's mission and values. “Based on in-depth reporting and a national survey of more than 900 higher-ed professionals, Leading in the AI Era provides context and strategies you need to make smart, ethical decisions about this fast-moving technology.”

This makes me physically ill. All hail the plagiarism machine that is destroying students’ ability to do everything: read, write, do research, think critically.

There’s still time to beat it. But not if administrators are determined to join it.

alex dubilet - foucault, our contemporary read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a... looks great

Walking Lahore, Watching the World - Public Books The new mosque's central dome dominates the town's skyline, but competes with an 80-metre-high replica Eiffel Tower, and a scale reproduction of Trafalgar Square.

New at PB: In a review of Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Chris Moffat describes Asif's quest to walk Lahore—a city that has transformed from one of gardens to one of concrete and walls, a “series of segregations."

Religious Studies Review: Vol 51, No 3 Click on the title to browse this issue

the new issue of _religious studies review_ includes our 20th anniversary book forum on Saba Mahmood's POLITICS OF PIETY share.google/Jcwby87NDTpI...

A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!

narrative of hosting an admin party for everyone to sit together with snacks, be merry, pay bills and make doctors appointments and manage life

props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody

After the Genocide, the Genocide | Saree Makdisi As the Western media and politicians breathlessly celebrated the return of the final Israeli prisoners, a number of them soldiers captured in combat, Israel began returning hundreds of captives it had...

“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

hemmed and hawed with shobhana xavier about the book newbooksnetwork.com/the-dread-he...

"When I write, I don’t feel proud. I feel late. Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss. Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible."

Congratulations!!

great! i'll be around sat-tues

AAA and AAR panels on THE DREAD HEIGHTS coming up next week, organized by milad and ali

thank you ustaz!

Can AI tell us anything meaningful about Bob Dylan’s songs? | Aeon Essays Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs

is this a joke aeon.co/essays/can-a...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

maybe don't talk to the NYT about zohran mamdani lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

The genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline - +972 Magazine For two years, our team of journalists in Gaza illuminated what Israel sought to keep hidden, while enduring the very displacement, starvation, and loss that they reported on. This is what they saw.

For two years, our team of journalists in Gaza illuminated what Israel sought to keep hidden, while enduring the very displacement, starvation, and loss that they reported on.

This is the genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline.

www.972mag.com/the-genocide...

Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza This essay, parts of which were initially delivered at the annual Indigenous art gathering aabaakwad in December 2024 at the University of Toronto, offers three contributions to the historiography ...

My latest article, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," was just published in the Journal of Palestine Studies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4MBPN...

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Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive” A full transcript of the mayor-elect's victory speech to supporters.

"This new age will be one of relentless improvement." Read, re-read, maybe even memorize Zohran Mamdani's electrifying victory speech.

Zohran Mamdani Wins and It Is a Celebration of My New York Mamdani will be New York City's first Muslim, socialist mayor. But his victory does—and should—mean much more.

Zohran Mamdani has made history—New York City has elected its first Muslim, socialist mayor.

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social reflects on what this moment means for working-class New Yorkers, for Muslims, and for the city itself.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election - CCPA With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.

Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together:

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

A piece about having Big Feelings about Mamdani. @mid-theory.bsky.social was a dream to work with 💖
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺