@leylaamzi.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
The Royal Game of Ur from the British Museum
Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
Title of the review The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina by Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular (review) Michael Robert Hickok Histoire sociale / Social History Les publications Histoire sociale / Social History Inc. Volume 58, Numéro/Number 119, Mai/May 2025 pp. 201-203 10.1353/his.2025.a971523
Many thanks to Michael Hickok for his review of my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina in Histoire sociale / Social History @hssh1968.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/9715...
🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky
These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students
25.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 73 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
“Without an independent & sufficiently representative faculty body to oversee the curriculum & faculty status, an institution may fragment or fall victim to the latest fashionable notion proposed by a centralized administration, politicized board or legislature."
Read more about our new report👇
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A bee on top of flowers.
Fuchsia Water Lilly; reflection of a building in a pond.
Autumn in #NYC
15.11.2025 01:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations!
14.11.2025 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0👇👇👇
13.11.2025 02:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sending thoughts and prayers to the many academics who supported the Biden-led crackdown of Gaza student protests in spring 2024
07.11.2025 17:41 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0#areastudies #academicsky
05.11.2025 18:15 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎶 THE NAME IS MAMDANI. M-A-M-D-A-N-I 🎶
05.11.2025 05:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Dress for the job you want”
30.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Six days left, NYC!
30.10.2025 02:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our future mayor: “I will not look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light”
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#NYC #nycmayor #elections
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
08.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 638 🔁 254 💬 6 📌 24‼️ Note the power of #laborunion #unions 👀
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Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir.
#edirne #selimiye #unesco
#mimarsinan #türkiye
#turkey #sanat #tarih
Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir.
#edirne #selimiye #unesco
#mimarsinan #türkiye
#turkey #sanat #tarih
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
17.09.2025 22:57 — 👍 285 🔁 218 💬 4 📌 28
Mimar Sinanin Selimiyesi kendini devletin üstünde sanan bir gurubun tehdidiyle yüz yüze. Solda Orjinaline sadık kalınarak restorasyonu bitmiş hali ve sağda defalarca devlet birimleri tarafından reddedilmiş yapılmaya diretilen projesi. #unesco #turkey #arthistory
Mimar Sinanin Selimiyesi kendini devletin üstünde sanan bir gurubun tehdidiyle yüz yüze. Solda Orjinaline sadık kalınarak restorasyonu bitmiş hali ve sağda defalarca devlet birimleri tarafından reddedilmiş yapılmaya diretilen projesi. #unesco #turkey #selimiyecami #arthistory #cumhurbaskanligi
13.09.2025 17:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Clean link to report (in Turkish): drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
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A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey 🗃️ what’s history #ottoman #arthistory
Current restored dome and a proposed restitution.
Current restored calligraphic panels and proposed restitution erasing them
Current restored dome and ceiling and proposed restitution
A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey #menasky 🗃️ #ottoman
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
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