Rana B. Khoury

Thank you Oliver! I hope you’ve been good

Thank you Sumita!

thank you adam!

Thank you Bob!

Rana Khoury holding her book, Civilizing Contention: International Aid in Syria's War

So excited to hold my book! You can do so too in November! Leila Khoury's cover art captures the story of a contentious movement becoming something like a civil society in the depths of Syria's war. @cornellupress.bsky.social designed it beautifully. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Excellent dive into the possible future of the new Syria.

From "The People, Power, Politics" podcast in cooperation with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

A published paper in a journal has cited a real chapter of mine, but in a hallucinatory way: a parenthetical citation is repeatedly used for content that is completely off the mark. Completely.

So.... that's disturbing.

Syria After Assad Podcast Episode · New Books in Political Science · 08/29/2025 · 41m

A conversation that grew out of work w @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social alongside Daniel Neep, hosted by @emilykmscott.bsky.social. Recorded 2 months ago, but holds up and helps think about roles of state and society in Syria's future.

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I would love for someone who has experience in a social movement to zoom into my undergrad class this fall and share.

Minimal prep: orient us 5-10 min, then Q&A. In past, we learned about participation in uprisings in Syria and Hong Kong, and US labor (during a strike!).

Thanks!

I would love for someone who has experience in a social movement to zoom into my undergrad class this fall and share.

Minimal prep: orient us 5-10 min, then Q&A. In past, we learned about participation in uprisings in Syria and Hong Kong, and US labor (during a strike!).

Thanks!

thank you!

Thank you!

Good to know! What’s it called? And do you use it for Arabic?

Good to know! Do you use it for Arabic?

Also, shouldn’t IRBs and journals be thinking about this issue? IRBs definitely but they’re individualized so it’ll be totally ad hoc for a while. But journals can centralize norms and expectations.

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Folks, are you using or have you considered using AI for transcription of interviews? I haven't seen much discussion or info re how one protects the data through the many apps/sites/clouds. Like this is from OpenAI's transcribe to text privacy policy:

Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.

The adoption of AI into Canvas is framed here as reducing faculty workload and making students' lives easier. Not about student learning.

A feature for creating "flashcards for students to review," e.g., ignores that making flashcards *is* the learning.

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Thank you!

Yubarak fik, thank you Jannis!

Thanks Josh! Hope you're doing well

Thank you Miranda 🥰

yubarak fiki, thank you Erin!

Thank you Lisel!!

Thank you Stacey! It benefited from your work on civilian agency in Yemen!

Thank you Adam! It's benefited much from our conversations and your work!

thank you!

Civilizing Contention by Rana B. Khoury | Paperback | Cornell University Press In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury asserts that to understand civilian and refugee activism in war, we must regard the international actors and organizations that enter the scene to help. When.....

The proofs are in. It has a website. It has blurbs from amazing scholars. So I guess my book is real, and @cornellupress.bsky.social must agree!

Civilizing Contention: International Aid in Syria's War is coming out later this year 🤓

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

👇call for Syria papers

Those emails with good news and updates from students and former students... they're sparkles and rainbows for profs ✨

Syrians rejoice after Trump pledge to lift crippling sanctions For more than a decade, U.S. restrictions have barred nearly all trade with Syria. Now, Syrians are daring to hope for better lives.

Incredible scenes in Syria as people celebrate the surprise lifting of US sanctions, the chief impediment to recovery after the fall of Assad. “There were fireworks over Damascus, and people danced in the streets.” Over to the Syrians. By @leloveluck www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Explain to me like I'm someone who doesn't subscribe to Orientalist tropes why it was the plane that broke them.