Hosam Aboul-Ela

I legitimately feel sorry for people watching that kid rock thing instead of this

i doubt there is a living united states politician who has been put through as much as this person since she became a congresswoman in 2018.

Raphael Cormack | “How Jewish was James Sanua?” Raphael Cormack | “How Jewish was James Sanua?” Raphael Cormack, Assistant Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, United Kingdom In conversation with Jessic...

Giving a talk that will present some of the early findings in my research for a biography of James Sanua- Abou Naddara
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Excited to offer this learning opportunity this spring: Read / Write / Study Group: Languaging / Trans. Applications close January 23!
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very exciting! congrats.

thanks for what you (and they) do!

I had a dream about a musical called "Faculty Meeting" and weirdly it was good?

The first number is about someone objecting to approving the minutes without unanimous consent but not offering a correction. This is how we meet The Parliamentarian, our narrator.

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

History's Camera (on Fredric Jameson, 1934-2024) An obit for Fredric Jameson I wrote last year.

"from sci fi novels to Mahler, German philosophy, Hollywood, architecture, painting, national allegory to psychoanalysis...the ways in which late C20 capitalism presents us with an unsolved challenge to represent it without giving us the adequate tools"

www.historiesofthepresent.com/p/historys-c...

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference The Translators’ Conference is a week-long conference designed to provide training and community to beginning and experienced translators.

going back to bread loaf in june as translation faculty. translators, come and join us on the mountain:
www.middlebury.edu/writers-conf...

This is one of the wars that Trump routinely claims to have ended. The media can't keep up with the lying, but Cambodia and Thailand (another fake peace claim) are fighting again, too.

Cedar Cultural Center marquee reads “We love our Somali neighbors”

A night out in Cedar-Riverside

Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay High Court grants bail to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu Bombay High Court grants bail to Hany Babu, former DU professor, citing prolonged incarceration without trial in the Bhima Koregaon case.

it is good that hany babu is out on bail but he should've never been imprisoned and don't think that attacks on academics cannot get any worse than they are now:
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

wow what podcast? i would like to listen.

photo of the First President of Tanzania - Julius Nyerere - with the quote, "The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

Statue of Liberty AI slop wearing a black flowing robe

Smithsonian article: The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman "The New Colossus" was actually born in Egypt Erin Blakemore - Correspondent November 24, 2015

From article: Bartholdi envisioned a colossal monument featuring a robe-clad woman representing Egypt to stand at Port Said, the city at the northern terminus of the canal in Egypt. To prep for this undertaking, Barry. Moreno, author of multiple books about the statue, writes that Bartholdi studied art like the Colossus, honing the concept for a figure called Libertas ho would stand at the canal. "Taking the form of a veiled peasant woman, writes Moreno, "the statue was to stand 86 feet high, and its pedestal was to rise to a height of 48 feet." Early models of the statue were called "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia."

1915 postcard portrait featuring Egyptian women wearing various versions of flowing black robes.

Islamophobes on the other site keep sending me this AI of the Statue of Liberty, not knowing they were being purists not alarmists.

Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...

Saddams bathroom.

Tikrit, Iraq. 2004.

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

it's funny when lit scholars say this issue is not ours

good question

Gaza's young musicians sing and play in ruins of war - The Korea Times Palestinian Rifan Al-Qassas, 15, holds an oud as she poses for a portrait at Gaza College, where instructors from the Edward Said National Conserva...

www.koreatimes.co.kr/photos/darkr...

New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.

New on BULAQ: The Life & Work of Inji Efflatoun

In this episode of BULAQ, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey speak to Ahmed Gobba and Avery Gonzales, co-translators of Efflatoun’s 1993 memoir, The Memoir of Inji Efflatoun: From Childhood to Prison.

Judge’s Order Clears Way for Fired Texas State University Professor’s Reinstatement A Union of Professionals

Good news to your end your week ✊ Dr. Thomas Alter is set to be reinstated at Texas State University after an initial court victory.

Statement from @texasaaup.bsky.social President Dr. Brian Evans and Texas AFT President @zephcapo.bsky.social 👇

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This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force." visit arablit.org/shop or arablit.gumroad.com.

This week, 100% of profits from anything sold on or through ArabLit go to 19-year-old poet Marah Mohamed Al-Khattab, who writes, "In Gaza, dreams are interrupted before they can take shape. Here, we do not grow into adulthood—we are thrown into it by force."

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

This is going to make No Child Left Behind seem like good legislation