Launch Event for MER 314: New Gender Frontlines featuring Issue Editor Sabiha Allouche and contributors Rahaf Aldoughli, Paniz Musawi Natanzi and Hala Shoman...
New Gender Frontlines Launch
ICYMI: Our New Gender Frontlines launch event is now up on YouTube! Check it out now and subscribe for updates! youtu.be/05JfyF1-GV8?...
30.06.2025 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Courts of Exclusion—Working-Class Masculinity and Anti-Afghan Racism in Iran - MERIP
n 2016, Gol Agha, a ball boy and worker at a private tennis club in Tajrish—an affluent neighborhood in northern Tehran—went to an administrative office in Karaj to receive a […]
Read about the interplay of working-class masculinity, anti-Afghan racism & tennis in Iran in my piece on @merip.bsky.social. Immense gratitude for Gol Agha Azizi, Farnaz & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian & @maryahannun.bsky.social. This piece was finalized before June 13, 2025.
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27.06.2025 13:17 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Rethinking Archives on Afghanistan
What does archival work mean in Afghanistan and its diasporas?
This panel brings together artists, librarians, and scholars to discuss challenges in the maintenance of collections in Afghanistan and its diasporas as well as the poetic, literary and artistic possibilities for rethinking archives. April 11, 2025, 1pm-2pm(EDT) www.library.upenn.edu/events/rethi...
10.04.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mar 6 – The 2016 documentary Overruled follows the lives of male refugees from Afghanistan who work as “ball boys” in tennis clubs in Iran. Following a screening, directors Farnaz Jurabchian & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian talk w/ Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social via Zoom. tinyurl.com/5n8dfmj2
26.02.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I published an article in the Special Issue of the journal Afghanistan on "The Fall of the Republic and the Return of the Taliban," edited by Robert Crews.
12.12.2024 22:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this book chapter, I discuss the experiences of refugees politically and legally categorized and treated as “male” and “Afghan,” within carceral structures spanning Germany and Afghanistan: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
15.11.2024 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Historien / Iran et espaces limitrophes / Écologie politique / Coordinateur du pôle recherche chez @etopia.bsky.social / Prof. Relations internationales contemporaines Helmo/Hepl / Chercheur associé au Grip
Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
I write about food. Mom. Professor, c19 US and gender studies department chair. Moroccan Arab Jew. Radical diasporism. Winner of the James Beard, Lora Romero, Best Book in Food Studies and Choice Awards. “Can Run Meetings” lololol
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Writer and independent feminist scholar
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Writer, Translator, and Prof. of Arabic Literature
Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & book history, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Still a punk.
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