Dr. Rachel Schine

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Poster announcing CREATIVES 4 SUDAN. A sudanese flag is waving behind the text. The rest reads AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER, BID TODAY. galabid.com/creatives4sudan The art on the poster is by @raafaye on insta.

Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Art by @raafaye, insta

Happy birthday! Mabrouk on being alive!

Lol happy birthday?

Stanislav Plutenko
Madonnas of Modernity, 2020
Oil and tempera on canvas
51 x 47 cm

With the ceasefire, attention has gone elsewhere.

The need is still there, though.

Give to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund this holiday season

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Everyone knows you say in shāʾ Allāh for something you hope will happen, but what if you don't want it to happen?

Egyptian Arabic elides the hamza and their typical post positional negation -/ʃ/

إن شَٱلله ما يحصل

in shallāh ma-yiḥṣal

It's an ancient Yiddish curse:

"May your television show live up to its name"

Artist: Bichitr. Mughal Emperor Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, ca. 1615-1618. From the St. Petersburg Album. Freer Gallery. Smithsonian Institution @natasianart http://dlvr.it/TPRd3Z

I came, I saw, I conferenced.

See you freaks in a year—if they let me back in…

Thank you!

😂

Thank you!

Thank you!!

Me with plaque

They gave me a plaque 😅

Complicated webs we weave, no?

None of which my book can answer for you! 🤪

The nerd convention is the annual Middle East Studies Association conference… they have a book fair

If you find my book at this cursed nerd convention we’re all going to this weekend… no you didn’t.

What Do Sources Say about Agricultural Slavery (and Why Don't They Say More)? A Study on Legal Sources for Early Islamic Ifrīqiya This study examines the evidence for agricultural slavery in early Islamic Ifrīqiya and relates it to the existing historiography on the topic. It argues that legal texts, which are used more than oth...

This paper is fascinating and I'm *not* just saying that bc it cites me (though, that's nice....)

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Barrel vaults and domes
Kilwa, Tanzania
#historyxt

hahahaha

and yes, I love what I do and I'm not half bad at it, they should let me keep doing it ;)

tenuuuuure

I will absolutely transliterate a few sentences tho 😉

Folks really want me fired goodness lololollll

I wanna be sarcastic not unemployed though 😭

To be fair, most of the talk is about representations of East African practices of scarification in an early-modern Arabic source, so, yeah that tracks no one knows anything about this lol.

Oh then maybe not…

Y'all should apply for this. The book budget is wild, the campus is chill, and the cats are many.

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