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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.
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New piece from yours truly: a roundtable contribution on the 25th anniversary of Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet’s seminal book, Frontier Fictions. I reflect on a trip I took to eastern Turkey 15 years ago & how FKS’s ideas of borderlands and nationalism are still alive.
read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/doi/10.1215/1089201X-12513780/409225/Building-Nationalism-from-the-Zamin-UpFrontier?guestAccessKey=f88f2b7c-0123-439f-9752-044c196c6782&fbclid=IwZnRzaARF7F9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeT0ksqI446Bue2ps24kogX-hMFiEc8Kktx1brbemEwSLjVjhCN23SI134sIw_aem_CJND4f2wIrpZLySjTfdX_A
read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/doi/10.1215/1089201X-12513780/409225/Building-Nationalism-from-the-Zamin-UpFrontier?guestAccessKey=f88f2b7c-0123-439f-9752-044c196c6782&fbclid=IwZnRzaARF7F9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeT0ksqI446Bue2ps24kogX-hMFiEc8Kktx1brbemEwSLjVjhCN23SI134sIw_aem_CJND4f2wIrpZLySjTfdX_A
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All of this belies how lazy centrist thinking is about campus politics. They know nothing about how these things are organized, they understand nothing about the political economy of higher ed.
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This all comes before you ask the question of what exactly students should demand of their institutions in terms of anti-Trump work? Not take federal grants? Those are getting cut anyway. Not take money from Trumpy donors? Where is your scholarship coming from, then?
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SJP and FSJP are focused on Palestine. Their organizing and protesting hasn’t stopped, even if it has shifted tactics. The anti-Trump coalition is a completely different set of organizations, and have very different reasons for not setting up encampments or protests.
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The maybe less obvious answer is that there is no anti-Trump network that has sufficient organizational capacity, or willingness, to assist students in organizing or protesting in a similar fashion.
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Today is Thursday the 9th of April 2026. 23 years ago the American invaders entered my Baghdad and Saddam's regime fell. I was a witness to that happening (was 17 at the time). Are you guys in the mood for an Ask Me Anything to commemorate? If yes then feel free to ask.
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I love how the NYT always acts like a cease fire is some sort of metaphysical state, the effects of which on our mortal plane are undetermined.
But a cease fire is a statement of intent, not a treaty or a divine revelation or a Platonic form. If fire hasn’t ceased, then there’s no cease fire.
But a cease fire is a statement of intent, not a treaty or a divine revelation or a Platonic form. If fire hasn’t ceased, then there’s no cease fire.
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- 'America has the military power to do whatever it wants anywhere in the world'
- immediately loses war to Iran.
- immediately loses war to Iran.
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Stocks legging lower on this
*IRAN'S QHALIBAF SAYS CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT WITH US VIOLATED
*IRAN'S QHALIBAF SAYS CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT WITH US VIOLATED
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Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today.
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There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.
You are being lied to
You are being lied to
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APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military official says the country is still attacking #Iran, after White House said Israel agreed to ceasefire.
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APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi officials say its Habshan gas-processing facility is ablaze after earlier reporting incoming Iranian fire.
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Tail wags dog, dog is still the dog was always the correct way to understand US-Israeli relations and is still the correct way today.
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Do we need to remind everyone that Israel has violated the last two ceasefires it signed, in Gaza and Lebanon, on a near daily basis for over a year?
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