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In times of war, it's particularly hard but even more urgent not to lose sight of our shared humanity. I am very much looking forward to attending this workshop at the University of Erfurt today.

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The ultimate success of Israeli talking points: German chancellor Merz claims that Israel is doing in Iran the "dirty work" for the entire West. www.zdfheute.de/politik/g7-g...

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Contrary to Israeli claims, the US intelligence assessment is that a) Iran was not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon and b) it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/p...

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Mit NDR Info habe ich heute Morgen unter anderem über eine weniger beachtete Seite des Krieges zwischen #Israel und #Iran gesprochen: www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

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Mit Welt Fernsehen habe ich heute Abend über die wahrscheinlich verfrühten Hoffnungen auf ein baldiges Endes des Krieges zwischen #Israel und #Iran gesprochen. www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

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“This is a massacre. The blasts haven’t stopped. Children are crying and we fear many civilians have been killed. There’s a smell of death in the air. I can’t stop crying."

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Mit Inga Rogg vom Handelsblatt habe ich über mögliche innenpolitische Konsequenzen in #Iran, ausgelöst durch den Krieg mit #Israel, gesprochen. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte...

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Mit Welt Fernsehen habe ich heute Morgen über den perspektivischen Fortgang des Krieges zwischen #Israel und #Iran gesprochen: www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

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Mit ZDF heute habe ich über die von Israel getöteten iranischen militärischen Befehlshaber und Atomwissenschaftler gesprochen: www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

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Mit Welt Fernsehen habe ich über die Eskalation zwischen #Israel und #Iran gesprochen: www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

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Mein Gespräch mit "Echo der Zeit" des SRF zum israelischen Angriff auf #Iran: www.srf.ch/audio/echo-d...

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That's a first and shows how seriously the Iranian response is taken in #Israel.

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Tomorrow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem: a screening of "No Other Land", followed by a discussion with the lawyer Dr. Qamar Mashriqi As'ad of the NGO Haqel that provides legal assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories & my colleague Prof. Yigal Bronner, who is active in Masafer Yatta.

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Als Alumnus freue ich mich besonders darauf, am Wochenende in Berlin den 25. Geburtstag @jungeakademie.bsky.social zu feiern!

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A touching (and visually stunning) portrayal of Hindu devotion in #Pakistan: #HinglajDevi www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

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It's impossible to sugarcoat this - these are days of absolute bleakness in #Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Just received my review copy and can't wait to engage with Laurence Gautier's important contribution!

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Eine hochkarätig besetzte Podiumsdiskussion über marginalisiertes (muslimisches) Leben in Ostdeutschland am 13. Juni an der @unileipzig.bsky.social - mit Liveübertragung bei YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/ldGl0U-...

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Shibli Nu'mani (d. 1914), Indian Urdu writer, Muslim scholar, poet, and associate of Sayyid Ahmad Khan (among many other things) and how he described his arrival in Port Said, Egypt, in 1894 on his way to Istanbul:

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Mit dem Tagesspiegel habe ich über die stockenden Waffenstillstandsverhandlungen zwischen #Israel und der #Hamas gesprochen.

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Thank you to Dheepa Sundaram @themodsisyphus.bsky.social & Rohit Chopra @rohit.bsky.social for all their work editing the just published May 2025 #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social special volume "Religion and Its Publics in South Asia" Entire Issue free for download: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue

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Cartoon in an Iranian Arabic-language journal from Sep/Oct 1980 (published after the Iraqi invasion of Iran): Captured "Without Comment", (foreign-backed) Saddam Hussein is depicted as winning the contest of cruelty as Hitler and Genghis Khan are relegated to ranks 2 & 3.

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I talked to DeutscheWelle about the German government's change of tone regarding the suffering in #Gaza - and the telling Israeli reaction www.dw.com/en/how-has-i...

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The number of signatories has now reached 1300: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Begs the question: where are the red lines? Which statements make you cross them? The only possible reaction I can see is widespread self-censorship... State Department Halts Interviews for Student and Exchange Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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Happening this Friday! @edinburghup.bsky.social

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This is truly grim, and very much not acceptable.

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Ehud Olmert, Israeli PM from 2006-2009, does not mince words: www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

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Ooh! David Commins has written a new history of #SaudiArabia from the Diriyyah Emirate to the present!

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Over 1100 Israeli academics urge the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to "mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in #Gaza", acknowledging "a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing."

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Each time I get to page 108 of Toby Jones's "Desert Kingdom. How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia" (2010) and his description of al-Hasa oasis, I am stunned:

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I've not talked about "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (uncpress.org/book/9781469...) for quite some time. The launch of its Urdu translation tonight lets me revisit some of the major themes in the book. Thanks to Folio Books in Lahore for making this possible!

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Dr. Alaa al-Najar while working at Nasser Hospital found the bodies of her dead 7 children upon entering the hospital. Her children Yahia, Rakan, Raslan, Jubran, Ev, Rivan, and Sidin - all killed in one instant

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The normalization of such ideas and language in #Israel is terrifying: "Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv, [...] said that if Israel's goal is to defeat Hamas with as few casualties as possible, then 'you simply need to flatten [Gaza].'" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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(1/3)Today, almost 10 years after it was awarded, I picked up my framed Princeton PhD diploma. It had been sitting rolled up in the tube in which I had originally received it all those years before I finally took it to a shop last week. This moment made me reflect on how much I owe to my alma mater,

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There is no respite for the Middle East as another reckless catastrophe could be looming on the horizon... #Iran edition.cnn.com/2025/05/20/p...

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"“Trump’s people are letting Israel know, ‘We will abandon you if you do not end this war,’” said a person familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Please join us on Friday, May 30, at 5.30pm UK time for the online book launch of our edited volume "Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa"! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/utopianism... #Utopias #MiddleEast #Utopianism

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“'No one knows better than us that the Gazans have nowhere to return,' explained a commander, whose battalion was involved in the destruction of about a thousand buildings over two months in 2025. [...]'The idea was to destroy everything.'" #Gaza www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

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This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

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Good visual summary of how the New Middle East that is currently taking shape is perceived from #Israel...

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It's not the case that only supposedly antisemitic, anti-Israel international organizations are claiming that #Gaza is on the brink of starvation - IDF officers are reaching the exact same conclusion: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/w...

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Out today - Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (@versobooks.bsky.social)! Order the paperback from Verso and get the ebook immediately and for free: www.versobooks.com/products/330...

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