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Omar El Akkad on language as a weapon of oppression, the power of negation, and what it means to be a writer in these polarizing times

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This is horrific. It has authoritarianism written all over it. And it will be deployed against teachers (and students) of color - especially Black teachers, and also especially trans and gender non-conforming teachers, disabled teachers, and teachers of "controversial" subjects as a weapon. Resist.

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Ain’t this the truth! @vijayprashad.bsky.social nails it!

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Vol B of our anthologies on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman has a cool new cover! The Postcolonial Bildungsroman & the Character of Place will be out w University of Nebraska Press in Jan2026. Very thankful to my co-editors Paul Ugor & Simone Puleo, and to the contributors for their incredible work!

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Exciting to see we have a website for the collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination I have edited with @uminnpress.bsky.social with essays from brilliant scholars (and one by me) www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...

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Books that I am reading currently! All fulfilling and thought-provoking in their own unique ways!

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Congratulations to @josendiaz.bsky.social , whose book "Postcolonial Configurations" has won the 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards in the Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies category. https://buff.ly/4hDdxcv

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Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd on "Perfect Victims," Trump & Israel's Criminalization of Thought

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It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

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Last week, Ben Baer and I spoke to @arnabdr.bsky.social about our book Spider-Mother and Rokeya Hossain for the New Books Network podcast. You can listen to the episode at the link below. 🙂 So grateful for Arnab's excellent questions and planning of the interview. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

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🚨New Episode Alert 🚨 Please check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with @smaran.bsky.social & Ben Baer about their groundbreaking new book, Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

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Online - featuring Walaa Al Qaisiya, Nadine Naber and Nada Elia. 11th Feb 2025: Feminist and Queer Solidarities with Palestine Registration required. events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/28...

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In "Oceanic Becoming," Rob Wilson demonstrates that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood as interconnected to the other oceans. Read the introduction for free on our website now. #OceanStudies #AsianStudies https://buff.ly/4g8szVW

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Glimpses from the Annual Sala conference “Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis” that took place this weekend. It was such an honor organizing this conference alongside Amrita Ghosh & Rajorshi Das (and the SALA team).

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Our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, is now featured in University of Alberta Press’s 2025 fall catalog, & has a breathtaking cover designed by the Paris-based artist Rakajoo. Very grateful to my co-editor Paul Ugor for his invaluable partnership. tinyurl.com/zf6bwm4f

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Excited to share that that my project of translating Bangladeshi writer Mahmudul Haque's novel "My Sister, Life,' in collaboration with Shabnam Nadiya, has been awarded a 2025 Translation Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. 🧵

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Today at #mla2025 Join @arnabdr.bsky.social & me at 1:45.

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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

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Thread on how the @nytimes NY Times and medieval historians cover up Zionist connections to far right white nationalism. Pete Hegseth’s American Crusade book is indeed a far right, white supremacist book, incoherent as it is. (shorturl.at/p7cXx)

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Upping the level of murders. Evil.

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Merry Moo Deng 🎄

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A early Christmas morning homage to the Ustad! Still can’t believe that he is gone!

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In this latest episode of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social , I had the pleasure of speaking with my dear friend, @arunikashyap.bsky.social , about his exceptional new collection of stories, titled The Way You Want To Be Loved. Please check it out. newbooksnetwork.com/the-way-you-...

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Absolutely stoked with Arnab Dutta Roy to bring you another stellar keynote discussion by @mirzawaheed.bsky.social and @tahmima.bsky.social for South Asian Literary Association 2025 Annual Conf-- "Out of Empire" Date and times on the poster. Zoom link will be updated on the website soon #Decolonize

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Excited to co-present ( with @pocodoc.bsky.social & Rajorshi Das) the second keynote event at the forthcoming SALA 2025 Annual Conference on January 19th, which will be a dialogue between prominent writers, Tahmima Anam & Mirza Waheed. Zoom link will be available on the SALA website soon.

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Really thrilled to co-organize this stellar event, which is one of the two keynote events at the SALA 2025 conference happening in January. This will be an online event. The poster for the other keynote and the conference schedule will be posted soon!

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Grades are up! It was a challenging semester, but my students were amazing! Here are some fun & memorable moments from our last day photo op!

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Scholarships for Gaza students for BAs and MAs at the University of Leeds بعثات للطلبة من غزة في جامعة ليدز لدراسة البكالوريوس والماجستير. الرجاء النشر لمن قد يهمه www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

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This schematization presents Kashmir either as an exoticised pastoral escape or a symbol to articulate the idea of Indian nationhood. The representation invisiblizes the true political, social, and ideological state of Kashmiri natives. www.theswaddle.com/why-bollywoo...

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The questions on the Australian visa for Israelis: “whether they had participated in physical or psychological abuse, served as guards or officials in detention facilities or engaged in war crimes or genocide.” Don’t underestimate the ICC effect and the changing times. Even 🇦🇺 reckoned with reality

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Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine. Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...

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I've been asked 2day by Cambridge Uni Press whether I'd like to sign a deal for my books 2 be used in generative AI licensing agreements. The offer is a royalty % of any deal. Am very wary of my work being used this way for various reasons. Any advice? Feel free to re-post...

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Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

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PEN America tweeted: “We are aware of a fake press release circulating online misrepresenting our organization. This is NOT from us, and we are taking steps to address it. For accurate information, please visit pen.org.”

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I am really looking forward to catching up with some of you at MLA in January. Here are the panels/roundtables I am presenting in. Would love to know about your panels/presentations, so feel free to post here.

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The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

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like everybody at UConn is exhausted from the semester, and here the provost is just taunting people with secret info? The disrespect to the faculty is just incredible. I don’t understand her approach at all today.uconn.edu/2024/12/vast...

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"The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate — and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it." It's not a bug, it's a feature futurism.com/neoscope/uni...

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My Loch-ness monster sort of unraveled, so I also got a Stegosaurus

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My supremely talented student made me a balloon loch-ness monster on the last day of class, and my day/month/year is made!!! 🥹🥹

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