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History+ancient Lands+Beings; Prof. @UofT /@UTSC; 12th generation French settler; YQB born CAI love; I decipher power; EverydayOrientalism; past=now; مصر دائما 🐍; I also draw; #Landback
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It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 2.1 (2025) With contributions from Maia Kotrosits (@maiakotro.bsky.social), Chance Bonar (@chancebonar.bsky.social), Chiara Bozzone and Daniela Negro, Erin Lam #openaccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-1...

🇮🇱 attacked an aid ship off the coast of Malta As usual, zero respect for international law.

📕❤️🇵🇸 Here is an amazing Zine on the targeted destruction of Palestinian librairies, archives, museums and cultural workers: px-files.pixpa.com/853110/17457... Square codes link to more resources. Feel free to print and share!

"After 1948, many depopulated 🇵🇸 villages were deliberately planted over w forests by 🇮🇱 authorities, often through the Jewish National Fund, to obscure the ruins & prevent the return of the original inhabitants" Sliman Mansour's The roots remain (الجذور باقية) 2021 www.instagram.com/p/DJHRrQyt-J...

A fantastic book 💙

I am so thrilled that the season is now here! 🥳This is one of the most meaningful projects that I have been a part of -- the topics addressed by our amazing guests couldn't be more timely or pressing. Please listen and share! 🙏 #PeoplingThePast #ATHAR ##CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Looting

Over the past 24 hours, a judge in New Jersey held that he has jurisdiction to consider Mahmoud Khalil's First Amendment challenge; a judge in Vermont ordered ICE to free Mohsin Mahdawi; and a judge in Boston green-lighted AAUP and MESA's challenge to the broader ideological deportation policy.

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What on earth is this, @chrismoise.ca? I am one of your constituents and I am beyond tired of your political moves, which consistently go against why we voted you in. Shame on you and please don't run again.

Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

Israel has dropped more bombs in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden & Hamburg combined during WWII [𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴]. Read that & consider that Gaza is, on average, only 5 miles wide & 25 miles in length. Life expectancy has dropped from 75.5 years in 2023 to 40.6 years now [𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘵]. Genocide.

Orange Augustus wants to become pontifex maximus

Spotted downtown Toronto @kneecapceol.bsky.social

Loving this vibe

NDP *and Bloc Québécois* voters- Québec voters massively decided to block Poilievre by voting Liberal

Eternal shame and the Hague

Toronto street vibes

Today is voting day. You can cast your ballot at your local polling stations, open all day. After polls close, The Tyee will publish updates on results as they come in and have reporters check in from Conservative, Green, Liberal and NDP election-night gatherings — so please drop by. #CdnElxn2025

🚨Just out: Egyptian Riverine Harbours edited by Marine Yoyotte, Irene Forstner-Müller & Harco Willems In my chapter, I argue that Lake Menzaleh was a socio-economic hub well before the Arab conquest & that as such, it was already an eastern complement to Alexandria’s fluvio-maritime harbour network

History books will barely be able to cover the montrous depravity of Trump's actions, since we can barely cover it in daily news accounts to imagine having to pick just a few examples to summarize his evil on a page in a HS text. But this could make the cut.

Myth: “The Jewish People was on the Land of Israel/Palestine first so it is theirs by right of first come, first served” – #EOPalestine 05 – Everyday Orientalism - everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/09/20/m...

Spartans in Palestine: When “Free” Societies Are Based on Oppression – #EOPalestine 16 – Everyday Orientalism - everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/s...

Myth: “In 70 CE Jews were expelled from their homes in the coastal Southeastern Mediterranean” – #EOPalestine 17  – Everyday Orientalism - everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/10/08/m...

Tired of witnessing the complicit silence and ongoing coloniality of disciplinary associations, from the AHA to the SCS and AIA? Us too! That's why we founded the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social: JOIN US! societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Congratulations to Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia and their contributors on the publication of their new #OpenAccess book Classics and Race today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/classic... #Classics #Race #IntellectualHistory

This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

Swedish Association of Anthropologists / Sveriges Antropologförbund passed a motion endorsing a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and to support Palestinian institutions.

SCOOP: Barnard students are being interrogated about a bomb threat last month on the day students held a pro-Palestine sit-in at the library. But the school never revealed to the public -- or the students -- that the threat was against student protesters. theintercept.com/2025/04/24/b...

ICE harassed a lawyer who provided advice to an undocumented family about their immigration case, including *shutting off his wifi so his Ring camera couldn’t record the interaction.* radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

How exactly are these schools going to ‘resist’ Trump when they are gleefully carrying out his project of their own volition?

This is great! I applaud @karenattiah.bsky.social for teaching this course anyway. Glad to hear that there's tremendous interest. Wish I could take the course but alas! My summer is fully booked. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Mother Earth is huge and beautiful. Don't go to the USA - there's plenty, plenty to enjoy elsewhere

I was waiting for this—evidence of CBP overreach at a US/Canada *land* border. Well, here it is: a *US CITIZEN* detained in Vermont, handcuffed, and confined to a cell across from his wife. They could have been transferred to an ICE facility. Cross in airport pre-clearance if you can.

Today, Duke issued an advisory to international students and faculty recommending against non-essential travel outside the US. If I still worked at Duke, this would (rightly) be counseling me not to visit home for risk of losing my job upon attempted return. www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

There is a new exhibit on Gaza's history in Paris' Institut du monde arabe & I just went. I'll share some of my favs this week. Today: 🐪🏺🏺 6th c. CE dromedary container - note the amphoras Found on the site of ancient port of Anthedon - an exceptional site which the IOF has mostly destroyed

Apparently this was the breaking point for Harvard: cluster hires for conservatives.

This is how it begins 🇨🇦 Just look south. The minute you allow anyone, even criminals, to lose their human rights, we all lose our human rights. PP has to override the Supreme Court to do this, you think he’ll stop there? The US is disappearing legal citizens, it can happen here. KEEP PP OUT #cdnpoli

Given how we continue to fail to protect the planet we live on from our own, ignorance, carelessness and greed, the concept of "space tourism" is, in itself, obscene. And touting this as a "breakthrough for gender equality" is nauseating. I'd have hoped women would know better, but here we are.

An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

University presidents: What will YOUR legacy and the legacy of your institution be? Headlines from the 1988.

It's giving Nero (pic: Gold aureus struck in Rome in 65-66 CE: www.silburycoins.co.uk/wp-content/u...)

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

The acting director of ICE told the Border Security Expo that his dream is to make the deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.” He added, “We need to get better at treating this like a business.” The depravity of these folks knows no bounds. t.co/sF7TqcqfF8