linabenabdallah.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Our forum on Jens Bartelson's magisterial Becoming International is now out in Global Intellectual History (as organised by Kim Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen). Including pieces by Or Rosenboim, Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, me, and of course Jens himself... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to the brilliant @rahulraothariel.bsky.social! His new book "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" can be pre-ordered here 👇 www.plutobooks.com/978074535076....

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

What is the Middle East? I’m thrilled to announce the publication- and free download - of my new, hopefully provocative Cambridge Element on the theory and practice of regions and area studies. Get it now and let me know what you think! abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

My dad writing in @thewire.in on the return of Trump. thewire.in/world/donald... "There is little new in Donald Trump’s slogans such as ‘America First’ or ‘Make America Great Again (MAGA)’...Any reading of America’s history...would show that every American president...sponsored these goals."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

me in the morning once trump imposes a 50% tariff on colombian imports

submitted 31 days ago • 197 comments

At the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum, so many beautiful artefacts from Samarkand, that brought to life the multi-cultural, fascinating city I've written about in my book Air and Love.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you @linabenabdallah.bsky.social for the wonderful contribution!!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

My chapter on emotional resonance and nostalgia in the global south is out as part of the fantastic Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations academic.oup.com/edited-volum.... Thank you @simonkoschut.bsky.social and @andrewagross.bsky.social for including me in such wonderful company!

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

We found it surprising at how little was written on Emotions and Global Governance, so @jittipm.bsky.social and I wrote this essay for the Oxford Handbook on Emotions and IR (edited by @simonkoschut.bsky.social & @andrewagross.bsky.social) :)

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Call for papers for migration and displacement scholars from/in MENA. Workshop to be held in Istanbul, in conjunction with Koç University’s Migration Research Center Proposals due March 1. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/cal...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

And we're back! A new senior seminar on offer "The Power and Politics of Infrastructure" #Spring2025

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Michael Roth, "Elite education has lost the trust of many Americans, in no small part because of how it solidifies the advantages of wealth...It doesn't have to be this way." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/o...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Muhammad Habib and Gatra Priyandita @ CSIS Indonesia just published a research report on how #Indonesia navigates the #US-#China #technology competition! You can read it here: www.prio.org/publications...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Nobody is happy with how punishment of student protesters has been handled - Chronicle of Higher Ed www.chronicle.com/article/a-pu...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁 tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

IMHO the coup botched not because it was not well thought out. Yoon lacks political allies. His only ally is the military, supporting his rhetoric of freedom/liberalism targeted at so-called pro-North Korea anti-state forces. He has no political allies within the ruling party.

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

My latest on racial capitalism, published in both French and English, where I defend the concept against critiques from critics like Loic Wacquant

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Our book on Syria (2022) 👇 for those interested in the background of recent events. Most importantly it contains multiple chapters by Syrian scholars & chapters on the oft-neglected human impact of the conflict. TOC: www.routledge.com/Actors-and-D...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Today (online): 2024 BRISMES Annual Lecture "Witness to Genocide - In Conversation with Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah" Friday 29 November, 18:00-19:30 GMT. Event free & open to all, but registration required: brismes.ac.uk/events/annua... @nicolapratt.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

NEW ISSUE from Ethics & International Affairs - cup.org/491dJPn Includes a roundtable: The Problem with International Order Papers by @trineflockhart.bsky.social, @aysezarakol.bsky.social, @linabenabdallah.bsky.social, @jennifermitzen.bsky.social, @ncrenic.bsky.social, and more

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

It's publication day it seems! Pleased to see that "The Liberal International Order as an Imposition" is now out in Ethics and International Affairs. Many thanks to Ian Hurd for organizing us at #ISA2023, what a wonderful conversation! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

🔊🔊 CFP deadline Nov. 25 for the 5th Global Africas Conference: AFROTOPIAS (April 2025) with Felwine Sarr hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute Please apply and share widely! winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

👇

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

submitted 103 days ago • 352 comments

This is a great article —it examines Chinese influence (and the conditions constraining it) in Sri Lanka, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands. cc: @linabenabdallah.bsky.social, who has an excellent book on China-Africa relations.

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

A roundup of China-GCC stories from the last week, including Saudi AI, UAE flying taxis, and an Omani delegation in Beijing. Subscribe to The China-MENA Newsletter, and please share it within your networks to help me get the word out: open.substack.com/pub/chinamen...

submitted 291 days ago • 0 comments

If Putin finishes his new term, he will become the longest-serving Russian leader since Catherine the Great in the 1700s @nytimes.com

submitted 346 days ago • 0 comments

Not a fan of the wording in this blurb, but apparently this guy was promising resource rights to financial backers, lining up NY PR firms, and checking out weapons in AZ (that was a federal sting) all as he acted as a “go-to” guy on S. Sudan policy in the US.

submitted 353 days ago • 0 comments

"We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing." t.co/w9oZtm9maz

submitted 373 days ago • 0 comments

Yu Guangzhong 余光中, the great poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent most of his life in Taiwan, passed away six years ago today. Here is his best known work (somewhat to his chagrin) - “Nostalgia” 鄉愁 - a small poem of longing, in his own handwriting, alongside my quick translation. #everynightapoem

submitted 441 days ago • 4 comments

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 141 of The Continent.

submitted 474 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile in the West Bank

submitted 485 days ago • 0 comments

This memorial in Jenin, West Bank was made from remnants of Palestinian ambulances attacked by Israel. Israel destroyed it last night (after having destroyed a memorial to Shereen Abu Aqleh).

submitted 486 days ago • 1 comment

Here they are dragging it away:

submitted 486 days ago • 3 comments

At least 1,500 children under the age of 10, including 600 under the age of four, have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to a list released on Thursday by the health ministry there. More than 100 were listed as less than a year old. nyti.ms/45KtzKJ

submitted 488 days ago • 38 comments

The effects can be seen from space. The Gaza Strip has plunged into darkness since Israel announced a “complete siege” on Oct. 9. On Friday, the little connectivity Gaza had with the outside world appeared to be severed, amid reports of heavy bombardment. More updates: wapo.st/477tylj

submitted 488 days ago • 10 comments

The entire UNC system will only award Distinguished Professorships to faculty in STEM fields from now on. www.wunc.org/education/20...

submitted 489 days ago • 13 comments

“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I'm sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war.” Absolutely appalling by Biden. Absolutely appalling. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 489 days ago • 4 comments

Jewish Scholar Judith Butler Condemns Israel’s “Genocide” in Gaza www.democracynow.org/2023/10/26/j... via @democracynow.bsky.social

submitted 489 days ago • 0 comments

The attack is not only on Gaza: "More Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in the past few weeks than in any similar period in at least the past 15 years" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 492 days ago • 2 comments

As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.

submitted 493 days ago • 0 comments

As Israel’s war in Gaza spreads anger and anxiety across the Middle East, one of America’s most famous brands has found itself in the thick of it: McDonald’s. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

submitted 494 days ago • 0 comments