Chatted with Arsalan Khan about his new book “The Promise of Piety”(@CornellPress) for NB Islamic Studies 📚 New Books Network 📚. Check out our conversation here 👉🏼
newbooksnetwork.com/the-promise-of…

Powerful words by Dr. Anwar Mhajne انوار محاجنه: 'Her statements [...] do not [...] constitute 'incitement' of violence, terror, and racism as alleged. Rather, what we are seeing is an attempt to intimidate and silence the Arab community in Israel.'
haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…

I am proud of my Hebrew University colleagues who drafted this letter and I was very happy to sign it. The treatment of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a disgrace.

1/ Today is an angry day. I'm angry at how easy it is for my country to continue shedding Palestinian blood. Israel continues to bomb Rafah, killing dozens of innocents every day while pretending it is mulling over the question of 'operating' and shedding even more blood. --->

New article: 'The Queen's Urdu: Translating Colonial Secularity in Victoria's 1858 Proclamation,' in special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture on 'Vernacular Victoria.' Special thanks to Miles Taylor for shepherding this through! - bit.ly/3JskduB

When the police come after the poetry of your esteemed Hebrew University colleague, something is concerningly wrong! #academicfreedom #releasenadera

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Wait until you read Çelebi's account of the annual witch fight between the Circassian and Abkhazian vampires:

The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village is the most insane thing you'll read today

38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate change. 👉New PIK paper in nature by Maximilian Kotz , Leonie Wenz , Prof Anders Levermann, PhD, Image: Kotz et al., Nature pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Teaching my first History course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this student

Iran has sent a message to Israel via Egypt, according to Iranian state media.

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/oHpyFZz

Iranian woman in the 60's.

This Berghahn Books book will be hitting bookstores in the fall. It was a privilege editing this collection with Annika Schmeding (and working with all the authors)!

#Afghanistan
#Pakistan

berghahnbooks.com/title/Choudhur…

Potentially significant statement by #IRGC chief commander Hossein Salami:

'We have decided to create a new equation [with #Israel ].'

This equation is that, from now on, if Israel attacks #Iranian interests, figures, and citizens anywhere, they will retaliate from Iran. 1/