The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born apnews.com/article/gaza-i…

“Those who go to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's food distributions know that they have the same chance of receiving a sack of flour as they do of leaving with a bullet in their head.” The latest update from our colleagues in Gaza: msf.org/msf-finds-1-4-…

“Why use airdrops when you can drive hundreds of trucks through the borders?,” UNRWA Juliette Touma tells The New York Times. “It’s much easier, more effective, faster, cheaper.” Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation in #Gaza. At UNRWA, we have the equivalent of 6,000 trucks

Urgent letter to Pope Leo XIV from Palestinian journalist Hind Shraydeh, writing from occupied Palestine. She pleads for action as Gaza faces mass death, hunger, and the destruction of churches and lives. “Gaza is betrayed by everyone it once trusted.” 🔗palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657641

Great article on supporting graduate students with trainings on #academicfreedom: insidehighered.com/opinion/career…. And it ends with a quote from University of Denver’s Mary Clark!

Looking forward to this timely webinar!

“Graduate students are developing identities as scholars, learning what academic freedom means in their #research and in the classroom—and how their scholarly identity intersects with their extracurricular speech as citizens and community members. It is critical that we support

The Louisville Institute is accepting applications for their 2025-2026 grant and fellowship programs ➡️ in support of religious and theological studies conducted by pastors, scholars, and researchers. Explore the details/deadlines under the programs tab. louisville-institute.org/programs-grant…

❤️‍🩹 syriacpress.com/blog/2025/07/3…

Professor Rashid Khalidi has withdrawn his fall course at Columbia in protest of the university’s deal with the Trump administration and adoption of the IHRA definition. He calls it a surrender of academic freedom and complicity in genocide. His open letter in the The Guardian:

BNSCP August & Future Happenings - mailchi.mp/ee73503646e8/n…

So many academic losses this year, in addition to all the human ones ❤️‍🩹

Without community-based aid in #Gaza: ✅the fittest get some supplies ❎the vulnerable hardly survive. Stop displacing families, delaying convoys & shooting at hungry people. Let essentials in via all routes. Let us restart our service points, leaving no one behind.🤰🤰👴🧑‍🦽👧🤱

"Death from hunger is the most humiliating form of death. It does not come suddenly like a missile, but slowly and cruelly, until life fades quietly...hunger seems to be its ugliest and most degrading weapon." palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657690

New #MiddleEast / #Islamic studies fellowship at NY Public Library: nypl.org/about/fellowsh…. Stipend supports 3 mos work in NYPL collections. Applications due 8/25.

I love all seasons, but always feel a bit sad about the end of pre-6am sunrises and post-8pm sunsets here in Denver ☀️💗☀️💗

NYT today vs the Onion

Looking forward to this virtual symposium Sept 5 & 6 on #sound, space, and the #home: soundspaceandthehome.create.fsu.edu. Registration is free and the papers look (or rather, "sound") terrific!

This would be an appalling act at any time, but is especially vile during an ongoing genocide and forced famine

We’re living in a time when a minuscule number of temporary visas issued to those in need of dire medical attention from Gaza, including children, inspire alarm in the U.S. Simply shameful.