"Reuters found nearly 1,500 Syrian Alawites were killed and dozens were missing. The investigation revealed 40 distinct sites of revenge killings, rampages and looting against the religious minority, long associated with the fallen Assad government." reuters.com/investigations…

Abstracts due in one week! This will be a great chance to share works-in-progress, give & receive feedback, and contribute to producing knowledge about politics & society in #Syria today. POMEPS الشبكة العربية للعلوم السياسية (APSN) APSA MENA Politics Section ACSS Arab Reform Initiative / مبادرة الإصلاح العربي APSA pomeps.org/call-for-paper…

Saif Musallat was just 20 years old. He owned an ice cream shop with his dad in Tampa. On Friday, Israeli settlers beat him to death, according to his family. Our interview with his heartbroken father & his quest for justice: cnn.com/2025/07/14/wor…

"If formal recognition becomes a substitute for defending the primacy of international law and addressing the core realities of Palestinian suffering, it would be at best a hollow gesture—and at worst an epic misallocation of scarce international political capital."

Unfortunately, this brief by Mazen is extremely topical.

I wrote for Jewish Currents about the history of international law and the question of Palestine, and the bloodstained lever that is armed struggle jewishcurrents.org/the-gavel-and-…

Meanwhile, the so-called forces of law and order are forcing Druze men to pronounce themselves as pigs while beating them and shaving their mustaches.

The Trump admin's absurd, dystopian Gaza scheme recycles ideas that the Biden people were already discussing, as I noted last year: thecairoreview.com/essays/less-th…

Ian Lustick's new piece on the Zionist regime in Israel: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/isr…

Join us November 1 for John Dugard's Edward Said Memorial Lecture.

Voilà ce que c’est que d’être un grand intellectuel aujourd’hui en Europe !

I'm very much looking forward to reading and teaching this. Everyone should pre-order it now (or the next time Cornell University Press does one of their sweet sales).

"Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown" including my comments on the so-called peace plan: thecairoreview.com/essays/trumps-…

I don't think many realize just how crazy this has gotten in the UK. In some ways it's even crazier than the crackdown on speech in Trump's US.