نمایش مستند «دربند: یادگار ایران» در دانشگاه استنفورد --- US Premiere of my documentary film on DARBAND (Derbent): The largest defensive structure of Persia's Sasanian Empire in the Caucasus and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Stanford University: events.stanford.edu/event/film-scr…

Looking forward to talking about my book with Hasan Siddiqui next week on Zoom - open to the public!

Yiddish #etymology of the day which blew my mind: גלחות galkhes "Latin alphabet", from the Hebrew גלח "to shave". Shaving > Christian monks (who shaved their heads) > Christian (non-Hebrew-script) writing.

imo the only responsible policy for AI use, at any level of education, is zero-tolerance. Students are still failed and expelled for plagiarism. AI is no different We need to help students learn better, but they won’t want that help if they’re allowed or encouraged to cheat.

492 dead, 1,645 wounded in Israeli airstrikes today as per Lebanon health ministry. The death toll will rise as bodies are found and rubble is cleared. Unfathomable death and suffering today in Lebanon. Impossible to put into words.

Palestinian Fellowship at Leiden University Dear friends and colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to announce the formation of the Palestinian Woman Islamic Thought Visiting Fellowship at Leiden University. The initiative has been approved enthusiastically by Leiden

All she said was, "There are hungry children in Gaza, there are children without a home."

Perhaps a long shot but I am looking to put together a small group of people interested in learning classical Armenian together, we'd meet once a week or so to work through a given text word by word, line by line, that sort of thing (+ a focus on manuscripts)- DM if interested!

Comrades! Verso needs your support for radical publishing!

Come work with me! We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of Early Islam (until ca. 1250). Please share widely!

Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in #Iranian_Studies: Making Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India Speaker: Dr. #Alexander_Jabbari Discussant: Dr. #Hasan_Siddiqui asia.ubc.ca/events/event/t…

Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech interc.pt/4ehGCbT by Natasha Lennard interc.pt/4ehGCbT

Thackston's Persian grammar has been my go-to recommendation when asked, but now that I'm teaching it in my Persian for Reading class I don't actually love it. Need to find the time to write my own textbook for reading classical Persian.

Oh my my my. This is Lebanon just now. At least 6 towering residential buildings have been leveled to the ground. Filled with people. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

Brandeis president out after faculty no-confidence vote over his calling police on pro-Palestine student protestors. I hope other college presidents are paying attention.

Israel is expanding its genocide to Lebanon. The failure to stop this genocidal regime in Gaza is now enabling Israel to commit genocide against the people of Lebanon, and if you think it will stop there, you’re wrong. Israel is seizing the opportunity to establish itself as the

In 2002, George Bush strongly condemned Israel for killing Hamas' TOP militant b/c 14 civilians were killed in the same strike. Israel didn't dare call those victims "human shields" Compare this to Biden/Harris revelling in Israel's slaughter of 300 civilians to get Nasrallah!

Lacking any positive vision or platform, the Dems’ strategy is blackmail: Trump would be even worse. That is likely true at home. But as Biden aids and abets Israel’s ever-expanding genocidal war, some will genuinely wonder how Trump’s foreign policy could possibly be worse.