Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile
Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

Muslim intellectual history, Ottoman studies, and woodworking. PhD candidate in NELC @UChicago. Humanities lecturer @DarulQasim

ID: 62377754

calendar_today02-08-2009 23:29:38

12,12K Tweet

12,12K Takipçi

381 Takip Edilen

Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Jordanian monarchy flies under the radar, but it’s genuinely as evil as any other state in the region. What they’ve done since the 1910s makes the UAE look like amateurs.

Alborean Wanderer (@alborannomad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have seen sincere hopes crushed, I have seen men forced to accept humiliation, I have seen what losing is like—I don't want the ummah to keep losing over and over again. There may be honor in persistence during setbacks but not in embracing a method that doesn't allow winning.

Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzingaza) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I no longer go to the Indonesian hospital. What foolishness it is, to speak of hospitals in a place where life is no longer preserved but merely postponed. Once, I believed, oh, how bitterly I believed, that the presence of a doctor among the dying was a sacred thing, a last

Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

AI actively hampers student development. Humanities isn’t about getting the right answer like STEM or even social sciences. It’s about developing students who understand the world around them and their place in it. AI will never be able to do that.

Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Palestinian Christians confound me. They seem far more willing to engage with Israelis and assume that they can operate in good faith. I wonder if this is just the few loud Palestinian Christian voices on here or a wider trend in Palestinian society.

Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The idea of primordial languages that have always been attached to specific geographies is one of the most destructive, ahistorical dogmas of modernity.

Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a really interesting chart of when major events in human history happened from Katip Çelebi's Takvimü't-tevarih. I've got a lot of questions for him regarding his sources because some of these dates are just totally off, even ones that happened during recorded history.

This is a really interesting chart of when major events in human history happened from Katip Çelebi's Takvimü't-tevarih.

I've got a lot of questions for him regarding his sources because some of these dates are just totally off, even ones that happened during recorded history.
Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I used to walk to school alone in 3rd and 4th grade. The former being in California and the latter in suburban Chicago. Both walks were over a mile. My mom never thought twice about it.

Firas Alkhateeb (@khateeb88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unironically, this is a message modern Muslims, particularly those involved in political activism and organizing, need to internalize. Muslims talk about Palestine and other issues through the lens of being anti-imperialist or indigenous rights or whatever. These types of