For the first time in the history of Rutgers University, all three faculty, grad, EOF, and postdoc unions have voted to go on strike. Monday morning, we are ON STRIKE. See you on the picket line. #RUOnStrike

هل إنت فعلاً لبناني اذا ما لفظت أول حرفين من USJ بالإنكليزي والتالت بالفرنسي؟ يتساءل أحيرام

I want to congratulate the workers at Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union for taking the courageous step to go on strike. You are inspiring the labor movement across this country. I am proud to stand in solidarity with you.

Huge thank you to everyone who organized, went on strike, picketed, and negotiated Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union AAUP-BHSNJ. You have inspired so many of us! Our strike is suspended but our work is not done ✊🏼

The Arabic design archive website is LIVE! Check it out. arabicdesignarchive.com Official Launch date: 1st June. #arabicdesign , #arabicdesignarchive, #arabicdesignhistory, #arabgraphicdesign #arabdesignwriting Thank you: Pro Helvetia Cairo The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - AFAC ACSS Barjeel Art Foundation

Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted

Word of the day, again, is ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century): one who loves to give their opinion on matters they know nothing about.

A series of suspicious assassinations has fostered doubts about the cause of the Beirut blast. Christophe Boltanski wades through the tangle of facts and lies to try and assemble the puzzle: today.lorientlejour.com/article/134534…

Love this!

My op-ed on the #attacksonhealthcare from Iraq to Gaza "Gaza’s plight has eclipsed the devastation I witnessed in Mosul and other conflict zones, with death and injury rates soaring to unthinkable levels." nytimes.com/2023/12/16/opi…

On Thu Feb 29 and Fri Mar 1 (5–7pm Beirut time), I will be taking part of this online symposium. If interested in attending, please register on this link: kingston.ac.uk/faculties/king…

What an honest and touching conversation. Nasri Sayegh and Judith Butler on Palestine, language, and resistance. youtu.be/m6gCNY_sVG8?si…

This feels like a homecoming celebration! Thank you yara khoury nammour, Khatt Chronicles and afikra | عفكرة for the work you do open.spotify.com/episode/7uCc41…

Today I get to pay $300 to take a 3-hour English test in order to be eligible to stay in the country where I am employed to teach English language courses at an English language institution, a prerequisite for which was the PhD I earned at an English language university.

America is waking up.

EVERY. F*CKING. WORD.

You don’t get to live in the imperial core & say foreign policy should not take precedence over domestic policy You survived 4 years of Trump—460,000 Palestinians didn’t survive Biden/Harris A vote for Kamala or Trump is a vote for genocide So don’t be complicit & #VoteGreen🌻

What western media does not tell you!

Re-doing this thread on why writers & journalists have to stop falling for the kind of tokenism practiced by NYT and other lib-media, and why they must stop publishing their solidly pro-Palestinian work on such platforms /1

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are