“Lecturers are unionized. The provost does not support unions, and moving the lecturers…will mean the lecturers will have less protection, and it will be easier to…hire fewer unionized lecturers." UC Davis Union busting is disgusting. davisenterprise.com/news/ucd-writi…

As the semester begins, we are increasingly alarmed at the ramifications of the wave of new campus restrictions on speech & peaceful protest. ➡️indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-studen…

Thank you to the Committee on Academic Freedom MESA for this clear-headed critique of New York University’s dangerous new code of student conduct, which claims that criticism of Zionism, a political ideology, is antisemitism. mesana.org/advocacy/commi…

Pictured is 29 people protesting: now prohibited on Carnegie Mellon University's campus. A new policy demands registration for 25+ people, 3 days notice, sign off by a "Chief Risk Officer," and names and numbers of organizers. We refuse to register to hold a protest on a college campus.

It is this, though it's also productive to compare it with white kids who sued universities over race conscious admissions, because it takes a cynical reading of Title VI and seeks to weaponize it against nonwhite students the same way.

Thanks to my cousin Funda Soysal (Funda Soysal), we have published this co-authored article on our family history: "Precarious Privileges: Glimpses into the Post-Ottoman Transition through the Papers of a Salonican Family" Contemporary Levant #openaccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

That which is used on 'others' will come home. It always has.

Israeli military bulldozers continue their destruction spree in Jenin for sixth day in a row.

Una fascinante perspectiva de la migración Árabe a Estados Unidos, en la entrevista a la historiadora y académica Stacy D Fahrenthold. En la imagen: Familia Arbeely en 1881, la primera familia Siria que inmigró a Estados Unidos en 1878. Créditos de la 📷: USCDornsfire

Since 2015, Denise Caramagno has been director of UCSF's Campus Advocacy Resources and Education program for staff, faculty, & students facing discrimination. Now, UCSF is firing her for speaking about a complaint made against her. Egregious retaliation. 48hills.org/2024/09/ucsf-f…

I spoke recently with Manuel Férez about UNMENTIONABLES, Arab American labor, and the persistence of some diaspora stories over others for a feature in the Spanish language Oriente Medio Net. Check it out at the link:

The AAUP Has Done the Right Thing. It Should Go Further jadaliyya.com/Details/46196 via Jadaliyya

I’m hearing from colleagues that Aysenur Ezgu graduated from UW College of Arts & Sciences this past June and was a brilliant student. I’m now aware of at least four colleagues who taught her and who are in shock. This is devastating and horrifying.

When an American who fought for the IOF is killed: An American Hero! When an America is killed by the IOF: We need more info on if they are even worth mourning

Ayşenur was an organizer at the University of Washington Gaza encampment + graduated this year , carrying a Palestine flag "She had this deep conviction that she wanted to participate in the tradition of bearing witness to the oppression of people and their dignified resilience"

I regret to inform you all that tarantulas are both native to the Carmel Valley and active in the Fall here. I learned this today in the most hilarious manner. (I'm fine. Nobody got bit).

Stacy Fahrenthold spoke recently with Manuel Férez on Oriente Medio Net about her new book _Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class__ , forthcoming with Stanford Press in Dec 2024. Have a listen: