Hamdan Taha's article in the new issue of Jerusalem Quarterly details the cultural and heritage sites deliberately destroyed by Israel since October 2023 (thread)🧵⤵️ palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656039

Israel's delusion that it can cover up its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under a veil of smoke and fire descending upon the region is enabled by Europe's and America's complicity. The carnage is on us: Americans, Europeans, Australians, Canadians...

"30 years of efforts to convince people that peace is possible, this Israeli government killed it." Jordan's FM Ayman Safadi on Friday responded to Netanyahu's claim Israel was surrounded by enemies by saying "57 Muslim-Arab countries want peace;" provided that Israel ends its

I am becoming more and more reminded of the USSR: both the way in which official language is being emptied of even tangential relationship to truth, and the official smirk that says "We both know that I am lying, and there is nothing you can do about it".

What do we find in #Mustatil in #AlUla? How old are they? Did Saudi Arabia have locally made pottery 7000 years ago? Why are there bits of human remains in Mustatil? Want the answers? Our NEW ARTICLE IS OUT! With the excavation results of 7 mustatil! doi.org/10.5334/oq.139 🧵1/

📢An Egyptian-German mission has uncovered the burial chamber of Iti, daughter of the governor of Asyut Djefaihapi (reign of Senwosret I), just off his own tomb, one of the largest of the period. Look at that inscribed coffin! 😍 Photos via Luxor Times #egyptology #archaeology

From Wednesday october 9 to Saturday October 12, join us for a workshop focusing on how to read a grave: 50 years of #archaeothanatology at the Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut / Austrian Academy of Sciences ! You can still register to follow the communications by zoom, all the information here! oeaw.ac.at/oeai/veranstal…

"The truth is that in Gaza – as elsewhere in southwest Asia – most people, most of the time, found ways to get along" Dr. Stephennie Mulder wraps up Week 3 of #EOPalestine with a potent post on Gaza's long history of religious coexistence 😍 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/10/04/rel…

We are excited to have Prof. Mike Richards as our Visiting Research Fellow! He will present "High-resolution dietary isotope analysis (CSIA-AA): recent research and applications" on Tuesday October 8th, at 16:00. Everyone is very welcome to join in person or online!

It's bandcamp Friday today and MAIS UM are donating 100% of the money from digital sales to aid their artists Sanam & Snakeskin in Beirut to help them and displaced & injured friends. Please give generously. Absolutely fantastic music too. sanambeirut.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-…

The granola to groyper pipeline is real.

“Ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way” ⁦⁦⁦by ⁦Lina Mounzer themarkaz.org/a-year-of-war-…

Watch this entire devastating report Our Al Jazeera Investigations investigation exposes war crimes in Gaza through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year-long conflict. Watch the full film here. #GazaCrimes

A useful introduction to the history of Lebanon and its entangled history with Palestine and resistance against Israeli aggression merip.org/2024/10/a-prim…

Baalbek 🇱🇧 is in the news for more than just #pseudoarchaeology this week as Israeli bombs land less than a kilometer from the temples, killing civilians living nearby.

Out now in 🅰ntiquity Journal! Looking at evidence that not everyone in early med England was buried in a cemetery, and that alternative Iron Age forms of disposal in the landscape persisted into the Roman period and beyond... cambridge.org/core/journals/…

It's one year since Hamas' brutal attack on Israel. Since then, Israel has conducted an illegal campaign of collective punishment against the people of Gaza. In this time I've seen more misery and death than I could ever have imagined possible. I can't take another year of this.

One of the most important things I learned from Khalidi is that the worst tactics used by Israel against the Palestinians (collective punishment, disproportionate reprisals, human shields, famine as a weapon of war) were taught to them by the British. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

"We are going around the world propping ourselves up as the font of democracy. We are going around the world propping Israel up as the only democracy in the Middle East. This is a deep, deep fiction." Watch our full interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates here: democracynow.org/2024/10/8/ta_n…