MES decision on Tampa-- we endorse the AQA: The Association for Queer Anthropology's call for a nonbinding boycott emphasizing the call not to register for the conference x.com/QueerAnthro/st…… -- mes.americananthro.org/2024/04/10/mes… #AmericanAnthro #AAATampa2024 #BoycottFlorida

So excited for this one! Congratulations Ryan!!

I drew on the works of amazing folks including Fayez Sayegh, Elias Shoufani, Mouin Rabbani, @shiranrobinson, and Fredrik Meiton to write about Israel and oil/energy: granta.com/as-they-laid-d…

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Working on this piece was such a joy. A perfect end to the coursework portion of my PhD. Now onwards and upwards!

📣 Please share! The Crown Center is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Modern Arab Middle East. For details see shorturl.at/rMgFh

This will be a great conversation about the book and wider field! Part of CLAGS new series Queer Globalizations: gc.cuny.edu/clags-center-l… Duke University Press

If you are academic faculty, student, staff or alum, please join me in signing this Open Letter in Solidarity with Jewish anti-Zionist scholar Dr. Maura Finkelstein, first tenured prof in U.S. since Oct 2023 to be _FIRED_ for pro-Palestinian speech. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🇱🇧As Beirut faces yet another heartbreaking chapter of war, I wrote a short story about the sweet don't give a fuckness of its people. 🍰💔 The Markaz Review is @markaz-review.bsky.social 📍 Read "The Last Millefeuille in Beirut" here: themarkaz.org/the-last-mille…

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Such a brilliant interview and a great introduction to Gillian Rose’s work!

I had the honor of sitting down with Andrea Wright Andrea Wright to discuss her new book "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)' by New Books in Middle Eastern Studies. megaphone.link/NBNK3944663585

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Todd Reisz to chat about his fantastic new book Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (Stanford UP, 2021). New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) Stanford Press Listen here megaphone.link/NBNK8292321538

.⁦Basharat Peer⁩ on the story that became ‘Homebound’ thehindu.com/entertainment/…

I had the honor of sitting down with Laura Goffman, Laura Frances Goffman, to talk about her powerful book Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia. (Stanford Press 2024) by New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) megaphone.link/NBNK8382782621

I had the pleasure of chatting with Ahmad Shokr about his fantastic new book, Harvests of Liberation, which offers a critical reinterpretation of Egypt’s path to decolonization through the lens of its most important export crop: cotton! A must read for scholars across disciplines