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Maya Mikdashi

1 year

1/ my book "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism & the State in #Lebanon " has been out a year! here's part of the book, open access: preface: intro: #anthropology #genderstudies #MiddleEastStudies #archives #feminist theory

Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance....

www.academia.edu

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Maya Mikdashi

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9 months

its not a war if one side is a global, nuclear power and the other is a refugee camp already living under siege

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2 years

Qatar is the home of the largest US military base in the Middle East but yes please continue to talk about about their brave, anti imperial, anti-colonial fight against... rainbow flags

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Happy fathers day to all the Palestinian Babas in Gaza, who have cradled their children’s corpses, who have died trying to bring food to their children, who are now single fathers, who have found ways to make their children laugh even if just for one minute during an apocalypse

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2 months

A reminder that on the day of Eid al Fitr the Center for Islamic Life was broken into and vandalized at Rutgers University, and a Palestinian flag in the center was ripped off a flagpole and stolen. Not one journalist with a national profile commented, wrote, or otherwise cared

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1 year

They can rescue migrants in the Mediterranean. They are not 12,500 feet deep. They are right there, floating & sinking They don't want to rescue migrants. It would "encourage" migration so they let them die. They want to rescue billionaires and we turn it all into hashtags

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6 months

In 1850 my mother’s ancestors were told to go to Sandy Lake, Minnesota for their rightful fall annuity payments by the US government- who changed the location so they would freeze$ starve in the winter, then “agree” to being “removed” west where they were promised food & “safety

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1 year

Every disaster, explosion, emergency or other apocalyptic event, I am reminded that indeed for many academics, the Middle East is indeed (still) a career

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7 months

another year of my American students having never heard of Abu Ghraib-they leave angry at what they don't know, I leave heartbroken. American ignorance about their empire in the Middle East & the millions of lives it has cost is carefully cultivated, from Palestine to Iraq

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6 months

If you cannot see the parallels to leaked “Israeli “plans” to “relocate” Palestinians to Sinai for their own good—after making gaza hell—it is on you. We are done explaining & exposing our gaping wounds hoping that there is some argument that will make you care about genocide

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6 months

Every Arab knows mohammad al durrah, shot by the IDF in Gaza 24 years ago as his dad tried to shield him behind a barrel. We watched that 12 year old boy die, saw his baba slump over his body. Now his brother Ahmad is dead. This 100 year hurricane of grief & pain burns us all

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6 months

They refused. 12% of the band died from exposure and starvation, but they got home. This is called the Sandy Lake Tragedy Starving, terrorizing, and making people sick - then telling them to leave the land for “their own safety” has always been a tactic of ethnic cleaning

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2 years

There is nothing worse than war. Anyone who has lived through an invasion knows this in their bones. from Ukraine to Iraq to Lebanon and across the world, the feeling of vulnerability, the knowledge that “international law” was never meant to protect you, but rather your invaders

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7 months

Every professor i know who’s making spaces for students to speak about their experiences have reported the same thing: Students are afraid to wear kuffiehs on campus and they are afraid of speaking Arabic on campus. My students at Rutgers have said the same in processing sessions

Abed A. Ayoub

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7 months

Earlier this morning we were contacted about the shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont. We have been in touch with the families of the students. At this moment here is what we know: - The students were wearing a Kuffiyeh - The students were speaking Arabic - The

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1 year

Im an academic, yes its unethical to do fieldwork research that knowingly puts your interlocutors in danger. This is a uncomplicated & uncontroversial statement. Nobody’s work is important, brilliant, or entitled enough to risk the safety of the people it depends on. I understand

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2 months

Palestinian mothers are on my mind, mothers having caesarean birth without anesthesia, mothers saving lives, mothers cradling dead children, mothers mourning their men, mothers making meals out of almost nothing, mothers willing tents to repel bombs, mothers resisting genocide

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7 months

Far too many scholars do not love the people of the middle east, or the colonized, or the victims of genocidal war, or those that live life in slow death. Instead, they find all of these people “interesting”

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9 months

fellow feminist/sexuality studies scholars, you are NOT post-colonial, decolonial, anti-colonial, etc theorists if you disappear every time Israel commits crimes against humanity against Palestinians. I know what your excuses are, they aren't worth being silent during a genocide

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3 years

Dear @nytimes , by "critics" do you mean international law? as in, "International law says #Israel is obligated to to inoculate #Palestinians under its occupation" NOT "Critics say Israel has an obligation to inoculate Palestinians under its occupation"

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FYI Queers for Palestine know EXACTLY what they are supporting: the liberation of an occupied, dehumanized, oppressed people. I know its hard for you to imagine, but queer politics has always been rooted in justice for the oppressed, not pride floats

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Maya Mikdashi

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7 months

So when we fill Beirut's streets with calls for a feminist intifada we are calling for a genocide of men? Absolutely ludicrous. Stop criminalizing the Arabic language & stop using Arabic words you don't understand to scare people primed with anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia

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3 months

Rutgers University undergrad students voted to divest on all 3 campuses with historic margins. The Student Assembly also passed 2 bills on Islamophobia & anti-Palestinian racism. This is the first student assembly to adopt a definition of anti Palestinian racism. All in one week!

Sylvia Chan-Malik

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3 months

From @SJPRutgersNB 's IG: "(This week, Rutgers students passed) 2 bills defining Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. In a crushing 15 to 3 vote, Rutgers Student Assembly (RUSA) became THE FIRST STUDENT ASSEMBLY to adopt a definition of anti-Palestinian racism."

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Maya Mikdashi

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26 days

I have long thought/argued that Palestinian men should be centered in feminist theorization of gender, sexuality, occupation, colonialism, violence & resistance. Every day the relationship between gender & dehumanization, gender & genocide, becomes clear

Can Palestinian Men be Victims? Gendering Israel's War on Gaza

Every morning we wake up to an updated butcher’s bill: one hundred, two hundred, four hundred, six hundred Palestinians killed by Israel’s war apparatus as of this writing. These numbers gloss over...

www.jadaliyya.com

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2 years

Did not expect my baba to whatsapp this to me …

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5 months

My baba always tells me about being a graduate student in the United States during the 1967 war & how he realized he could & would never live in the United States. This is that moment for us. We cannot live in a country that hates us & is responsible for a genocide in Palestine

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1 year

some fellow anthros think Palestinians are a "minority group" & frame their "inclusion" in Israeli unis like its a DEI initiative. This reflects just how normalized settler colonialism is in the USA & Palestine. Let's be clear, Palestinians are NOT a "minority group" in a multi-

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3 years

If you have colleagues or students who are #Palestinian , check in. It's hurtful when ppl don't acknowledge that headlines are your home, your people & your experience After the explosion in Beirut a total of 3 colleagues checked in on me, & family &friends were hurt. We remember

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6 months

Remember: Gaza = Palestine South Lebanon = Lebanon Southern Suburbs = Beirut Israel bombed Beirut & illegally assassinated a Hamas leader in Lebanon. Hizballah has been strategic, impactful & careful in its response to Israeli aggression on Lebanon. Not sure that will change

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5 months

I don’t know who needs to still hear this: the United States is the only actor that can stop Israel from committing genocide, and from flattening Lebanon. That is why this is America’s war Anything short of stopping the flow of American weapons and money to Israel is propaganda

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5 months

It is normal when Israel kills civilians in Lebanon & bombs deep into the country-it is "escalation" when Hizballah responds It is normal for Israel to occupy Lebanese land, control water resources, sow landmines, violate airspace-"escalation" when any of that is challenged

Al Jazeera Breaking News

@AJENews

5 months

BREAKING: At least four people killed, including two children, in two Israeli air attacks on towns in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s civil defence. 🔴 LIVE updates:

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1 year

I hope universities are checking on & providing services and space to their Syrian and Turkish students, employees, and community members. The damage of this earthquake & the despair it unleashed will be felt near & far, in each family & individual. The scale is unfathomable

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9 months

This is how genocides happen. With the most powerful states in the world lined up, with disinformation campaigns, heralded by hate and dehumanization & enforced media blackout, with the cowardice of silence, with the brutality of curated algorithms, with excuses #gaza #Palestine

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Maya Mikdashi

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3 years

Well, my book "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in #Lebanon " is now in the @stanfordpress MES catalogue, and apparently on sale? I've been feeling awk about sharing this, but a book is the product of so many people's labor & i appreciate it all ❤️ Out May 2022

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3 years

i grew up with extended blackouts, dark streets, hand-washed clothes, the ever possibility of spoiled food, a candle outside the door of our apartment. i recently came home after the generator cut & baba had put out a candle just like he used to. a flickering beacon. i broke down

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3 years

positioning yourself in research/ethnography is supposed to be conflicting. its an exercise in humility & power. Exposing aspects of yourself in print that are uncomfortable is necessary, bc that is literally what we do as a method when its about messiness of other peoples lives

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

1 year

hello hello I am the incoming director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Rutgers University, taking over from Toby Jones, who has led center/program in strength through difficult times. Looking forward to working with amazing MES scholars & students across campus @RutgersU

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6 months

I just saw a photo of a three month old baby, dead, alone in a cold room with nobody to claim her- her family may also be dead. Maybe she died hungry. She was one of more than 10,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza, probably with American bombs. She was the world

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2 years

got the call, im now a tenured associate professor @Rutgers ! Thank you everyone who made this possible, espec colleagues & people who wrote a tenure letter, i promise to pay it forward! ❤️ to everyone i drove crazy with me 😜 …Can’t wait to tell you what i REALLY think! (Lol)

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2 years

plz don't confuse "sharia" with law/legal systems in the middle east. Islamic legal interpretation is flexible & varied when it comes to abortion, but that means nothing to/in most nation states whose criminal laws have secular, colonial genealogies. If you were taken to criminal

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4 months

Biden's response to the Flour Massacre is a photo op showing American military planes dropping MRIs into the Gaza Strip. American planes also bring bombs that Israel blankets Gaza with. I wonder, are they the same plane? Half food, half bombs-to feed & kill Palestinians? Depraved

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2 months

Our brother @sinanantoon was arrested tonight along with other NYU professors who were trying to stop NYU from arresting its own students. Solidarity to all and btw, trying to arrest away the growing student movement for Palestine will not work

Jadaliyya

@jadaliyya

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BREAKING: NYPD arrested Jadaliyya Co-Editor and NYU Associate Professor Sinan Antoon along with other faculty and students as he/they was/were trying to protect NYU students from the Police. We will not ever be silenced.

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4 months

Palestinian men & boys are being targeted for simply being Palestinian men & boys. Too many feminst & queer theorists are silent about this systemic weaponization whereby being gendered male marks you for LEGITIMATE elimination, torture, kidnapping…as long as you are Palestinian

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4 years

dear @nytimes , I believe the word you are looking for is "imperialism" #Lebanon #France #mandate

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27 days

4 alive Israelis/200+dead Palestinians is a ratio that the United States & Israel are celebrating as a stunning victory. This is unadulterated colonial racism That the US “aid pier” is actually a joint military facility is unsurprising- this is an American genocide as well

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There’s no better example of the dehumanization of Palestinians than the joyful celebrations of 4 Israeli hostages freed, with barely a care for hundreds of refugees slaughtered in the process. The only way to “justify” it is if you believe the people killed simply don’t matter.

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8 months

1, 200 feminist scholars have signed the below statement. 1,200 of us believe: "None of us are free until we are all free. Palestine is not an exception. End the Siege. End the #Occupation . Land Back. Our #feminism compels us to say: Free #Palestine !"

Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation.

As scholars in feminist, queer, and trans studies who are rooted in social justice praxis, we refuse to stay silent while a genocide is ongoing in Gaza and a brutal war is unleashed to ethnically...

www.jadaliyya.com

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2 years

Some professors really do change your life :)

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3 months

I think we are missing an important point about this article. Allegations of mass, systemic rape by Arab/Muslim men don't have to be "true" to be believable bc they are always already racialized/gendered as sexually dangerous. Orientalist "common sense" doesn't need verification

Mehdi Hasan

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3 months

If only the @nytimes still had an ombudsman or reader’s editor. This is one of the many, many issues with the original ‘Screams without words’ piece that was then partly used by some to justify the ongoing genocide of the people in Gaza.

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2 months

There are no limits to what Israel is allowed to do to Palestinians. Starve them bury them bomb them mass graves no medicine destroy hospitals schools universities infrastructure. Kill them with drones with bullets with bombs with starvation. This is what dehumanization brings

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2 years

Regulating sex & gender is central to state power/its performance. That's why sex/gender politics are central to resistance, revolution & the practice of freedom anywhere, regardless of regime type (secular/religious, democratic/authoritarian). Solidarity with protestors in #Iran

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4 years

some small context for people who follow #Lebanon news less: Lebanon relies on imports for almost everything, including food and medicine/medical supplies. This is the largest & busiest national port (2nd largest has MUCH limited capacity of port #beirut ), and the government has

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3 years

if people ask you "what happened" in the Beirut Explosion investigation, share this video of riot police beating families of the victims of the explosion. Their crime? Demanding accountability for their loved ones. So far PMs & security heads have refused to even be questioned

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3 years

Riot police now beating protesters and families of #BeirutBlast victims with baton, some officers in plain clothing. #Lebanon

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1 year

How many Americans know that there is no electricity or heating in many parts of earthquake and war devastated Syria bc of US sanctions & the US “strategically” controlling Syrian oil fields? Thoughts and prayers are important, action against US impunity in the region is better

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25 days

Being in Beirut means sharing the same time, land, sky & sea with our people in the Gaza Strip. We are so close, but witness with enforced estrangement. An impossible four hour drive, a short flight that can never happen, an intimacy, love & commitment that survives all obstacles

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10 months

Are you a #Palestinian woman in a PhD program or enrolling in a Phd program? Is your degree in the humanities or social sciences? apply to this one year, $ 25,000 fellowship that supports ANY expenses related to the pursuit of your degree, worldwide

Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship - Palestinian American Research Center

2024-2025 Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Gazan Women Pursuing PhDs Apply Now The Palestinian American Research Center announces the PARC Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Gazan women pursuing PhDs...

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@mayamikdashi

3 years

more than 140 professors at Rutgers University say "We stand in Solidarity with the #Palestinian People." Rutgers colleagues, sign on here: "A ceasefire does not end the colonial conditions of structural violence & inequality that Palestinians live under"

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@mayamikdashi

3 years

I wrote "Can Palestinian Men be Victims?" during another "unprecedented" Israeli attack on #Palestinians in #Gaza , in 2014. It could've been written in 2008, 2012, 2021. The violence of settler colonialism is structural & gendered, punctuated by "crisis" & "war." #FreePalestine

Matthew Teller

@matthewteller

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"Women & children" is a reflexive linguistic tic. Let's drop it. It infantilises women & denies them agency; it implies men are dangerous, guilty, combatants deserving of violence; it asserts patriarchy; it codifies misogyny. @mayamikdashi explains much better in this 2014 piece

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1 year

Its out! @anthroboycott the AAA @AmericanAnthro has voted to endorse the boycott of Israeli academic institutions!!! The largest academic association to do so yet, in solidarity with Palestinians and their struggle for freedom. There will be more to come

FidelAdely

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"The members of the American Anthropological Association have endorsed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions."

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9 months

the ease of commentators using "South Lebanon" as if it is not just... #Lebanon , is a problem Lebanon is being bombed by Israel. People are being displaced in Lebanon, illegal weapons are being used in Lebanon, Lebanon might be invaded (again) by Israel. "Limited" war is WAR

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3 years

when ppl say "you don't look Arab/Lebanese" I don't say "my mom is American" I say "how many Arabs do you know?" It's racist to assume what 300 + million, multiracial people, look like. yest it started "your accent is so interesting" [plz lady let me baby talk your dog in peace]

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3 years

I am haunted by those whom will never be found. Those that we may not even know we have lost, because their lives in #Lebanon as undocumented workers, as racialized illegal labor, as migrants & refugees, were always spectral, expendable, anonymous in life & in death. I mourn them

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1 year

Palestine is a national cause, an Arab cause, the cause of the oppressed, of the colonized & formerly colonized, of anyone who believes in & practices freedom,anyone who refuses to accept that some people are less human than others. What do you believe in, what do you fight for?

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11 months

Another History, Another Future. Beirut-Haifa Railway, Naqoura

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9 months

I cant believe i have to say this, but if you have Palestinian colleagues reach out to them, offer to teach their classes, fill in service work, offer your shoulder, whatever. They are going through hell and solidarity is action, not words

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this talk of the Beirut airport --meant to soften pliant westerners to the spectacle of Israel's destruction of civilian infrastructure & killing in Lebanon--is just the beginning. Highways, hospitals, residential areas, electricity & water infrastructure, ports & farms--are next

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1 year

culti state. They are an occupied people, denied self-determination, legally & ideologically unequal in a state based on ethnic nationalism. "Inclusion" has been a tactic of settler colonialism. If you want to call on US history as an alibi or whataboutism, please learn it first

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2 years

Early Copies of the book are here! "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in #Lebanon . Feels surreal to hold it! 5 chapters, a preface, conclusion, 270 pages, abt a decade of research/writing. Working with the team @stanfordpress was a dream, thank you Kate Wahl! &

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7 months

Rutgers University is treating Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizers like problems to be managed, not students to be cared for. Many universities and colleges are doing the same. So many reasons: donor pressure, racism, ignorance, managerial/admin bloat. But no excuses

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3 years

Gender Studies Departments Stand In Solidarity With Palestinian Feminist Collective! Colleagues in gender studies, talk to your department, center, institute, or program& sign on! list of 10 cosigners in link say it LOUD: #Palestineisafeministissue

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9 months

anyone who doubts what the IDF will or won't do, please google "Qana, Lebanon" , "1982 siege/bombing of Beirut" , "land mines South Lebanon" There is no bottom. We know this army. The US media is distracting the world because they will not publicly mourn Palestinians #Gaza

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8 months

We celebrated a groundbreaking Palestinian feminist, Lila Abu Lughod, yesterday @femanth . Thank you to the committees for recognizing her, and 4 recognizing sextarianism with honorable mention in the Michelle Rosaldo book prize. We filled the space with 🇵🇸 -in love and rage

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Lila Abu-Lughod receives the 2023 @femanth Career Award from - celebrated by former students and feminist scholars 🎉⚡️

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3 years

If you are American, speaking out/being in solidarity with Palestinians is not "taking sides." Instead it is disassociating yourself from the side already taken for you by successive US governments. This is where "silence=complicity" comes from. #SaveSheikhJarrah #Palestine #Gaza

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Israel doesn’t manufacture the bombs dropped on Gaza, nor the F16s dropping them. Who does? American corporations. Who pays? We do.

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The proofs of my book are here (???!!!!???) and at every stage the mix of excitement and mortification is amplified. but i guess (hope) this is normal? Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon

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Not surprised that some Middle East Studies boosters on this hellsite avoid making statements on Palestine like the plague. Not surprised that many of these scholars are not from the region. Can you study the ME & not love its people? How can you love its people & stay silent?

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3 years

TBH, I am unable to talk to anyone who doesn't know what is happening in my home, #Lebanon . I don't want to have to tell you & hear "omg" or "i can't believe it." I'm tired of the compulsion to know/care about your world if you don't feel the compulsion to know/care about mine

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4 years

This is Murder: "I told them that I won't send out my fire trucks before knowing what kind of fire it is. I need to know what's there ... An officer from state security called & said it was a hangar with just fireworks. Knowing that ... I gave the order to go"

Timour Azhari

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4 years

Beirut’s firefighters were sent to near-certain death based on false info relayed by security forces, top firefighters tell @AJEnglish “Had we known... we would have called for an evacuation and definitely wouldn't have sent these young men and women in.”

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What a terrible, terrifying time to be alive. We are watching, hearing, seeing starving bodies torn apart, burnt crushed like flies under concrete. We are told to accept this genocide because it is against Palestinians & somehow they deserve it. Just shut up, accept it. NO, NEVER

Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸

@MuhammadSmiry

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GAZA THIS NIGHT

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Maya Mikdashi

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🧵how the @nytimes writes/evaluates #Palestinian & Israeli life differently: 1/"The Palestinian death toll for 2 days of fighting had risen to 15 by Saturday afternoon with 125 injured, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. A 5-year-old girl was among those killed on Friday

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Maya Mikdashi

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Please understand that when a US government says they have a right to "self-defense" in the Middle East they are actually saying that they will kill and destroy any indigenous resistance to American Empire anywhere, any time

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Maya Mikdashi

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For academics, talking about Palestine is not political activism (only). It's about intellectual, historical, theoretical honesty. When MENA academics avoid discussing Palestine publicly but do discuss their scholarship on other parts of the region-it is intellectually dishonest

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Maya Mikdashi

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This Friday. Join ⁦ @4noura ⁩ and I for a talk by and conversation with Rashid Khalidi on “Gaza and the 100 Year War on Palestine.” In person at Rutgers New Brunswick and online via registration. Friday, 5.30pm.👇

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Maya Mikdashi

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That people are are worried about someone they care about, but i see academic research being used as an excuse to do whatever you want. The “pursuit of knowledge” is not carte blanche. These regulations came on the backs of colonized & vulnerable people who were often put in more

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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Lebanon today is not "just like" the crisis in Egypt, Iraq, or Turkey, or Iran. Those economies are large & have industrial capacity, resources/infrastructure we could only dream of. Not all horrible things are horrible in the same way. More comparison please, & less equivalence

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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22 years ago today, the resistance liberated Lebanon from brutal Israeli occupation. To my mind, 2000, not 1990, marks the beginning of the post war era. South Lebanon IS LEBANON, and cannot be separated from national narratives. Every year on this day I am proud to be Lebanese

Farah-Silvana Kanaan

@farahkanaan

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The Liberation of South Lebanon

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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I am going to look at the sea today and become who I am. I will live this emptiness, this fullness that Etel Adnan leaves. A world made by writers, artists, thinkers - a life of making worlds. I will think of her partner Simone Fattal, and remember that love is the twin of loss

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

3 years

My mom sent me this…

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@mayamikdashi

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"They said they were victims. They said you were Arabs They called your apartments and gardens guerrilla strongholds They called the screaming devastation that they created the rubble Then they told you to leave, didn’t they?" June Jordan, 1989 #Gaza_Under_Attack #Palestine

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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i'm watching & waiting to see how mainstream news in Lebanon & region honors Etel Adnan by honoring & recognizing the woman she built & lived a life with. Tired of the lonely solitary queer woman trope, a trope made by those who can't fathom the fullness of life between women

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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@Amy_Fallas im sure you're already on this but these 2 texts may give citational strength to your position& are in all my into classes -bell hooks-Theory as Liberatory Practice -Dian Million-Felt Theory: An Indigenous Approach to Affect and History both are open access as pdfs online

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Maya Mikdashi

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This is what the US government wants college students & all of us to shut up about & accept until it is over. To protect this criminal, foreign state they will ban ticktock, hold hearings, end the first amendment, burn even the idea of international law to the ground, & go to war

Husam Zomlot

@hzomlot

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Israel commits a massacre in #Rafah this evening, dropping several 2,000 pound bombs on civilian tents and #UN compounds, murdering dozens of civilians seeking shelter. This was Israel’s response to the @CIJ_ICJ ruling Friday that it must halt its offensive on Rafah.

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Maya Mikdashi

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2 things can be true: 1- Focusing on Qatar's exploitation of migrant workers, its homophobic/sexist laws & policies, its authoritarian-inheritance govt, by countries most invested in exploitation & violence & authoritarianism around the 🌎 IS HYPOCRITICAL & ORIENTALIST & GROSS

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and what about New Jersey, where he lived, or California, where he was born? What is the town of Fairview saying? Did the intrepid reporter go to Bergen County and ask some random "locals" what they thought? What a ridiculous, empty, racist article

Lebanese town stays silent on Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker

In Yaroun, where Hadi Matar is thought to have spent several summers, locals are keeping their heads down

www.theguardian.com

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

3 years

The history of #Lebanon is also a history of #Palestine , the geography of Lebanon is also a geography of Palestine, the futures of Lebanon are also futures of Palestine & the people of Lebanon are also the people of Palestine. We should reflect on this instead of focusing

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

1 year

A door to the sea in sour/tyr

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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those that killed & stole & arrested & beat us for decades are now sensitive snowflakes...war criminals R blaming protestors for being "too violent" (burning/ breaking bank windows, throwing rocks etc) while trying to overthrow them #لبنان__ينتفض #Lebanon collage by @AbirGhattas

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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Tomorrow, 10am online & in person. Teach in at Rutgers University contextualizing #Gaza , with @4noura @schanmalik @dylanrodriguez & myself sponsored by @RUAfterlives , CMES, @WGSSRutgersU , Africana Studies, Amessal, Center for African Studies, Center for European studies &more

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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the worst its been for queers in Lebanon in my lifetime. An unholy alliance of christian & muslim parties, political leaders & militias & secular branches of the state. Incitement to violence wrapped in anti-imperialism. As pathetic as it is dangerous. It does not get better

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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excited to join the editorial board of "The Journal of Palestine Studies", working with colleagues who have shaped me & my work. I've known about JPS since being a kid in Beirut & I look forward to working with writers/editors [yalla submit!] to carry & move the journal forward

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anyone who thinks that Iran "ordered" this has never met or spoken to a Palestinian

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

3 years

always, always find ways to watch "The Battle of Algiers" in (any) class. This time coupled with Fanon (Concerning Violence) and Trouillot (Silencing the Past) [class is a colloquium on archives and settler colonialism]

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Maya Mikdashi

@mayamikdashi

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today is the day I officially change my email signature to "Associate Professor" 🙃🙂 🎉

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Maya Mikdashi

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Professor Nadera shalhoub kevorkian was interrogated, tortured, and denied medicine while detained. Read this and just as importantly, read her work

wym201 says free palestine

@wym201

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Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's family and colleagues would like it shared widely that while detained, Israeli police subjected her to torture and interrogated her. They spent an hour asking about an article she wrote in 2020. They shackled her feet and hands, put her in

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