@sbayoumi
Cairo-born, Baltimore-based academic: health humanities, Graphic Medicine, Egypt, Middle East, feminisms. Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS) Director of Fellowships | Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) She/They
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Iran has notified UNESCO that U.S.-Israeli strikes have damaged two historical sites: Tehran’s grand bazaar and Golestan Palace, a complex in the Iranian capital known as the “Versailles of Persia."
Follow live updates: https://wapo.st/40r8B3D
A large crowd, amid which are two vehicles bearing stages and a small elevated monument with people standing on its platform. A headline reads: Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School. Photo by Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency, via Associated Press
A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i
The NYT style guide
They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization
Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home.
14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.
My latest: New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...
A belated congratulations, Christy!!
A moment worth recording: my first time getting 11/11 on the @nytimes.com news quiz. The sports questions usually get me, but since this time, they were all Olympics-related, I managed to get them all right! I guess I'm that competitive 😅 🏆 #newsolympics
I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky
I love this so much.
MAHA report written by AI and includes hallucinations. So. On. Brand.
Join us this Thursday at 6 pm ET for the next Center for Progressive Research webinar on US Empire & Global Justice, featuring Profs. Sa'ed Atshan and Sebastian Gil-Riano who discuss the place and future of the US Empire & the possibilities of solidarity www.progressiveresearch.org/events/event...
#AcademicSky: consider adding your name to this letter of joined resistance for faculty from the 60 universities targeted by the Trump Administration--with around 5K signatures already. Faculty from other universities are also welcome to add their names as allies
The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies is recruiting for the 2025-2026 fellowship supported by the Mellon Foundation. It’s a great opportunity for BIPOC/Queer scholars to connect, seek mentorship, and work in a space of solidarity and community. Spread the word!
Please consider signing this petition to university administrators urging them not to comply with or abet lawless violations of human rights by the federal government.
DOGE is terminating NEH staff and cutting grant funding. Please contact your representative to urge them to stop this. This link makes it very easy for you to do that. #Savethehumanities
How can a country that does this host the World Cup next year? No person traveling to the US is safe.
bsky.app/profile/news...
MESA Board Statement on the repression of academic freedom in the United States
Well, there it is folks. The official ADL position is support for Trump secret police to illegally detain and deport green card holders if they are part of pro-Palestine protests. If and when DHS starts doing this to citizens, count on the ADL to continue its support. This is who they are.
Donald Trump on eggs and other high-priced groceries:
August 2024: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."
March 2025: "Shut up about egg prices."
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“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.”
Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here:
www.aaup.org/news/governo...
New York Times headline featuring Trump and Zelensky reading “Showdown Points to Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution”
And this is how the @nytimes.com chooses to cover this scandal. Shameful!
"Miami Herald article: Why were 2 people shot in Miami Beach? Suspect told cops that he 'saw 2 Palestinians' -- by David J. Neal"
What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism.
A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."
