May Darwich

Pleased to have contributed to the APSA MENA Newsletter Thanks to the editors @dbgreenwald.bsky.social @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social @samershehata.bsky.social for putting together such an amazing collection!
My piece: zenodo.org/records/1533...
The Issue: zenodo.org/records/1538...

Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.

Please help spread the word among interested candidates!

Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

It was great to talk to @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social in the Political Worldview podcast. In the episode, we discussed the ongoing Gaza war and its impact across the region

Great new episode of my @politicalworldview.bsky.social podcast out now! 🎙️ This time I’m talking with the awesome @maydarwich.bsky.social about the war in Gaza and the fallout in the wider Middle East.

Egypt on edge: finding a delicate balance between Gaza and Trump Since 1979, Egypt has been a central pillar of US policies in the Middle East.

Trump's proposal of forcibly displacing Palestinians of Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula puts Egypt on edge. I offer my reflections on what's at stake for Egypt in The Conversation theconversation.com/egypt-on-edg...

Research in this piece was made possible by a grant from @carnegiecorp.bsky.social and part of the project more.bham.ac.uk/port-infrast...

Happy to share my recently published article in Cities.

Port infrastructures and the making of historical time in the Horn of Africa: Narratives of urban modernity in Djibouti and Somaliland

Co-authored with Jutta Bakonyi
doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

This research is part of the project: portinfrastructure.org. This research was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the authors.
@carnegiecorp.bsky.social

(4) Infrastructures are at the heart of social processes, which generate knowledge practices, constituting the international. They inscribe themselves in discourses, produce meaning, and shape identities, and they are thus part of the ideational underpinning of the international.

(3) Infrastructures continuously transform the realm of the international through re-scaling and re-ordering spaces, polities, and people

(2) The article adopts sociological definition of “the international” and emphasizes the centrality of materials and mobilities in thinking about the international.

(1) The article examines how infrastructures matter in international relations. The IR discipline overlooked the role of these physical artefacts in shaping international relationships. The article calls for a novel infrastructural lens in the IR discipline

Infrastructures and International Relations: A Critical Reflection on Materials and Mobilities Abstract. In a world of accelerated movements, this article examines how infrastructures matter in international relations. We first show that the Internat

Pleased to share our article co-authored with
Prof. Jutta Bakonyi published in International Studies Review
on Infrastructures and International Relations: A Critical Reflection on Materials and Mobilities academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

An essential read/watch:

Inside Sudan’s Forgotten War: 150,000 killed, 11 million displaced

t.co/d9ZYudZ26q

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

Year in a word: War in the Middle East From Gaza and Lebanon to Syria, the region has experienced a year of multiple devastating conflicts

Year in a word: War in the Middle East

https://www.ft.com/content/40d3ecd8-1335-486e-8e08-93aed10d172c

NYU professors barred from buildings say school is caving to pressure on Gaza After joining pro-Palestinian sit-in, Andrew Ross and Sonya Posmentier were declared ‘personae non gratae’

"This is a disturbing new development. I’ve been teaching at NYU for more than 30 years. I was at Princeton for eight years before. I’ve been around the block and have never seen anything remotely like this crackdown over the last year. It’s completely unprecedented and it’s solely about Palestine"

معًا من أجل مرونة التعليم العالي لقد أدى التأثير المدمر للحرب المستمرة إلى عدم قدرة جميع الطلاب على تغطية نفقات الدراسة بعد أن فقدوا جميع ممتلكاتهم أثناء النزوح، ومع ذلك لا يزال لديهم الأمل الذي نشهده من خلال تسجيلهم للدراسة حتى أثنا...

My friend and former colleague from Gaza Prof Nazmi Al-Masri has asked me to share this funding raising link for the Islamic University of Gaza, who are continuing to teach students despite the ongoing genocide. Please share widely
#GazaGenocide
iugaza.ensany.com/campaign/7102

Water war heats up: Israel seizes Syria’s Al-Wahda dam in strategic military push IDF expands operations in southern Syria, taking control of critical water sources near the Yarmouk River.

Water war heats up: Israel seizes Syria’s Al-Wahda dam in strategic military push
IDF expands operations in southern Syria, taking control of critical water sources near the Yarmouk River.

www.jfeed.com/news-israel/...

A New Historical Juncture: Analyzing the Impact of the War in Gaza - Middle East Policy Council An article in Middle East Policy’s Fall 2024 issue analyzes the impact of the Gaza war on regional dynamics, contrasting them with the pre-Arab Spring status quo. On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out...

Middle East Policy covers an article by @maydarwich.bsky.social, Morten Valbjørn, and André Bank that explores the war in Gaza as "a critical juncture whose ramifications for both regional and domestic politics...will reverberate for years to come." Read for free! mepc.org/commentaries...

Since the fall of the al-Assad regime, Israel has attacked Syria to deepen the occupation of the Golan Heights.

So what is Israel trying to do there?

🔗: aje.io/hctk4o

Israel has just killed Khalid Nabhan (“soul of my soul”), one year after they killed his granddaughter Reem

I sparked Syria’s revolution as a teenage boy – now I’m here to finish it Muawiyah Syasneh was 16 when his anti-Assad graffiti on a school wall led to his arrest, sparking protests that ended in civil war. Now, in the very same spot, he tells chief international corresponde...

Muawiyah Syasneh was 16 when his anti-Assad graffiti on a school wall led to his arrest, sparking protests that ended in civil war

Now, in the very same spot, he tells Bell True about the years-long war – and his role in bringing it to an end

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

The movement, which extended into and beyond a previously demilitarised buffer zone, was condemned 'in the strongest possible terms' by Egypt, which said it amounted to the 'occupation of Syrian land' and a 'severe breach' of a 1974 armistice deal. ft.com/content/5690c07a-9841-4339-b6ca-b3e98b241f1c

We’ve only just begun to uncover and discover how truly depraved, brutal, dark and barbaric the Assad regime was. Stories & evidence of brutality that go beyond the worst nightmares, not known even through testimonies of the living. This is going to be a long, deeply painful and disturbing process.

Syrian rebel forces in just over a week have seized much of the country’s northwest from the government in a fast-moving attack, upending the once-stagnant civil war. They drove government troops from the western city of Hama, which had never before fallen into rebel hands. nyti.ms/3ZD3QUS

Threat of RSF invasion looms over el-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur Displaced people are taking up arms to defend themselves against the paramilitary and the atrocities it is known for.

As the Rapid Support Forces step up attacks to capture North Darfur, inhabitants, researchers and relief workers warn that the group could carry out mass atrocities if the state falls.

My latest on #Sudan with Sudanese journalist Zakaria Mohamed.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Biden’s Sudan blind spot The United Arab Emirates has allegedly helped arm and fund the Rapid Support Forces militia in Sudan that has been accused of widespread atrocities including ethnic cleansing, mass rape and torture.

"Biden’s legacy in Africa will be inextricably linked to “the failure to leverage U.S. relationships with the UAE who are violating a U.N. arms embargo and arming the RSF in Sudan who have committed unspeakable atrocity crimes over 18 months.”"
#KeepEyesOnSudan
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Israeli forces severely beat an elderly Palestinian man on his land in Aqraba, occupied West Bank, according to Mayor Salah Jaber.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/01rafa

From @mosababutoha.bsky.social on X: "Beit Lahia is forced to leave today, is ethnically cleansed, last city in north Gaza.
Keep in mind that these people tried to remain and hoped the world would stop the horror. But no more."

Middle East Policy: Vol 31, No 3 Click on the title to browse this issue

Check out Middle East Policy's Fall 2024 issue, featuring analyses on the Gaza war, protest and populism in Turkey, Iran's "Axis of Resistance" network, and more from regional experts like @maydarwich.bsky.social.
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