“It is incumbent upon us not… to get into debates about who is the tail and who the dog, when both are simply different heads of the same ravening beast.”
I wrote a letter from Beirut for The Markaz Review
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Roundtable of experts Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li.
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same
Although I was already in awe of the way the plot works: every scene sets up what comes next.
This gave me even more appreciation
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I legitimately feel sorry for people watching that kid rock thing instead of this
i doubt there is a living united states politician who has been put through as much as this person since she became a congresswoman in 2018.
Giving a talk that will present some of the early findings in my research for a biography of James Sanua- Abou Naddara
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Excited to offer this learning opportunity this spring: Read / Write / Study Group: Languaging / Trans. Applications close January 23!
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very exciting! congrats.
thanks for what you (and they) do!
I had a dream about a musical called "Faculty Meeting" and weirdly it was good?
The first number is about someone objecting to approving the minutes without unanimous consent but not offering a correction. This is how we meet The Parliamentarian, our narrator.
RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).
"from sci fi novels to Mahler, German philosophy, Hollywood, architecture, painting, national allegory to psychoanalysis...the ways in which late C20 capitalism presents us with an unsolved challenge to represent it without giving us the adequate tools"
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going back to bread loaf in june as translation faculty. translators, come and join us on the mountain:
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This is one of the wars that Trump routinely claims to have ended. The media can't keep up with the lying, but Cambodia and Thailand (another fake peace claim) are fighting again, too.
Cedar Cultural Center marquee reads “We love our Somali neighbors”
A night out in Cedar-Riverside
it is good that hany babu is out on bail but he should've never been imprisoned and don't think that attacks on academics cannot get any worse than they are now:
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
wow what podcast? i would like to listen.
photo of the First President of Tanzania - Julius Nyerere - with the quote, "The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
Statue of Liberty AI slop wearing a black flowing robe
Smithsonian article: The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman "The New Colossus" was actually born in Egypt Erin Blakemore - Correspondent November 24, 2015
From article: Bartholdi envisioned a colossal monument featuring a robe-clad woman representing Egypt to stand at Port Said, the city at the northern terminus of the canal in Egypt. To prep for this undertaking, Barry. Moreno, author of multiple books about the statue, writes that Bartholdi studied art like the Colossus, honing the concept for a figure called Libertas ho would stand at the canal. "Taking the form of a veiled peasant woman, writes Moreno, "the statue was to stand 86 feet high, and its pedestal was to rise to a height of 48 feet." Early models of the statue were called "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia."
1915 postcard portrait featuring Egyptian women wearing various versions of flowing black robes.
Islamophobes on the other site keep sending me this AI of the Statue of Liberty, not knowing they were being purists not alarmists.
Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...
Saddams bathroom.
Tikrit, Iraq. 2004.
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
it's funny when lit scholars say this issue is not ours
good question
