Professor, Media Culture @CUNY CSI // Middle Eastern Studies @CUNY Graduate Center.
All things global communication, geopolitics, popular culture, surveillance, censorship, Middle East, Turkey, and food.
Bilge Yesil
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#ICA26 conference theme is “Communucation and inequalities in context.” Yes, indeed 👇
the conference scene and the meaning of the "international" #academicsky
Bilge Yesil
I've been interested in how victimhood can turn into monstrous things, and equally intriguing is how "guilt" can turn into monstrous things too
Student Success | @cuny.edu Launches LGBTQ+ Institute
As some colleges and universities scale back Pride displays, a new institute strengthens support for LGBTQ+ students, preserves queer history and funds systemwide programming. https://bit.ly/4v2RYsz
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
We are pleased to announce that TALKING BACK TO THE WEST: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order by @bilgeyesil.bsky.social has won the Best Book Award from the Global Communication & Social Change Division of the @icahdq.bsky.social!
ica-gcsc.org/2026/01/22/i...
Bilge Yesil
If you watched the viral video of Bosnian soccer fans shouting for Palestine ahead of game in toronto today, read this piece about Bosnian team grappling with legacy of genocide & displacement with 17 of its players born elsehwere.
"Playing for the national team becomes a symbolic act of return."
#ICA26 conference theme is “Communucation and inequalities in context.” Yes, indeed 👇
Sean Phelan
Bosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football.
Day 12 Tirana Albania: the streets as packed with protesters, it’s a multi-generational event that transcends all the Albanian society as a whole.
Hands off Albania! 🇦🇱
Bilge Yesil
One of the most true sentences ever written:
"A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline."
Brilliant as always from @QuincyInst NRF Asli Bali
www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️
Harsha Walia
Inside Higher Ed
The ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is a prelude to an emerging, precarious realignment.
German ambassador to Israel going on a nice hike with the former IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari, talking of a "feeling of majestic space" some 230km southeast of the Gaza concentration camp where 2 million Palestinians are stuck in an open air prison www.instagram.com/reel/DZMen00...
