Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
James Ryan
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between this and tina fey greater philadelphia female sports fans have a lot to answer for
Definitely wonder what the higher ed people on here think of this. @cantb.bsky.social and crew :)
I think close between Shaq and Peyton Manning.
Take Columbia, for example, the only people who were ever “threatened” by Joseph Massad or Edward Said were witch hunt leaders like Weiss. Bollinger invited Ahmadinejad to speak! He defended it, strongly. Nobody’s grants were endangered by this. Fast forward 20 years and look what happened.
The thing about the Palestine exception is if you can’t defend freedom of speech/academia/thought etc. on that issue, you’re probably gonna fold pretty easily on every other topic, too.
Really glad to feature our recent (and long running) coverage of campus politics in Turkey in this conversation.
Also, I want to send Turkish readers to Ayça’s piece on Bilgi’s closure and reopening. “Tek İmza Cumhuriyet” is a great neologism.
birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12461...
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June 18, 10AM EDT
pork, cheese, broccoli rabe
I wrote a piece a few years ago as a sort of primer that tries to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s basic and is meant to give folks who haven’t been following closely a sense of what and why it is happening.
