Arang Keshavarzian

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Arang Keshavarzian

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I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. See 👉🏼https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html and see latest book 👉🏼 https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25573&bottom_ref=subject
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Every single one of these prohibited activities happens all over the @UF campus on football game days, except instead of “protesting” they call it “tailgating”.
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Bottom line up front: available evidence strongly indicates that famine is getting underway in Gaza. The window to “avert” it has closed, and the focus must now pivot to containing the damage….tens of thousands of lives, perhaps more, hang in the balance. www.justsecurity.org/93841/gazas-...
Gaza's Famine is Underwaywww.justsecurity.org Unfettered humanitarian relief can mitigate a famine death toll in the tens of thousands.
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So many great books on Palestine. Here is a relatively new one by Stanford UP. It shows that war on Palestine predates October 7 and aid has been a terrain of war for decades
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Join us & Iranian Studies Initiative for a discussion on contraband mobility in Iran, drawing on Ghomashlouyan's recent ethnographic fieldwork in a border village. 📆 3.7.24 | 5 PM 🎤 @ghomashlouyan, Naor Ben-Yehoyada, moderated by, @KeshavarzianA 🖇️ buff.ly/3wpOKWE
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NYU faculty and students, please register for Palestine ABC, FJP’s latest teach-in for those wanting to learn about the “basics” of the struggle for/over Israel/Palestine www.eventbrite.com/e/palestine-...
Palestine ABCwww.eventbrite.com A teach-in featuring NYU scholars defining key terms for the Palestinian struggle.
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Verbatim concluding statement of the United States ambassador to the UN this morning after vetoing a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza for the 4th time: “We will continue to actively engage in the hard work of direct diplomacy on the ground until we reach a Final Solution.”
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I'm a broken record on this, too, but Linz (perils of presidentialism), Przeworski (democracy is a system in which parties lose elections), & Ziblatt (democracy survives when conservatives choose not to ally with the far right) is basically our entire situation right now.
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NYU faculty and students, please register for Palestine ABC, FJP’s latest teach-in for those wanting to learn about the “basics” of the struggle for/over Israel/Palestine www.eventbrite.com/e/palestine-...
Palestine ABCwww.eventbrite.com A teach-in featuring NYU scholars defining key terms for the Palestinian struggle.
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Why? "Rafah houses UNRWA’s main warehouse, which stores approved aid materials that have been inspected and enter from Egypt through the Rafah crossing. All other humanitarian organizations in Gaza are plugged into UNRWA infrastructure for distribution" An assault on Rafah affects all aid in Gaza.
Not quoted from my email: "An Israeli assault on Rafah will inevitably cause a major disruption if not a complete halt to the already limited humanitarian activities taking place by interrupting the entry of aid...damaging infrastructure...& limiting distribution due to overwhelming security risks"
Netanyahu's big gamblewww.newsweek.com A potentially "catastrophic" assault on Gaza's "last refuge" looms as Israeli forces hunt for Hamas leaders and Israeli hostages.
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The poll found that the % of Saudi respondents who oppose the recognition of Israel jumped from 38% the last time the question was asked (in 2022) to 68% (29 % of respondents in the kingdom declined to answer the question.) responsiblestatecraft.org/arab-public-...
Nearly 100% of Arabs say U.S. policy on Israel-Gaza ‘bad’responsiblestatecraft.org To say that the image of America as an ‘indispensable nation’ has taken a hit is an understatement
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Weather permitting, he goes to Coney Island, which he called a “great irony” of capitalism. One would expect the rich to “put all of the poor people in the inner city and keep the beach for themselves,” he said. But “the assholes all want to be in Manhattan.” www.thedriftmag.com/normcore/
Normcorewww.thedriftmag.com Norman Finkelstein needed to reach a moral judgment. On the morning of October 7, he received an email from a friend telling him to check the news. Finkelstein was “euphoric” when he saw that Hamas…
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So nice to read former students and PhDs from NYU’s MEIS narrate the critical decades immediately after World War I and the politycsl roots of the Palestian and Israeli struggles www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Road to 1948, and the Roots of a Perpetual Conflictwww.nytimes.com How the decisions that led to the founding of Israel have brought unending conflict to the region.
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