Tamir Moustafa

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Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East (especially Egypt); politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books

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Polisky, this may be a long shot, but I wonder if anyone knows of an empirical study that examines how the peer review process may inadvertently work against some research methods while benefitting others. Here’s an example of what I’m after: Austin Ranney, the APSR editor in the 1960s…

Polisky At moments like this, do you wonder why political science is so distant from politics and so obsessed with "value-neutrality"? This article helps to explain why. doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Polisky "I don't see why it's necessary to so flatly exclude large areas of our discipline." James K. Pollock, April 9, 1964, reacting to the draft policy for the NSF Political Science Program. For context, see "Political Science as a Dependent Variable" in PoP: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Polisky It’s publication day for “Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline” I hope you’ll have a look and join me in considering how the NSF shaped political science and the social sciences more generally.

Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Coredoi.org Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline

OMG, these allegations are bananas. Let’s see how this shakes out at the nytimes.

New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians.

Extraordinary charges of bias emerge against NYTimes reporter Anat Schwartzmondoweiss.net New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed...

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"On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilationwww.latimes.com As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go.

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The Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. For New Lines, she describes the whiplash of absorbing atrocities across multiple decades and reflects on worlds overturned.

Memory Voids and Role Reversalsnewlinesmag.com A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned

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Emily Tamkin on the anti-war movement on the Jewish left. “‘It felt powerful to be in grief with community, with people who are able to mourn both Israeli and Palestinian dead.’“ slate.com/news-and-pol...

What the Jewish-Led Protests Against Israel’s Actions Look Like Right Nowslate.com At the White House, hundreds pleaded: “How dare you use my grief to justify killing innocent civilians in my name?”

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Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gazatwailr.com On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrate��...

An important statement from MESA on the unfolding catastrophe and academic freedom. mesana.org/advocacy/let... Menasky Polisky

Middle East Studies Associationmesana.org The MESA Board of Directors is heartbroken by the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives over the last week. There can be no justification for the targeting of civilians. We join our members directly a...

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Lack of water worsens misery in besieged Gaza as Israeli airstrikes continueapnews.com In the besieged Gaza Strip, 2.3 million people don’t have access to clean, running water because of Israel’s decision to cut off water and electricity to the enclave while pounding it with airstri...

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