Taif Alkhudary
@alktaif.bsky.social
PhD student at POLIS, Uni of Cambridge
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Discriminatory language against the Israeli army
Terrorism against transport planes
Hurt feelings at the chemical weapons factory
A safe space for the junta
We train young men to drop fire won't let them write fuck on their helmets because it's obscene
Self-care for the military-industrial complex
Terrorism against transport planes
Hurt feelings at the chemical weapons factory
A safe space for the junta
We train young men to drop fire won't let them write fuck on their helmets because it's obscene
Self-care for the military-industrial complex
June 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Discriminatory language against the Israeli army
Terrorism against transport planes
Hurt feelings at the chemical weapons factory
A safe space for the junta
We train young men to drop fire won't let them write fuck on their helmets because it's obscene
Self-care for the military-industrial complex
Terrorism against transport planes
Hurt feelings at the chemical weapons factory
A safe space for the junta
We train young men to drop fire won't let them write fuck on their helmets because it's obscene
Self-care for the military-industrial complex
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Two Iraqi security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said that more than 100 drones launched from Iran toward Israel were tracked crossing Iraqi airspace
Iranian state television says the head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is feared dead after an Israeli attack.
The report offered few other details about what happened to Gen. Hossein Salami of the Guard.
apnews.com/article/iran...
The report offered few other details about what happened to Gen. Hossein Salami of the Guard.
apnews.com/article/iran...
Israel attacks Iran's capital with explosions booming across Tehran
Black smoke rose Friday over Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz though it wasn’t clear how bad the damage was.
apnews.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Two Iraqi security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said that more than 100 drones launched from Iran toward Israel were tracked crossing Iraqi airspace
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Genocidal maniacs on a mission to erase the Middle East — Israel has always been the region’s poison. There will be no peace until the occupation ends. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israel launches strikes on Iran: what we know so far
Israel has launched strikes on dozens of targets inside Iran, including nuclear sites. This is what we know s
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Genocidal maniacs on a mission to erase the Middle East — Israel has always been the region’s poison. There will be no peace until the occupation ends. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7)
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https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/offshoring-the-planet/
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June 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
In my @phenomenalworld.bsky.social essay ‘Offshoring the Planet’, I explore how the offshore world is reshaping the global green transition (a 🧵1/7)
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🗳️With 22 weeks to go until #IraqElections, here’s a summary of the most important headlines from the Arabic media over the past 7 days:
*SCF (Al-Maliki) accuse Sudani of using public funds to buy voters
*Assab say Al-Fayyed "black spot" who must go
*SCF (Al-Maliki) accuse Sudani of using public funds to buy voters
*Assab say Al-Fayyed "black spot" who must go
June 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🗳️With 22 weeks to go until #IraqElections, here’s a summary of the most important headlines from the Arabic media over the past 7 days:
*SCF (Al-Maliki) accuse Sudani of using public funds to buy voters
*Assab say Al-Fayyed "black spot" who must go
*SCF (Al-Maliki) accuse Sudani of using public funds to buy voters
*Assab say Al-Fayyed "black spot" who must go
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“There is nothing left to bomb. The missiles are worth more than the buildings they’re hitting".
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‘Nothing left to bomb’: Yemen’s civilians bear brunt of US airstrikes on Houthis
Analysts say US and Israeli attacks failed to weaken rebels and are only pushing the country to the brink of famine
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“There is nothing left to bomb. The missiles are worth more than the buildings they’re hitting".
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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apnews.com/article/isra... Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.
apnews.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
apnews.com/article/isra... Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
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📣 Research Assistant Position!
@ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and I are looking for support for a project on higher education and electoral politics in Turkey. Are you:
▪️Ideally, a PhD student
▪️Fluent in Turkish
▪️Familiar with quantitative data
Then please apply here:
gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and I are looking for support for a project on higher education and electoral politics in Turkey. Are you:
▪️Ideally, a PhD student
▪️Fluent in Turkish
▪️Familiar with quantitative data
Then please apply here:
gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
May 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
📣 Research Assistant Position!
@ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and I are looking for support for a project on higher education and electoral politics in Turkey. Are you:
▪️Ideally, a PhD student
▪️Fluent in Turkish
▪️Familiar with quantitative data
Then please apply here:
gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@ozlemtuncel.bsky.social and I are looking for support for a project on higher education and electoral politics in Turkey. Are you:
▪️Ideally, a PhD student
▪️Fluent in Turkish
▪️Familiar with quantitative data
Then please apply here:
gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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🚨CRIA is soliciting special issue proposals that contribute to scholarly debate and which examine pertinent and topical theoretical, empirical and methodological questions ⬇️
Deadline: 11 June
Deadline: 11 June
May 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🚨CRIA is soliciting special issue proposals that contribute to scholarly debate and which examine pertinent and topical theoretical, empirical and methodological questions ⬇️
Deadline: 11 June
Deadline: 11 June
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🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
May 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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wow, very excited to see my first publication out in the world... and in my dream journal no less! so thankful to my supervisor @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social and the editorial team @antipodeonline.bsky.social for helping this come into being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Taking Settler Colonialism Seriously in Abolition Ecologies: Centring Indigenous Dispossession in Geographies of Carceral Power, Ecocide, and the Abolitionist Ecological Imagination
Scholarship increasingly examines international social movements advocating for the abolition of the prison-industrial complex. Within this landscape, Abolition Ecologies has emerged as a generative ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
wow, very excited to see my first publication out in the world... and in my dream journal no less! so thankful to my supervisor @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social and the editorial team @antipodeonline.bsky.social for helping this come into being onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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@uniofmanchester.bsky.social is hiring for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy! 🌟
link to apply - buff.ly/Do9nOVM
There is also a Lectureship in Environmental Politics position open! - buff.ly/aorFjP2
@ipegbisa.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
link to apply - buff.ly/Do9nOVM
There is also a Lectureship in Environmental Politics position open! - buff.ly/aorFjP2
@ipegbisa.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy:Oxford Road
To further strengthen our research and teaching portfolio, the Department wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Global Political Economy (GPE). While we invite applications from applicants in all areas of…
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April 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@uniofmanchester.bsky.social is hiring for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy! 🌟
link to apply - buff.ly/Do9nOVM
There is also a Lectureship in Environmental Politics position open! - buff.ly/aorFjP2
@ipegbisa.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
link to apply - buff.ly/Do9nOVM
There is also a Lectureship in Environmental Politics position open! - buff.ly/aorFjP2
@ipegbisa.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
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I’ll be presenting my research on logging tenures as carceral geographies tomorrow as part of "The Capitalist State in the 2020s" workshop @ucl.ac.uk, & excited to be presenting alongside @alktaif.bsky.social! come by for a panel on carceral infrastructures from 2:00 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
The Capitalist State in the 2020s: Borders and carceral infrastructure
This series of four collaborative workshops will examine the evolution of the capitalist state in the contemporary moment, focussing on industrial strategy and financialization, militarism, and border...
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’ll be presenting my research on logging tenures as carceral geographies tomorrow as part of "The Capitalist State in the 2020s" workshop @ucl.ac.uk, & excited to be presenting alongside @alktaif.bsky.social! come by for a panel on carceral infrastructures from 2:00 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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'Rather than ushering in a new era of sustainability for Iraq... it appears that carbon credits will only align with a national policy of delaying & obstructing meaningful action on climate change,' writes @alktaif.bsky.social in a new Iraq Initiative article.
kalam.chathamhouse.org/articles/car...
kalam.chathamhouse.org/articles/car...
Carbon credits: another way to delay meaningful action on climate change in Iraq - Kalam
In February 2025, Iraq’s Ministry of Environment announced the first project to be launched by the Carbon Economics Company, a collaboration with the World
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March 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
'Rather than ushering in a new era of sustainability for Iraq... it appears that carbon credits will only align with a national policy of delaying & obstructing meaningful action on climate change,' writes @alktaif.bsky.social in a new Iraq Initiative article.
kalam.chathamhouse.org/articles/car...
kalam.chathamhouse.org/articles/car...
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The details are so much worse. In her French op-ed, she explains that the issue raised was that she had a table that showed Gaza as having had the highest number of “humanitarian victims” of 2024.
Her merely acknowledging the fact that Gazans are being mass murdered was a problem.
Her merely acknowledging the fact that Gazans are being mass murdered was a problem.
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The details are so much worse. In her French op-ed, she explains that the issue raised was that she had a table that showed Gaza as having had the highest number of “humanitarian victims” of 2024.
Her merely acknowledging the fact that Gazans are being mass murdered was a problem.
Her merely acknowledging the fact that Gazans are being mass murdered was a problem.
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Postdoc Opportunity!
Universität Tübingen
Global Encounters Postdoctoral Fellowship
Seeks researchers working on human-nature relationships and their transformation historically as well with regard to current conditions of crises in the Global North and South.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Universität Tübingen
Global Encounters Postdoctoral Fellowship
Seeks researchers working on human-nature relationships and their transformation historically as well with regard to current conditions of crises in the Global North and South.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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March 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Postdoc Opportunity!
Universität Tübingen
Global Encounters Postdoctoral Fellowship
Seeks researchers working on human-nature relationships and their transformation historically as well with regard to current conditions of crises in the Global North and South.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Universität Tübingen
Global Encounters Postdoctoral Fellowship
Seeks researchers working on human-nature relationships and their transformation historically as well with regard to current conditions of crises in the Global North and South.
www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
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ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds.
March 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds.
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The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD on Diasporas and Right-Wing Nationalism
The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a PhD fellowship in International Studies from September 1st, 2025
candidate.hr-manager.net
March 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.
Please help spread the word among interested candidates!
Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...
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Check out our latest research paper exploring the adaptability of the 'Axis of Resistance' by examining its historical evolution, current dynamics, and policy responses, while presenting alternative approaches for engagement.
The setbacks faced by Iran's 'axis of resistance' in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria has led some policymakers to conclude that Iran and its allies are severely weakened.
New research by @chmenap.bsky.social reveals Iran and its network is adapting to the new strategic landscape in the Middle East.
New research by @chmenap.bsky.social reveals Iran and its network is adapting to the new strategic landscape in the Middle East.
The shape-shifting ‘axis of resistance’
How Iran and its networks adapt to external pressures
www.chathamhouse.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Check out our latest research paper exploring the adaptability of the 'Axis of Resistance' by examining its historical evolution, current dynamics, and policy responses, while presenting alternative approaches for engagement.
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An investment firm headed by Jared Kushner and backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is the largest shareholder in an Israeli company, operating in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gulf-st...
Exclusive: Gulf states linked to Israeli businesses on UN settlements blacklist
Backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, Jared Kushner's firm is now biggest shareholder in Israeli company with stakes in businesses operating in occupied territories
www.middleeasteye.net
March 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
An investment firm headed by Jared Kushner and backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is the largest shareholder in an Israeli company, operating in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gulf-st...
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On 28 May, CRIA is running an ECR workshop on 'The Global Politics of the Green Transition'! Abstract submissions close on 7 April.
March 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
On 28 May, CRIA is running an ECR workshop on 'The Global Politics of the Green Transition'! Abstract submissions close on 7 April.
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The great danger with a government seemingly more pro-equality than the last one is that we'll get more announcements like this - "new role", "ongoing commitment", "accelerating action", "legend" - at the same time that funding and capacity is utterly eviscerated.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Women’s rights to be championed by appointment of new UK Special Envoy
Harriet Harman to champion gender equality worldwide as new UK Special Envoy for Women and Girls.
www.gov.uk
March 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The great danger with a government seemingly more pro-equality than the last one is that we'll get more announcements like this - "new role", "ongoing commitment", "accelerating action", "legend" - at the same time that funding and capacity is utterly eviscerated.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Quah Say Jye, "An Anatomy of Worldmaking: Sukarno and Anticolonialism from Post‐Bandung Indonesia," American Journal of Political Science (2025)
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@campolis.bsky.social
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@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article o...
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March 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Quah Say Jye, "An Anatomy of Worldmaking: Sukarno and Anticolonialism from Post‐Bandung Indonesia," American Journal of Political Science (2025)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social