Anna Bigelow
@annabigelow786.bsky.social
Walking the dog, learning, teaching, and writing about religion, Islam, South Asia, material culture, death, and other things
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"instead of taking on this struggle — or even waiting for... court rulings—universities, including Stanford have preemptively begun removing language from websites, reviewing programs, suspending projects & shrinking grad admissions even though Columbia’s fate shows that compliance offers no safety"
Wake up and speak up Stanford (and all US universities)! stanforddaily.com/2025/03/17/i...
Priya Satia @priyasatia.bsky.social and Jessica Riskin
Priya Satia @priyasatia.bsky.social and Jessica Riskin
stanforddaily.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"instead of taking on this struggle — or even waiting for... court rulings—universities, including Stanford have preemptively begun removing language from websites, reviewing programs, suspending projects & shrinking grad admissions even though Columbia’s fate shows that compliance offers no safety"
STOP killing people. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Israel-Gaza war: IDF strikes have killed at least 200, health ministry says, in biggest attack since start of January ceasefire – live
Palestinian health ministry officials say at least 200 killed; Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will act against Hamas ‘with increasing military strength’
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
STOP killing people. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Wake up and speak up Stanford (and all US universities)! stanforddaily.com/2025/03/17/i...
Priya Satia @priyasatia.bsky.social and Jessica Riskin
Priya Satia @priyasatia.bsky.social and Jessica Riskin
stanforddaily.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Wake up and speak up Stanford (and all US universities)! stanforddaily.com/2025/03/17/i...
Priya Satia @priyasatia.bsky.social and Jessica Riskin
Priya Satia @priyasatia.bsky.social and Jessica Riskin
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Trump's late Friday EO cutting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (which funds museums + libraries w/critical and carefully-reviwed grants) is PLAINLY ILLEGAL. Congress created the IMLS!
Sign the petition + raise hell
#museums #writers #AcSky
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www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
Sign the petition + raise hell
#museums #writers #AcSky
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www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries
www.everylibrary.org
March 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Trump's late Friday EO cutting the Institute of Museum and Library Services (which funds museums + libraries w/critical and carefully-reviwed grants) is PLAINLY ILLEGAL. Congress created the IMLS!
Sign the petition + raise hell
#museums #writers #AcSky
🍎 💙📚 🌏🧪
www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
Sign the petition + raise hell
#museums #writers #AcSky
🍎 💙📚 🌏🧪
www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
Latest photo of my pet
March 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Latest photo of my pet
A lovely day on Thursday with the ever enlightening and elegant Ali Altaf Mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social at the Center for South Asia
March 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A lovely day on Thursday with the ever enlightening and elegant Ali Altaf Mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social at the Center for South Asia
I know everything is on fire but please do not forget that people are starving, not because there is no food, but because that food is blockaded. Food. Is. A. Basic. Human. Right.
As prices soar and essential goods disappear, famine conditions threaten to return to Gaza following Israel's closure of border and suspension of fuel and aid delivery.
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/bake...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/bake...
#Palestine #Israel
Bakeries go dark in Gaza as Israel cuts off fuel to 2.1 million people
As prices soar and essential goods disappear, famine conditions threaten to return to Gaza following Israel’s closure of border and suspension of fuel and aid delivery.
mondoweiss.net
March 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I know everything is on fire but please do not forget that people are starving, not because there is no food, but because that food is blockaded. Food. Is. A. Basic. Human. Right.
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As prices soar and essential goods disappear, famine conditions threaten to return to Gaza following Israel's closure of border and suspension of fuel and aid delivery.
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/bake...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/bake...
#Palestine #Israel
Bakeries go dark in Gaza as Israel cuts off fuel to 2.1 million people
As prices soar and essential goods disappear, famine conditions threaten to return to Gaza following Israel’s closure of border and suspension of fuel and aid delivery.
mondoweiss.net
March 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As prices soar and essential goods disappear, famine conditions threaten to return to Gaza following Israel's closure of border and suspension of fuel and aid delivery.
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/bake...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/bake...
#Palestine #Israel
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A federal court reaffirmed its nation-wide injunction against Trump's anti-DEIA policy, clarifying it applies to every agency in the executive branch, protecting universities, workplaces, cities and communities to continue fostering diversity and inclusion without fear of retaliation. bit.ly/43BOSkd
March 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A federal court reaffirmed its nation-wide injunction against Trump's anti-DEIA policy, clarifying it applies to every agency in the executive branch, protecting universities, workplaces, cities and communities to continue fostering diversity and inclusion without fear of retaliation. bit.ly/43BOSkd
Please circulate! Tenure track position in Anthropology of Palestine at UC Davis
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Middle East Studies Association
The Department of Anthropology seeks to hire a sociocultural anthropologist of Palestine. The appointment will be made at the assistant or associate professor rank.
mesana.org
February 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Please circulate! Tenure track position in Anthropology of Palestine at UC Davis
mesana.org/resources-an...
mesana.org/resources-an...
Call for Papers!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Palestine as Paradigm: How Gaza Transformed the World
This issue reflects on how recent developments in Palestine and the global reaction to them has shifted the paradigms by which we imagine Palestinian futures.
www.cambridge.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Call for Papers!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Key of return tatreez - in hopes that cease turns to peace turns to return turns to justice.
January 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Key of return tatreez - in hopes that cease turns to peace turns to return turns to justice.
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For more than a year, Israeli authorities have refused to give any information about what has happened to Haitham Abd Elwahed since October 7, 2023 — leaving his family in heartbreaking limbo.
mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-...
The unknown fate of Palestinian journalist Haitham Abd Elwahed
For more than a year, Israeli authorities have refused to give any information about what has happened to Haitham Abd Elwahed since October 7, 2023 — leaving his family in heartbreaking limbo.
mondoweiss.net
January 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
For more than a year, Israeli authorities have refused to give any information about what has happened to Haitham Abd Elwahed since October 7, 2023 — leaving his family in heartbreaking limbo.
mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-...
Please circulate! Opportunity for scholars from Palestine at MIT global.mit.edu/gmaf-palesti...
Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program Palestine
global.mit.edu
January 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Please circulate! Opportunity for scholars from Palestine at MIT global.mit.edu/gmaf-palesti...
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
December 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
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Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Middle Eastern Studies Forum at Stanford Global Studies invite candidates to apply for the inaugural Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship.
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Middle Eastern Studies Forum at Stanford Global Studies invite candidates to apply for the inaugural Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship.
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies
islamicstudies.stanford.edu
December 15, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Middle Eastern Studies Forum at Stanford Global Studies invite candidates to apply for the inaugural Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship.
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Middle Eastern Studies Forum at Stanford Global Studies invite candidates to apply for the inaugural Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship.
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
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My response below to Qs for this article on “Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event” in which my talk was one that made four Jewish students feel threatened bc I used the word genocide. Let’s unpack since they gave ADL the last word. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...
Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event
After criticism from Jewish groups over speeches at a conference, the president of the National Association of Independent Schools said future addresses would be vetted.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:42 AM
My response below to Qs for this article on “Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event” in which my talk was one that made four Jewish students feel threatened bc I used the word genocide. Let’s unpack since they gave ADL the last word. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...
Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies
islamicstudies.stanford.edu
December 15, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...
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Postdoc in Princeton's Center for Culture, Society and Religion @princetonccsr.bsky.social for "recent PhDs specializing in the study of religion in any discipline" with "interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion."
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu
December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Postdoc in Princeton's Center for Culture, Society and Religion @princetonccsr.bsky.social for "recent PhDs specializing in the study of religion in any discipline" with "interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion."
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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Decades-long political pressure to avoid studying or speaking out on Palestine within academia make it harder to fairly resolve Title VI complaints today. My blog post here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/title-v...
Title VI, Palestine, and the Interpretation of Speech
knightcolumbia.org
December 11, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Decades-long political pressure to avoid studying or speaking out on Palestine within academia make it harder to fairly resolve Title VI complaints today. My blog post here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/title-v...
Dr Ramzi Salti bringing the light of Fairuz to Stanford
December 5, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Dr Ramzi Salti bringing the light of Fairuz to Stanford
Was truly fortunate to hear Munira Khayyat talk yesterday about her brilliant book - check it out: www.ucpress.edu/books/a-land...
A Landscape of War by Munira Khayyat - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
December 4, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Was truly fortunate to hear Munira Khayyat talk yesterday about her brilliant book - check it out: www.ucpress.edu/books/a-land...
Diya suggests I take her to work today.
November 19, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Diya suggests I take her to work today.