Alex Schweig
@aschweig17.bsky.social
Historian of the Middle East, PhD @uarizona
Ottomaniac
he/him
property is theft
Hoping this all works out. Also @aschweig17 at "X" until it does.
Ottomaniac
he/him
property is theft
Hoping this all works out. Also @aschweig17 at "X" until it does.
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From Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, or Book of Surprises, a 14th century Arabic manuscript compiled – and possibly illustrated – by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani.
February 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
From Kitab al-Bulhan, or Book of Wonders, or Book of Surprises, a 14th century Arabic manuscript compiled – and possibly illustrated – by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani.
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Please support @thenation.com. Today, the magazine is suspending the publication of any writing that is not about Gaza, and there will be no pieces published that are not written by people who are in or from Gaza. In "A Day for Gaza," Mohammed R. Mhawish exposes the hollowness of the ceasefire.
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Please support @thenation.com. Today, the magazine is suspending the publication of any writing that is not about Gaza, and there will be no pieces published that are not written by people who are in or from Gaza. In "A Day for Gaza," Mohammed R. Mhawish exposes the hollowness of the ceasefire.
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This is civic action.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
The overflow room at the Surprise City Council meeting has also filled up (it has a 500 person capacity). I can’t tell how many are still outside but we can hear them chanting “ICE out” in here so it seems like quite a lot.
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
This is civic action.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
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“We hope to breach the silence that has descended around Gaza, and to do so by offering a microphone to some of the 2 million people whose stories demand to be told. We owe its people—and the hundreds of our fellow journalists who have given their lives to bring us the truth from Gaza—nothing less.“
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
“We hope to breach the silence that has descended around Gaza, and to do so by offering a microphone to some of the 2 million people whose stories demand to be told. We owe its people—and the hundreds of our fellow journalists who have given their lives to bring us the truth from Gaza—nothing less.“
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Over the years, Helen Giunaishvili (Ilia State University) has written four posts on the digitization of Georgian and Persian manuscripts preserved at Georgia’s Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts.
Read more on our blog ⬇️
Read more on our blog ⬇️
February 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Over the years, Helen Giunaishvili (Ilia State University) has written four posts on the digitization of Georgian and Persian manuscripts preserved at Georgia’s Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts.
Read more on our blog ⬇️
Read more on our blog ⬇️
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Liam is back home.
He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody.
(Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)
He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody.
(Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)
February 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Liam is back home.
He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody.
(Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)
He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody.
(Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)
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New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.
January 29, 2026 at 9:17 PM
New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.
Wish I had more confidence it was anywhere NEAR "ending."
Trump and Hegseth’s warrior fantasy was always going to end this way
Trump and Hegseth’s warrior fantasy was always going to end this way
Trump and Hegseth’s warrior fantasy was always going to end this way
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Wish I had more confidence it was anywhere NEAR "ending."
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Latest episode, from last week 👇👇
Adnan Khan on the growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports from Europe, the role of migrant labour in the sector, and the human toll
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turkeybooktalk.com/2026/01/20/a...
Adnan Khan on the growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports from Europe, the role of migrant labour in the sector, and the human toll
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turkeybooktalk.com/2026/01/20/a...
Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey’s importing of Europe’s waste
Turkey Book Talk #262 – Journalist Adnan Khan on the spectacular growth of Turkey’s plastic waste imports and the role of migrant labour in the sector. Adnan is the author of two major …
turkeybooktalk.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Latest episode, from last week 👇👇
Adnan Khan on the growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports from Europe, the role of migrant labour in the sector, and the human toll
📌📌
turkeybooktalk.com/2026/01/20/a...
Adnan Khan on the growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports from Europe, the role of migrant labour in the sector, and the human toll
📌📌
turkeybooktalk.com/2026/01/20/a...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Hundreds turn out for at least two demonstrations in Tucson, Ariz., including some 300 along Congress Street near Grande Avenue, January 24, 2026, to protest federal agents fatally shooting a
Photos: Anti-ICE demonstrations break out in Tucson following killing in Minnesota
Hundreds turn out for at least two demonstrations in Tucson, Ariz., including some 300 along Congress Street near Grande Avenue, January 24, 2026, to protest federal agents fatally shooting a
tucson.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Hundreds turn out for at least two demonstrations in Tucson, Ariz., including some 300 along Congress Street near Grande Avenue, January 24, 2026, to protest federal agents fatally shooting a
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They are defunding science, education, and public health to provide billions and billions for ICE.
January 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM
They are defunding science, education, and public health to provide billions and billions for ICE.
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For the most part it seems to me that the people who dwell on Dearborn, or the Rio Grande Valley, or how Chinese or Iranian diaspora voted in California, etcetera, are doing so because they think it's one of the more respectable ways to launder racial disdain.
January 25, 2026 at 10:40 PM
For the most part it seems to me that the people who dwell on Dearborn, or the Rio Grande Valley, or how Chinese or Iranian diaspora voted in California, etcetera, are doing so because they think it's one of the more respectable ways to launder racial disdain.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate facing deportation, “is a New Yorker” who should be allowed to remain in the city.
January 23, 2026 at 5:51 PM
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate facing deportation, “is a New Yorker” who should be allowed to remain in the city.
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They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
Why is he still writing? Why??
January 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Why is he still writing? Why??
Careful out there
ICE makes multiple arrests in Tucson Friday, including outside a school
ICE makes multiple arrests in Tucson Friday, including outside a school
ICE makes multiple arrests in Tucson Friday, including outside a school
Friday's ICE operations seem to indicate an escalation, Pima County Attorney Laura Conover said.
tucson.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Careful out there
ICE makes multiple arrests in Tucson Friday, including outside a school
ICE makes multiple arrests in Tucson Friday, including outside a school
Insightful. Iran encircled by "Competing death cults" 😱
Iran’s Three-Body Problem www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Iran’s Three-Body Problem www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Iran’s Three-Body Problem | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh
The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.
www.nplusonemag.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Insightful. Iran encircled by "Competing death cults" 😱
Iran’s Three-Body Problem www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Iran’s Three-Body Problem www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals 🐦⬛🪺
bbc.com/travel/artic...
bbc.com/travel/artic...
Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'
Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals.
bbc.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals 🐦⬛🪺
bbc.com/travel/artic...
bbc.com/travel/artic...
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This is really, really great.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:58 PM
This is really, really great.
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😡
Mayor alleges ICE officer 'recklessly' shot her adding immigration agents are 'causing chaos in our city'.
ICE agent shoots and kills woman during Minneapolis raid
Mayor alleges ICE officer 'recklessly' shot her adding immigration agents are 'causing chaos in our city'.
www.aljazeera.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Some context
Iranians from all walks of life are no strangers to protests or strikes over political, economic and other grievances.
Timeline of protests in Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution
Iranians from all walks of life are no strangers to protests or strikes over political, economic and other grievances.
www.aljazeera.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Some context
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Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.
January 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.