Faisal فيصل
@faisalhamadah.bsky.social
House Arab
academic in the low countries
academic in the low countries
Any fellow nerds remember this just incredible essay by (if irc) trans writer on mad max fury road? irc it kind of centered on the guitar playing character. @seanobrien.bsky.social does this ring a bell?
February 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Any fellow nerds remember this just incredible essay by (if irc) trans writer on mad max fury road? irc it kind of centered on the guitar playing character. @seanobrien.bsky.social does this ring a bell?
Sorry for horny on main but my god arundhati roy is so hot
Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlinale over 'jaw-dropping' stance on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arundhati-roy-pulls-out-berlinale-over-gaza
Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlinale over 'jaw-dropping' stance on Gaza
Indian author withdraws after jury head Wim Wenders says film festival should 'stay out of politics'
www.middleeasteye.net
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Sorry for horny on main but my god arundhati roy is so hot
youtu.be/2evOCtIGGxw?...
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
The beautiful losers الحلوين الخسرانين
YouTube video by Yasmine Hamdan - Topic
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
youtu.be/2evOCtIGGxw?...
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar (i teach across 4 programs all with different forms, deadlines, procedures)
February 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar (i teach across 4 programs all with different forms, deadlines, procedures)
just listen to this whenever you are sad and it will cheer you up. mashalla mashalla mashalla to ward off evil eye but was distinctly jealous of dan here
This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.
www.thedigradio.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
just listen to this whenever you are sad and it will cheer you up. mashalla mashalla mashalla to ward off evil eye but was distinctly jealous of dan here
Real one
Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
The Indian author, film maker and peace activist responds to a recent attempt by jury membres at the festival to deflect from the violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza strip.
thewire.in
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Real one
Hahahahah kier starmer
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Hahahahah kier starmer
It would be a nice world if you thought ‘hey that person has a nice voice, i would love to hear them read the entirety of moby dick outloud’ and then like social security or smthn would pay that person to record themselves reading the entirey of moby dick out loud
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 AM
It would be a nice world if you thought ‘hey that person has a nice voice, i would love to hear them read the entirety of moby dick outloud’ and then like social security or smthn would pay that person to record themselves reading the entirey of moby dick out loud
I just found out the one place I like in this little village is switching ownership soon and comrades AM GUTTED
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I just found out the one place I like in this little village is switching ownership soon and comrades AM GUTTED
So fucked
What a profound failure. Less than 0.5% of Tavistock’s actual service users complained. None of that mattered to the online rightwing mediasphere encouraged by this country’s billionaire-owned media.
Kids being punished for the failures of adults.
Kids being punished for the failures of adults.
pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
February 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
So fucked
Pillion! What a movie!
February 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Pillion! What a movie!
Institutionalized interdisciplinarity only works by reifying disciplines into rigid lifeless structures and by submitting staff to managerial edicts dont @ me
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Institutionalized interdisciplinarity only works by reifying disciplines into rigid lifeless structures and by submitting staff to managerial edicts dont @ me
The great Kuwaiti playwright abdulaziz al suraiye has passed away at a ripe old age. Responsible for some excellent kuwaiti social dramas in the 70s and 80s, he was also my boss for a while after college and is quite responsible for my current life trajectory. RIP!
February 11, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The great Kuwaiti playwright abdulaziz al suraiye has passed away at a ripe old age. Responsible for some excellent kuwaiti social dramas in the 70s and 80s, he was also my boss for a while after college and is quite responsible for my current life trajectory. RIP!
i understand overall (although i viscerally hate) the wider social and economic realities that make students feel like they have have to use AI to write; much of it is the result of our own education system that expect even bachelors students to be fully functioning adults instead of young people/
February 11, 2026 at 4:56 PM
i understand overall (although i viscerally hate) the wider social and economic realities that make students feel like they have have to use AI to write; much of it is the result of our own education system that expect even bachelors students to be fully functioning adults instead of young people/
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...
have been really loving hashem's work recently, this should be great
have been really loving hashem's work recently, this should be great
Hashem Abushama · The actually existing ‘state of Palestine’ (2026)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...
have been really loving hashem's work recently, this should be great
have been really loving hashem's work recently, this should be great
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RP2.20 is out now!
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
Radical Philosophy issue 220 (Winter 2026)
Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.
www.radicalphilosophy.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
RP2.20 is out now!
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
Peter linebaugh was and remains such a big inspiration especially in this properly degraded academic climate.
Peter Linebaugh is here continuing his extraordinary, commendable, life-long almost solo crusade to rescue the "English radical tradition" from a subdued, bordered, project of national development by relentlessly foregrounding its imperial, multi-racial, multitudinous hinterland.
This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
February 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Peter linebaugh was and remains such a big inspiration especially in this properly degraded academic climate.
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Computational Cultural Studies replaces Literature and Cultural Studies sounds like a David Lodge novel without the humor.
This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers?
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Literature and Cultural Studies program cut, replaced with Computational Cultural Studies - The Tartan
In Feb. 2024, Richard Scheines, Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, placed an administrative hold on admissions to Carnegie
the-tartan.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Computational Cultural Studies replaces Literature and Cultural Studies sounds like a David Lodge novel without the humor.
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Read this long thing if you are the mood to disassociate for a few hours
Read this long thing if you are the mood to disassociate for a few hours
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Read this long thing if you are the mood to disassociate for a few hours
Read this long thing if you are the mood to disassociate for a few hours
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Here I write on the current state of Birzeit
Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian struggle.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university
Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian...
mondoweiss.net
February 9, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Here I write on the current state of Birzeit
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"Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism."
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation
Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net
February 7, 2026 at 8:45 PM
"Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism."
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So this. “The so-called “inefficiencies” of the higher-education sector are…the essence of the experience. It is what faculty, students, parents, and alumni most appreciate about higher education and its transformative potential…” Summary 🧵 1/
www.chronicle.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
So this. “The so-called “inefficiencies” of the higher-education sector are…the essence of the experience. It is what faculty, students, parents, and alumni most appreciate about higher education and its transformative potential…” Summary 🧵 1/
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.