Harun
@harunb.bsky.social
Raised between SJJ and DTW. Balkans, Ottomans, and deadpan humor. History Ph.D. via Columbia. Recovering academic. Twitter muhadžir.
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for any folks around the University of Michigan — i'll be speaking about Bosnia and the global far-right, so come and let's talk next Wed, Dec 3 👇
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
for any folks around the University of Michigan — i'll be speaking about Bosnia and the global far-right, so come and let's talk next Wed, Dec 3 👇
Today I learned that the proto-Slavic word for forest is totally different from BCS “šuma,” which may instead be a paleo-Balkan borrowing with a cognate in modern Albanian.
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Today I learned that the proto-Slavic word for forest is totally different from BCS “šuma,” which may instead be a paleo-Balkan borrowing with a cognate in modern Albanian.
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It is not possible to find the words for this.
July 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is not possible to find the words for this.
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Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚
July 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚
"Death by starvation in Gaza is not the collateral, unintended consequence of an… anonymous, amorphous crisis. It is the results of deliberate policy on the part of the Israeli government, bent on using the resources of a highly sophisticated state to render Palestinian life in Gaza impossible."
Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context.
For many months, it has been beyond reasonable doubt that the Israeli government, the Israeli military, sections of Israeli politics and society as well as their aiders and abetters abroad, have been ...
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July 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"Death by starvation in Gaza is not the collateral, unintended consequence of an… anonymous, amorphous crisis. It is the results of deliberate policy on the part of the Israeli government, bent on using the resources of a highly sophisticated state to render Palestinian life in Gaza impossible."
Just heard @mehdirhasan.bsky.social say re: Gaza: “we’d have to exhume Milošević’s body and apologize to him for trying him as a war criminal if we don’t try all the people involved in this crime.”
Counterpoint: we actually don’t need to apologize to Milošević under any circumstances.
Counterpoint: we actually don’t need to apologize to Milošević under any circumstances.
July 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Just heard @mehdirhasan.bsky.social say re: Gaza: “we’d have to exhume Milošević’s body and apologize to him for trying him as a war criminal if we don’t try all the people involved in this crime.”
Counterpoint: we actually don’t need to apologize to Milošević under any circumstances.
Counterpoint: we actually don’t need to apologize to Milošević under any circumstances.
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And, I will never stop pointing out, the international decision to retain RS within the postwar Bosnian constitutional setup was a conscious choice. It was not an unfortunate compromise that had to be accepted to bring peace, they could have insisted on its abolition even in 1995. They wanted it.
There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.
July 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
And, I will never stop pointing out, the international decision to retain RS within the postwar Bosnian constitutional setup was a conscious choice. It was not an unfortunate compromise that had to be accepted to bring peace, they could have insisted on its abolition even in 1995. They wanted it.
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There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.
July 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.
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Philosopher Boris Buden just wrote a savage critique of the Thompson concert in Zagreb attended by half a million people and soaked in fascism & racism.
He calls it what it is: a mirror of Europe’s militarism, hypocrisy, and descent into moral collapse. Read it via Google Translate. It hits hard.
He calls it what it is: a mirror of Europe’s militarism, hypocrisy, and descent into moral collapse. Read it via Google Translate. It hits hard.
Hrvatska Oda radosti - H-Alter
Thompson na Hipodromu: Što Hipodrom, pijan, pjeva, to Europa trijezna legitimira kao realpolitiku. Zato svi oni koji, zgražajući se, začepe uši kad začuju „Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara“, neka se opuste ...
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July 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Philosopher Boris Buden just wrote a savage critique of the Thompson concert in Zagreb attended by half a million people and soaked in fascism & racism.
He calls it what it is: a mirror of Europe’s militarism, hypocrisy, and descent into moral collapse. Read it via Google Translate. It hits hard.
He calls it what it is: a mirror of Europe’s militarism, hypocrisy, and descent into moral collapse. Read it via Google Translate. It hits hard.
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Is he too Muslim or not Muslim enough? He's Schrödinger's Muslim.
i’d appreciate if more people would own me by posting pictures where i look really beautiful and elegant. that would show me
July 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Is he too Muslim or not Muslim enough? He's Schrödinger's Muslim.
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Bosnian Serb secessionists have brought American far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin to Banja Luka, convinced him that the RS entity is a “small country, determined to stay independent.” It’s literally a sub-national administrative region w/in BiH that was never independent. You’re in Bosnia, guy.
June 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Bosnian Serb secessionists have brought American far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin to Banja Luka, convinced him that the RS entity is a “small country, determined to stay independent.” It’s literally a sub-national administrative region w/in BiH that was never independent. You’re in Bosnia, guy.
Crvena transverzala.
Just the NYT calling the areas where Mamdani most won votes - "The Commie Corner"
June 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Crvena transverzala.
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PSA—Do not review books for the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. They asked me to review a book, I spent quite a bit of my time reading and writing it up, only for IJCS book review editor Lucas Lopez Arrastia to tell me that editors couldn't contact me, so they pulled my review. AVOID
June 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
PSA—Do not review books for the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. They asked me to review a book, I spent quite a bit of my time reading and writing it up, only for IJCS book review editor Lucas Lopez Arrastia to tell me that editors couldn't contact me, so they pulled my review. AVOID
Free buses and a rent freeze are apparently a “revolution” now.
COLUMN: Cuomo wants redemption, Mamdani wants a revolution and moderate voters want someone else. The NYC mayoral primary lays bare the problems facing the Democratic party, writes our Jonathan Martin.
Why the New York Mayor’s Race Matters
Voters are disappointed by the Cuomo-Mamdani race, but the result will resonate far beyond the Big Apple.
www.politico.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Free buses and a rent freeze are apparently a “revolution” now.
It's low key exasperating that so many opponents of Trump have uncritically embraced the "TACO" label. Yeah, it obviously gets under his skin, but it's also basically goading him on to follow through on whatever God-awful policy he had in mind, so… seems like a bad idea? Let the man chicken out!
June 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's low key exasperating that so many opponents of Trump have uncritically embraced the "TACO" label. Yeah, it obviously gets under his skin, but it's also basically goading him on to follow through on whatever God-awful policy he had in mind, so… seems like a bad idea? Let the man chicken out!
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There may be a historical analogy to be drawn between Serbia-Kosovo and Israel-Palestine, but not one that Schumer or Maher would particularly like.
April 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
There may be a historical analogy to be drawn between Serbia-Kosovo and Israel-Palestine, but not one that Schumer or Maher would particularly like.
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The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: Why is the US bombing Yemen? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
March 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: Why is the US bombing Yemen? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Leider nicht überraschend: Die Erosion der Grundrechte beginnt immer bei marginalisierten, wehrlosen Gruppen, bevor sie auf den Rest der Gesellschaft ausgeweitet wird. Die Gewalt an den Grenzen bleibt nicht dort, sondern greift ins Innere.
www.ots.at/presseaussen... @kidpex.bsky.social
www.ots.at/presseaussen... @kidpex.bsky.social
Serbische Polizei testete Schallkanone 2023 zuerst an Geflüchteten
"Ein Lehrbeispiel wie Polizeigewalt gegen Geflüchtete ins Innere schlägt und plötzlich die ganze Gesellschaft betrifft", kommentiert Petar Rosandić von SOS Balkanroute.
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March 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Leider nicht überraschend: Die Erosion der Grundrechte beginnt immer bei marginalisierten, wehrlosen Gruppen, bevor sie auf den Rest der Gesellschaft ausgeweitet wird. Die Gewalt an den Grenzen bleibt nicht dort, sondern greift ins Innere.
www.ots.at/presseaussen... @kidpex.bsky.social
www.ots.at/presseaussen... @kidpex.bsky.social
Every genocide was provoked if you ask the perpetrators.
March 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Every genocide was provoked if you ask the perpetrators.
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My politics is the abolition of the economic system that created these two broken men
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My politics is the abolition of the economic system that created these two broken men