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Dr Katherine Blouin
@isisnaucratis.bsky.social
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History+ancient Lands+Beings; Prof. @UofT
/@UTSC; 12th generation French settler; YQB born CAI love; I decipher power; EverydayOrientalism; past=now; مصر دائما 🐍; I also draw; #Landback
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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 14d
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
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wtfis2bdone.bsky.social
Et maintenant? C’est LA HONTE!!

En annulant ce colloque parce qu’une bande de fachos, génocidaires et racistes de bas de ne sont pas contents, le Collège de France fait preuve d’une lâcheté sans fond. 🤬🤮
college-de-france.fr Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · 5d
#Histoire #MoyenOrient
🇵🇸🇪🇺 "La #Palestine et l’#Europe : poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Henry Laurens, titulaire de la chaire Histoire contemporaine du monde arabe, et le @carepparis.bsky.social.
⏰ Les 13 et 14 novembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/396t3rft
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
jenniferlena.bsky.social
I understand there’s a call for the Minister of Education to resign over this (which would have my full support). You simply cannot have exceptions to academic freedom.
isisnaucratis.bsky.social Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 15h
🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
mathildepanot.bsky.social Mathilde Panot @mathildepanot.bsky.social · 18h
⚡️📄 Lettre au Collège de France suite à la censure de l’événement « La Palestine et l’Europe ».
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
mathildepanot.bsky.social Mathilde Panot @mathildepanot.bsky.social · 18h
⚡️📄 Lettre au Collège de France suite à la censure de l’événement « La Palestine et l’Europe ».
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
Every accusation is a confession
smohyeddin.bsky.social Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social · 2d
NEW📍Israeli soldier hosted by Students Supporting Israel - a group at Toronto Metropolitan University - reshared a story on Instagram admitting he was the one who smashed the glass. He cut his own arm & then played victim. Instead of doing any investigating, Canadian media ran with his narrative.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
smohyeddin.bsky.social
Wearing the emblem of the Canada designated terror group, Kahane Chai (Jewish Defence League), 67 year old Gabrielle Bodis brought Ammonium Hydroxide with her to a protest. Toronto police arrested her for assault and threatening bodily harm.
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
nkalamb.bsky.social
In this paper we define 'athleticide' – "the systematic obliteration of athletics through the killing, disabling, arrest, or detention of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators, and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history."

journals.humankinetics.com/configurable...
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
nkalamb.bsky.social
22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal:

Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US."

journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
q9f.bsky.social
"The anthropoid coffins and other finds are now displayed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem."
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
"Deir el-Balah’s Stolen Past: A Canaanite City Looted Under Occupation" by @jehadabusalim.bsky.social
jehadabusalim.substack.com/p/deir-el-ba...
Deir el-Balah’s Stolen Past: A Canaanite City Looted Under Occupation
Did you know that in the 1970s and 1980s Israel looted one of the most important Canaanite sites in Gaza, a site closely tied to ancient Egypt?
jehadabusalim.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
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sparrows4palestine.bsky.social Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 6d
🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
substack.com/home/post/p-...
UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide and Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Dr Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade.
substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
nkalamb.bsky.social
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas: I'm tabling the following motion: That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
workshops4gaza.bsky.social
Please support Sudan Solidarity Collective’s work
nisrinelamin.bsky.social Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Oct 11
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com
Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
sudansolidarity.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
wearthepeace.bsky.social
Israel’s ambassador to the UN calls Francesca Albanese ‘a witch’ for her report on Israel’s genocide against Gaza. Francesca responds virtually at the UN and puts him in his place.
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
We have reached the @franceskalbs.bsky.social is a witch stage of hasbara
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
archaeologuest.bsky.social
Can't wait for this event!

Follow the link to RSVP for online participation👇
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
gmandreou.bsky.social
This week! Make sure to register online!
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
latineast.bsky.social
📖 #newrelease by Abbès Zouache
Mémorer la croisade. Édition et traduction annotée d’al-Ḥarīrī, Kitāb al-Iʿlām wa-l-tabyīn fī ḫurūǧ al-Faranǧ al-malāʿīn ʿalā bilād al-muslimīn
(Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Textes arabes et études islamiques 64, 2025)
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
runwithskizzers.bsky.social
If you’re a Bloomsbury author, I’d make sure they’re not using your work to train AI and maybe send a note about gross this is.
nicksturm.bsky.social Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 14d
Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
Why has @ubcmedicine.bsky.social just given a fellowship to an orthopedist who went to participate in the genocide after October 2023 as per evidence compiled in findidfsoldiers.net ?
sparrows4palestine.bsky.social Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 17d
🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
"Denial precedes & facilitates the act and may linger for generations. It sustains the lie that historians must expose":Drawing from Pierre Vidal-Naquet's 📕 on Holocaust denialism, Ras Segal reflects on how genocide denial is the norm in 🇮🇱
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
A state of denial
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
isisnaucratis.bsky.social
This conference on endangered urban heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine will be AMAZING!
Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, Cairo and zoom
October 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
www.cnn.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
antrelclaottawa.bsky.social
Shocking news from uOttawa: Greek & Roman Studies closed to new students without consultation. Teaching of ancient languages to end. Open letter coming soon - follow for how you can help. #DefendClassicsUOttawa #Ottawa #AncientHistory #SaveHigherEd #HigherEdCuts #AncientGreek #Latin
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM