Mira Al Hussein
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Messy data but I don’t think this data says what this implies - it’s good that enrollments remain mostly steady but these students were mostly already enrolled or admitted before Trump’s hatchet to higher ed. The cliff would be this year’s applications and next fall’s enrollments.
The number of foreign students in the U.S. decreased by less than 1 percent this fall, according to new federal data, despite predictions that their enrollment would plummet this year due to a crackdown by the Trump administration.
Trump’s crackdown on foreign students barely impacts enrollment, data shows
About 1.3 million students in the U.S. had active visas in October, down less than 1 percent from a year ago.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Messy data but I don’t think this data says what this implies - it’s good that enrollments remain mostly steady but these students were mostly already enrolled or admitted before Trump’s hatchet to higher ed. The cliff would be this year’s applications and next fall’s enrollments.
@jjholtland.bsky.social Hi Jan - what’s the best way to reach you? I cannot access the Chat function without verifying my age. I’m not keen on going through the process.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
@jjholtland.bsky.social Hi Jan - what’s the best way to reach you? I cannot access the Chat function without verifying my age. I’m not keen on going through the process.
“The optics would be disastrous. It would look like we are building for Israel and not the Palestinians,” said a second Arab diplomat. “We don’t want Gaza to become this sort of limbo between war and peace and [where] the current situation becomes the status quo.”
US and Israel’s contentious plan to build ‘New Gaza’ sparks alarm
Regional leaders fear proposal to rebuild half of enclave under Israeli control will lead to long-term partition
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“The optics would be disastrous. It would look like we are building for Israel and not the Palestinians,” said a second Arab diplomat. “We don’t want Gaza to become this sort of limbo between war and peace and [where] the current situation becomes the status quo.”
“Even in Washington, where the Emirates remain a close ally of President Trump, officials privately concede that the evidence of complicity is becoming harder to ignore.”
How is the UAE involved in Sudan’s civil war?
Despite denials, evidence is growing of the gold and arms deals funding the violent struggle that is tearing the country apart
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“Even in Washington, where the Emirates remain a close ally of President Trump, officials privately concede that the evidence of complicity is becoming harder to ignore.”
Unless pressured by international coverage, such news won’t appear in local UAE media.
Russian Investigators Probe Killing of Convicted Crypto Fraudster in UAE - The Moscow Times
Russian investigators have opened a criminal case into the suspected murder of a St.
www.themoscowtimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Unless pressured by international coverage, such news won’t appear in local UAE media.
“Biden and his senior team—particularly Brett McGurk—blocked serious action, according to five US government officials. Internal memos and discussions involving the Gulf required McGurk’s clearance. He was pursuing a broader rapprochement between the UAE and Israel.”
The Price of Silence in Sudan
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“Biden and his senior team—particularly Brett McGurk—blocked serious action, according to five US government officials. Internal memos and discussions involving the Gulf required McGurk’s clearance. He was pursuing a broader rapprochement between the UAE and Israel.”
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“We will no longer be able to have Americans buy duty free at Terminal One at Dubai. That’s what scares the hell out of the UAE.”
Nathaniel Raymond, Exec. Dir. the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale, on Trump's critical role in bringing an end to the genocide in Sudan
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Nathaniel Raymond, Exec. Dir. the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale, on Trump's critical role in bringing an end to the genocide in Sudan
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November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“We will no longer be able to have Americans buy duty free at Terminal One at Dubai. That’s what scares the hell out of the UAE.”
Nathaniel Raymond, Exec. Dir. the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale, on Trump's critical role in bringing an end to the genocide in Sudan
zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Nathaniel Raymond, Exec. Dir. the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale, on Trump's critical role in bringing an end to the genocide in Sudan
zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
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Turkey issues arrest warrants for 36 Israeli officials on charges of genocide.
The list includes PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.
The list includes PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Turkey issues arrest warrants for 36 Israeli officials on charges of genocide.
The list includes PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.
The list includes PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.
Abu Dhabi may be committed to the Abraham Accords, mainly due to the political immunity it perceives the deal to provide. Its involvement in the Sudan genocide is increasingly becoming a PR catastrophe that could test the utility of the accords. Domestically, however, the messaging has changed.
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Abu Dhabi may be committed to the Abraham Accords, mainly due to the political immunity it perceives the deal to provide. Its involvement in the Sudan genocide is increasingly becoming a PR catastrophe that could test the utility of the accords. Domestically, however, the messaging has changed.
At this point, I’m just surprised they’re disclosing to media.
Exclusive: The US gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its Gaza military campaign — operations reliant on US-supplied weapons, ex-US officials said reut.rs/4i7mXy9
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
At this point, I’m just surprised they’re disclosing to media.
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Seen some contrarians say that Zohran should visit Israel and meet with "left wing Israeli Jews who share his vision" (who?) but do these people realize that Mamdani wouldn't be allowed into the country or the occupied territories in the first place?
No one remembers the Tlaib and Omar issue?
No one remembers the Tlaib and Omar issue?
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Seen some contrarians say that Zohran should visit Israel and meet with "left wing Israeli Jews who share his vision" (who?) but do these people realize that Mamdani wouldn't be allowed into the country or the occupied territories in the first place?
No one remembers the Tlaib and Omar issue?
No one remembers the Tlaib and Omar issue?
Originally shared on X by (/@MohanadElbalal), Somalia’s Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar speaking at the pan-African Summit: “The UAE is comparable to those who supported apartheid … we should deal with them exactly as we dealt with supporters of apartheid.”
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November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Originally shared on X by (/@MohanadElbalal), Somalia’s Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar speaking at the pan-African Summit: “The UAE is comparable to those who supported apartheid … we should deal with them exactly as we dealt with supporters of apartheid.”
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The level of disinterest in the ongoing genocide and violent extractivism in Sudan is disheartening. I don’t know if one can attribute this to anti-Black racism per se, but the overwhelming silence and indifference of Arabs is appalling.
Sudan Mercenaries Linked to Business Partner of Top UAE Bureaucrat - The Sentry
November 2025 Download the full alert As the war in Sudan rages on and the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) killings of civilians in the western city El Fasher continues, reports have emerged of Colombian ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The level of disinterest in the ongoing genocide and violent extractivism in Sudan is disheartening. I don’t know if one can attribute this to anti-Black racism per se, but the overwhelming silence and indifference of Arabs is appalling.
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I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan
To give some credit there is a growing chorus of dissent on this issue in Congress, lead by Van Hollen, Sara Jacobs, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar among others.
Van Hollen, Jacobs Reintroduce Bill to Prohibit U.S. Arms Sales to UAE Until They Cease Support of RSF in Sudan | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.-51),...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan
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"Among world leaders, policymakersand the media, however, the dehumanization of Palestinians only seems to have ramped up."
I'm sure there are already many scholars studying the history of the dehumanisation of Palestinians - while some of their colleagues still participate in it.
I'm sure there are already many scholars studying the history of the dehumanisation of Palestinians - while some of their colleagues still participate in it.
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Among world leaders, policymakersand the media, however, the dehumanization of Palestinians only seems to have ramped up."
I'm sure there are already many scholars studying the history of the dehumanisation of Palestinians - while some of their colleagues still participate in it.
I'm sure there are already many scholars studying the history of the dehumanisation of Palestinians - while some of their colleagues still participate in it.
We’re about to find out that annexing the West Bank is not in fact a red line for the UAE.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns Israel against annexing the West Bank, saying steps taken by parliament and settler violence threaten the Gaza peace deal.
Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance bills on annexing the occupied West Bank, barely a week after a Gaza peace deal was agreed
Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance bills on annexing the occupied West Bank, barely a week after a Gaza peace deal was agreed
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We’re about to find out that annexing the West Bank is not in fact a red line for the UAE.
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Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.
UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.
But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.
Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.
Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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In July 88 a US missile cruiser breached Iranian territorial waters & was fired on by Iranian gunboats.The Vincennes’ incompetent/belligerent crew identified a civilian Iranian plane as an F14 & fired on it, killing 290 people inc. 66 kids.Toby Craig Jones will speak on this in our seminar nxt week.
October 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In July 88 a US missile cruiser breached Iranian territorial waters & was fired on by Iranian gunboats.The Vincennes’ incompetent/belligerent crew identified a civilian Iranian plane as an F14 & fired on it, killing 290 people inc. 66 kids.Toby Craig Jones will speak on this in our seminar nxt week.
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Both the US & British center left are hoping that a brief cessation in the war on Gaza will return perceptions of the issue to the status quo ante, but as Professor Shibley Telhami has noted that is is basically impossible now.
A whole generation now sees Israel as having committed genocide.
A whole generation now sees Israel as having committed genocide.
Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.
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www.politico.eu
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Both the US & British center left are hoping that a brief cessation in the war on Gaza will return perceptions of the issue to the status quo ante, but as Professor Shibley Telhami has noted that is is basically impossible now.
A whole generation now sees Israel as having committed genocide.
A whole generation now sees Israel as having committed genocide.
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bystander? actively cheering it on mostly.
Perception of EU as bystander in Gaza war has badly damaged its reputation
Perception of EU as bystander in Gaza war has badly damaged its reputation
Internal divisions stopped EU from putting any real pressure on Israel
www.irishtimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
bystander? actively cheering it on mostly.
“No one in the Middle East and likely beyond will ever forget the Israeli slaughter, nor the U.S. weaponry that facilitated it, nor the U.S. mercenaries of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" who murdered starving people seeking aid.”
“If Israel wants to actually prevent the next October 7, in whatever form it will take, it must free Palestine,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. “The rest is commentary. Or avoidance.”
‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’
Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine
www.forever-wars.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“No one in the Middle East and likely beyond will ever forget the Israeli slaughter, nor the U.S. weaponry that facilitated it, nor the U.S. mercenaries of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" who murdered starving people seeking aid.”
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In advance of tomorrow's match between Italy and Israel, here again is my and @antoineduval.bsky.social piece in @josimarfootball.bsky.social on the serious governance failures that mean Israel is still allowed to compete. And no, the peace-plan changes nothing josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...
More political theatre while Gaza burns - josimarfootball.com
Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.
josimarfootball.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
In advance of tomorrow's match between Italy and Israel, here again is my and @antoineduval.bsky.social piece in @josimarfootball.bsky.social on the serious governance failures that mean Israel is still allowed to compete. And no, the peace-plan changes nothing josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...
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"Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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