Dr. Nick Posegay
@nposegay.bsky.social
Itinerant scholar, ex- @theul.bsky.social | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | he/him | Publications: linktr.ee/NPosegay
Banner: 15th c. bull head watermark screaming with existential terror
Banner: 15th c. bull head watermark screaming with existential terror
Pinned
Dr. Nick Posegay
@nposegay.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Good news if you like history, manuscripts, or nice books! 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' is now available at *greatly* reduced shipping costs via @theul.bsky.social (UK) and Amazon (worldwide) from this link: linktr.ee/nposegay. There's also a free sample file there with the entire first chapter.
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
"Students and faculty at the Islamic University of Gaza ... described in interviews how they kept studying throughout two years of genocide by charging their laptops with solar energy, watching recorded lectures, and meeting in improvised study groups."
"Gaza's universities now need millions of dollars to rebuild the educational system."
"95 percent of all school buildings in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed — including every university."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Genocide #Military
"95 percent of all school buildings in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed — including every university."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Genocide #Military
Gaza's Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.
Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel's genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild.
theintercept.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"Students and faculty at the Islamic University of Gaza ... described in interviews how they kept studying throughout two years of genocide by charging their laptops with solar energy, watching recorded lectures, and meeting in improvised study groups."
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Not just dangerous for pregnant people (and it does literally cause miscarriage), but it also causes infertility, and they're spraying it all over minoritised communities. Tear gas is banned in war by the Geneva Convention.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Not just dangerous for pregnant people (and it does literally cause miscarriage), but it also causes infertility, and they're spraying it all over minoritised communities. Tear gas is banned in war by the Geneva Convention.
I have a new open-access article in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series. It examines an unknown Judaeo-Arabic manuscript of Genesis from the 10th century. I argue that it's evidence of medieval Jews reciting the Bible in a formal register of Egyptian Arabic. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
A Jewish Translation of Genesis in 10th-Century Egyptian Arabic
MS Firkovitch Yevr. II B 1526 comes from a Judaeo-Arabic translation of the biblical book of Genesis produced no later than the tenth century. It consists of two parchment folios containing most of Ge...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I have a new open-access article in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series. It examines an unknown Judaeo-Arabic manuscript of Genesis from the 10th century. I argue that it's evidence of medieval Jews reciting the Bible in a formal register of Egyptian Arabic. doi.org/10.11647/obp...
Israeli soldiers confirm they did exactly what Palestinians said they did.
Israeli soldiers have admitted that their army killed civilians indiscriminately in a new documentary which exposes their lawless combat in Gaza
Israeli soliders admit killing civilians and using human shields in Gaza
www.thenational.scot
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Israeli soldiers confirm they did exactly what Palestinians said they did.
Pretty clear now that airport workers could strike and extract whatever they want from Congress.
Would love to see some reporting on how the airline lobby put on the pressure.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Pretty clear now that airport workers could strike and extract whatever they want from Congress.
Have Americans tried pirating healthcare?
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Have Americans tried pirating healthcare?
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
There's so much violence going out of the West Bank literally every hour of the day
I can't upload everything here, so you can follow me on my second account @settlertrack.bsky.social for more posts!
I can't upload everything here, so you can follow me on my second account @settlertrack.bsky.social for more posts!
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There's so much violence going out of the West Bank literally every hour of the day
I can't upload everything here, so you can follow me on my second account @settlertrack.bsky.social for more posts!
I can't upload everything here, so you can follow me on my second account @settlertrack.bsky.social for more posts!
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war
-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war
-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
-top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back
-talk of "very likely" US liability
-Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing"
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Universities interested in resisting fascism should immediately eliminate presidents, executive officers, chancellors, provosts, trustees, vice-anythings, probably deans, and all governing bodies with "board" or "council" in the title.
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Universities interested in resisting fascism should immediately eliminate presidents, executive officers, chancellors, provosts, trustees, vice-anythings, probably deans, and all governing bodies with "board" or "council" in the title.
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
"[T]he Biden administration opened more antisemitism probes against colleges and universities (65) than for all other types of racial harassment combined (38) ... [Trump's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism] has systematically ignored the procedural requirements of [funding cuts based on] Title VI."
"All but one of the 102 antisemitism complaint letters we have analyzed focus on speech critical of Israel."
Civil Rights Act of 1964 "repurposed [..] to remake higher education in line with [..] right-wing political and cultural agenda."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Protest #Education #Genocide
Civil Rights Act of 1964 "repurposed [..] to remake higher education in line with [..] right-wing political and cultural agenda."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Protest #Education #Genocide
Most Campus 'Antisemitism' Probes Target Criticism of Israel, Not Anti-Jewish Hate: Report
A new report details how, under both Biden and Trump, pro-Israel groups silenced criticism of Israel on US campuses, equating it with antisemitism.
www.commondreams.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"[T]he Biden administration opened more antisemitism probes against colleges and universities (65) than for all other types of racial harassment combined (38) ... [Trump's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism] has systematically ignored the procedural requirements of [funding cuts based on] Title VI."
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
Anyone else old enough to remember when Cambridge hung an effigy of a female undergraduate riding a bike from the window of what is now the university bookstore, as part of their riot against granting degrees to women?
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Anyone else old enough to remember when Cambridge hung an effigy of a female undergraduate riding a bike from the window of what is now the university bookstore, as part of their riot against granting degrees to women?
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
I never again want to hear a word against reparations or landback as impractical or too expensive when one mediocre sieg heiling white dude WHO DIDN'T EVEN FOUND TESLA (he stole the company from its real founders) IS ALLOWED TO HAVE A TRILLION DOLLARS
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I never again want to hear a word against reparations or landback as impractical or too expensive when one mediocre sieg heiling white dude WHO DIDN'T EVEN FOUND TESLA (he stole the company from its real founders) IS ALLOWED TO HAVE A TRILLION DOLLARS
This week on Broadview or Ketziot:
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This week on Broadview or Ketziot:
Remember the "Israel says they will cut agreed aid by half" headlines? Then shortly after, "Israel agrees to do what they said they would do and allow aid into Gaza"?
The 'ceasefire' agreement was 600 trucks per day. Half was 300. They've allowed 100. Someone explain to me why this is okay.
The 'ceasefire' agreement was 600 trucks per day. Half was 300. They've allowed 100. Someone explain to me why this is okay.
Despite ceasefire agreement, Israel has allowed only about 100 aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip daily, with humanitarian organizations confirming they are “effectively barred” from delivering desperately needed assistance to the war-ravaged enclave.
qudsnen.co/?p=66413
qudsnen.co/?p=66413
Aid Groups Say Israel Has “Effectively Barred” Them From Bringing Essential Supplies Into Gaza: What We Know - Quds News Network
Despite a ceasefire agreement, Israel has allowed only about 100 aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip daily, with humanitarian organizations confirming they are “effectively barred” from delivering desp...
qudsnen.co
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Remember the "Israel says they will cut agreed aid by half" headlines? Then shortly after, "Israel agrees to do what they said they would do and allow aid into Gaza"?
The 'ceasefire' agreement was 600 trucks per day. Half was 300. They've allowed 100. Someone explain to me why this is okay.
The 'ceasefire' agreement was 600 trucks per day. Half was 300. They've allowed 100. Someone explain to me why this is okay.
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
Israel is bombing Lebanon again
Breaking | Israeli occupation aircrafts strike the town of Kafr Dunin in southern Lebanon. 🇱🇧
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Israel is bombing Lebanon again
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
Reposted by Dr. Nick Posegay
off year elections have given a giant FUCK YOU to trump and also centrism so i expect democrats to adapt to this new political meta by taking a hard turn toward the right
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
off year elections have given a giant FUCK YOU to trump and also centrism so i expect democrats to adapt to this new political meta by taking a hard turn toward the right
The Cairo Genizah is a fridge.
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Cairo Genizah is a fridge.
Something like 10% of NYC residents are Muslim but the pollsters couldn't be bothered to give them their own crosstab?
Per NBC exit poll, Cuomo won the religious voters in the city. Mamdani won nones/other.
I don't think people realize what a big role religious voters have played in past NYC elections. Both Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio won their elections with big support of religious voters
I don't think people realize what a big role religious voters have played in past NYC elections. Both Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio won their elections with big support of religious voters
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Something like 10% of NYC residents are Muslim but the pollsters couldn't be bothered to give them their own crosstab?