Stacey
@philbrickyadav.bsky.social
Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
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Stacey
@philbrickyadav.bsky.social
· Aug 31
Journalists/media inquiries about recent events in Yemen, please contact me at my university email: philbrickyadav@hws.edu
I was annoyed when I read (too quickly, it seems) a @wsj.com article claiming that if Bamako falls to AQ, Mali would be the first country to be run by a US-designated terrorist group, since the same outlet has also written recently about FTO-designated Houthi rule in Sana'a. I've assigned both. 1/
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I was annoyed when I read (too quickly, it seems) a @wsj.com article claiming that if Bamako falls to AQ, Mali would be the first country to be run by a US-designated terrorist group, since the same outlet has also written recently about FTO-designated Houthi rule in Sana'a. I've assigned both. 1/
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
If you’ve been focused on the Houthis and the situation in the North or the Red Sea, make sure you also read this editorial detailing the spiraling effects of conflict fragmentation in Yemen. The fallout from this editorial has also been significant for the writers. 1/
A Lawless Land: Government Factions Must Impose Order or Risk Losing Legitimacy - The Yemen Review, July-September 2025 - Sana'a Center For Strategic Studies
The assassination of Taiz official Iftehan al-Mashhari in broad daylight is the starkest example yet of how political violence and impunity have taken root in the territories under the control of the ...
sanaacenter.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If you’ve been focused on the Houthis and the situation in the North or the Red Sea, make sure you also read this editorial detailing the spiraling effects of conflict fragmentation in Yemen. The fallout from this editorial has also been significant for the writers. 1/
Too grim to bear. But as I read a stack of essays arguing that if we can just get things right in Gaza, it’ll be better next time, I’m indebted to those who are compiling the evidence that next time is now.
Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped
Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue
www.middleeasteye.net
November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Too grim to bear. But as I read a stack of essays arguing that if we can just get things right in Gaza, it’ll be better next time, I’m indebted to those who are compiling the evidence that next time is now.
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Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
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What's also wild (derogatory) is that if many media outlets are making their journalists use AI to write & edit, or replacing journalists w/ AI to generate content, then you basically have social scientists' LLMs coding AI-generated material, w/o the chance to spot it as such the way a human might.
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What's also wild (derogatory) is that if many media outlets are making their journalists use AI to write & edit, or replacing journalists w/ AI to generate content, then you basically have social scientists' LLMs coding AI-generated material, w/o the chance to spot it as such the way a human might.
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⚡️NEW from Drop Site News: “We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.”
Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...
Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...
“We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.”
Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.
www.dropsitenews.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
⚡️NEW from Drop Site News: “We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.”
Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...
Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...
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Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
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Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech:
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech:
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
"Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
September 14 deadline is approaching 🚨
Excited to be co-organizing an APSA MENA Methods Workshop on "Participatory and Engaged Research in the MENA" with @apsamena.bsky.social colleagues @separkinson.bsky.social, @ammars.bsky.social and Lara Khattab at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. ECRs & practitioners, apply by 9/14.
2026 APSA MENA Methods Workshop
APSA is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in a 4-day workshop titled, "Participatory and Engaged Research in the MENA Region."
Organ...
apsa.wufoo.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
September 14 deadline is approaching 🚨
Today in comic relief, it's my 18th first day of school as a college professor, my course has been prepped for a month, I've set up the website and sent the welcome message, I'm caffeinated and ready to go...and I totally forgot to print out the syllabus.
September 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Today in comic relief, it's my 18th first day of school as a college professor, my course has been prepped for a month, I've set up the website and sent the welcome message, I'm caffeinated and ready to go...and I totally forgot to print out the syllabus.
No words for this one.
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
No words for this one.
Journalists/media inquiries about recent events in Yemen, please contact me at my university email: philbrickyadav@hws.edu
August 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Journalists/media inquiries about recent events in Yemen, please contact me at my university email: philbrickyadav@hws.edu
The airstrikes on Sana'a matter, but perhaps not in the way being most widely reported. Targeted strikes against members of the Houthi cabinet and Houthi PM would matter more if they represented the concentration of power in the Houthis' system of rebel rule. They don't. 1/n
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The airstrikes on Sana'a matter, but perhaps not in the way being most widely reported. Targeted strikes against members of the Houthi cabinet and Houthi PM would matter more if they represented the concentration of power in the Houthis' system of rebel rule. They don't. 1/n
For months, @ichamza.bsky.social's family were told by the IDF - warned, threatened, choose your verb - to abandon their home, even though the "strategic target" had left by May. Pressuring civilians to leave their homes is not a kindness. Doing it for months on end just terrorizes them in advance.
Israel bombed the house next door to my family's in Sanaa, Yemen.
Our home is damaged and the missiles fuselage shrapnel shattered a couple of rooms.
My family is in shock even after sustaining ten years of war.
Our home is damaged and the missiles fuselage shrapnel shattered a couple of rooms.
My family is in shock even after sustaining ten years of war.
August 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For months, @ichamza.bsky.social's family were told by the IDF - warned, threatened, choose your verb - to abandon their home, even though the "strategic target" had left by May. Pressuring civilians to leave their homes is not a kindness. Doing it for months on end just terrorizes them in advance.
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#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Today is the last day to vote in Apsa Mena officer elections. Please vote if you haven’t already. And if you have, thanks for voting!
Section members - Reminder about our elections! Only a few days left to get your vote in. You should have received an email (hint: search for 'Survey Research' in your inbox), or you can find the ballot on @apsa.bsky.social Connect. Get your votes in for your new elected representatives!
#menasky
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August 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Today is the last day to vote in Apsa Mena officer elections. Please vote if you haven’t already. And if you have, thanks for voting!
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It's happened. An AI slop post in Arab American history is making the rounds, blending every immigration stereotype with a cloyingly implausible story about a fake Syrian peddler in Michigan.
This is deeply fascinating and also troubling. AI can regurgitate these stereotypes endlessly. What to do?
This is deeply fascinating and also troubling. AI can regurgitate these stereotypes endlessly. What to do?
August 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It's happened. An AI slop post in Arab American history is making the rounds, blending every immigration stereotype with a cloyingly implausible story about a fake Syrian peddler in Michigan.
This is deeply fascinating and also troubling. AI can regurgitate these stereotypes endlessly. What to do?
This is deeply fascinating and also troubling. AI can regurgitate these stereotypes endlessly. What to do?
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It has been almost two years since Hamas led the deadliest attack on Israel in the country’s history.
Not a single person has been charged or prosecuted for it, and the entire subject is shrouded in secrecy.
Not a single person has been charged or prosecuted for it, and the entire subject is shrouded in secrecy.
Israel Hasn’t Prosecuted a Single Suspect for the Oct. 7 Attack
Israel has extensively documented the 2023 Hamas-led assault and is believed to be holding at least 200 Palestinians suspected of involvement. Not one has been charged or put on trial.
nyti.ms
August 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It has been almost two years since Hamas led the deadliest attack on Israel in the country’s history.
Not a single person has been charged or prosecuted for it, and the entire subject is shrouded in secrecy.
Not a single person has been charged or prosecuted for it, and the entire subject is shrouded in secrecy.
“All…GHF food distribution sites are located in areas the Israeli military has marked for evacuation. To collect food, Palestinians must enter zones of direct danger. There are reports, and video evidence, of the Israeli military firing on Palestinians near or en route to these distribution sites.”
Monday briefing: What a new investigation tells us about the shooting of Palestinians at Gaza aid sites
In today’s newsletter: A Guardian investigation uncovers chilling evidence that civilians in Gaza appear to have been targeted by coordinated gunfire during food distributions
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“All…GHF food distribution sites are located in areas the Israeli military has marked for evacuation. To collect food, Palestinians must enter zones of direct danger. There are reports, and video evidence, of the Israeli military firing on Palestinians near or en route to these distribution sites.”
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What's up, Chat-GPT 5? Do we have some PhD-level intelligence up in this piece?
August 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
What's up, Chat-GPT 5? Do we have some PhD-level intelligence up in this piece?
Alex DeWaal's 2018 book "Mass Starvation" gives more serious thought to this dark subject than most any of us can bear, so I am grateful for his voice now. His work offers a conceptual vocabulary that improves our capacities to act, even in response to a "calamity that was forseeable and foreseen."
Opinion | Netanyahu Is Choosing to Starve Gaza
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Alex DeWaal's 2018 book "Mass Starvation" gives more serious thought to this dark subject than most any of us can bear, so I am grateful for his voice now. His work offers a conceptual vocabulary that improves our capacities to act, even in response to a "calamity that was forseeable and foreseen."
Excited to be co-organizing an APSA MENA Methods Workshop on "Participatory and Engaged Research in the MENA" with @apsamena.bsky.social colleagues @separkinson.bsky.social, @ammars.bsky.social and Lara Khattab at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. ECRs & practitioners, apply by 9/14.
2026 APSA MENA Methods Workshop
APSA is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in a 4-day workshop titled, "Participatory and Engaged Research in the MENA Region."
Organ...
apsa.wufoo.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Excited to be co-organizing an APSA MENA Methods Workshop on "Participatory and Engaged Research in the MENA" with @apsamena.bsky.social colleagues @separkinson.bsky.social, @ammars.bsky.social and Lara Khattab at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. ECRs & practitioners, apply by 9/14.
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This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...