Prof. Sajida Jalalzai 🍉
@sajidajalalzai.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University who thinks, writes, and teaches about Islam in N.A., gender, race, power, and some other stuff. All opinions are my own. 🍉
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TX Candidate Gomez' Book Burning Stunt Falls Flat When Gaza Is in Flames
Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st Congressional District Valentina Gomez wants to save America from Islam—with a flamethrower.
A recent campaign ad posted on X shows the 26-year-old Colombian Ame...
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"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
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"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
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the latest from RD: @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social on where we need to focus our outrage about Islamophobia
(hint: it's not on political stunts.)
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
(hint: it's not on political stunts.)
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
TX Candidate Gomez' Book Burning Stunt Falls Flat When Gaza Is in Flames
Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st Congressional District Valentina Gomez wants to save America from Islam—with a flamethrower.
A recent campaign ad posted on X shows the 26-year-old Colombian Ame...
religiondispatches.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
the latest from RD: @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social on where we need to focus our outrage about Islamophobia
(hint: it's not on political stunts.)
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
(hint: it's not on political stunts.)
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
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my girl @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social saying what needs to be said
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
TX Candidate Gomez' Book Burning Stunt Falls Flat When Gaza Is in Flames
Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st Congressional District Valentina Gomez wants to save America from Islam—with a flamethrower.
A recent campaign ad posted on X shows the 26-year-old Colombian Ame...
religiondispatches.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
my girl @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social saying what needs to be said
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
Latest op ed:
Thanks to @religiondispatches.org for giving me somewhere to rant and @mpgphd.bsky.social for her amazing editing skills.
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
Thanks to @religiondispatches.org for giving me somewhere to rant and @mpgphd.bsky.social for her amazing editing skills.
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
TX Candidate Gomez' Book Burning Stunt Falls Flat When Gaza Is in Flames
Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st Congressional District Valentina Gomez wants to save America from Islam—with a flamethrower.
A recent campaign ad posted on X shows the 26-year-old Colombian Ame...
religiondispatches.org
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Latest op ed:
Thanks to @religiondispatches.org for giving me somewhere to rant and @mpgphd.bsky.social for her amazing editing skills.
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
Thanks to @religiondispatches.org for giving me somewhere to rant and @mpgphd.bsky.social for her amazing editing skills.
"History will not remember Gomez’s stunt. It will remember that the world looked away while Gaza burned."
religiondispatches.org/tx-candidate...
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Maybe if we tell them there’s a student encampment inside the White House democrats will spring to action.
February 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Maybe if we tell them there’s a student encampment inside the White House democrats will spring to action.
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An IDF commander tells Haaretz that soldiers shoot everyone who crosses an imaginary line in north Gaza: "Bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them… People know that wherever you see these dogs, that's where you must not go."
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IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor
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December 18, 2024 at 11:36 PM
An IDF commander tells Haaretz that soldiers shoot everyone who crosses an imaginary line in north Gaza: "Bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them… People know that wherever you see these dogs, that's where you must not go."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Large missile barrage, now, targeting central Israel, possibly launched from Yemen
December 19, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Large missile barrage, now, targeting central Israel, possibly launched from Yemen
This is the best annotation of a primary text that a student has ever submitted.
December 18, 2024 at 3:19 PM
This is the best annotation of a primary text that a student has ever submitted.
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Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s most transcendent musicians, passed away from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco at the age of 73. Photo credit: Jim McGuire
December 16, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s most transcendent musicians, passed away from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco at the age of 73. Photo credit: Jim McGuire
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CNN: Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera photojournalist on one year anniversary of colleague’s death www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/m... @cnn.com @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism
Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera photojournalist on one year anniversary of colleague’s death | CNN
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed an Al Jazeera photojournalist on Sunday – exactly one year to the day after an attack killed one of his colleagues.
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December 16, 2024 at 2:34 AM
CNN: Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera photojournalist on one year anniversary of colleague’s death www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/m... @cnn.com @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism
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Dehumanised in the genocide
December 15, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Dehumanised in the genocide
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Israel killed him, he’s now with Reem, the soul of his soul.
'Soul of my soul': Iconic Palestinian grandfather killed by Israel in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/soul-my-soul-palestinian-man-killed-israeli-attack-central-gaza
'Soul of my soul': Iconic Palestinian grandfather killed by Israel in Gaza
Khaled Nabhan, whose tribute to his slain granddaughter Reem went viral, was killed in the Nuseirat camp
www.middleeasteye.net
December 16, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Israel killed him, he’s now with Reem, the soul of his soul.
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Israel has just killed Khalid Nabhan (“soul of my soul”), one year after they killed his granddaughter Reem
December 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Israel has just killed Khalid Nabhan (“soul of my soul”), one year after they killed his granddaughter Reem
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December 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:31 PM
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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There is one photo from the 2016 fall of Aleppo that is forever inked in my brain and it's this one:
The text reads: “To the one with whom I shared the siege, I love you.”
15th December, 2016
The text reads: “To the one with whom I shared the siege, I love you.”
15th December, 2016
November 30, 2024 at 9:15 PM
There is one photo from the 2016 fall of Aleppo that is forever inked in my brain and it's this one:
The text reads: “To the one with whom I shared the siege, I love you.”
15th December, 2016
The text reads: “To the one with whom I shared the siege, I love you.”
15th December, 2016
He bought it NOW? 😐😑😐
December 1, 2024 at 1:14 AM
He bought it NOW? 😐😑😐
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What is your favorite academic book about white supremacy in America?
October 5, 2023 at 4:29 PM
What is your favorite academic book about white supremacy in America?
A student told me that they didn't need coffee to do the assigned readings for my class and that just made me so happy.
October 4, 2023 at 4:20 PM
A student told me that they didn't need coffee to do the assigned readings for my class and that just made me so happy.