Hatim El-Hibri
@sayshatim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
opinions mine. he/him
Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!
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Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby.
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
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November 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby.
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
Funded opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars!
Applications are now open for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia!
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Funded opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars!
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A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…
A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens' voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…
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Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social.
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool
August 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social.
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool
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POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info:
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Call for Proposals: POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops 2025-2026 - Project on Middle East Political Science
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info:
pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
Not convinced. Citing your paternal lineage only works as a flex if you can credibly do it in a language with formal conventions for it, eg Arabic "Andrew, Ibn Mario Ibn Andrea" or Icelandic, "I'm Andrew Mariosson"
*after getting my head punched clean off my neck in the first round* ah but now it’s round two
August 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Not convinced. Citing your paternal lineage only works as a flex if you can credibly do it in a language with formal conventions for it, eg Arabic "Andrew, Ibn Mario Ibn Andrea" or Icelandic, "I'm Andrew Mariosson"
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My latest!
"Some film-makers have been wary of US cultural imperialism happening through the market dominance of Netflix and other US streamers. Others have rushed to the streamer to sign deals that will gain their films and TV shows a global audience."
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"Some film-makers have been wary of US cultural imperialism happening through the market dominance of Netflix and other US streamers. Others have rushed to the streamer to sign deals that will gain their films and TV shows a global audience."
theconversation.com/netflix-give...
Netflix gives African film a platform – but the cultural price is high
Netflix’s interest in Africa is more about business than telling nuanced stories about the continent.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My latest!
"Some film-makers have been wary of US cultural imperialism happening through the market dominance of Netflix and other US streamers. Others have rushed to the streamer to sign deals that will gain their films and TV shows a global audience."
theconversation.com/netflix-give...
"Some film-makers have been wary of US cultural imperialism happening through the market dominance of Netflix and other US streamers. Others have rushed to the streamer to sign deals that will gain their films and TV shows a global audience."
theconversation.com/netflix-give...
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
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May 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
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Introducing SHAMS — the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies!
Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media.
🗓 May 14, 2025
⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut
Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media.
🗓 May 14, 2025
⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut
April 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Introducing SHAMS — the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies!
Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media.
🗓 May 14, 2025
⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut
Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media.
🗓 May 14, 2025
⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut
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Join me this Sunday to watch a rly good doumentary on the class struggle and labour movement that led up to the 1975 outbreak of civil war in Lebanon.
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April 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Join me this Sunday to watch a rly good doumentary on the class struggle and labour movement that led up to the 1975 outbreak of civil war in Lebanon.
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📢 TIMEP joins 59 Lebanese and international partners in solidarity with independent media outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby intended to target them for their financial accountability reporting timep.org/2025/03/26/i...
In Solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone Amid A Coordinated Campaign
TIMEP joins 59 of partners in solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
📢 TIMEP joins 59 Lebanese and international partners in solidarity with independent media outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby intended to target them for their financial accountability reporting timep.org/2025/03/26/i...
Very happy to see my essay on Mohamed Zayani and Joe Khalil's The Digital Double Bind is now out: "A New Footing for the Study of Digital Media in the Arab World," t.co/VgzH5iN1Uk
the book is here:
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the book is here:
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March 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Very happy to see my essay on Mohamed Zayani and Joe Khalil's The Digital Double Bind is now out: "A New Footing for the Study of Digital Media in the Arab World," t.co/VgzH5iN1Uk
the book is here:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
the book is here:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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New from me in LitHub: The lack of solidarity from the American media has led directly to its current death spiral. Where is the moral courage at newspapers and journalism schools? Where is the outrage of the press corps? Silence = death, lithub.com/stenographer...
Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?
On February 25, the White House decreed it would decide which journalists have access to President Donald Trump in the press pool, a responsibility which for a century has been handled by the White…
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March 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New from me in LitHub: The lack of solidarity from the American media has led directly to its current death spiral. Where is the moral courage at newspapers and journalism schools? Where is the outrage of the press corps? Silence = death, lithub.com/stenographer...
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Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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March 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
On the allure of "technocratic government" and elite capture
Dig into investigative journalist Richard Salame’s deep-dive for a cautionary saga of ambition, patronage, & the experiment that economist Sami Zougheib called “one of the worst examples of donor interventions in Lebanon”: thepublicsource.org/consultants-...
February 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
On the allure of "technocratic government" and elite capture
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This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
February 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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The Platform Lab’s third public report, on Platform Regulation, is out!! Edited by Colin Crawford and featuring some brilliant insights & ppl writing short reflections on episodes and issues of platform regulation. Do read!
www.theplatformlab.com/platform-reg...
www.theplatformlab.com/platform-reg...
Platform Regulation — The Platform Lab
www.theplatformlab.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Platform Lab’s third public report, on Platform Regulation, is out!! Edited by Colin Crawford and featuring some brilliant insights & ppl writing short reflections on episodes and issues of platform regulation. Do read!
www.theplatformlab.com/platform-reg...
www.theplatformlab.com/platform-reg...
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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.
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“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
January 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
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On behalf of Sensory Studies legend & ringleader David Howes, re-sharing the Uncommon Senses V cfp, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia U in Montreal. Deadline is Jan 20. A wonderful conf & v welcoming community. Please circulate & happy to answer questions!
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Call for Papers: Uncommon Senses V - Concordia University
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January 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
On behalf of Sensory Studies legend & ringleader David Howes, re-sharing the Uncommon Senses V cfp, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia U in Montreal. Deadline is Jan 20. A wonderful conf & v welcoming community. Please circulate & happy to answer questions!
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...