Stacy Fahrenthold
@sfahrenthold.bsky.social
historian of Middle Eastern migration | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
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Stacy D. Fahrenthold, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (New Texts Out Now)
Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachuset...
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In this "new books out now" interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social I describe a little bit of how UNMENTIONABLES came to be a book, and why Arab labor histories are so crucial in our moment of rising repression of immigrants and the left.
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"Unlike European colonization elsewhere... Zionist colonization of Palestine was essentially incompatible with the continued existence of the 'native population' in the coveted country." --Fayez Sayegh (1965), read more via the Freedom Archives!
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January 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
"Unlike European colonization elsewhere... Zionist colonization of Palestine was essentially incompatible with the continued existence of the 'native population' in the coveted country." --Fayez Sayegh (1965), read more via the Freedom Archives!
www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Fi...
www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Fi...
Are you attending #AHA26? Do you have plans for the AHA Business Meeting yet? Want a buddy to come with? Write me and we'll head there together! Sat Jan 10 5:15pm.
H4P and HPAD calling for AHA members to challenge recent antidemocratic moves by the outgoing Council. See y'all there!
H4P and HPAD calling for AHA members to challenge recent antidemocratic moves by the outgoing Council. See y'all there!
January 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Are you attending #AHA26? Do you have plans for the AHA Business Meeting yet? Want a buddy to come with? Write me and we'll head there together! Sat Jan 10 5:15pm.
H4P and HPAD calling for AHA members to challenge recent antidemocratic moves by the outgoing Council. See y'all there!
H4P and HPAD calling for AHA members to challenge recent antidemocratic moves by the outgoing Council. See y'all there!
Happy 2026! If you will be in Chicago for #AHA26, our roundtable on Teaching Migration History Under Authoritarianism will be an opportunity at community for faculty of contested topics in a moment that makes boldness ever more necessary. Gratefully sponsored by HPAD and the Radical History Review!
January 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Happy 2026! If you will be in Chicago for #AHA26, our roundtable on Teaching Migration History Under Authoritarianism will be an opportunity at community for faculty of contested topics in a moment that makes boldness ever more necessary. Gratefully sponsored by HPAD and the Radical History Review!
Thank you so much to Yaşar Tolga Cora for your generous review of Unmentionables! I opened the new AHR and happened across it over the break.
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Stacy D. Fahrenthold. Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class
Who are the unmentionables of American history? Taking the “unmentionable” undergarment as a metaphor, Stacy Fahrenthold leads the reader on a journey thro
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January 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Thank you so much to Yaşar Tolga Cora for your generous review of Unmentionables! I opened the new AHR and happened across it over the break.
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Eileen Boris’s ( @eileenboris.bsky.social ) review of Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class ( @stanfordpress.bsky.social )by Stacy D. Fahrenthold ( @sfahrenthold.bsky.social )
December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Eileen Boris’s ( @eileenboris.bsky.social ) review of Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class ( @stanfordpress.bsky.social )by Stacy D. Fahrenthold ( @sfahrenthold.bsky.social )
On Dec 5, the University of Arkansas abruptly terminated Prof Shirin Saeidi from her director role at the Center for Middle East Studies. The decision followed a political pressure campaign by outside groups targeting Saeidi with a vicious public defamation campaign.
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Middle East Studies Association
Our letter expressing concern at the University of Arkansas’s decision to remove Professor Shirin Saeidi from her position as Director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
On Dec 5, the University of Arkansas abruptly terminated Prof Shirin Saeidi from her director role at the Center for Middle East Studies. The decision followed a political pressure campaign by outside groups targeting Saeidi with a vicious public defamation campaign.
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Mail call! Urgent new reading by UC Davis colleague Brian Soucek. THE OPINIONATED UNIVERSITY observes that universities do have values, that "neutrality" is a politics, silence is loud, and the best way to stand by our values is to be clear about what they are.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Mail call! Urgent new reading by UC Davis colleague Brian Soucek. THE OPINIONATED UNIVERSITY observes that universities do have values, that "neutrality" is a politics, silence is loud, and the best way to stand by our values is to be clear about what they are.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Pls sign/share! UNC is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation by publishing all syllabi online.
This puts a target on instructors' backs. It clears a path for abuse and endangers student safety.
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This puts a target on instructors' backs. It clears a path for abuse and endangers student safety.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Pls sign/share! UNC is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation by publishing all syllabi online.
This puts a target on instructors' backs. It clears a path for abuse and endangers student safety.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
This puts a target on instructors' backs. It clears a path for abuse and endangers student safety.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Required reading for all of us, out today! Sherene Seikaly's "Palestine is a Paradigm" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Required reading for all of us, out today! Sherene Seikaly's "Palestine is a Paradigm" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Please sign this letter of support for Dr. San Hea Kil, who was terminated from San Jose State University despite their exoneration by a faculty investigation, in blatant violation of shared governance and infringement of Dr. Kil's 1A rights.
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Immediate Reinstatement of Dr. Sang Hea Kil Sign On
Dear President Teniente-Matson and the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees,
We are scholars and educators who are submitting this letter regarding the wrongful termination of Professor...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Please sign this letter of support for Dr. San Hea Kil, who was terminated from San Jose State University despite their exoneration by a faculty investigation, in blatant violation of shared governance and infringement of Dr. Kil's 1A rights.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Congratulations again, @sfahrenthold.bsky.social! This is so well deserved.
***Nikki Keddie Book Award Winner***
Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!
Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Congratulations again, @sfahrenthold.bsky.social! This is so well deserved.
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***Nikki Keddie Book Award Winner***
Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!
Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
***Nikki Keddie Book Award Winner***
Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!
Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!
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Persistently annoyed by liberal refusal to see the longstanding system of immigration, the one that effectively places undocumented workers outside of the protections of labor law and subjects them to racial terror, as a strategy of labor discipline that affects all workers.
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Persistently annoyed by liberal refusal to see the longstanding system of immigration, the one that effectively places undocumented workers outside of the protections of labor law and subjects them to racial terror, as a strategy of labor discipline that affects all workers.
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In Oakland, this 20-year-old man was paying taxes and a mortgage while his asylum case proceeded. Then ICE whisked him to a detention center in another state.
He followed the law while waiting for asylum. ICE still tore him from his Oakland home
In Oakland, this 20-year-old man was paying taxes and a mortgage while his asylum case proceeded. Then ICE whisked him to a detention center in another state.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In Oakland, this 20-year-old man was paying taxes and a mortgage while his asylum case proceeded. Then ICE whisked him to a detention center in another state.
So at SJSU, one professor assaulted a student and faced a temporary suspension, and Dr. Sang Hea Kil attends campus protests and gets fired?
There is no justification for this. SJSU is a unionized public university. These are battles we really can't concede.
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There is no justification for this. SJSU is a unionized public university. These are battles we really can't concede.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
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December 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So at SJSU, one professor assaulted a student and faced a temporary suspension, and Dr. Sang Hea Kil attends campus protests and gets fired?
There is no justification for this. SJSU is a unionized public university. These are battles we really can't concede.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There is no justification for this. SJSU is a unionized public university. These are battles we really can't concede.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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As so many academics maintain silence and, worse, collaborate, this brave refusal of a prestigous prize from Prof Liron Mor inspires. Bravo, Prof. Mor, you are a true comrade.
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MLA and BDS 9: Letter by Liron Mor Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025 By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
As so many academics maintain silence and, worse, collaborate, this brave refusal of a prestigous prize from Prof Liron Mor inspires. Bravo, Prof. Mor, you are a true comrade.
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
Great piece on the rhetoric of "fiduciary responsibility" as now deployed by @historians.org.
Everything has a history, including this use of "fiduciary responsibility" by scholarly orgs to expressly sever us from the goods of our own commons. #AHA26
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Everything has a history, including this use of "fiduciary responsibility" by scholarly orgs to expressly sever us from the goods of our own commons. #AHA26
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What The MLA Is...
The organization has chosen an interpretation of fiduciary responsibility beyond the wildest hopes of Chicago School economists.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Great piece on the rhetoric of "fiduciary responsibility" as now deployed by @historians.org.
Everything has a history, including this use of "fiduciary responsibility" by scholarly orgs to expressly sever us from the goods of our own commons. #AHA26
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/what-the-m...
Everything has a history, including this use of "fiduciary responsibility" by scholarly orgs to expressly sever us from the goods of our own commons. #AHA26
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/what-the-m...
Over Thanksgiving the @historians.org violated its own bylaws to halt discussion of a member-supported revote on the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza at #AHA2026
Hear from Palestinian historians & AHA members about what this anti-democratic move means.
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Hear from Palestinian historians & AHA members about what this anti-democratic move means.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4704...
Palestinian Historians Group Responds to AHA Council Blocking Two Anti-Genocide Resolutions
We, the Palestinian Historians Group, reject the American Historical Association (AHA) Council’s antidemocratic decision on November 26, 2025 to unilaterally deny AHA members the right to vote on the ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Over Thanksgiving the @historians.org violated its own bylaws to halt discussion of a member-supported revote on the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza at #AHA2026
Hear from Palestinian historians & AHA members about what this anti-democratic move means.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4704...
Hear from Palestinian historians & AHA members about what this anti-democratic move means.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4704...
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“Parents are sending their kids to schools with the assumption that the school won’t make intentional choices to harm them […] When you call in the police, you’re ensuring violence against young people.”
Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“Parents are sending their kids to schools with the assumption that the school won’t make intentional choices to harm them […] When you call in the police, you’re ensuring violence against young people.”
You might not be in Middle East Studies. But whether you picked this fight or not, if you work at a university, this fight is picking you.
You are responsible for standing with colleagues. You are responsible for failing to stand up too. We're all in it now.
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You are responsible for standing with colleagues. You are responsible for failing to stand up too. We're all in it now.
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From Israel to ICE, MESA’s academic freedom is under attack
The issue of academic freedom, particularly related to Israel and Palestine studies, has become a daily concern for students and professors.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
You might not be in Middle East Studies. But whether you picked this fight or not, if you work at a university, this fight is picking you.
You are responsible for standing with colleagues. You are responsible for failing to stand up too. We're all in it now.
www.newarab.com/news/israel-...
You are responsible for standing with colleagues. You are responsible for failing to stand up too. We're all in it now.
www.newarab.com/news/israel-...
Sharing this again, please give what you can to Dr. Badar Khan Suri's defense fund. He needs every bit of support to contest Trump's efforts to deport him on ideological grounds.
I'm giving $25 today. Can you quote-post and match me? Invite your ppl to do the same!
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I'm giving $25 today. Can you quote-post and match me? Invite your ppl to do the same!
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Donate to Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation, organized by MAPHEZE SALEH
Dear friends, colleagues, and all who stand for justice,
T… MAPHEZE SALEH needs your support for Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation
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December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Sharing this again, please give what you can to Dr. Badar Khan Suri's defense fund. He needs every bit of support to contest Trump's efforts to deport him on ideological grounds.
I'm giving $25 today. Can you quote-post and match me? Invite your ppl to do the same!
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
I'm giving $25 today. Can you quote-post and match me? Invite your ppl to do the same!
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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I'm shocked the govt is still trying to deport Georgetown scholar Dr. Suri. ICE abducted him and spirited him to multiple facilities, always in chains. He wasn't allowed to speak with a lawyer for one week! A judge finally ordered him let go after two months. Dr. Suri studies PEACE.
Please help.
Please help.
URGENT FUNDRAISER: please give to Dr. Badar Khan Suri's defense fund today, and share everywhere that folks might give.
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Donate to Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation, organized by MAPHEZE SALEH
Dear friends, colleagues, and all who stand for justice,
T… MAPHEZE SALEH needs your support for Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation
gofund.me
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I'm shocked the govt is still trying to deport Georgetown scholar Dr. Suri. ICE abducted him and spirited him to multiple facilities, always in chains. He wasn't allowed to speak with a lawyer for one week! A judge finally ordered him let go after two months. Dr. Suri studies PEACE.
Please help.
Please help.
URGENT FUNDRAISER: please give to Dr. Badar Khan Suri's defense fund today, and share everywhere that folks might give.
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
Donate to Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation, organized by MAPHEZE SALEH
Dear friends, colleagues, and all who stand for justice,
T… MAPHEZE SALEH needs your support for Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation
gofund.me
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
URGENT FUNDRAISER: please give to Dr. Badar Khan Suri's defense fund today, and share everywhere that folks might give.
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
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As classrooms confront challenging questions about global events, @history-ucdavis.bsky.social scholars are providing resources that foster critical thinking, nuance, and meaningful discussion.
Read more at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Letters and Science Magazine:
Read more at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Letters and Science Magazine:
Teaching Middle Eastern and Arab American History in a Time of Active Conflict
The violence that erupted in Gaza in 2023 changed the political climate of teaching the Middle East in schools across the U.S. The UC Davis California History-Social Science Project has released new materials that teachers everywhere can use to confiden...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As classrooms confront challenging questions about global events, @history-ucdavis.bsky.social scholars are providing resources that foster critical thinking, nuance, and meaningful discussion.
Read more at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Letters and Science Magazine:
Read more at the @ucdavis.bsky.social Letters and Science Magazine: