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The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
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Let’s take a trip back to last week when we held our first ever annual meeting on the topic ‘Beyond Methodological Nationalism’. Thanks to all those who joined us, and those who were not able to will be able to catch up on the recordings soon! 🎥
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There is a new article out further revealing the use of tattoos in ancient and medieval Nubian culture from a young age: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... after reading, look back at my article from Jan. @hyperallergic.com, written w/aid from archaeologist Solange Ashby. hyperallergic.com/uncovered-me...
Uncovered Medieval Tattoos Flesh Out a Misunderstood Practice
Archaeologists discovered the second known example of Medieval Nubian tattoos in Sudan, bringing us closer to unraveling the art form’s longer history.
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December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
There is a new article out further revealing the use of tattoos in ancient and medieval Nubian culture from a young age: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... after reading, look back at my article from Jan. @hyperallergic.com, written w/aid from archaeologist Solange Ashby. hyperallergic.com/uncovered-me...
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Are you surprised by how little you know about Palestine? Would you like to do something about that? I have a recommendation.
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
This Is Not a Border — The Palestine Festival of Literature
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December 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Are you surprised by how little you know about Palestine? Would you like to do something about that? I have a recommendation.
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
Pick up this book. This is Not a Border: Reflection & Reportage from the Palestine Festival of Literature.
www.palfest.org/this-is-not-...
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Absolutely wonderful long poem, left me stunned this morning, one I will reread a few times. I’ve been reading Cavafy and other Greek poets this year, and Lewis captures perfectly the cadence of their verse and the tropes of their affective and historical explorations.
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Absolutely wonderful long poem, left me stunned this morning, one I will reread a few times. I’ve been reading Cavafy and other Greek poets this year, and Lewis captures perfectly the cadence of their verse and the tropes of their affective and historical explorations.
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#1: Myth: “The Palestinians are not Indigenous to the Land so they Have no Claim to It” by Matthew Ong and Nicolina Gallo everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/m...
Myth: “The Palestinians are not Indigenous to the Land so they have no claim to it” – #EOPalestine 03
by Matthew Ong and Nicolina Gallo cover art: 2023 painting by artist and educator Heba Zagout, who the IOF killed in her Gaza home on Oct. 13, 2023. Picture from her Instagram account. The refutati…
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December 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#1: Myth: “The Palestinians are not Indigenous to the Land so they Have no Claim to It” by Matthew Ong and Nicolina Gallo everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/m...
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#6: #EOPalestine: A Primer on Ancient & Medieval Palestine by
@moudhy.bsky.social @gmandreou.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @stephenniem.bsky.social @nabalkattu.bsky.social @luxmea.bsky.social @zetax.bsky.social @archaeologuest.bsky.social et al.
tinyurl.com/3h52peyh
@moudhy.bsky.social @gmandreou.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @stephenniem.bsky.social @nabalkattu.bsky.social @luxmea.bsky.social @zetax.bsky.social @archaeologuest.bsky.social et al.
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#EOPalestine
A Primer on Ancient and Medieval Palestine Cover image: Gazan archaeologist Fadel AlUtol working on one of the mosaics at the Mukheitim before its destruction Scroll down for full lineup Starting f…
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December 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#6: #EOPalestine: A Primer on Ancient & Medieval Palestine by
@moudhy.bsky.social @gmandreou.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @stephenniem.bsky.social @nabalkattu.bsky.social @luxmea.bsky.social @zetax.bsky.social @archaeologuest.bsky.social et al.
tinyurl.com/3h52peyh
@moudhy.bsky.social @gmandreou.bsky.social @chancebonar.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @stephenniem.bsky.social @nabalkattu.bsky.social @luxmea.bsky.social @zetax.bsky.social @archaeologuest.bsky.social et al.
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Grateful to be on the list (multiple times!) of EO’s most read contributions this year
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I hope it’ll encourage other scholars who have PhDs that focus on ancient West Asia to use their expertise to help nuance the public conversation and dispel misconceptions
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I hope it’ll encourage other scholars who have PhDs that focus on ancient West Asia to use their expertise to help nuance the public conversation and dispel misconceptions
As 2025 comes to an end, we are sharing our 15 most-viewed publications of the year. Huge thanks to all the guest contributors for their trust and voices, as well as to all who read, watched, taught and engaged with us!
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Everyday Orientalism’s Top 15 of 2025
As 2025 comes to an end, we are sharing our 15 most-viewed publications of the year. Huge thanks to all the guest contributors for their trust and voices, as well as to all who read, watched, taugh…
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December 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Grateful to be on the list (multiple times!) of EO’s most read contributions this year
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I hope it’ll encourage other scholars who have PhDs that focus on ancient West Asia to use their expertise to help nuance the public conversation and dispel misconceptions
+
I hope it’ll encourage other scholars who have PhDs that focus on ancient West Asia to use their expertise to help nuance the public conversation and dispel misconceptions
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Let’s make the needed amount. Please share and give as you are able.
On Fridays, we highlight Remas & Toleen, two kids YOU helped secure housing before the storms hit Gaza last week. Well, these disastrous conditions persist, so can we keep them housed and get help them get other essentials?
Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...
December 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Let’s make the needed amount. Please share and give as you are able.
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Something I talked about in this episode was the decision to permanently and irrevocably ‘out’ myself in my scholarship. It’s a decision I struggled with then and since but which I’ve never regretted.
My neurotype facilitates my research and when I embraced that my research got better.
My neurotype facilitates my research and when I embraced that my research got better.
On this episode of Talking Disability (which I host on behalf of The Classical Pod) I spoke to brilliant guests @elliemackinroberts.net and Annis Wiltshire about autism and neurodiversity in the study of the ancient world. 🏺 Find it wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Something I talked about in this episode was the decision to permanently and irrevocably ‘out’ myself in my scholarship. It’s a decision I struggled with then and since but which I’ve never regretted.
My neurotype facilitates my research and when I embraced that my research got better.
My neurotype facilitates my research and when I embraced that my research got better.
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“Why is it my lord is silent while I wag my tail and run about like a dog?”
I’ve been left on read too many times.
A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.
I’ve been left on read too many times.
A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Why is it my lord is silent while I wag my tail and run about like a dog?”
I’ve been left on read too many times.
A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.
I’ve been left on read too many times.
A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.
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What can ASOR’s recent annual meeting tell us regarding its Zionist, and anti-Palestinian, agenda? To answer this question, I did one of the things I love doing: I dissected the program and crunched data. Here are some key findings.
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Archaeology-washing apartheid: Why you should boycott the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
cover image: ASOR President Andrew Vaughn with co-director of the Israel Antiquities Authority “City of David” (Silwan, East Jerusalem) excavation Yiftah Shalev at ASOR’s 2025 ann…
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December 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What can ASOR’s recent annual meeting tell us regarding its Zionist, and anti-Palestinian, agenda? To answer this question, I did one of the things I love doing: I dissected the program and crunched data. Here are some key findings.
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everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/a...
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@rsaorg.bsky.social's inaugural Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship "supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700."
Apply by March 1. 🗃
#arthistory #LatinAmerica
www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...
Apply by March 1. 🗃
#arthistory #LatinAmerica
www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
@rsaorg.bsky.social's inaugural Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship "supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700."
Apply by March 1. 🗃
#arthistory #LatinAmerica
www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...
Apply by March 1. 🗃
#arthistory #LatinAmerica
www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...
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Delighted to be interviewed for this @artsprofessional.co.uk piece about the progress and enduring challenges for disabled people in the UK's arts and cultural sectors.
Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Nothing Without Us: Disability in the arts and cultural sector - Arts Professional
Dr Mai Musié, senior manager at the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE), speaks to three leaders working at the intersection of research and the cultural sector about disability...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Delighted to be interviewed for this @artsprofessional.co.uk piece about the progress and enduring challenges for disabled people in the UK's arts and cultural sectors.
Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Thanks to @drmaimusie.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute!
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
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🚨Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social
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Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it
cover picture: IOF reservist and Ariel U graduate Yair Almakyes posing with riffle-and-booze-clad Zionists in front of ancient remains of a vandalized wall in Sebastia, West Bank (close up from a p…
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December 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨Israel wants to steal the archaeological site of Sebastia: Here’s what you can do about it by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social
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READS is back at the SCS in San Francisco! Join us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rita Dove’s Mother Love. www.eosafricana.org/reads/mother...
2026: Rita Dove, Mother Love — Eos
READS returns to Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2026 but with a special twist! This year’s workshop will cap off the 30th anniversary of the publication of Rita Dove’s Mother...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
READS is back at the SCS in San Francisco! Join us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rita Dove’s Mother Love. www.eosafricana.org/reads/mother...
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Find the event details here: www.eosafricana.org/events/bhion...
Bhion Achimba READS: Rita Dove's Mother Love — Eos
Capping off the 30th anniversary of Mother Love , a poetry collection by former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Bhion Achimba and Sasha-Mae Eccleston will be facilitating a session of READS at the 2026...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Find the event details here: www.eosafricana.org/events/bhion...
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***REPOST FROM SAMEER PROJECT***
🚨🚨WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨🚨 The rain and flooding from Storm Byron has wreaked havoc on Gaza. Families are without shelter, without warmth. The death count is now up to 14 people in the past 24 hours. Preventable deaths!! chuffed.org/project/1491...
🚨🚨WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨🚨 The rain and flooding from Storm Byron has wreaked havoc on Gaza. Families are without shelter, without warmth. The death count is now up to 14 people in the past 24 hours. Preventable deaths!! chuffed.org/project/1491...
December 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
***REPOST FROM SAMEER PROJECT***
🚨🚨WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨🚨 The rain and flooding from Storm Byron has wreaked havoc on Gaza. Families are without shelter, without warmth. The death count is now up to 14 people in the past 24 hours. Preventable deaths!! chuffed.org/project/1491...
🚨🚨WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨🚨 The rain and flooding from Storm Byron has wreaked havoc on Gaza. Families are without shelter, without warmth. The death count is now up to 14 people in the past 24 hours. Preventable deaths!! chuffed.org/project/1491...
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A reminder that @palestinespace.bsky.social's growing database of 80+ companies complicit in the genocide is public now. Each entry lists, with numerous citations, products supplied + documented use of those products, as well as shipments...
www.palestinespace.org/database
www.palestinespace.org/database
Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A reminder that @palestinespace.bsky.social's growing database of 80+ companies complicit in the genocide is public now. Each entry lists, with numerous citations, products supplied + documented use of those products, as well as shipments...
www.palestinespace.org/database
www.palestinespace.org/database
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When there’s no such thing as “ancient Israel” so the Zios have to steal / invent one:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
Seizing the Archaeological Site of Sebastia: Expropriation Order of 2025
فلسطين الميدان
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December 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
When there’s no such thing as “ancient Israel” so the Zios have to steal / invent one:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
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I am thrilled to announce the digital launch of our new book, Redefining Monuments! 📘 🎉 The @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social will host the event online on 11 December. José and I will be in conversation with Britt Baillie, @profdanhicks.bsky.social and Gal Kirn to discuss how we can redefine monuments!
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I am thrilled to announce the digital launch of our new book, Redefining Monuments! 📘 🎉 The @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social will host the event online on 11 December. José and I will be in conversation with Britt Baillie, @profdanhicks.bsky.social and Gal Kirn to discuss how we can redefine monuments!
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Refaat’a family is facing eviction. Please donate if you’ve been impacted by his life: chuffed.org/project/1093...
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Refaat’a family is facing eviction. Please donate if you’ve been impacted by his life: chuffed.org/project/1093...
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The narrow answer to "why can't computer vision see the past?" is bc CV is linear algebra & I reject the premise that math is sight. But the big answer is that the data extraction industry is leveraging computer vision to engineer an anti-human future.
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How to See the Past Seeing the Past — Sonja Drimmer
When I ask the question, "why can't computer vision see the past?" the narrow answer is because computer vision is linear algebra, and as an art historian I reject the premise that math is sight. ...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The narrow answer to "why can't computer vision see the past?" is bc CV is linear algebra & I reject the premise that math is sight. But the big answer is that the data extraction industry is leveraging computer vision to engineer an anti-human future.
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
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The next book in our recommended reads is Colonizing Palestine by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury which shows how, in the decades before the Nakba of 1948, Zionists settlements, including "left-wing kibbutzim," were integral to the slow displacement of Palestinians.
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The next book in our recommended reads is Colonizing Palestine by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury which shows how, in the decades before the Nakba of 1948, Zionists settlements, including "left-wing kibbutzim," were integral to the slow displacement of Palestinians.
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Archaeology from its inception had been a tool of regimes to steal and rewrite history. Its up to us in the discipline to constantly push back and push for changes and fight genocide and not give in to the money and prestige these same regimes offer us to shill their tyranny.
🚨IOF STEALING HERITAGE
The IOF stormed the town of Al-Maza'a Al-Sharqiyah in the West Bank and stole an ancient column from it!
Does the leadership of @asor-research.bsky.social - who had no problem hosting and partying with many 🇮🇱 archaeologists at their congress 2 weeks ago - have anything to say?
The IOF stormed the town of Al-Maza'a Al-Sharqiyah in the West Bank and stole an ancient column from it!
Does the leadership of @asor-research.bsky.social - who had no problem hosting and partying with many 🇮🇱 archaeologists at their congress 2 weeks ago - have anything to say?
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Archaeology from its inception had been a tool of regimes to steal and rewrite history. Its up to us in the discipline to constantly push back and push for changes and fight genocide and not give in to the money and prestige these same regimes offer us to shill their tyranny.