Wendy Pearlman

@wendy-pearlman.bsky.social

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Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/ .. more

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Wendy R. Pearlman is an American historian and political scientist of the Middle East. She is the Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she has taught since 2008. .. more

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Jan 29

25 years ago, I interviewed Issam in Gaza for my book, "Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada." This week - after months of forced displacement, starvation, and living under bombardment - he returned to his destroyed home. He sent this photo.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 16d

More than 16,000 Palestinians still require urgent care outside Gaza, UN says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-16000-palestinians-still-require-urgent-care-outside-gaza-united

More than 16,000 Palestinians still require urgent care outside Gaza, UN says

<article data-history-node-id="431412" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-16000-palestinians-still-require-urgent-care-outside-gaza-united" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-16000-palestinians-still-require-urgent-care-outside-gaza-united" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">More than 16,000 Palestinians still require urgent care outside Gaza, UN says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said on Wednesday that one month into the ceasefire, more than 16,500 people still require urgent specialised medical care outside Gaza.</p> <p>Since 10 October, 165 patients were medically evacuated from Gaza, the report said. </p> <p>So far, only four hospitals and smaller health facilities have resumed operations since the ceasefire, but more than 60 percent of all facilities remain non-functional, Ocha said. </p> <p>"Unexploded ordnance continues to pose a serious threat across the Gaza Strip, with injuries reported among people returning to devastated areas or searching for basic necessities," the report noted.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 22d

Responding to the freeze in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), these #Chicago restaurants are stepping in to help feed SNAP recipients in need. Support these restaurants that are supporting our neighbors, Chicago!

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These 24 Chicago-area restaurants are offering free and discounted meals to SNAP recipients

Funding for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is frozen. Reduced benefits are expected to restart later this month. In the meantime, area restaurants are stepping up to help. This ...

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 23d

"A longstanding 'Palestine exception' to the First Amendment now threatens to give way to a new reality: Palestine is less an exception to academic freedom than it is a pretext for erasing the norm altogether"
Report by @mesa1966.bsky.social & @aaup.org available below
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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 25d

I got my copy of "Civilizing Contention"! This beautiful book tells the story of how nonviolent action persisted throughout the Syrian war, shaped by both the agency of Syrian activists & the influence of international aid. Congratulations @rbkhoury.bsky.social on this important contribution!

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27d

The Khartoum Aid Kitchen will be preparing a team from #Khartoum to travel to #AlDebbah, to begin providing support for these displaced families. They need your support to make this work possible
#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Donate to Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal, organized by Mustafa Ibrahim

The War in Sudan has created the World’s largest Humanitarian cris… Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Oct 24

Absolutely devastating look into some of the lives destroyed by Trump's deportation policies.

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Nory Doesn’t Go to School Here Anymore

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Oct 23

This article conveys what human rights investigators & civilians from Sweida have been saying for three months. The Syrian government must protect the rights and security of all Syrians, end the siege on Sweida & hold accountable all who have committed atrocities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...

Firing Squads and Forced Death Leaps: A Tipping Point in Syria

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · Oct 22

Gaza.

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · Oct 21

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Oct 16

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A Country of Words: Mapping Memory, Resistance, and Exile in Palestinian Literary History - Untold

In this interview, Refqa Abu-Remaileh maps a fragmented literary history shaped by exile, censorship, and resilience—offering an interactive archive that reimagines Palestinian literature beyond borde...

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Oct 14

This terrific article offers a taste of some of the essential research to be featured in Perspectives on Politics' upcoming special issue on "Political Science and the University."

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Populist Attacks on Academic Freedom: How Populist Leadership Erodes Academic Freedom in Liberal and Electoral Democracies | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Populist Attacks on Academic Freedom: How Populist Leadership Erodes Academic Freedom in Liberal and Electoral Democracies

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Oct 14

this is a further sign of weakness, not strength, imo. It's not the red state publics that they needed to set off a general stampede. It's places like MIT. Turning this into a red state thing makes it _less_ likely to spread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · Oct 13

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
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Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Oct 13

“The killings have mercifully stopped for now in Gaza, but there must now be a refusal to normalise what will follow – a return to a status quo in which we all keep on pretending that Palestinian life is viable under the authority of Israel.”

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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · Oct 13

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Oct 13

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Oct 10

"Even if it does bring about a welcome respite from the suffering in Gaza in the short term, I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · Oct 9

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

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