Arbella Bet-Shlimon
abshlimon.bsky.social
Arbella Bet-Shlimon
@abshlimon.bsky.social
Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold (sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/city-black-gold) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The word “ceasefire”—the cry of protests two years ago, including ones I was part of—was vacated of all meaning once people who supported the genocide started to claim that they wanted one. And now this
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Gabriel Winant just under a year ago, in November 2024: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
October 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
♥️
September 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
well
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
September 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
So how many fake names are there in this clown car?

(Dartafiwijhak from Kharatuz is definitely fake, the one right above it looks fake too though I don’t get the joke)
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There are even visual exhibits to give a sense of the difference between administrative warrants (which do not give immigration officers the ability to access private spaces) and judicial warrants
September 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.
August 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
from one of the co-authors 😬
July 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Israeli scholars publish a paper featuring at least one apparently AI-generated fake citation of a nonexistent article by a Palestinian scholar
July 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Imagine sitting down for the incomprehensible task of writing your child’s obituary and…getting ChatGPT to do it. After ChatGPT induced your child’s suicidal psychosis. Imagine. I can’t.
June 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A must-read by the great Alex Boodrookas on run-ins with campus police, courts, surveillance, censorship, and the public denunciation of scholars of the “Middle East” who tell the truth about Palestine www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
June 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
teach-in
April 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We know who some of them are now. Don’t look away. archive.ph/dUUo3
April 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg on the people killed in the #Yemen airstrike he learned about via signal groupchat (from NPR):
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Arsema’s family has been neglected by SPD and the school district and they are still trying to understand what happened. WMS students are scared and confused. As an alum I’m heartbroken.

Seattle Times: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
March 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🤔
February 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Note that “we don’t know what happened; let the historians debate it!” is a common form of genocide denial that people will deploy indefinitely long after historical consensus is settled. It is a common rebuttal to histories of the Armenian genocide, for example, more than a century later
January 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Faced with an overwhelming vote by its members to condemn scholasticide in Palestine, the American Historical Association council has vetoed the resolution. Entirely in character for an organization that’s long been useless, but still galling
January 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
There are—and were—historians in Gaza, too
January 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I appreciate the Americans who keep accidentally revealing that they think all history is history of the US/Europe and everything else is distant “world affairs” that a real (non-DEI) “graying,” “quiet” historian would never think about (here’s NYT’s Pamela Paul pearl-clutching over the AHA vote)
January 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
An underreported Syria story: Iraqi Yazidis kidnapped by ISIS in 2014 and living in HTS-controlled Idlib have been found since December 8th and have started returning home. There are undoubtedly many more still in Syria
January 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In northern Syria, Turkey just carried out a precision drone strike on two Kurdish journalists. In southern Syria, Israeli forces just shot a Syrian protestor.
December 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
This, by the Palestinian-Syrian cartoonist Hani Abbas (from 2017), remains relevant #Syria #Palestine (translation in alt text)
December 19, 2024 at 11:30 PM