Amir Moosavi
@amir-moosavi.bsky.social
Reluctant reverse commuter teaching about Persian and Arabic lits and some other things. I just finished writing a book and it comes out in June: https://www.sup.org/books/dust-never-settles
A few words about my recent book: That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the #Iran - #Iraq War (New Texts Out Now) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4681...
jadaliyya.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A few words about my recent book: That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the #Iran - #Iraq War (New Texts Out Now) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4681...
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Only 73 aid trucks entered Gaza today—far below the 600 minimum needed—while three airdrops, overseen by Israeli forces, landed in dangerous combat zones, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8hrip9
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8hrip9
Strikes on Gaza resume as Israel’s ‘tactical pause’ comes to an end
Six more Palestinians have starved to death today as Israel makes small increases in aid delivery.
aje.io
July 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Only 73 aid trucks entered Gaza today—far below the 600 minimum needed—while three airdrops, overseen by Israeli forces, landed in dangerous combat zones, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8hrip9
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8hrip9
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Over decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has personally and insistently lobbied for U.S. intervention against Iran. A military campaign reliant on airpower alone is unlikely to spark a revolution. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
How Trump and Tehran Can Find an Eleventh-hour Exit from an Escalating War | International Crisis Group
As Israel’s Operation Rising Lion pummels Iran, the U.S. is weighing direct involvement to attack nuclear sites in the country, which could lead to a disastrous escalation. Washington should instead l...
www.crisisgroup.org
June 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Over decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has personally and insistently lobbied for U.S. intervention against Iran. A military campaign reliant on airpower alone is unlikely to spark a revolution. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
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NY Times takes a look at the civilian death toll by Israeli strikes in Iran: "Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
June 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
NY Times takes a look at the civilian death toll by Israeli strikes in Iran: "Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
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Dust That Never Settles by @amir-moosavi.bsky.social considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present.
#ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/middle...
#ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/middle...
June 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Dust That Never Settles by @amir-moosavi.bsky.social considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present.
#ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/middle...
#ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/middle...
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Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive
May 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive
My book, Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War is now available for purchase. Please encourage your university or local library to get a copy. You can get a 20% discount from the publisher, Stanford University Press: shorturl.at/ZRGyw. The code is on the attached flyer.
May 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My book, Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War is now available for purchase. Please encourage your university or local library to get a copy. You can get a 20% discount from the publisher, Stanford University Press: shorturl.at/ZRGyw. The code is on the attached flyer.
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The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.
May 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.
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ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
newlinesmag.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Ready made ad here for anyone who wants to primary schumer
Trump praises Schumer for promising to vote with Republicans on the CR
March 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ready made ad here for anyone who wants to primary schumer
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Columbia and the next front on the war on academia - it’s not just punishing students. Trump’s demands that a private university adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and put MESAAC into receivership would do damage far beyond one campus. My new piece.
abuaardvark.substack.com/p/columbia-a...
abuaardvark.substack.com/p/columbia-a...
Columbia and the next front in the war on higher education
It's not just punishing protestors - two of the government's demands are far worse.
abuaardvark.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Columbia and the next front on the war on academia - it’s not just punishing students. Trump’s demands that a private university adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and put MESAAC into receivership would do damage far beyond one campus. My new piece.
abuaardvark.substack.com/p/columbia-a...
abuaardvark.substack.com/p/columbia-a...
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A great multi-year postdoc in Middle East studies at NYU's Kevorkian Center. Apply by March 24. apply.interfolio.com/163617
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February 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A great multi-year postdoc in Middle East studies at NYU's Kevorkian Center. Apply by March 24. apply.interfolio.com/163617
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Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration.
https://buff.ly/4k4uwpS
#Palestine #Israel
https://buff.ly/4k4uwpS
#Palestine #Israel
The liberal establishment is finally criticizing ethnic cleansing in Gaza now that they can blame Trump
Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians...
buff.ly
February 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration.
https://buff.ly/4k4uwpS
#Palestine #Israel
https://buff.ly/4k4uwpS
#Palestine #Israel
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Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room
February 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room
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Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.
February 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.
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🚨 READ: Israel’s relentless attacks on the West Bank have forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/isra...
Israel has displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, UNRWA says
Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the West Bank has forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA.
mondoweiss.net
February 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🚨 READ: Israel’s relentless attacks on the West Bank have forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/isra...
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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
grants.nih.gov
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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Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing.
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor
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www.haaretz.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing.
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Here’s a gift link.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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This man is a hero like very few. Ragheed Al-Tatari was an airforce pilot who refused an order to bomb Hama during Hafez Assad’s 1982 massacres. He spent 42 years in prison.
www.instagram.com/reel/DDmmFo1...
www.instagram.com/reel/DDmmFo1...
December 15, 2024 at 7:47 PM
This man is a hero like very few. Ragheed Al-Tatari was an airforce pilot who refused an order to bomb Hama during Hafez Assad’s 1982 massacres. He spent 42 years in prison.
www.instagram.com/reel/DDmmFo1...
www.instagram.com/reel/DDmmFo1...
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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
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I’m not really worthy to write anything about beautiful Syria today but they asked me to and so I tried through tears to write some words that are inadequate but here they are anyway: Dawn in Damascus
@newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/da...
@newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Dawn in Damascus
In the end, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to say to the country he bludgeoned and bled, but what matters now is that his ‘forever’ rule is over
newlinesmag.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
I’m not really worthy to write anything about beautiful Syria today but they asked me to and so I tried through tears to write some words that are inadequate but here they are anyway: Dawn in Damascus
@newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/da...
@newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/da...
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Basic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235).
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
The absolute horrors of the Assad regime exemplified by Saydnaya prison. Many prisoners are not freed yet bcs the rebels cannot get to them as they are 3 floors underground. #Syria
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Basic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235).
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6