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Bilal A. Kotil
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Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire (interviews with David Barsamian)
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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journalspectre.bsky.social
Now available for preorder from our editor-in-chief @redprof.bsky.social ! Out 9/9/25 from @ucpress.bsky.social.

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August 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
bilalkotil.bsky.social
Remembering late Ali Mazrui. The towering pan-Africanist. He was what we call in Turkish allâmeicihan (world-scholar). Here, he recalls one of many controversies surrounding his work: in 1991, he was ostracized because he called the Atlantic slave-trade a holocaust. His voice is deeply missed.
August 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Among our exciting new titles out this May is "On the Semicivilized" by Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social . #MiddleEastStudies #Anthropology
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Cover of On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo by Julia Elyachar. The cover features a dark, geometric background pattern from a brass decoration on an ancient door in Cairo. The title is displayed in elegant serif fonts, with "On the Semicivilized" in gold and the subtitle in white and italicized text. The author's name appears in pink in the bottom right corner.
May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Demirtaş: Birbirimize söz verdik, 'Önce barış, ölümse Allah'ın emri'

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Demirtaş: Birbirimize söz verdik, 'Önce barış, ölümse Allah'ın emri' - Diken
16/04/2025 - Tutuklu eski HDP eş genel başkanı Selahattin Demirtaş, Sırrı Süreyya Önder için yazdı: "Orda birbirimize söz verdik, 'Önce barış, ölümse Allah'ın emri'... Seni seviyoruz can abim."
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April 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
38. Once they finally took me to the medical center, the nurse took my temperature. She said "you need to take that thing off your head" and took off my hejab without asking my permission. I told her you can't take off my hejab and she said this is for your health. After a few minutes I put my hejab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen. 39. I had a third asthma attack at the Louisiana facility. Again, this happened in the cell and other woman knocked on the window to get the attention of the officers. I was told that the nurse would come to the cell to see me. She took me outside for a short bit and told me that it was all in my mind. She finally took me to the medical center but I was not treated for my difficulty breathing. The nurse left the room and didn't answer my questions 40.I had a fourth asthma attack on Wednesday March gth around noon. I used my inhaler and waited for it to pass. I was in pain and very scared but I didn't ask to go to the medical center because I don't feel that they address my medical needs. 41. I don't feel safe at the medical center because of my prior experiences there. They complain when I go there and speak to me in an insulting and condescending manner. They also write information in my medical records that is not accurate. The doctor and nurses there are rude and uncaring.
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
bilalkotil.bsky.social
Nuray Mert'in hatırlattığı bir âyet-i kerimenin düşündürdükleri. Marx, antropoloji ve insan üzerine: Zalim’in cahilliği, Cahil’in zalimliği medium.com/@BKotil/zali...
Zalim’in cahilliği, Cahil’in zalimliği
Nuray Mert Medyascope’daki veda yazısında Azhab Suresinin 72. ayetini hatırlatıyor: “Biz emaneti, göklere, yere ve dağlara teklif ettik de…
https://medium.com/@BKotil/zalimin-cahilliği-cahil-in-zalimliği-b4f9e14ec09c
April 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Silivri’de başucumda, hat sanatçısı Muhammet Mağ’ın zarif ellerinden çıkan bir eser var:

“Bu da geçer Mahir”…

Zor zamanlarda anlam dolu cümleler teselli oluyor. Hele ki bir dostun elinden çıktıysa…

Kıymetli sanatına ve gönlüne sağlık Muhammet Mağ. Teşekkür ederim.
April 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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#CriticalTheory
April 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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newyorker.com
@chaykak.bsky.social speaks with Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, about how her company is attempting to build nontoxic social media by giving power back to users—and providing a foil to billionaire-owned platforms like X and Facebook.
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.
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April 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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In The Revolution to Come, Dan Edelstein traces how evolving conceptions of history ushered in a faith in the power of revolution to create more just and reasonable societies.

Out April 15. Learn more about this panoramic work of intellectual history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problems
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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In NYC. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM