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

www.ucpress.edu/books/slaver...
August 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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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Among our exciting new titles out this May is "On the Semicivilized" by Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social . #MiddleEastStudies #Anthropology
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May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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...
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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
April 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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@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...
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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In NYC. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM