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Conor Dube
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Ph.D. candidate at Harvard NELC working on the history of Qurʾānic interpretation in the Islamic West. Rock climber in my spare time.
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Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Just spent 10 minutes trying to find this thread of recommended books, so now that I have, here's a boost:
Was asked by an A-level student to recommend a recent book on medieval history they might enjoy, and I was a bit stumped. Any suggestions? (no self-promos please!)
July 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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One for the ages. The only anthology of High Tang poetry that was actually compiled during the High Tang, now translated into English by Paul Kroll.
July 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Hard copies of my book arrived a few days ago, and I've finally found the time to write a bit about it and why you should read it (or get your library to buy it).
indomedieval.medium.com/bujangga-man...
Bujangga Manik: Or, Java in the Fifteenth Century
My book on Bujangga Manik has been published by Brill under the title Bujangga Manik: Or, Java in the Fifteenth Century.
indomedieval.medium.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Historians as a profession are facing the same crunch as journalists and other professions in the digital age where there is plenty of demand but an economic model that remunerates the people who do the final repackaging for the public while funding for the production of original work dries up.
Thing is ... that kind of 'stout defence' of what History degrees do for employment is being done CONSTANTLY within and outside the sector by historians.

The problem isn't the case being made or not. It's the widespread lack of transparency or acknowledgement of our massive cultural contribution.
Marketing only marketing what is already popular, and reducing programme choices to simple immediate access to specific well-paid careers not helpful here at all.

Great piece asking why history is declining at university while it is thriving everywhere else — often invisibly reliant on said unis…
July 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Starting the week by facilitating engagements with the very latest scholarship in Middle East Studies. If you're the #author of a new book on the Middle East, or oversee a list regarding the region as an #editor, don't hesitate to reach out. I'd love to learn more about recent and exciting work!
July 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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🧵We're excited to announce a new section of the Cambridge Digital Library for the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection of Mediterranean embroideries.

View the full collection: https://loom.ly/BPvABM4
July 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Really powerful piece in the FT magazine this weekend from @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow Ammar Azzouz - a researcher of urban destruction who returns to the ruins of his own city in Syria.
on.ft.com/3TozwJO
Return to Syria: what I found amid the ruins of Homs
Living in exile, Ammar Azzouz studied urban destruction in war. Then he returned to the ruins of his own city
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July 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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My latest just dropped: A discussion of modern Islamic televangelism (yes it’s a thing) situated in longer Islamic history. It's a *preliminary* sketch & preview of a forthcoming chapter. Thanks to the good folks at Predicmo & Aix-Marseille University. (AI was not used in any aspect of this piece) 🗃️
Islamic Televangelism: A Preliminary Sketch
Matthew J. Kuiper PhD, Hope College, Michigan, USA While they are not alone among the world’s religions in fostering and encouraging preaching, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are unquestionably “pre...
predicmo.hypotheses.org
July 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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All I’m asking, as an American, is for another set of Americans on a hill to have the moral courage and tenacity to fight for the Republic

At the end of the day, this is the experiment of democracy
July 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’ve long loved this quote. What a catastrophe
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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📢 New publication! July's 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 is now available at bit.ly/InvisibleEastQurans

🔍 Alya Karame looks at Qur'anic fragments from the Islamicate East that represent a turning point in the history of the Qur'an.

#documents #quran #firuzkuh #bamiyan
July 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A problem with this decision that goes way beyond the law is that we live in a country where decidedly NON-religious viewpoints are increasingly bolted onto religion. When your church is saying climate change is a lie and vaccines are evil it's untenable to teach anything under this model
June 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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all of my immersive language study came out of federal funding.
Cuts to humanities funding will have long-term consequences across a lot of fields. It is tragic. Already only 40% of citizens hold a passport. w/out scholars who study world lang, politics, history, culture there’s only navel gazing
June 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Update from the Managing Libya's Cultural Heritage project! This project is now in its final phase after a major round of fieldwork across Libya, which you can read about here:
Managing Libya's Cultural Heritage project celebrates milestones
As the Managing Libya’s Cultural Heritage (MaLiCH) project, funded by ALIPH (the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage), enters its final phase, the project team has concluded a major…
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June 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“The Bildungsroman Emperor”
so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is
June 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This historiographical review is brilliant. In my teaching the vast, diverse, and prone-to-endless-misunderstandings-and-misuses territory called ‘The Crusades’, I’ve used Tyerman’s pointed but accessible Crusades: A Very Short Introduction. Students… 1/
June 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🚨 The Morisco diaspora and the Morisco networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean by @gerardwiegers.bsky.social and Mercedes García-Arenal is now available OPEN ACCESS !

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The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean
"The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean" published on 29 May 2025 by Brill.
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June 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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📕📘📙 ATLAS-cities NEW BOOK:
¿CIUDADES INVISBLES? Paisajes urbanos de la Antigüedad tardía (siglos III-VIII)
📍 Sabine Panzram - Laurent Brassous 📌 CCV 201; 2025 ‼️
A co-production of 30 authors: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Tunisia, USA etc.
books.openedition.org/.../libro/ci...
June 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The city is often a mirror of our scholarly approaches. Therefore, very excited to see this out—my overview of the recent views of late antique and early medieval urban worlds and a sketch of new methodologies for the city in the first millennium. In open access: books.openedition.org/cvz/54316
June 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My review article, "How Mediterranean Economies Were Shaped in the Early Middle Ages" in the American Historical Review is out. This was a lot of fun and I try to make sense of 500+ years of recent economic histories. Find it: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... 1/
How Mediterranean Economies Were Shaped in the Early Middle Ages
The clichéd image of the premodern Mediterranean economy is stagnation until the twin forces of capitalism and Industrial Revolution kick-started growth an
doi.org
June 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM