Dr Ladan Rahbari
@ladanrahbari.bsky.social
Associate prof in Political Sociology UvAmsterdam #MigrantAcademics #media #migration #nationalism #Islam #Iran #diaspora #gender Former FWO fellow, member@AmsterdamYoungAcademy "Migrant Academics Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe"
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[Petition] Stop the war on Iran!
Stop the war on Iran! For peace, justice and democracy
Tehran and many other Iranian cities are reeling under Israeli attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians, while destroying residential area...
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We (a group of academics and scholars) are calling for an immediate end to #Israel’s war against #Iran and #Palestine. If you support this call, please add your name to the petition here. Thank you!
#solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition
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#solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition
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US: At least 55 Iranians deported, hundreds more at risk, advocacy group says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/at-least-55-iranians-deported-hundreds-more-at-risk
US: At least 55 Iranians deported, hundreds more at risk, advocacy group says
The National Iranian American Council tells Middle East Eye that the community was targeted following the Israel-Iran '12-day war'
www.middleeasteye.net
October 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
US: At least 55 Iranians deported, hundreds more at risk, advocacy group says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/at-least-55-iranians-deported-hundreds-more-at-risk
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My fellow academics: the @aaup.org is doing amazing work, successfully! defending faculty and universities against attacks from Vought/the Trump administration. Proud to be a member. It takes only 3 minutes to join, to support them fighting the good fight for all Americans ✊ www.aaup.org
AAUP Home
www.aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My fellow academics: the @aaup.org is doing amazing work, successfully! defending faculty and universities against attacks from Vought/the Trump administration. Proud to be a member. It takes only 3 minutes to join, to support them fighting the good fight for all Americans ✊ www.aaup.org
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My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
We (a group of academics and scholars) are calling for an immediate end to #Israel’s war against #Iran and #Palestine. If you support this call, please add your name to the petition here. Thank you!
#solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
[Petition] Stop the war on Iran!
Stop the war on Iran! For peace, justice and democracy
Tehran and many other Iranian cities are reeling under Israeli attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians, while destroying residential area...
docs.google.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We (a group of academics and scholars) are calling for an immediate end to #Israel’s war against #Iran and #Palestine. If you support this call, please add your name to the petition here. Thank you!
#solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#solidarity #ceasefirenow #petition
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The masks are coming off: human values and international law seem to count for nothing anymore. This was already evident when the world did nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza. As you read this, Israel is still killing civilians who are already displaced & starving.
www.standaard.be/opinies/je-k...
www.standaard.be/opinies/je-k...
Je kunt tegelijk tegen ayatollahs en tegen Netanyahu zijn
Zelfs wie het Iraanse regime haat en meedeed aan de Mahsa Amini-protesten, ziet de Israëlische bombardementen als een externe aanval die gestopt moet worden, schrijft Ladan Rahbari. Al zijn er altijd enkele royalisten die de aanval toejuichen.
www.standaard.be
June 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The masks are coming off: human values and international law seem to count for nothing anymore. This was already evident when the world did nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza. As you read this, Israel is still killing civilians who are already displaced & starving.
www.standaard.be/opinies/je-k...
www.standaard.be/opinies/je-k...
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Netanyahu’s illegal unilateral attack on Iran risks a full-blown war.
These strikes directly undermine the U.S. diplomatic efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program. Talks were planned for Sunday, but Netanyahu chose to attack.
We must not be dragged into another Netanyahu war.
These strikes directly undermine the U.S. diplomatic efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program. Talks were planned for Sunday, but Netanyahu chose to attack.
We must not be dragged into another Netanyahu war.
June 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Netanyahu’s illegal unilateral attack on Iran risks a full-blown war.
These strikes directly undermine the U.S. diplomatic efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program. Talks were planned for Sunday, but Netanyahu chose to attack.
We must not be dragged into another Netanyahu war.
These strikes directly undermine the U.S. diplomatic efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program. Talks were planned for Sunday, but Netanyahu chose to attack.
We must not be dragged into another Netanyahu war.
Like many other #Iranians living outside the country, I’ve been watching anxiously and worrying sick about my family, friends and loved ones in Iran. When they can get a stable enough internet connection, they tell me about the constant fear and uncertainly they’re living in.
June 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Like many other #Iranians living outside the country, I’ve been watching anxiously and worrying sick about my family, friends and loved ones in Iran. When they can get a stable enough internet connection, they tell me about the constant fear and uncertainly they’re living in.
We had the great honor of hosting Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social at the Amsterdam Center for Gender & Sexuality this week. We learned about his amazing research on club nights & the book Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution @aissr.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We had the great honor of hosting Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social at the Amsterdam Center for Gender & Sexuality this week. We learned about his amazing research on club nights & the book Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution @aissr.bsky.social
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🕺🏽The Closure Epidemic: Why are gay bars disappearing? What comes next?
Join our Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality this Friday for @aminghaziani.bsky.social’s talk on queer nightlife’s joyful, mobile reinvention 👇
23 May | 15:30 – 17:00
🔗 arcgs.uva.nl/content/even...
Join our Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality this Friday for @aminghaziani.bsky.social’s talk on queer nightlife’s joyful, mobile reinvention 👇
23 May | 15:30 – 17:00
🔗 arcgs.uva.nl/content/even...
The Closure Epidemic. How disruptions affect queer nightlife - ARC-GS
Discover how queer nightlife is evolving beyond bar closures in Amin Ghaziani’s talk on club nights, joy, and urban sexualities.
arcgs.uva.nl
May 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🕺🏽The Closure Epidemic: Why are gay bars disappearing? What comes next?
Join our Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality this Friday for @aminghaziani.bsky.social’s talk on queer nightlife’s joyful, mobile reinvention 👇
23 May | 15:30 – 17:00
🔗 arcgs.uva.nl/content/even...
Join our Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality this Friday for @aminghaziani.bsky.social’s talk on queer nightlife’s joyful, mobile reinvention 👇
23 May | 15:30 – 17:00
🔗 arcgs.uva.nl/content/even...
"We must act now in the interest of human life and dignity.
Here is an urgent plea to #Dutch higher education institutions to cut ties with #genocide and refuse #police on campus!"
#Academia #Netherlands #palestine #actnow #sign
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Here is an urgent plea to #Dutch higher education institutions to cut ties with #genocide and refuse #police on campus!"
#Academia #Netherlands #palestine #actnow #sign
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!
openletter.earth
May 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"We must act now in the interest of human life and dignity.
Here is an urgent plea to #Dutch higher education institutions to cut ties with #genocide and refuse #police on campus!"
#Academia #Netherlands #palestine #actnow #sign
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
Here is an urgent plea to #Dutch higher education institutions to cut ties with #genocide and refuse #police on campus!"
#Academia #Netherlands #palestine #actnow #sign
openletter.earth/nederlandse-...
We are looking for a #PhDstudent in the NWO-VIDI project “Iran’s Secular Shift” which investigates Iran’s evolving secular landscape using mixed-method; an opportunity to contribute to a pioneering study on non-religion, atheism & secularism in #Iran @pooyan1983.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture
In this position you explore Iran's Secular Shift, examining how atheism, non-religion, and calls for mosque-state separation are expressed in visual culture.
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March 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We are looking for a #PhDstudent in the NWO-VIDI project “Iran’s Secular Shift” which investigates Iran’s evolving secular landscape using mixed-method; an opportunity to contribute to a pioneering study on non-religion, atheism & secularism in #Iran @pooyan1983.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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If you are interested in #nationalism & #diaspora, see my paper “Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus”: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians. I explore some diasporic Iranians' pro-Israeli sentiments online #proxynationalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
If you are interested in #nationalism & #diaspora, see my paper “Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus”: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians. I explore some diasporic Iranians' pro-Israeli sentiments online #proxynationalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
If you are interested in #nationalism & #diaspora, see my paper “Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus”: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians. I explore some diasporic Iranians' pro-Israeli sentiments online #proxynationalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
If you are interested in #nationalism & #diaspora, see my paper “Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus”: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians. I explore some diasporic Iranians' pro-Israeli sentiments online #proxynationalism
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aissr.bsky.social
My paper 'Dual #Nationality, Anti-Citizenship, and Xeno-Racism: Online Tropes on #Migrant (In)gratitude, and (In)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,' is now published in the #British Journal of #Sociology. #xenoracism #dualnationality #Iran
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British dual citizen, was detained by the Iranian state from April 2016 to March 2022 and charged with spying and propaganda activities against the Iranian state...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My paper 'Dual #Nationality, Anti-Citizenship, and Xeno-Racism: Online Tropes on #Migrant (In)gratitude, and (In)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,' is now published in the #British Journal of #Sociology. #xenoracism #dualnationality #Iran
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you are interested in the intersection of #queer #aging and #sexuality, check out the new paper published in the Journal of Women and Aging titled 'Unruly Temporalities: Older Queer Women and Non-Binary People Narrating Later-Life Sexuality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unruly temporalities: Older queer women and non-binary people narrating later-life sexuality
In this paper, we explore queer temporalities in relation to queer women and non-binary people’s sexuality later in life. Drawing on 30 interviews with 32 queer women and non-binary people aged 49-...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If you are interested in the intersection of #queer #aging and #sexuality, check out the new paper published in the Journal of Women and Aging titled 'Unruly Temporalities: Older Queer Women and Non-Binary People Narrating Later-Life Sexuality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On December 3rd, I had the immense privilege of witnessing my PhD student, Dr. Nika Looman, successfully defend their thesis:
“Queer late/r life sex. Women and non-binary people’s unruly stories.”
#PhDDefense #ProudSupervisor #Queer #Sex #Aging #AcademicAchievement @aissr.bsky.social
“Queer late/r life sex. Women and non-binary people’s unruly stories.”
#PhDDefense #ProudSupervisor #Queer #Sex #Aging #AcademicAchievement @aissr.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 10:19 AM
On December 3rd, I had the immense privilege of witnessing my PhD student, Dr. Nika Looman, successfully defend their thesis:
“Queer late/r life sex. Women and non-binary people’s unruly stories.”
#PhDDefense #ProudSupervisor #Queer #Sex #Aging #AcademicAchievement @aissr.bsky.social
“Queer late/r life sex. Women and non-binary people’s unruly stories.”
#PhDDefense #ProudSupervisor #Queer #Sex #Aging #AcademicAchievement @aissr.bsky.social
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Are you working in a #Dutch #university? Could you please fill in this short #questionnaire to help me understand potential #concerns around attending the #nation-wide #demonstration in #TheHague on Nov 25th? #Academia #precarity #nationaity #visa #non-EU forms.gle/57ujMBusE93Y...
Anonymous form - concerns regarding nationality and participation in the nationwide demonstrations against budget cuts in the Netherlands
Are you a non-Dutch/EU national and hesitant to participate in the nationwide demonstrations against budget cuts (in The Hague on November 25th 2024) due to your nationality, passport, or visa status?...
forms.gle
November 21, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Are you working in a #Dutch #university? Could you please fill in this short #questionnaire to help me understand potential #concerns around attending the #nation-wide #demonstration in #TheHague on Nov 25th? #Academia #precarity #nationaity #visa #non-EU forms.gle/57ujMBusE93Y...
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Seeking to navigate the political turbulence in NL with a steady compass, I wrote this essay.
So we can defend what needs to be defended:
Higher education and the right to protest.
Rendez-vous in Den Hague, Monday Nov. 25. 1pm, Malieveld.
www.diggitmagazine.com/refusing-mor...
So we can defend what needs to be defended:
Higher education and the right to protest.
Rendez-vous in Den Hague, Monday Nov. 25. 1pm, Malieveld.
www.diggitmagazine.com/refusing-mor...
Refusing Moral Panics/Defending Education and the Right to Protest
Universities under AttackIf education is the midwife of democracy, as U.S. philosopher John Dewey once argued, then authoritarian political visions have a stake in dismantling institutions of educatio...
www.diggitmagazine.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Seeking to navigate the political turbulence in NL with a steady compass, I wrote this essay.
So we can defend what needs to be defended:
Higher education and the right to protest.
Rendez-vous in Den Hague, Monday Nov. 25. 1pm, Malieveld.
www.diggitmagazine.com/refusing-mor...
So we can defend what needs to be defended:
Higher education and the right to protest.
Rendez-vous in Den Hague, Monday Nov. 25. 1pm, Malieveld.
www.diggitmagazine.com/refusing-mor...
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Right-wing accounts & #bots have become active here too. I’ve noticed an increase in #racist #anti-Palestinian bots using derogatory language in their interactions. As others have suggested, the best approach is to #report & #block them. Engaging with them only gives them the attention they seek.
November 19, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Right-wing accounts & #bots have become active here too. I’ve noticed an increase in #racist #anti-Palestinian bots using derogatory language in their interactions. As others have suggested, the best approach is to #report & #block them. Engaging with them only gives them the attention they seek.
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Please consider signing this letter: ‘Germany Must Stop Supporting the Annihilation of Palestinians’
An open letter to the federal government of #Germany, to exert pressure on #Israel to end the #killing, maiming, & destruction of #Palestinian life #freepalestine docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An open letter to the federal government of #Germany, to exert pressure on #Israel to end the #killing, maiming, & destruction of #Palestinian life #freepalestine docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Germany Must Stop Supporting the Annihilation of Palestinians
Open letter addressed to the federal government of Germany
* To sign, please enter your details below. We update the signatories within 24 hours. *
With utmost horror we see the unfolding genocide co...
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November 16, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Please consider signing this letter: ‘Germany Must Stop Supporting the Annihilation of Palestinians’
An open letter to the federal government of #Germany, to exert pressure on #Israel to end the #killing, maiming, & destruction of #Palestinian life #freepalestine docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An open letter to the federal government of #Germany, to exert pressure on #Israel to end the #killing, maiming, & destruction of #Palestinian life #freepalestine docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Are you working in a #Dutch #university? Could you please fill in this short #questionnaire to help me understand potential #concerns around attending the #nation-wide #demonstration in #TheHague on Nov 25th? #Academia #precarity #nationaity #visa #non-EU forms.gle/57ujMBusE93Y...
Anonymous form - concerns regarding nationality and participation in the nationwide demonstrations against budget cuts in the Netherlands
Are you a non-Dutch/EU national and hesitant to participate in the nationwide demonstrations against budget cuts (in The Hague on November 25th 2024) due to your nationality, passport, or visa status?...
forms.gle
November 21, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Are you working in a #Dutch #university? Could you please fill in this short #questionnaire to help me understand potential #concerns around attending the #nation-wide #demonstration in #TheHague on Nov 25th? #Academia #precarity #nationaity #visa #non-EU forms.gle/57ujMBusE93Y...
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2) DM for an AM copy & many thanks again to Ladan for getting this writing project going!
See www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
See www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
(Post-)pandemic Somatechnics, Neoliberalism, and the Return to (Academic) Normalcy: Digital Conversations | Somatechnics
This essay consists of a set of digital (post-)pandemic email correspondence held between a political sociologist and an interdisciplinary philosopher working at western European universities while th...
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November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
2) DM for an AM copy & many thanks again to Ladan for getting this writing project going!
See www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
See www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
I had the pleasure of working with Dr Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social on a paper during the #covid19 #pandemic. The paper is now out: “#(Post-)pandemic #Somatechnics, #neoliberalism, and the Return to (Academic) Normalcy” #Somatechnicsjournal
1) New publication - the digital conversations I had with @ladanrahbari.bsky.social during the pandemic have been published in #Somatechnics.
If you are interested in a spicy dose of #criticaltheory in conjunction with #irruptive thinking & weird memetic interruptions, then go check it out.
If you are interested in a spicy dose of #criticaltheory in conjunction with #irruptive thinking & weird memetic interruptions, then go check it out.
November 20, 2024 at 5:39 PM
I had the pleasure of working with Dr Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social on a paper during the #covid19 #pandemic. The paper is now out: “#(Post-)pandemic #Somatechnics, #neoliberalism, and the Return to (Academic) Normalcy” #Somatechnicsjournal
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1) New publication - the digital conversations I had with @ladanrahbari.bsky.social during the pandemic have been published in #Somatechnics.
If you are interested in a spicy dose of #criticaltheory in conjunction with #irruptive thinking & weird memetic interruptions, then go check it out.
If you are interested in a spicy dose of #criticaltheory in conjunction with #irruptive thinking & weird memetic interruptions, then go check it out.
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
1) New publication - the digital conversations I had with @ladanrahbari.bsky.social during the pandemic have been published in #Somatechnics.
If you are interested in a spicy dose of #criticaltheory in conjunction with #irruptive thinking & weird memetic interruptions, then go check it out.
If you are interested in a spicy dose of #criticaltheory in conjunction with #irruptive thinking & weird memetic interruptions, then go check it out.
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Call for #Applications: #Post-Doctoral #Fellowship in #Palestine Studies at the #UniversityofToronto
The Hearing Palestine Initiative at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce a call for applications with a focus on #Palestine and/or %Palestinian #archives.
The Hearing Palestine Initiative at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce a call for applications with a focus on #Palestine and/or %Palestinian #archives.
November 20, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Call for #Applications: #Post-Doctoral #Fellowship in #Palestine Studies at the #UniversityofToronto
The Hearing Palestine Initiative at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce a call for applications with a focus on #Palestine and/or %Palestinian #archives.
The Hearing Palestine Initiative at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce a call for applications with a focus on #Palestine and/or %Palestinian #archives.