Rasmus Elling
@rasmuselling.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian
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”Resultatet af revolutionen var forfærdeligt og noget, mange iranere ikke ønskede. At visse monarkister blandt eksiliranerne forsøger at få opstanden til at se ud som en vestlig sammensværgelse, det er dog historisk revisionisme."
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Kan den eksilerede ”kronprins” blive Irans fremtid? Det mener han selv
Både i Iran og blandt iranere i udlandet er holdningerne til det gamle shah-styre delte. Men blandt præstestyrets argeste kritikere drømmes om shahens søn som ny leder
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June 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
”Resultatet af revolutionen var forfærdeligt og noget, mange iranere ikke ønskede. At visse monarkister blandt eksiliranerne forsøger at få opstanden til at se ud som en vestlig sammensværgelse, det er dog historisk revisionisme."
www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/kan-d... @rasmuselling.bsky.social
www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/kan-d... @rasmuselling.bsky.social
HVAD SIGER IRANERNE?
Har prøvet at samle udtalelser fra iranske systemkritikere, aktivister, civilsamfundsaktører i respons på Israel-Irankrigen. Spred gerne til #dkmedier og andre med interesse i hvad iranerne tænker om den frygtelige situation. Link i kommentar nedenfor
Har prøvet at samle udtalelser fra iranske systemkritikere, aktivister, civilsamfundsaktører i respons på Israel-Irankrigen. Spred gerne til #dkmedier og andre med interesse i hvad iranerne tænker om den frygtelige situation. Link i kommentar nedenfor
June 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
HVAD SIGER IRANERNE?
Har prøvet at samle udtalelser fra iranske systemkritikere, aktivister, civilsamfundsaktører i respons på Israel-Irankrigen. Spred gerne til #dkmedier og andre med interesse i hvad iranerne tænker om den frygtelige situation. Link i kommentar nedenfor
Har prøvet at samle udtalelser fra iranske systemkritikere, aktivister, civilsamfundsaktører i respons på Israel-Irankrigen. Spred gerne til #dkmedier og andre med interesse i hvad iranerne tænker om den frygtelige situation. Link i kommentar nedenfor
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Spændende afsnit af Verden ifølge gram med @rasmuselling.bsky.social @pukdamsgaard.bsky.social og Anders Jerichow.
Altid en fornøjelse at høre tre vidende mennesker, der også giver plads til forskellige analyser og perspektiver.
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Altid en fornøjelse at høre tre vidende mennesker, der også giver plads til forskellige analyser og perspektiver.
www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/verde...
Verden ifølge Gram | Når Netanyahu sine mål i Iran - og hvad gør Trump? | DR LYD
Israels angreb på Iran var overvældende. Toppen af Irans militær blev dræbt. Betydelige dele af Irans atomprogram ødelagt. Flere og flere civile bliver dræbt - i både Iran og Israel. Netanyahu angreb ...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Spændende afsnit af Verden ifølge gram med @rasmuselling.bsky.social @pukdamsgaard.bsky.social og Anders Jerichow.
Altid en fornøjelse at høre tre vidende mennesker, der også giver plads til forskellige analyser og perspektiver.
www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/verde...
Altid en fornøjelse at høre tre vidende mennesker, der også giver plads til forskellige analyser og perspektiver.
www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/verde...
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Hermed #dagenshelikopter. Dagens gæst er @rasmuselling.bsky.social
Israel har ramt Iran hårdere end nogensinde før. Nu venter hævnen
Med omfattende angreb på baser, militære topfolk og atomforskere har Israel angrebet Iran, hvor det gør virkelig ondt. Israels mål er at gøre det umuligt for Iran at udvikle atomvåben, men resultatet ...
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June 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hermed #dagenshelikopter. Dagens gæst er @rasmuselling.bsky.social
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Hvis man er interesseret i Iran, kan jeg varmt anbefale @rasmuselling.bsky.social's "Irans moderne historie". Den er fremragende.
Vælges lydbogen, vil man opleve Karsten Pharaos fine, fine oplæsning.
Vælges lydbogen, vil man opleve Karsten Pharaos fine, fine oplæsning.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hvis man er interesseret i Iran, kan jeg varmt anbefale @rasmuselling.bsky.social's "Irans moderne historie". Den er fremragende.
Vælges lydbogen, vil man opleve Karsten Pharaos fine, fine oplæsning.
Vælges lydbogen, vil man opleve Karsten Pharaos fine, fine oplæsning.
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Jeg havde den sjældne og store fornøjelse at få lov at tale om persisk poesi i dansk radio: Layal Freije interviewede mig om at studere i Iran, om at oversætte persisk poesi og om Omar Khayyam for @radio4dk.bsky.social i programmet "Det Lykkelige Arabien". Lyt med: radio4.dk/podcasts/det... #Iran
Det lykkelige Arabien - Persisk er poesiens sprog
Da mellemøstforsker Rasmus Elling 1999 tager på studieophold i Iran, bliver han tvunget til at lære klassiske persiske digte udenad. For det er gennem
radio4.dk
May 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Jeg havde den sjældne og store fornøjelse at få lov at tale om persisk poesi i dansk radio: Layal Freije interviewede mig om at studere i Iran, om at oversætte persisk poesi og om Omar Khayyam for @radio4dk.bsky.social i programmet "Det Lykkelige Arabien". Lyt med: radio4.dk/podcasts/det... #Iran
Jeg havde den sjældne og store fornøjelse at få lov at tale om persisk poesi i dansk radio: Layal Freije interviewede mig om at studere i Iran, om at oversætte persisk poesi og om Omar Khayyam for @radio4dk.bsky.social i programmet "Det Lykkelige Arabien". Lyt med: radio4.dk/podcasts/det... #Iran
Det lykkelige Arabien - Persisk er poesiens sprog
Da mellemøstforsker Rasmus Elling 1999 tager på studieophold i Iran, bliver han tvunget til at lære klassiske persiske digte udenad. For det er gennem
radio4.dk
May 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Jeg havde den sjældne og store fornøjelse at få lov at tale om persisk poesi i dansk radio: Layal Freije interviewede mig om at studere i Iran, om at oversætte persisk poesi og om Omar Khayyam for @radio4dk.bsky.social i programmet "Det Lykkelige Arabien". Lyt med: radio4.dk/podcasts/det... #Iran
So Olmert’s an anti-Semite - at least according to the brazenly distorted definition of that word, which has been weaponized across the world to crush freedom of speech for a year and half (and before that).
Former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’
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Former PM Olmert tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’
Comments criticizing war spark immediate backlash from right-wing politicians, who accuse him of 'stabbing soldiers in the back'
www.timesofisrael.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
So Olmert’s an anti-Semite - at least according to the brazenly distorted definition of that word, which has been weaponized across the world to crush freedom of speech for a year and half (and before that).
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
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May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
VELKOMMEN TIL RESTEN AF VERDEN, DANMARK
På prime time amerikansk tv siger Fox værten Watters: “We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history.”
På prime time amerikansk tv siger Fox værten Watters: “We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history.”
March 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
VELKOMMEN TIL RESTEN AF VERDEN, DANMARK
På prime time amerikansk tv siger Fox værten Watters: “We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history.”
På prime time amerikansk tv siger Fox værten Watters: “We don't need friends. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland. We’re big boys. We dropped a-bombs on Japan and now they are our ally… America is not handcuffed by history.”
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Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
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March 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants.
US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
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US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
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March 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants.
US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
1/16
US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
1/16
The problem with the fascist Trump regime and its envoys is that they don't really care about stuff like Geneva Conventions or international norms and standards ushered in by the Pax Americana. So how do we even condemn them if they don't exist in the same universe?
These men behind bars are not in prison after being charged with crimes. They are "enemy combatants" being detained in a concentration camp.
As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.
As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.
March 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The problem with the fascist Trump regime and its envoys is that they don't really care about stuff like Geneva Conventions or international norms and standards ushered in by the Pax Americana. So how do we even condemn them if they don't exist in the same universe?
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I wrote something for @thenation.com about Alabama PHd student Alireza Doroudi's abduction at the behest of Marco Rubio. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Alabama Won't Say Alireza Doroudi's Name. We Must.
The Iranian Ph.D. student is one of several abducted by ICE in the past month—a pattern we cannot become numb to.
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March 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I wrote something for @thenation.com about Alabama PHd student Alireza Doroudi's abduction at the behest of Marco Rubio. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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It's like spearing a seal in a breathing hole but... Why is he not wearing a suit? And did he ever once say "thank you" to the people of Greenland for hosting that great big US military base since 1951?
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's like spearing a seal in a breathing hole but... Why is he not wearing a suit? And did he ever once say "thank you" to the people of Greenland for hosting that great big US military base since 1951?
Good accounts of modern Armenia? Preferably easy reads for travel purposes but ofc also very interested in the research-based lit. Many thanks for your suggestions!
March 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Good accounts of modern Armenia? Preferably easy reads for travel purposes but ofc also very interested in the research-based lit. Many thanks for your suggestions!
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Reuters: SDF signs agreement w/ Damascus.
"...all civilian and military institutions in northeast Syria will be integrated within the state, which will thus take over control of borders, airports and oil and gas fields."
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"...all civilian and military institutions in northeast Syria will be integrated within the state, which will thus take over control of borders, airports and oil and gas fields."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
March 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reuters: SDF signs agreement w/ Damascus.
"...all civilian and military institutions in northeast Syria will be integrated within the state, which will thus take over control of borders, airports and oil and gas fields."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
"...all civilian and military institutions in northeast Syria will be integrated within the state, which will thus take over control of borders, airports and oil and gas fields."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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NYC friends: I think this one’s worth it, even if you’re not much of a protester. The case seems very specific & individual, I know. But Trump’s seizure of this lawful resident—& celebration of it, w/ promise of more arrests to come—may well be a rubicon.
March 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NYC friends: I think this one’s worth it, even if you’re not much of a protester. The case seems very specific & individual, I know. But Trump’s seizure of this lawful resident—& celebration of it, w/ promise of more arrests to come—may well be a rubicon.
Absolutely horrifying how freedom of speech and academic freedom is under massive assault in the US right now. Like it has been for some time across Europe.
Excerpts from the Middle East Studies Association’s latest email, minutes ago, concerning Trump administration policies and resources for those who might be impacted by them. Please share widely.
March 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Absolutely horrifying how freedom of speech and academic freedom is under massive assault in the US right now. Like it has been for some time across Europe.
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Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi given 74 lashes over protest song
Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi given 74 lashes over protest song
Lashes were part of agreement to end criminal case against Yarrahi over song against Iran’s strict dress code for women
Mehdi Yarrahi, a well-known Iranian protest singer who spoke out against the country’s strict dress code for women, has been given 74…
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March 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi given 74 lashes over protest song
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The report found that the 36 major fossil fuel companies, including Saudi Aramco, Coal India, ExxonMobil, Shell and numerous Chinese companies, produced coal, oil and gas responsible for more than 20bn tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2023.
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis
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March 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The report found that the 36 major fossil fuel companies, including Saudi Aramco, Coal India, ExxonMobil, Shell and numerous Chinese companies, produced coal, oil and gas responsible for more than 20bn tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2023.
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The truth has finally come to the surface: leaked docs from January confirm a clear partnership b/t Microsoft + Israel’s military ops throughout the latters’ assault on Gaza.
https://tinyurl.com/nt8vcaku
https://tinyurl.com/nt8vcaku
The Israeli Military Is One of Microsoft's Top AI Customers, Leaked Documents Reveal
Microsoft is a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence for the Israeli military, according to internal documents.
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March 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The truth has finally come to the surface: leaked docs from January confirm a clear partnership b/t Microsoft + Israel’s military ops throughout the latters’ assault on Gaza.
https://tinyurl.com/nt8vcaku
https://tinyurl.com/nt8vcaku
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“Iran’s experience over the last several decades suggests that it is simply very good — much better than the United States — at navigating fractured states and turbulent political environments. Iran excels within the warscape.”
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Has Iran lost the Middle East? Not so fast.
Plus this week's review of great new research in the MENA Academy!
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March 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Iran’s experience over the last several decades suggests that it is simply very good — much better than the United States — at navigating fractured states and turbulent political environments. Iran excels within the warscape.”
abuaardvark.substack.com/p/has-iran-l...
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