Mohamed Salhi, PhD
uselesssimo.bsky.social
Mohamed Salhi, PhD
@uselesssimo.bsky.social
Assalamualaykum Comrades!

Lecturer in PolSci / Goethe Uni (Research: CDA/Populism/Far Right/Multimodality/Visual Populism/ Digital Cultures/Hate Speech/Memes)
FirstGen academia/diaspora; OPEN FOR RESEARCH/TEACHING POSITIONS
Mosalhi.com
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𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠
Symbolic politics in AfD’s European elections campaign

by @uselesssimo.bsky.social

👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24202.sal
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Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 far right; mainstream parties; political communication; agenda setting; automated text analysis
@dasalgon.bsky.social · @tevoelker.bsky.social
@ejprjournal.bsky.social
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
FreeKoulchi! ✊
ما بغيناش كأس العالم...الصحة أولا
هذه من أبرز الشعارات التي رفعها المتظاهرون والمتظاهرات في الشوارع الدار البيضاء لليوم الثاني على التوالي.
واتسعت قاعدة المشاركين في المظاهرات التي نظمتهامجموعة genz212 لتضم كافة الفئات الشعبية، حيث وحدهم مطلب واحد ألا وهو الحصول على حقوقهم كاملة
September 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Doing critical research in academia can be lonely and alienating, particularly when it's about an already grim topic like reactionary politics

The engagement with the network so far shows how spaces for solidarity are needed
That's a wrap!

The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over!

Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️‍

More info about the RPSS below

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reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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As ever so incredibly proud to be working with the RPRN team ❤️
That's a wrap!

The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over!

Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️‍

More info about the RPSS below

1/

reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
September 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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That's a wrap!

The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over!

Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️‍

More info about the RPSS below

1/

reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
September 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My chapter, Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Externalisierung, explores pedagogical perspectives on Jewish life and antisemitism in kindergartens.

BOOK OPEN ACCESS: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Antisemitismus in der Kindheit
Gegen Antisemitismus in der Kindheit – Empfehlungen für die pädagogische Praxis in der (früh)kindlichen Bildung.
www.transcript-verlag.de
August 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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✨Thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume Antisemitismus in der Kindheit.

The book concludes the research project RelcoDiff (Religiös codierte Differenzkonstruktionen), initiated by Prof. Dr. Isabell Diehm (✝).

@sabanurcheema.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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"Das extremistisch-arabische 'Nakba'-Vokabular" - die deutsche Verzerrung palästinensischer Geschichte findet kein Ende.
In diesem Absatz steckt das komplette Set Dummheit mancher „Linker“ zu dem Thema:

1. Geschichtsrevisionismus (Nakba in Anführungszeichen).

2. Denken nur in Nullsummen.

3. israelische Geschichte als invertierter Spiegel deutscher Geschichte verklärt („Araber = Nazis“).

4. wie immer: Ausländer.
August 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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NEW -

Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL

"exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population"

- @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
August 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
August 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Most read three months in a row in JLP journal; 9th most read on JB. Last few months were full of professional disappointments so Ill take this as a little win 🙆
August 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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You can find Mohamed's research article, which this interview is based on, here: brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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📣New interview📣

@uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses reactionary digital cultures in Morocco and their links to the global far right. Check it out below!

reacpol.net/right-morocco/
Interview: Reinventing the Right in Morocco (Mohamed Salhi) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Mohamed Salhi's article 'Reinventing the Right in Morocco: Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Sentiments in Moroccan Online Spaces ' (2025)
reacpol.net
July 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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While the threat of the far right gets euphemised (populism, left behind etc) and their politics legitimised, any alternative left of centre gets exaggerated and ridiculed so that we are left with the bad and the worse as alternatives
July 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access!

doi.org/10.1177/1354...
July 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Finally out!

"Reinventing the Right in Morocco" now appears in the Special Issue on Populism in the Arab World. 😍

doi.org/10.1163/18763375-20251449
June 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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This is a real—yes real—post for the One Big Beautiful Bill by the official White House account on Instagram

It’s giving MAGA makeover
July 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This picture 💔 #Gaza

( 📷 The Guardian )
July 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Delighted to be part of this @critdiscstuds.bsky.social SI dedicated to work of Phil Graham! We contributed with a paper (written jointly w. D.Johnson & H.Ekström) on ‘proxy discourses’ in contemporary illiberal, exclusionary reframing of the imaginary of society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Mine and @k8ebrown.bsky.social's article on normalisation strategies of the far right in Italy has been assigned an issue in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Sadly, the normalisation/legitimation strategies we identify are certainly not unique to Italian politics...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study
While the mainstreaming of the far right is attracting growing scholarly interest based on its contemporary relevance, the role that far-right self-representation strategies play in this process ha...
www.tandfonline.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Delighted to finally see this piece out! Around 3 years ago, Matteo & I started thinking about whether Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy REALLY resembled its neo-fascist predecessor in any meaningful way. The results are now published in @polstudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM