Elizabeth Perego

My book Humor and Power in Algeria is now out in paperback with Indiana University Press. It's exciting to see it out in the world in tangible form. I'm also grateful to the Ministry of Moudjahidine for permission to use the cartoon from an anonymous FLN artist for the cover.

The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉

Paris of Appalachia don’t fuck with ICE

Striking UAW members at NYU just won the highest minimum salaries of any unionized full-time, non-tenure track faculty in the United States. Amazing.

Coming soon and not to be missed!

@BrammerAyse I had a similar thing happen, but with some scammers wanting to turn my book into a movie (?). They kept calling my poor parents, who still have a landline and no caller ID. I have no idea how they got the number.

PSA for authors: here is a scam I recently encountered. I’ve now received multiple emails from “book clubs” claiming they want to select my book for a monthly read or feature it in an author spotlight. They include links to real Meetup groups and claim hundreds of members who will buy your book. The catch? After a few emails, they ask for $$ to “promote” the book or to cover “media contribution costs” for these features. As someone who studies early modern deception and political manipulation… I have to say this one lacks sophistication :)

Friendly reminder: Childless women are also teachers, licensed medical providers, pediatricians, therapists, social workers, guardian ad litems and/or formal child advocates, daycare professionals, etc.

For the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either.

ICYMI: Mayor Zohran Mamdani used a Qur’an from the collections of the @SchomburgCenter for his swearing-in ceremony at midnight on New Year’s Eve! ✨ Discover more about Mr. Schomburg, his copy of the Qur’an, the book’s history, and where to see it on display: on.nypl.org/4q8VWxi

The First Lady of New York for The Cut thecut.com/_pages/cmjhc86…

This is beautiful. The smiles! Bondi beach hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed with the doctors looking after him at the hospital in Sydney. And… The doctors are *also* Syrian! Tamer Al-Kahil from Homs. Anas Natfaji from Aleppo. *Three* heroes.

I recently wrote a piece on how Algerian communists and Trotskyists critically engaged with Fanon's writings under Ben Bella (1962-1965) for @ROAPEjournal. '‘A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962' - tinyurl.com/5xa9rbtk

My least favorite genre—professor making fun of students

flavor flav had a better statement than our president

“Let me insist that “the academic” and “the intellectual” are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale.” Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney. bostonreview.net/articles/when-…

The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.

I'm begging anyone from a “blue” state who chastises those of us who live in "red" ones to seriously examine your democratic senator's voting record

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-f…

“Stop bringing feminism into everything” ok stop bringing sexism into everything then

bell hooks wrote, “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”

So many leftists understand the complex intricacies of many systems of oppression like white supremacy & classism but are so wilfully ignorant when it comes to the patriarchy & ableism, like they aren’t also systems of oppression that work in similar & intersecting ways.