Layli Uddin

job market and cost of living so bad i’m thinking of moving back home at 41. maybe one more summer in london and i’ll see how i feel but i can’t take another winter in a moldy building with messy flatmates and paying £1k+ for the privilege

Tehran is covered in thick black clouds of smoke this morning after a series of Israeli airstrikes struck multiple oil depots and a refinery. Locals report that the morning rain was black and oily.

📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother.

The Islamic University of Gaza has begun repairing and preparing its campus to resume in-person classes. Several university buildings were completely destroyed during Israel’s war on Gaza, but reconstruction work is now underway to restore what remains, including lecture halls, medical laboratories, and other key facilities, as the university moves toward reopening after two years of devastation.

two rounds of revisions and nine reader reports later, my article “A Revolution of Letters: Text, Sight and Spectacle in Socialist Somalia” was just accepted for publication by the American Historical Review