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friends and especially fellow scholars who do work on MENA and can't access archives this year: consider hiring a Lebanon-based researcher through the Scholarly Mutual Aid for Lebanon site: sites.google.com/view/scholarly…

Do you want to hear more about Gaming Islam as well as other scholarship on games & Islamic history? Vote for our panels @sxsw and @SXSWEDU (links below) SXSW: tinyurl.com/gamingislamSXSW SXSWedu:tinyurl.com/gamingislamich…

“As instructors at the University of Chicago, we object—in the strongest possible terms—to your decision to deploy armed police against a peaceful encampment of our students,” over 275 faculty members write in an open letter to President Alivisatos. chicagomaroon.com/43405/viewpoin…

@docstobar @Orientastic feels like this could be the sneak preview of our CoD episode 😂🥴😭

@warghetti @mayamikdashi the woman with the rifle drives me particularly nuts

@docstobar @AdomGetachew happy to share if you want, @AdomGetachew! Also check out Ifdal Elsaket's piece on Jungle films in Egypt in ASJ XXV:2 (2017) arabstudiesjournal.org/252-fall-2017.…

come see what we're getting up to tonight at 7:30 chicago time! event details @UCGrayCenter website

so happy for @hshakry and katie (and the other winners I don't know)! what an amazing lineup of books!!

@mlynxqualey @warghetti @bhakti_shringa there's also a great piece by Beth Holt titled 'Zahra and its Critics' in the edited volume Arabic Literature for the Classroom.

@warghetti @bhakti_shringa @profghen Yep yep, the one and the only.

@mlynxqualey @warghetti @bhakti_shringa thanks for the shout-out, friends!

join the Gray Center and Amira Hanafi in this collective, collaborative, critical multilingual #translation of the #englishunityact! info @ instagram.com/p/CGii0HGlX5Q/… @CMES_UChicago @UChicagoHum @UChicagoArts

Happening tomorrow! Register: uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

لمّ المدينة

@SDFahrenthold @mhayoun @ArabAmericanMus mabrouk!

thinking of how many times I said/wrote 'hamdillah' this past week, and paused wearily at this reflexive (yet deeply felt) gratitude. as @amiranu2ta writes, we have to learn to say we are not ok.

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@meznaqato but we're happy to hear more ideas of how to handle this more explicitly. if you or others have comments, dm or email: smalebanon2020@gmail.com. thanks!

@meznaqato some of this is already in the language on the home page

This is a great initiative, but I hope the website will also make a statement and develop guidelines on fair wages, citation, ethical practices, etc. Important not to reproduce the gig economy's exploitative mechanisms.