samine joudat

I wrote this very personal essay while trying to navigate grief & liberation in the face of a cannibalizing Iranian diaspora. At the end of the day, we have to be able to hold contradiction & not cede our agency to our oppressors. We have no other choice. jacobin.com/2026/05/iran-d…

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Fantastic article from someone who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Iran related writers on how propaganda and censorship online is impacting how Iranians view the world & is amplifying divisions among us

Iranians Are Stuck in the Middle of an Information War Propaganda and Censorship From Around the World Is Dividing Families and Causing Chaos zocalopublicsquare.org/iranians-infor… | @ThePublicSquare

Cinema, art, politics, memory. On February 13, we host a free screening of Della Volontà, an experimental short film by IIS student Samine Joudat, followed by a discussion led by UC Berkeley scholar Mariagrazia De Luca.

"People on all sides claim to speak on behalf of Iranians. Meanwhile, they erase the real pain, trauma, and violence experienced by those with different political views—even as they share the same core love for their homeland," writes @saminejoudat. zps.la/4mIqghh

@nberpubs @DrDaronAcemoglu @bratton curious your take on this…reminiscent of model collapse but assuming you have a productive critique

Studying how generative AI, and in particular agentic AI, shapes human learning incentives and the long-run evolution of society’s information ecosystem, from @DrDaronAcemoglu, Dingwen Kong, and Asuman Ozdaglar nber.org/papers/w34910

With everything going on I just want to say, I think Iran is one of the most beautiful places on earth with near endless economic potential. People extremely industrious with a love for detail. On our way in and out of Iran we stayed at two amazing small boutique hotels. The Zanjan Boutique hotel and the Saraye Ghahramani boutique hotel in Qazvin, check them out.

Twelve days after the seismic developments involving the US, Israel and Iran, geopolitical dynamics continue to shift. Beyond the headlines of airstrikes and political transitions, ordinary Iranians are navigating a deeply uncertain reality where the meaning of “home” has been profoundly unsettled. Iranian-American researcher and artist Dr Samine Joudat (@saminejoudat) joins @TsepisoMakwetla to move beyond strategic analysis and reflect on the lived experiences of people on the streets of Iran. #AfricaWorldHour #Iran #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #HumanStories #GlobalAffairs #AfricaNews

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Favorites thinkers, writers, and philosophers of desire? (living)

@andfogle @crawlings13 What’s the revisionism?

Introducing Natural Processing - our new photography processing mode that preserves your iPhone's natural grain and doesn't add additional sharpness or clarity so you can get authentic photos.

Another banger of an apartment design in Iran! This time in the city of Birjand, designed by Sahar Kamaleddin and Nima Safdari

Two limited-edition Nipsey Hussle TAP cards will drop on August 15, Nipsey Hussle Day. The TAP cards are part of the Metro x Culture series celebrating Angelenos who’ve shaped LA culture, especially those whose journeys began on Metro buses and trains.🚌🚎

Today, Los Angeles and the Bay Area will see 130 flights in both directions, equivalent to a plane departing every 6.5 minutes for 18 hours a day. Hard to argue it's not a perfect candidate for fast trains.

A vast network of Israeli spy tech, built by software engineers who cut their teeth writing code for the IDF to enforce Israeli apartheid, is being sold to police forces and security services across the west who use it to intercept communications and hack phones 🧵

As it happens, Iran is one of the few places that’s perfected the art of mid-rise affordable brick housing. But sure, bomb them instead of taking notes:

Iranians in Iran are putting out emergency advisories right now on how to protect from potential radiation after the US bombed Iran’s lawful civilian nuclear facilities. What was an apocalyptic nightmare is now a potential reality for millions of Iranians, funded by our taxes.

Exclusive video from inside Tehran - and the person who filmed it tells us this is bringing them together.

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.