De-arrest is my favorite new word in the world. Bless these students. I hope faculty are looking out for them.

HUNDREDS OF JEWISH NEW YORKERS ARE GETTING ARRESTED ON THE SECOND NIGHT OF PASSOVER DEMANDING A DIVESTMENT FROM GENOCIDE.

A reminder that on the day of Eid al Fitr the Center for Islamic Life was broken into and vandalized at Rutgers University, and a Palestinian flag in the center was ripped off a flagpole and stolen. Not one journalist with a national profile commented, wrote, or otherwise cared

Rutgers University undergrad students voted to divest on all 3 campuses with historic margins. The Student Assembly also passed 2 bills on Islamophobia & anti-Palestinian racism. This is the first student assembly to adopt a definition of anti Palestinian racism. All in one week!

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

My academic brain is more interested in how this could be a full fledged PhD dissertation in an interdisciplinary field of theology-political sociology-history-Law-Philosophy-Linguistics.
Phenomenal research truly.

Let me know when The Cut publishes “The Case for Marrying an Older Man Whose First Wife Is Locked in the Attic”

Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers

Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization

'Citation is feminist memory' by Feminist Killjoy feministkilljoys.com/2015/12/30/fem…

#IWD2024

Asal account se aao Sandeep Reddy Vanga

In the end, Pakistan's establishment got exactly what it wanted: A coalition led by the military's preferred parties, and susceptible to the military's influence.
Still, PTI's strong electoral showing is a game changer for Pakistani politics. It's no longer business as usual.

Shandana Gulzar is the first woman elected as MNA on a general seat from Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.

Shocked to hear the very brave rights activist and former parliamentarian Mohsin Dawar was shot in North Waziristan while peacefully protesting the delayed announcement of election results. Fortunately he survived.
What an apt commentary on the sad state of Pakistani democracy today.

Balochistan protested against elections. GB can't even vote. Taliban took over polling stations in Waziristan and didn't let women vote.

Please stop focusing on mainland Pakistan so much. The peripheries are not just there for your geopolitical strategy and resource extraction.

'The country is at stake, why should I come late?' said 86-year-old Mumtaz, a housewife a decade older than Pakistan itself as she queued up in Islamabad.
Dressed in a lovely blue sari.
REUTERS/Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson
#PakistanElection #PakistanElection s2024

In this excruciatingly cold Islamabad weather, more than 400 Baloch, almost half of them women and children, have been protesting in front of press club for almost 20 days, yet the government continues to ignore their own.

My report for Al Jazeera English.

aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/9/…

Donors to universities cannot be allowed to bully said universities. The Urdu Chair at McGill was established in 1987 with a donation from the Pakistani govt under the dictator Zia-ul-Haq. Zia would have hated the fact that an Ahmadi's son is now Urdu Chair. But I am.

In protest, returning my Sitara e Imtiaz, given to me by a state that continues to abduct and torture Baloch citizens. Journalists of my generation have seen Sammi Deen Baloch and Mahrang Baloch grow up in protest camps. Ashamed to witness a new generation being denied basic dignity.

Piers Morgan 2.0 in Pakistan. 'But do you condemn khamas' type journalism here🤦🏾‍♀️