Bizarre! Jaw-dropping. Truly a testament to how of out touch the American political and media class are. The The New York Times has been nothing short of an embarrassment!

My book Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920-2021, is available in its entirety on JSTOR in addition to being on sale through bookstores/Indiana University Press's website. You can also get free access to 100 JSTOR articles/chapters (including my book )here: support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/artic…

E147 - State of the Sahel: Niger and Chad w/ Alex Thurston

Derek chats with AP's Sahel desk Alex Thurston about Niger and Chad, both of which invited US troops to leave their respective countries in the last several weeks.

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Heureux d’annoncer la parution de mon livre « Cette si longue quête. Vie et mort d’Omar Blondin Diop ».

Mille mercis à Felwine Sarr et aux éditions Jimsaan pour leur confiance ; à Boubacar Boris Diop pour sa généreuse préface.

Lancement à Dakar le 11 mai (16h) à L’Harmattan.

The rational path would be to negotiate with the students in good faith. The University will be a better place for it. If they go the irrational path and attack, they will have to arrest hundreds of students and faculty, and suffer the bad press of another Columbia or UCLA. 8/

Read here our latest news brief on events in the Sahel us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=6553b94ce38…

This exciting conference is happening in Rome in November! The deadline for abstracts is June.

My roundup of links this week for four regions (Sahel, North Africa, Horn, Mashriq): alexthurston.substack.com/p/dakar-to-riy…

Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH is hiring for our Sudan team. Those with open source investigation and/or GEOINT experience, especially w/ language skills, contact [email protected] ASAP

Looking for African students who are part of the pro-Palestine US campus protests, and having to navigate immigration challenges (e.g. threats of deportation) while protesting. Would like to commission essays for The Republic and will pay. Please share. DMs open.

We are seeking to recognize outstanding scholars at or shortly after their retirement for the Lifetime Achievement Award. See the award announcement for details. Nominations are due May 15. connect.apsanet.org/s11/2024-call-…

We are incredibly excited for American Association of University Professors's brand new Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, funded by a $1.5M grant from the Mellon Foundation (🙏), and directed by Isaac Kamola (🙏).

More here: trincoll.edu/news/trinity-c…

American Association of University Professors was ahead of the curve on criticizing the redefinition of antisemitism, and connecting it to legislative restrictions on teaching about racism in US history. Both initiatives have the same objective: to deny full understanding of complex histories

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🚨🚨🚨 #PublicationAlert
I am delighted to share that my article : #RacialCapitalism & #women ‘s horticultural #labour in #Senegal has been published by JPS . Please share with those you think might be interested. CAS Edinburgh School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh
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Great to see this super book published:

The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia

Pleased to have co-written a chapter in this, on Islamophobia and the headscarf debate in France and the Netherlands.

There's some really incredible authors in the book - do check it out!

RA opportunity: I am looking for a DC-based research assistant, with native proficiency in Arabic to conduct archival research using the Ba'ath Party archives at the Hoover Institution's DC satellite office over June and July. Please reach out to [email protected] share!

'What’s next as ‘heavy-handed’ US negotiates pullout from Niger?' - a lucid and non-hysterical article from Al Jazeera, based on interviews with Ibrahim Yahaya Ib and Simon Rynn

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“Because an intifada is a wave of violence and suicide bombings.” What a pandering liar. It doesn’t mean that at all. Thawra was the street term but the neutral term in Arabic media was İntifada/uprising.

This incident should be communicated to American Association of University Professors via [email protected]