I have seen a ton of obviously used consumer electronics in Iraq. But my favorite electronics story is the day I realized I couldn't plug a card reader into myipad, and I needed to upload some audio. A lightning to SD card device does exist, so I goggled for apple retailers

I am adding to the chorus of voices urging American Historical Association to make a statement about the violence so many historians have been subject to recently. Statements aren’t much but they are the absolute least we can do.

The Spring issue of MER is out today, to coincide with the year anniversary of Sudan's devastating war. Contributors examine the scope s of the conflict, the popular responses to the war and the longer political and economic dynamics that underpin it. merip.org/magazine/

Check out this recent publication from Morgan State History Department's Sabrina G. Watson in Black Perspectives

Last day to get any book from Cornell University Press and gift one to a friend for free!

At the Huntington Library, they asked me for an ID every single day as other researchers with year-long, or even month-long, fellowships waltzed passed. The know-your-place aggression couldn’t be masked by all the politeness they poured into that daily request.

Exactly! I wrote about this in Jan for Middle East Eye:

middleeasteye.net/opinion/hamas-…

DC friends! A chance to hear from the always brilliant Narges Bajoghli about her new book:

What was the role of memory and legacies of WW2 in Yugoslav solidarity with the Algerian struggle for independence? My new paper in International Review of Social History centres on the agency of war veterans, exploring relations between Yugoslav Partisans and mujahideen #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1017/S00208…

Starting tomorrow when you buy my book (or others from Cornell University Press), you can gift one to a friend or colleague for free!

  #CUPBuyOneGiftOne

On March 4, The Intercept published a story about how Kibbutz Be’eri denied a report in the NYT regarding the sexual assault of two girls on October 7. The NYT told us they stood by the reporting. Our story is here:

theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt…

Now, the NYT reports on a new video…

You can't miss The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell University Press) by historian Sara Rahnama during this #WomensHistoryMonth cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177… #slaveryarchive

next week in nyc sofheyman.org/events/palesti…

It's #WomenHistoryMonth and #womenhistoryday , we celebrate women scholars by reading and citing them. So, it's time to pre-order Nimisha Barton's new book A Just Future (@CornellPress) via the link below #slaveryarchive cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

French History friends, if you are at sfhs, stop by our panel with Terrence Peterson and Elizabeth M. Perego at 10:15 tomorrow! We will be talking about our new books and how they change *everything* you thought you knew about colonial Algeria.

Our new comic with SP Comics, 'Sanctioned Lives,' tells the powerful stories of ordinary #Iranians facing hardship. Meet Maryam Sadri. A widowed single mother struggling to support her family under the weight of US sanctions. Her story isn't unique. #LetsTalkSanctions

There is still time to register for our event with Sara Rahnama today! See the link below.

'The successful candidate(s) will conduct their research on the French counter-insurgency strategy on Algeria and its long-term legacies in shaping the repertoires of violence. In particular, we are looking for the following profiles:'
jobs.ac.uk/job/DGG196/res…

what American journalists expected when they met someone from the Middle East