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Raph Cormack

@raphaelcormack

Assistant Professor of Arabic @durham_uni. Author of Midnight in Cairo: a history of the women of Egypt’s roaring 20s. صعلوك الأدب

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In the window of Record Grouch, a poster for the Egyptian 45 show and Sublime Frequencies Born in the City of Tanta launch. Join me at 7:00 PM EDT next Saturday, June 7, 2025. 986 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Food, beer, rare Egyptian music, & quick walk-through presentation

In the window of Record Grouch, a poster for the Egyptian 45 show and <a href="/SublimeFreq/">Sublime Frequencies</a> Born in the City of Tanta launch. Join me at 7:00 PM EDT next Saturday, June 7, 2025. 986 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Food, beer, rare Egyptian music, &amp; quick walk-through presentation
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We should be very skeptical of the way these “all the college kids are using AI” articles bash Gen Z students. In my experience those students are some of the people with the most nuanced opinions on AI these days—they really aren’t all using it.

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It’s been a while since I’ve put my running shoes on but in July I’m running 38.7 Miles to support the 38.7% of children growing up in poverty in County Durham & Tees Valley. Any donations/shares/support would be appreciated socialsync.app/fundraiser/cr-…

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200 years exactly since a Geordie invented the modern railway, we've got Gareth Dennis coming to Newcastle to talk about how to save the future by building more of them. I don't know about you but my heart is fully erect and quivering MAKE NEWCASTLE TRAINS AGAIN

200 years exactly since a Geordie invented the modern railway, we've got <a href="/GarethDennis/">Gareth Dennis</a> coming to Newcastle to talk about how to save the future by building more of them. I don't know about you but my heart is fully erect and quivering

MAKE NEWCASTLE TRAINS AGAIN
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This is the sort of headline you could see in a movie about an entirely excessive dystopian nightmare theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

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"It's very simple. It's mass murder and mutilation. The most appalling humanitarian catastrophe of our young century." Dr. Graeme Groom, a British orthopaedic surgeon, described the current situation in the Gaza Strip after treating patients at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital

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NEW: The Israeli army is using an algorithm it knows to be inaccurate to declare Gaza neighborhoods as “green,” or cleared of residents, and carry out airstrikes — killing hundreds of civilians in recent weeks. By Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם שיחה מקומית 972mag.com/israel-gaza-em…

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‘Fascinating … Today, “holy men” have mostly been forgotten … Raph Cormack excavates them from obscurity, stitching together from their misadventures a kind of counterhistory of the era.’ Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age reviewed in The TLS 👏🗞️ the-tls.co.uk/science-techno…

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🚨 Madleen Rescues Four Refugees at Sea After Libyan Forces Attempt Forced Return ➤ The Madleen, part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition en route to Gaza, responded to a mayday relay from a Frontex drone over the Central Mediterranean. ➤ They found a deflating boat carrying

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The Lebanese Army tried to enter the buildings Israel threatened to bomb in south Beirut to investigate the claims of holding Hezbollah drone factories but the IDF refused to give them time to do so. The buildings were bombed before such claims were verified.

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Prime Minister of Lebanon, Nawaf Salam: “I strongly condemn the repeated Israeli threats and attacks on Lebanon, particularly in the southern suburbs of Beirut. I consider them to constitute a systematic and deliberate attack on our homeland, its security, stability, and

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I found this note in a manuscript taken from the Great Mosque in Gaza during WWI (1917). It is signed by "General Paul ?" Any idea who that is, with the full name?

I found this note in a manuscript taken from the Great Mosque in Gaza during WWI (1917). It is signed by "General Paul ?" Any idea who that is, with the full name?
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Thirty years ago, today, Shaykh Imam passed away. For a glimpse into this extraordinary artist’s life, which takes center stage in a new book I’m writing, check out this episode of Kerning Cultures: open.spotify.com/episode/6ddlAj…

Thirty years ago, today, Shaykh Imam passed away. For a glimpse into this extraordinary artist’s life, which takes center stage in a new book I’m writing, check out this episode of Kerning Cultures: open.spotify.com/episode/6ddlAj…