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LAST CHANCE to register for BISAWG Emotions in Politics and IR #online reading group! The 2nd session on 'The Affect Theory Reader 2' will feature a talk from Tyrone S Palmer 27 March Register here: bisa.ac.uk/members/workin… Alister Wedderburn Sara Tafakori ChaeyoungYong Dr Marcelle Trote Martins Dr Anne-Marie Houde

Thrilled to share my study published today in Digital Journalism! In this paper, by closely reading videos of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini’s protests, I aim to challenge the negative values associated with portraying protestors’ violence in the news and offer a new perspective on/

My article, Feminist activist ethnography through Arabic Twitter: Fellowship as a method, is now out (open access) with Feminist Review. So proud to be part of this amazing issue. Thanks to everyone for their support! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Friends! My book WRONGED: THE WEAPONIZATION OF VICTIMHOOD is now available: cup.columbia.edu/book/wronged/9… Columbia University Press

It is a great pleasure to host two fantastic keynote speakers at the September symposium on Cyberfeminism in the MENA Region: renowned Tunisian professor and writer Amel Grami, and the wonderful Dr Sara Tafakori Please submit your abstracts by June 1st (contact details below).

Uncover the deep #narratives in 'The Price of Secrecy' with Sara Tafakori's review. This series not only shares poignant tales of trauma but also urges societal reflection and action. Explore how it challenges secrecy and calls for #responsiblelistening: buff.ly/3WhbAL1

Delighted to be giving keynote at Cyberfeminism in MENA, promising exciting critical exploration of digital activism across North-South boundaries and envisioning digital politics of location addressing inequalities of race, class, gender and geography. Org by wonderful Balsam Mustafa

🚨🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🚨 #CallforPapers Two more weeks! Title: Affective Counter-Archives: Feeling the Global Majority Guest Editors: Sabiha Allouche & Sara Tafakori Submit your 250-word abstracts by ⏱️ ⏱️ 30th/6/2024 ⏱️ ⏱️ For more info 👉 tinyurl.com/MEC-Affect

I was lucky to be asked to review one of the articles in this issue, and frankly it blew me away. Read the whole issue immediately! P.S. I am also co-editing a special issue for New Formations on 'race, racisms and resistance'. If you are working on an article do get in touch.

I am pleased to announce our "Cyberfeminism in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Concepts, Case Studies, Methodologies" symposium in September at Cardiff. We have a stellar lineup of speakers. Please register to attend! 🔗 cardiff.ac.uk/modern-languag…

🚨🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨🚨 📣 Call for papers 📣 👇 Submit your abstracts by the new date 👇 ⏱️ ⏱️ 30th/7/2024 ⏱️ ⏱️ Title: Affective Counter-Archives: Feeling the Global Majority Guest Editors: Sabiha Allouche & Sara Tafakori For more info 👉 tinyurl.com/MEC-Affect

My latest PassBlue: The failure of #Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian to address continued violence against women by the morality police has disillusioned voters Thanks to Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی, Sara Tafakori, Farzan Sabet & Prof Mahjoob Zweiri (محجوب الزويري ) for their insights passblue.com/2024/09/08/ira…

The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 53: Frantz Fanon in the Middle East. Download the full PDF here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studies…

I write from a double position: watching my field from afar while remaining intimately within- simultaneous nearness and distance-I ask what does it mean to think otherwise in feminist media theory?To question not just what we know but how we come to know cipgs.princeton.edu/events/imagini…

So, my first photoblog is up. There will be more to come, including political ones. For now, though, this was an obvious start but not an easy one. rolandbleiker.com/photography/po…

Gaza 2025. The highest number of child amputees. Made by Israel.

Empire kills in airstrikes and then again with language. It rewrites memory, making its own violence a source of stability, and framing war as peace. The violence isn’t just military - it’s epistemic. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s an alibi.

My interview with Australian ABC News: 1. US Involvement a win for Netanyahu and Khamenei at the expense of Iranian life and US money; 2. goal: keep Iran a radical but weak state; 3. it's distracting from genocide in Gaza; 4. WE DON'T NEED YOUR LIBERATING BOMBS. We know better.

Wrote this while the sound of explosions over Tehran was still ringing in my ears. Israel’s attack rattled me—and many across the global south, I imagine—for good. Published in Guardian Opinion: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…