Historian of 🇩🇿 | editor @meriponline @jadaliyya | Director @CMENA_UCSC | 📖 Markets of Civilization @DukePress | history, politics, theory, cats
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Feb 18
I sometimes forget to post on here these days, but I wrote a piece about a wonderful Algerian historian who I sadly never got to meet in person. His work has so much to teach us about the relationship between social justice and anti-colonial revolution.
Feb 12
"Harbi’s writings also illustrated a model of internationalism that refused to accept the authoritarian nature of specific nationalist projects, even if these projects were based on anti-imperialist principles." - @MuriamDavis jacobin.com/2026/02/mohammed…
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Jan 8
Hey @airfrance, the 19th Century called and they want their Orientalist clichés back. Is Delacroix your marketing director?
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Jan 5
Yesterday was the anniversary of Camus' death: In 1964, while living in Paris, 🇵🇰 Pakistani artist Sadequain Naqqash was commissioned to produce lithographs for a special edition of Camus' L’ Étranger.
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3/ In one of his rubaiyat he wrote: “Har chand ke hai Marx ka hi khabt mujhe/ Abjad ki nigarish pe nahin zabt mujhe/ Ishq aur virasat hi ki majboori men/ Khataati-e-ayat se hai rabt mujhe.”
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4/ "Although Marx remains my obsession/ I cannot control the alphabetical description/ Indeed due to my passion and patrimony/ With the calligraphy of the Quranic verses I have a connection."
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17 Dec 2025
I recently wrote a piece on how Algerian communists and Trotskyists critically engaged with Fanon's writings under Ben Bella (1962-1965) for @ROAPEjournal. '‘A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962' - tinyurl.com/5xa9rbtk
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26 Feb 2025
NEWS: MERIP Welcomes Yaman Salahi to our Board of Directors. Yaman is the founder of Salahi PC, a mission-drive law firm that pursues class action and individual litigation for social and economic justice. We are thrilled to be working with Yaman and relying on his expertise!
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22 Feb 2025
Happening Monday!
We are excited to be hosting M'hamed Oualdi and Shreya Parikh for a discussion on the study of race and racism in the Mediterranean from the 18th Century to the present. 24 February, 10 am (PST) on Zoom.
We hope to see you then!
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15 Feb 2025
It is hard to express how excited I am for this announcement! 🥳 ♥️
@CMENA_UCSC is hosting a Raï concert in Santa Cruz (California, not Oran!) on 23 May. 🇩🇿
Please share with friends and join us if you live in the area!
Our ♥️ Valentine’s Day surprise !
📢 Cheb Nasro, one of the 💫 legends of “Romantic Raï,” will be coming to Santa Cruz for a concert on May 23rd at 7pm!! 🎶🇩🇿 🔥
Book your tickets through the @kuumbwajazz website (link in comments ⬇️).
@chebnasro11 @ucsc @UCSCTHI
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5 Feb 2025
Looking forward to this timely discussion between @shreya_parikh and M'hamed Oualdi! Two amazing scholars of North Africa who have much to teach us about the history and politics of race and racism in the Mediterranean.
We are excited to be hosting M'hamed Oualdi and Shreya Parikh for a discussion on the study of race and racism in the Mediterranean from the 18th Century to the present. 24 February, 10 am (PST) on Zoom.
We hope to see you then!
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We are excited to be hosting M'hamed Oualdi and Shreya Parikh for a discussion on the study of race and racism in the Mediterranean from the 18th Century to the present. 24 February, 10 am (PST) on Zoom.
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30 Jan 2025
This is a fantastic issue of @meriponline!
29 Jan 2025
Resistance -- The Axis and Beyond is out NOW.
Middle East Report 313 features a kaleidoscopic set of perspectives on military and non-military resistance to Israel's campaign in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Read, share and let us know what you think!
bit.ly/4aEYBrt
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29 Jan 2025
Anti-Nazi poster printed in the Algerian journal AnNasr (June 1943) showing Saladin (Salah ad-Din) slaying a swastika “the enemy of all religions”.
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28 Jan 2025
"The finance-capitalist conjuncture raises the crises of capitalism in normal times to brave new heights."
@jacobin published a short extract from my recent with @VersoBooks, The Master's Tools.
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27 Jan 2025
My first foray into Urdu sources out in the world 😬! The chapter details how pan-Arabist 🇸🇾 poets, Pakistani 🇵🇰 leftists, and Indian 🇮🇳 diplomats viewed the Algerian Revolution (alongside Palestine and Kashmir in the 1960s).
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27 Jan 2025
Some of my favorite highlights are Faiz Ahmad Faiz's 1963 trip to Algeria, and the renaming of the Jeanne d'Arc school in Damascus as the Djamila Bouhired School (which allegedly inspired Darwish's poem on the famed moudjahida).
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23 Jan 2025
Can't wait to read! Mabrouk @sdfahrenthold :)
22 Jan 2025
Teaching seminar on histories of the working class in the Middle East. Gorgeous book @sdfahrenthold 💫
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