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Maryam Jamshidi

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Law Prof. Interested in Intl law, national security, sanctions, & SWANA (aka the Middle East & North Africa).

  1. Israel is claiming its strike on Nasser Hospital which killed 20 ppl so far, inc 5 journalists was an “accident.” This is utterly false & contradicts Israel’s clear policy of targeting journalists - as reflected in the IDF’s Legitimization Cell - as well as the doubletap policies used in this case

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  2. What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues.

    Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.

    abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...

    Basically, it sucks.

Last week, Tuft's Dan Drezner and my GW colleague Dave Karpf published really good pieces on what it's like to be, respectively, a dean of international affairs and a professor o...

    What it's like to be a Middle East Studies professor in 2025

    Basically, it sucks. Last week, Tuft's Dan Drezner and my GW colleague Dave Karpf published really good pieces on what it's like to be, respectively, a dean of international affairs and a professor o...

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  3. Arresting people for peacefully protesting genocide famously makes your pro genocide government more popular

    A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said ‘I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’

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  4. Recently @prismreports.org has published many dispatches from Gaza, written by Palestinians surviving the genocide. All of them are heartbreaking, necessary reads. This one, written by Logain Hamdan about kids eating "ice cream" flavored with antibiotics, will stick with me for the rest of my life.

    Antibiotic “ice cream” is dangerous, but few adults can deny children this small indulgence that makes life under genocide feel worth living

    In Gaza, children eat frozen antibiotic syrups for something sweet

    Antibiotic “ice cream” is dangerous, but few adults can deny children this small indulgence that makes life under genocide feel worth living

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  5. If only western leaders were as enraged about literal kneecaping during a genocide by Zionist psychopaths as they are about a band called Kneecap speaking out against that very same grotesque genocide.

    HAARETZ
'42 knees in one day'
Israeli snipers open up about shooting Gaza protestors
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  6. Direct through line from the Associated Press refusing to clearly condemn Israel's destruction of its press office in Gaza in 2021 to today where Israel attempts to exterminate every single Palestinian journalist, even the ones who work for the Associated Press

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  7. Al-Shifa hospital director, Dr. Abu Salmiya, warns that only 6 hospitals in Gaza City are partially operating. Children in incubators & dialysis patients r at risk if evacuation is enforced. According to the doctor, the IDF is using unknown gases that are suffocating ppl via @dropsitenews.com

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  8. Journalist Ibrahim al Khalili reports on the deteriorating health condition of 7-year-old May Abu Arar, who is suffering from malnutrition as a direct result of the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

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