Hatim El-Hibri sayshatim.bsky.social
@says_hatim
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Film and Media Studies, George Mason U. opinions mine. check out my book https://t.co/2xZYqV29i8…
Joined May 2021
CfP: Cartographies of Platform Labour in the Digital City 5th–7th November 2025. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Madrid, Spain). Deadline for submission: 30th September 2025. https://t.co/EbPPWVjcc9
#urban #sociology
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Very happy to see my essay on Mohamed Zayani and @joekhalil's The Digital Double Bind is now out!
@joekhalil "A New Footing for the Study of Digital Media in the Arab World," from @says_hatim
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@LamiaMoubayed Dig into @rjsalame’s deep-dive for a cautionary saga of ambition, patronage, & the experiment that economist @SamiZog called “one of the worst examples of donor interventions in Lebanon”: https://t.co/IgMvxbm3yo
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We write with deep concern about the apparent targeting of two George Mason students for their advocacy for Palestinian human rights. We are particularly concerned by the decision to impose a criminal trespass order against these students without a full investigation or even a
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Violent raid of GMU Palestinian students home for hitherto unsubstantiated minor infractions—raid was executed as though the students were drug lords. Read the details below.
theintercept.com
Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.
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There are now two drones whirring over Campus. They are recording our collective annoyance at this stupid harassment. I cannot imagine what else there is to see at AUB 🤷🏽♀️
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Call for abstracts! The Arab Council for the Social Sciences is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Conference, “Devastation, Imaginaries and Knowledge: Regional Junctures and Global Repercussions”. Beirut, Lebanon | May 15-18, 2025. More information: https://t.co/dzEEpmrdCe
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A note of appreciation for all the amazing journalists in #Lebanon continuing to report + write amidst the madness. Some to follow: @chehayebk
@GebeilyM
@NadaOHomsi
@will_christou
@nabihbulos
@MaucourantNada
@ThePublicSource
@JustinSalhani
@matnashed Gems.
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"Smuggled cellphones and clandestine communication strategies are part of a long history of prison resistance in Lebanon and the region. Like texts and audio recordings that are covertly smuggled out of prisons, they allow prisoners vital communication with the world beyond bars.
a piece on Cell Phones Behind Bars in Lebanon I put together for @meriponline 312 Fall Issue ‘Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams’ https://t.co/xKvu5Ph85B
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a great thread on a wide-ranging disinfo campaign aimed in part at Lebanon
🧵🚨(1/16) In Oct 2023, Billboard emerged across Lebanon with the slogan “Lebanon does not want war.” While seemingly neutral on the surface, the campaign was part of a multimillionaire dollar info op designed to frame Hezbollah as chief antagonists (as opposed Israel)
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Beirut, 2 strikes now. A building collapsed in a “safe” area. IAF will have killed dozens, it will be reported a “success”, western media will say “targeted”, the US will send more bombs to eliminate terrorism. We will all die as collateral damage for their racist hallucinations.
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Apply, and share widely!
The organizing team of the 2025 CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference is seeking papers, films, artworks, or reflections that explore the theme, "Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies." Submissions are due by December 15, 2024 https://t.co/mNdj06dcNy .
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Read @warghetti in the latest issue of @TheMarkazReview "No, the problem isn’t with language. It’s that some of us are so deliberately dehumanized that no description of the barbaric manner of our suffering or deaths could suffice to prove our humanity." https://t.co/JHW7ZNNnBb
themarkaz.org
Senior editor Lina Mounzer struggles to find the words to describe the horror of the past year, and hopelessness as we confront endless war.
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Ahdaf Soueif has translated Muin Bseiso and Mahmoud Darwish's joint poem "A Letter to an Israeli Soldier" written during the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. I wrote a short introduction.
Poetry in the face of history: Letter to an Israeli soldier
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Please consider and think carefully that the editor of perhaps the most important urban studies journal in the world is living in a city presently under massive bombardment by genocidaires
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there are entire worlds that persist where wars take place. this beautiful thread by @mu_kha2 gives a sense of what they are like. her book is even better
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However bad things get for Lebanese in Lebanon, there is an entire strata of migrant workers who are in an even worse situation (displaced people and refugees are also in a bad situation)
Migrant workers gathered near the #Corniche, with some belongings packed in plastic bags, after fleeing the #IsraeliAggression on their own. Their landlords left, leaving them to their fate in the war. #Lebanon #Beirut Correction: The exact location is Ramlet El Bayda not Ain El
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Solid, liquid, gas - the elemental philosophy of the brutally stupid
The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote on X, “I keep reading everywhere that Lebanon is 'on the brink of collapse.' No. It is on the brink of relief and deliverance.” Moments like this come once in a generation, if they even come at all. The Middle East is too often a solid
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