Laura Fish

PhD Middle East Studies; Acquisitions Editor at Syracuse University Press; Filmfarsi fangirl; friend to cats; she/her; tweets my own

[Laura Fish @LauraFish6]

Tip for scholars/authors transliterating Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish to Latin letters:
ع renders as ʿ
ء renders as ʾ
In Word, go to Insert>Symbol, then for ع/ʿ find code 02BF and for ء/ʾ find code 02BE. Keep those in your Recently used. Please 🙏. Stop using apostrophes!!!

[Najat @theafroaussie]

Nearly 30,000 people were slaughtered in three days, in El Fasher, Sudan.
Because the UAE won’t stop arming the RSF.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Yesterday, when it broke the ceasefire, Israel killed 36 Palestinian civilians.
The 36 people include two entire families.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Israel informed the US ahead of Gaza attacks that killed 28 civilians, most of them children, Israeli media says.

https://t.co/EC1MJdlfVx

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Update:

Israel killed 24 people in Gaza today.

[Laura Fish @LauraFish6]

Yay to @FadiZaghmout on all the lovely reviews coming in for his book The Man of Middling Height and this lil feature: https://t.co/4wIjchjtx8

[Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine @nour_odeh]

Every one of these victims thought they had survived the genocide only to be killed in a “ceasefire”

[Mohanad Hashim @moehash1]

This is how bad it is. Survivors say men are put on trucks and taken away. Here, hundreds of men are held by the RSF.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

All eyes on Al Fasher. 2000 people killed in 48 hours. Complete silence from mainstream and even leftist media.

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

Please send prayers and healing to our family - our team at The Sameer Project, our partners at TechMed. There was an immense loss overnight. During the “ceasefire” an entire multi generational family bombed, stolen from us.

No one is safe until the occupation falls. May Allah show mercy and accept our martyrs. Glory to our martyrs. From the young to the elderly, taken from us.

Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal-Wakeel.

[Laura Fish @LauraFish6]

Not sure who's left here, but I'll be at MESA to meet with prospective authors in most fields related to Middle East Studies. If you'll be there in person, I'd love to meet with you and talk publishing (https://t.co/2fbRNHsLi1); if you won't be there in person, email me to Zoom!

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, Fitzcarraldo is making the ebook of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anon collective, available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

[Andrew Simon @simongandrew]

A great opportunity for Middle East scholars looking to workshop their first book!

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.

I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025

This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

هذه وصيّتي، ورسالتي الأخيرة.
إن وصلَتكم كلماتي هذه، فاعلموا أن إسرائيل قد نجحت في قتلي وإسكات صوتي.
بداية السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

يعلم الله أنني بذلت كل ما أملك من جهدٍ وقوة، لأكون سندًا وصوتًا لأبناء شعبي، مذ فتحت عيني على الحياة في أزقّة وحارات مخيّم جباليا للاجئين، وكان أملي أن يمدّ الله في عمري حتى أعود مع أهلي وأحبّتي إلى بلدتنا الأصلية عسقلان المحتلة "المجدل" لكن مشيئة الله كانت أسبق، وحكمه نافذ.
عشتُ الألم بكل تفاصيله، وذُقت الوجع والفقد مرارًا، ورغم ذلك لم أتوانَ يومًا عن نقل الحقيقة كما هي، بلا تزوير أو تحريف، عسى أن يكون الله شاهدًا على من سكتوا ومن قبلوا بقتلنا، ومن حاصروا أنفاسنا ولم تُحرّك أشلاء أطفالنا ونسائنا في قلوبهم ساكنًا ولم يُوقِفوا المذبحة التي يتعرّض لها شعبنا منذ أكثر من عام ونصف.

أوصيكم بفلسطين، درةَ تاجِ المسلمين، ونبضَ قلبِ كلِّ حرٍّ في هذا العالم.
أوصيكم بأهلها، وبأطفالها المظلومين الصغار، الذين لم يُمهلهم العُمرُ ليحلموا ويعيشوا في أمانٍ وسلام،
فقد سُحِقَت أجسادهم الطاهرة بآلاف الأطنان من القنابل والصواريخ الإسرائيلية، فتمزّقت، وتبعثرت أشلاؤهم على الجدران.

أوصيكم ألّا تُسكتكم القيود، ولا تُقعِدكم الحدود، وكونوا جسورًا نحو تحرير البلاد والعباد، حتى تشرق شمسُ الكرامة والحرية على بلادنا السليبة.
أُوصيكم بأهلي خيرًا،
أوصيكم بقُرّة عيني، ابنتي الحبيبة شام، التي لم تسعفني الأيّام لأراها تكبر كما كنتُ أحلم.

وأوصيكم بابني الغالي صلاح، الذي تمنيت أن أكون له عونًا ورفيق دربٍ حتى يشتدّ عوده، فيحمل عني الهمّ، ويُكمل الرسالة.

أوصيكم بوالدتي الحبيبة، التي ببركة دعائها وصلتُ لما وصلت إليه، وكانت دعواتها حصني، ونورها طريقي.
أدعو الله أن يُربط على قلبها، ويجزيها عنّي خير الجزاء.

وأوصيكم كذلك برفيقة العمر، زوجتي الحبيبة أم صلاح بيان، التي فرّقتنا الحرب لأيامٍ وشهورٍ طويلة، لكنها بقيت على العهد، ثابتة كجذع زيتونة لا ينحني، صابرة محتسبة، حملت الأمانة في غيابي بكلّ قوّة وإيمان.

أوصيكم أن تلتفوا حولهم، وأن تكونوا لهم سندًا بعد الله عز وجل.
إن متُّ، فإنني أموت ثابتًا على المبدأ، وأُشهد الله أني راضٍ بقضائه، مؤمنٌ بلقائه، ومتيقّن أن ما عند الله خيرٌ وأبقى.

اللهم تقبّلني في الشهداء، واغفر لي ما تقدّم من ذنبي وما تأخّر، واجعل دمي نورًا يُضيء درب الحرية لشعبي وأهلي.
سامحوني إن قصّرت، وادعوا لي بالرحمة، فإني مضيتُ على العهد، ولم أُغيّر ولم أُبدّل.

لا تنسوا غزة…
ولا تنسوني من صالح دعائكم بالمغفرة والقبول.
أنس جمال الشريف
06.04.2025

هذا ما أوصى بنشره الحبيب الغالي أنس عند استشهاده.
إدارة الصفحة

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital https://t.co/MMKatjgeAa

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Both the famines in Palestine and Sudan have crossed beyond stage 5. This means they’ve reached a level of no return. Beyond fixation. The starvation has changed the very genetics of our people. I will never forgive the world for what it allowed to happen. We are beyond tired.

[Andrew Berzanskis @ABerzanskis]

ICYMI:

@OUPress has an opening for an Editorial, Design, and Production manager.

We have some great projects in the pipeline. Come make books with us!

Link for additional job and application information in the thread:

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If you are Israeli & you kill a Palestinian on camera, u won’t be put in jail.

If you are Palestinian & u get shot on your own property, the Israeli army will block ambulances for hours until you die in front of your family.

Not so complicated after all. It’s called apartheid.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

Every editor who canceled a story about Palestine brought us here. Every boss who censored an employee. Everyone who said “not this way” to protesters. Every university admin calling the cops. Bloody. All your hands are bloody, and we will never forget.

[Laura Fish @LauraFish6]

This is, as one of the would-be contributors puts it, “incredibly shameful.”

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

But on 9 June, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the journal’s publisher, abruptly canceled the release. In an email to the issue’s contributors, the publisher cited “a number of complex issues”

https://t.co/KwYp7LXtph