Mohja Kahf

د.مهجة قحف
Poet. Academic. Feminist. Immigrant. Nonviolent sumud for human rights Syria Palestine Sudan. U.S
she/هي
Views my own &do not reflect any institution

[لولوة الخاطر Lolwah Alkhater @Lolwah_Alkhater]

#WomensDay

Happy Women’s Day to all women wherever they are, those who are striving for their families, to survive, to make this planet a better and more peaceful place.

As a Muslim woman and as an Arab woman I just want to say:

STOP 🛑

STOP talking on our behalf

STOP using us as an excuse for your sick destructive agendas

STOP your baseless claims that you want to LIBERATE us.

Just STOP ✋

No one needs you to liberate them, we just need you to leave us alone. To stop igniting wars so that weapons’ companies can make more money. We need you to #Stop_Bombing_Schools, to stop trafficking and raping little kids.

It’s not our fault that you screwed in school and got your education through Hollywood movies, the world is not a movie, this is not a “call of duty” game, these are human souls, God’s creation if you truly believe in one.

Please STOP liberating us, just LEAVE US ALONE and we will be just fine 🕊️

[Mohja Kahf @ProfKahf]

I can deplore Iran's war on the Syrian people for the disgusting assad regime, and Iran's horrid foreign & domestic policies, and still deplore this illegal, unconstitutional, unconscionable war on Iran by Israel and the U.S. WAR is NOT the WAY

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Mohja Kahf @ProfKahf]

"Leaving the confines of academic walls is an act of resistance" esp for the anti-racist & willing to uphold Palestinian rights as human rights as this courageous author - read the essay

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Hey all, if you're interested, I wrote abt how & why I'm leaving 'traditional' academia & what this next chapter means for me (& you). Being a public historian is a blessing & curse but I hope to make things more accessible so hear me out. #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/ZY1S0GW0tG

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

lol completely inaccurate but bold enough to call me "clinically insane"

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

In the @washingtonpost today, we have published every one of the 18,500 known names of children killed by Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

She took the concept of central heat and made it better. Her patented made a more efficient gas-powered, zonal heating system in 1919. Her design was one of the first to use natural gas to generate heat, featuring pipes that distributed warm air throughout a home. 
#BlackHistory

[ⲁϣⲣⲓ ⲅⲟⲣⲧⲉ 🌺 @Ashri_Gorte]

In Sudan, starvation is not a side effect of war. It is a deliberate tactic. Food routes are blocked, aid is looted, survival is rationed. When hunger is controlled, resistance weakens, obedience is easier to enforce, and silence becomes a weapon.

[ARJusticeReform @ArReform]

Winter Clothing needed
Drop-off anytime, day or night:
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OR
-205 N College Ave (AJRC office) 10am to 2pm Monday to Friday or give us a call and set up a time to drop off 479.345.1150

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

The University of Alabama’s suspension of student-run magazines Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six is a blow to student press freedom. These publications have the First Amendment right to be free of viewpoint-based discrimination, yet UA is explicitly citing their viewpoints to justify killing their publications.

No federal anti-discrimination law gives the university the power to silence student media it dislikes. Calling the magazines’ content an “unlawful proxy” is baseless. This is an attack on the student press, plain and simple.

FIRE demands that UA immediately reinstate both publications.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

On 10 October 2025, Israeli forces raided the home of Rabee’ Abu Na’im, a father of three and a human rights activist from the village of al-Mughayyir in the Ramallah District. Following his arrest, Abu Na’im was issued an administrative detention order.

On 17 November 2025, Israeli forces arrested Ayman Ghrayeb, a human rights activist from Tammun, while he was visiting the community of al-Fasayil in the Jordan Valley, which is under threat of expulsion. For two days he was forcibly disappeared before his lawyers were given any information of his whereabouts. He was arrested on allegations of “incitement.”
During his detention, Ghrayeb was held outdoors without shelter, shackled, and denied food. He was severely beaten by soldiers and required hospitalization twice. This week, Ghrayeb was issued an administrative detention order.

Administrative detention is carried out without any judicial process, based solely on an order signed by the head of the relevant regional command and on evidence withheld from the detainee. This procedure denies detainees any opportunity to defend themselves and inflicts severe harm, leaving them powerless in the face of unspecified allegations they cannot refute, with no knowledge of when they might be released, and without charge, trial, or conviction.

Abu Na’im and Ghrayeb were arrested due to their outspoken work opposing the expulsion of Palestinian communities in Area C. In the past two years, more than 44 such communities across the West Bank have been uprooted. Human rights activists – particularly Palestinians – face ongoing harassment and frequent arbitrary arrests by Israeli forces. Their administrative detention is intended to silence them, intimidate others, and prevent reporting on Israel’s actions.

All of this is part of Israel’s broader policy of oppression and dispossession of Palestinians, carried out within the framework of the ethnic cleansing it is implementing in the West Bank.

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

READ: Palestinians displaced from refugee camps in the northern West Bank are demanding to return to their homes after an Israeli military takeover of the camps, and they fear that proposed U.S. plans for rebuilding the camps will completely erase them.
https://t.co/tiliCQMU0k

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

BREAKING: Charges against indie videojournalist Samuel Seligson DROPPED.

First, judge vacated a terrorism charge for lack of grounds, then today dismissed felony charges, with DA offering ACD (impending dismissal) for misdemeanor criminal mischief.

Comment from lawyer Ron Kuby:

[S A M A H𓃰❁ @SimsimAlbadri]

Muammer was kidnapped by the UAE-funded RSF

Muammer was kidnapped by the UAE-funded RSF

Muammer was kidnapped by the UAE-funded RSF

Muammer was kidnapped by the UAE-funded RSF

Muammer was kidnapped by the UAE-funded RSF.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Mohja Kahf @ProfKahf]

Sarah Cypher's novel The Skin & Its Girl is my top pick for READ PALESTINE WEEK 29 Nov-5 Dec
Imagining #QueerPalestinian futures
Queering the #Nakba
#FreePalestine
#speculativefiction
@mykali_mag @TheMarkazReview

[Mohja Kahf @ProfKahf]

Christians smtimes come into my U of Arkansas classroom saying anti-Semitic things-I teach them how NOT to be antisemitic. Ironic how this task falls on an Arab who believes in #FreePalestine from the river to the sea with equality for ALL #ZionismIsApartheid #GazaGenocide

[Mohja Kahf @ProfKahf]

Like most who want #FreePalestine, I teach against ACTUAL anti-Semitism while demanding Zionist accountability for #GazaGenocide
I said it in 2017: https://t.co/drwoL41gb8 & I say it now

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

They’re whitewashing history in real time

[Mohja Kahf @ProfKahf]

Admins deny this is happening, but the word "queer" is indeed quietly being scrubbed from course titles & lecture titles at the University of Arkansas #uark

Orwellian much?
#AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech
Say it with me: #QUEER

[Mohja Kahf @ProfKahf]

Critical race theory (thank you Kimberlé Crenshaw n all!) banned by the Arkansas LEARNS Act upheld 2025 for K-12 but not supposed to be banned in higher ed-but my colleague was taken off a course for teaching it at #uark #AcademicFreedom Will faculty have a say?