Feroz Khan

roti and roses. PhDing on disasters, climate change, post-growth. 🇸🇬-🇵🇰. he/him.

[PHIVOLCS-DOST @phivolcs_dost]

LOOK!!! PHIVOLCS’ Ligñon Hill IP Camera records a meteor striking the northern slopes of Mayon Volcano at 10:33 PM this evening, 25 May 2026.

#MayonVolcano

[Reshad Rahman @ReshadRahman]

Residents of Gaza have drawn Lamine Yamal with the Palestinian flag for his gesture during the parade 🇵🇸❤️

[Prometheus Magazine @prometheus_mag]

To provide some clarity about the stakes of the Iran war, and the possible shape of the emerging world to come in its wake, Prometheus Magazine has curated this roundtable with several leading intellectual forces theorising imperialism today.

https://t.co/kAcJsuqHIK

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

If I had a nickel for every smol beans “student organization” liberal zionists said was being unfairly attacked and then, after 5 secs of research, learned the “student organization” in question is providing material support to the 108th genocide brigade I’d have a lot of nickels

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

The Four Horsemen of New Atheism: Hitchens drank himself to death, Dennett actually died, Harris became a Mossad podcast, and Dawkins is getting edged by a chatbot

Twenty years of telling us we were the stupid ones

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Go back to Dubai and shut up please

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

🚨 URGENT: GSF PARTICIPANTS BRUTALIZED BY IOF AFTER 40 HOURS AT SEA 🚨

Global Sumud Flotilla participants have just survived 40 hours of calculated cruelty aboard an iOF navy vessel in Greek waters.

They were denied adequate food and water. They were forced to sleep on floors that were deliberately and repeatedly flooded.

When the military moved to abduct two participants, Saif Abukeshek (Spain / Palestinian origins) and Thiago Ávila (Brazil), our crew peacefully resisted and the response was sheer violence.

Participants were punched, kicked, and dragged across the deck with their hands bound behind their backs. They suffered broken noses, cracked ribs and bloody beatings. Shots were even fired at them in the chaos.

The nightmare isn't over. Greek police are now trapping our battered crew on buses, denying them the freedom to leave while Saif and Thiago have been abducted and taken back to Occupied Palestine.

Our participants remain unbroken: 60 participants have immediately launched a hunger strike.

This is a vicious attack on peaceful civilians. We will not look away. We demand their freedom and international accountability NOW.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚧 Barcelona’s Sants district has been brought to a standstill as protesters block major roads and intersections in solidarity with Palestinians and activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Gran Via—one of the city’s main arteries—has also been shut down, with demonstrators gathering around Estació de Sants, a key transport hub.

The action comes after Israel intercepted several flotilla vessels and detained activists aboard the civilian mission that departed Barcelona this spring to challenge the blockade of Gaza.

[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

Salams All, I’m teaching an online course for students in Gaza this summer as part of MITx’s SPOCs4Gaza initiative (small private online courses) organized by dedicated MIT grad students. We are raising funds to ensure students have data packages for internet access and to hire local Gazan TA’s.

The deadline for the fundraising campaign is this Friday, May 1. We are still $1,000 USD short of the $20,000 goal. I’m appealing in every venue I can to get us to the goal so we can meet the demand with appropriate resources.

Here is the link: https://t.co/jSWhD6rUuc

Thanks for considering supporting this initiative. There will be math and computer courses but I’ll be teaching a course on anticolonial resistance history and a colleague will be teaching one on social biography. These students have survived a genocide and are dealing with scholasticide as they try to continue their educations. We can make a little difference this way. Jazakallah! Thanks again.

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

"Still, Minab" is the single most heart-wrenching and yet life-affirming work I have ever done in my life. In this fieldwork ethnography of the Minab massacre, I conducted in-depth interviews with 35 people, including 8 families, volunteer workers in town, and local eyewitnesses.

The existing accounts of Minab in both English and Farsi language media, while valuable, remain incomplete.

This mini‑series was born from a responsibility to affirm the victims’ own voices: their lives, testimonies, and interpretations as undeniable sources of knowledge about this atrocity. It is also a commitment to them.

This commitment also makes this work freely available and accessible to all. You are welcome (and encouraged) to share and use it widely.

Here is the first episode of the ethnography of Minab—the massacre and its aftermath.

Parastesh Zaeri, 11, survived the US-Zionist attack on her school. But she does not know that her brother, Ali Asghar, 9, who came upstairs after the first explosion to look for her, did not survive.

This is Parastesh's account of what happened that day. The life of Ali Asghar. What was taken from us. And our promise and dedication to carry him forward.

"Still, Minab" honors the people of the south, holding its pain and dignity together, as a testament to the best of humanity.

/special thanks to @Jedaal & @bikrumsinghgill

Watch the first episode here:
https://t.co/K3E9o4BUOc

#StillMinab #MinabSchool

[Suburb Septembriseur @primarycatdad]

Your twenties are for struggling against the hegemonic culture you've imbibed since you were a child. Your thirties are for communist study and development. Your forties are for revolution.

[Cassi✨ @Cassitefalafele]

An apartment in Spain dice y es la putísima Casa Batlló

[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

Are you interested in doing an MA and studying history? Get in touch, esp if you have status as resident or citizen of Canada.

Queen’s department of history @queenshistory has admission spaces and some funding available. You could get a foundation in global approaches, anti-imperialist perspectives, anticolonial histories, crusades and the Islamicate world. The kinds of topics I discuss with my guests on @guerrilla_pod and The Adnan Husain Show would be explored in greater depth. What’s better than that?!

https://t.co/WRA0Vhqfau

[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

Yet Alford's short review is sensationalist and generalizing. Dare we say even a bit "orientalist"? He suggests that the literary dissertation critically analyzing Byron and his interpreters reveals "the mindset" (of Mirandi) which "is now shaping the world." How preposterous and in bad faith for a few hits and some online attention. It might be right that it reveals the mindset of orientalism and colonialist superiority that has indeed materially and ideologically shaped the world we have inherited since the Age of Empire (as Hobsbawm would put it) as well as the specific battle plans of assassinating leaders and spectacular bomb strikes on school children at the outset of the criminal aggression of the Israeli-American war on Iran. This colonialist racial thinking projected that removing the Islamic Republic of Iran's top political and military leadership on the first day-- as "oriental despots" Marandi analyzed in Byron's Two Foscari-- would simply cause social and political collapse as the masses rise up once the tyrranical leader was dead. The reverse has been the case, which they might have known had they studied any colonail history, conceptual critique of Said's theory of orientalism, any history of Iran and its revolution, or the character of modern Shi'i revolutionary theology.

But Alford is suggesting that @s_m_marandi's critique and analysis of orientalism--the academic literary study of one Iranian scholar who doesn't speak officially for the government and its decision makers even if he might have some familiarity with some figures and their views within it from his time as a translator and advisor to its nuclear negotiations a decade ago--is somehow reflective of a collective mentality. Then to say that this is shaping the world makes it seem as if somehow Iran and this unaccountably inveterate hostile criticism of the West is responsible for initiating the cataclysmic "Ramadan" war, which was started by the US and Israel as an illegal attack on a sovereign nation that posed no imminent threat. This is pretty tawdry stuff from Alford. But, it does make me want to read the dissertation.

[memudin 🇵🇸 @memudin]

"China has social credit"
Mfer... GERMANY is starving a journalist and his entire family because he reported the genocide in Gaza truthfully.

[zinah𓂆 @zhal80]

All my cats killed by Israel.

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass.

I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed.

One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.”

This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it.

From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own.

We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution.

Photos taken by me, full report incoming.

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

Remember this anecdote from Pak academic Aasim Sajjad Akhtar about observing the hundreds of Cuban doctors sent to Pak Kashmir after 2005 earthquake. While Pakistani doctors stayed in the most expensive hotels, Cuban doctors stayed in ordinary places near camps. The locals were

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s.

The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc.

SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core.

https://t.co/21awBtifPu