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mostly here to circulate donations or book recs these days

please donate to the fundraiser in my pinned tweet.

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Check out this history of sinai during ww1, British colonialism in Egypt, and a brief conceptual exploration of what a “frontier” is.

[Cosmonaut ☭ @CosmonautMag]

An ambiguous frontier territory throughout British occupation, KC explores the transformation of the Sinai through the course of WWI into a cornerstone of Egyptian nationalism that nonetheless retains its status as a marginalized borderland.
https://t.co/FxJ7ULZ980

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@AkramYarism Alfred Sohn Rethel

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@gabrielwinant I can send you the pdfs if you'd like!

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a cluster of new lefty labor history books covering oil in the Gulf. someone should write a review essay of them.

- Atabaki, Toiling for Oil
- Brew, Petroleum and Progress in Iran
- Boodrookas, Comrades Estranged
- Ghrawi, Saudi Arabia's Urban Revolution
- Wright, Unruly Labor

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@damashummus agreed. I've enjoyed what i've read so far (first few chapters)

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@mahdizda I really liked it. Much more of a geographic focus, but pretty interesting study of the saudi labor movements and its fragmentation.

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first covers oil in iran, more of a 'history from below', the second through the POV of cold war geopolitics 'from above.' Third is an interesting history of race and working class divisions in the Gulf, the fourth covers sectarianism and the fifth on imperial labor regimes.

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before someone says "why don't you write it" have you considered i'm busy bedrotting

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

Dear friends, I am so proud to share the trailer for our very first documentary feature film 🥹🫶 I sincerely hope that you watch, share, and consider making a contribution to our efforts to bring this beautiful film to a truly global audience: https://t.co/YVEJQoxt6i

[The Contrapuntal @TheContrapuntal]

A must-read | Hadi al-‘Alawi wove together Marx, Sufism, and Taoism, and lived what he wrote. A portrait of the Iraqi thinker who chose exile over silence and whose questions still matter to a generation shaped by the Arab Spring. https://t.co/2QspNjmQ44

[ChinaVapeTricks @ChinaVapeTricks]

People should read Zavala but they really also should read this. Very fine tunely shows how cartels grew out of and still operate through Mexican and US states relationship to the drug trade.

[Mahmoud 1999 @mobSlma]

💔 Only $200 left to raise!

My brother Mohammed is still suffering from his war injury and severe pain. He desperately needs medication and wound dressings, but we cannot afford them.

Please help us raise the remaining amount. Even $5 can make a huge difference. Please don't leave my brother to suffer alone💔
https://t.co/WMC5TMjOOQ

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Big capital is historically progressive against white chavs and hicks exhibit 72746382

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

this will go down in economic history as the singularly stupid self-destruction of a lucrative export sector driven by the hysteria of getting migrant numbers dwon

https://t.co/KQs6E5W7hw

[Dilawar Karwan @RashmanTheHorse]

MUG has a tendency of ridiculous overreach to coddle certain members. After @CosmonautMag reprinted my essay about the Zionist Para State, the same MUG members who just expelled @theatheistomar threw a fit and essentially demanded that I be banned from Cosmo.

Note that I've never once been a MUG member, so I've never been bound by any of their rules, written or otherwise. I was (and am) not bound by any DSA rules since I had been expelled prior to the Cosmo piece. Furthermore, Cosmo has been officially separate from MUG for yrs. In fact, the function of Cosmo has always been to stir debate within the left, however controversial. Apparently MUG didn't like that. Interesting how both cases targeted brown men of Muslim background...

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started reading Touraj Atabaki's 'Toiling for Oil.' Rly solid book, i like it a lot so far.

[Fugs 🇵🇸🇾🇪🇱🇧🔻 @FugeusRedux]

Tbh a lot of “why are British Muslims like this?” stuff is a little bit dodgy even from a secular perspective

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@thundergoat22 I read it in 2024 but reading in a group seems fun

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Locked in

[Gavin Jacobson @GavJacobson]

This @Equatormag reading group is going to be 🔥.

Join Karl Ove Knausgård, Rachel Kushner, Pankaj Mishra, Vinson Cunningham, Brenda Lozano, Francisco Goldman, Natasha Wimmer, and others as we grapple with Bolaño's sprawling masterpiece.

Book your spot: https://t.co/WdxuJpNWdy

[Historical Materialism Journal @histmat]

A Thank You Note From The Organisers Of The 2026 Historical Materialism London Conference
https://t.co/iKoU9NsMmB