Dr Katherine Blouin
@isisnaucratis.bsky.social
History+ancient Lands+Beings; Prof. @UofT
/@UTSC; 12th generation French settler; YQB born CAI love; I decipher power; EverydayOrientalism; past=now; مصر دائما 🐍; I also draw; #Landback
/@UTSC; 12th generation French settler; YQB born CAI love; I decipher power; EverydayOrientalism; past=now; مصر دائما 🐍; I also draw; #Landback
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Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
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Full, deranged story of how anti-military industrial complex protesters in Southern Ontario are being terrorized by police who apparently have no other way to waste public resources:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Police charge four more people linked to downtown anti-war protest | CBC News
London police have laid more charges and continue to ask for help from the public in their investigation into a downtown anti-war protest that happened in late October.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Full, deranged story of how anti-military industrial complex protesters in Southern Ontario are being terrorized by police who apparently have no other way to waste public resources:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Same with a student admitted into Windsor's Law's LLM program. The federal government's refusal to assist these students is unconscionable.
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
![Student accepted into UNB grad program stranded in Gaza awaiting Canadian study permit [video]
Advocates say Ottawa lacks the political will to evacuate more than 130 Palestinian students admitted to universities across the country
by David Gordon Koch November 26, 2025 Reading Time: 6min read](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreidrainynrwaullbjg2npno3eu2zkyfldwkhuo7p4f2rwjycf4ivha@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Same with a student admitted into Windsor's Law's LLM program. The federal government's refusal to assist these students is unconscionable.
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As the story explains with horrifying examples, this is literally a question of life and death. The student has done everything possible. The university has actually done its part.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
As the story explains with horrifying examples, this is literally a question of life and death. The student has done everything possible. The university has actually done its part.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
The Canadian government is choosing this. If he dies the government is accessory to murder.
Huge congrats to @smohyeddin.bsky.social for this more-than-deserved prize!
Samira Mohyeddin has won the 2025 Ken Filkow Prize, which recognizes those whose work has advanced freedom of expression in Canada.
Mohyeddin will receive the prize in Toronto on Friday, November 28, 2025 at the annual PEN Canada Awards Night.
Mohyeddin will receive the prize in Toronto on Friday, November 28, 2025 at the annual PEN Canada Awards Night.
Samira Mohyeddin awarded 2025 Ken Filkow Prize - PEN Canada
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November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Huge congrats to @smohyeddin.bsky.social for this more-than-deserved prize!
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As winter sets in, Israel is still throttling all kinds of aid including food and warm things. Press can’t go in. Sick children can’t leave. It’s a slower genocide; it’s still genocide.
Gaza: Heavy rain floods camps as UN warns of ‘bleak’ situation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/heavy-rain-floods-gaza-displacement-camps-un-warns-bleak-situation
Heavy rain floods Gaza displacement camps as UN warns of ‘bleak’ situation
Winter looms over 1.7 million displaced people as Israeli siege fuels shortages of shelter, food and medical supplies
www.middleeasteye.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
As winter sets in, Israel is still throttling all kinds of aid including food and warm things. Press can’t go in. Sick children can’t leave. It’s a slower genocide; it’s still genocide.
🏺The conference "Urban Heritage in Crisis in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine" was SO special!
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🏺The conference "Urban Heritage in Crisis in Egypt, Sudan & Palestine" was SO special!
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
🙏Huge thanks to @gmandreou.bsky.social
@archaeologuest.bsky.social & Noha Abou-Khatwa for being a dream team
📽️Recordings coming up on Everyday Orientalism
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
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See our full statement on how @asor-research.bsky.social continues to flout international law, platforming and legitimizing Israeli archaeologists knowingly participating in war crimes.
drive.google.com/file/d/1id36... #asor2025
drive.google.com/file/d/1id36... #asor2025
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
See our full statement on how @asor-research.bsky.social continues to flout international law, platforming and legitimizing Israeli archaeologists knowingly participating in war crimes.
drive.google.com/file/d/1id36... #asor2025
drive.google.com/file/d/1id36... #asor2025
Just as ASOR's conference ends, Israel goes ahead with its plan to steal yet more Palestinian heritage: The site of Sebastia 1/
KONSYSE: Israeli authorities have advanced a plan to seize about 1800 dunams of land around the Sebastia archaeological zone. Thousands of olive trees and land privately owned by Palestinians may be affected.
Israel Moves to Seize Major Archaeological Site in the West Bank — Konsyse
Sebastia, a site of biblical and Roman significance, is set for partial expropriation under Israeli plans.
www.konsyse.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Just as ASOR's conference ends, Israel goes ahead with its plan to steal yet more Palestinian heritage: The site of Sebastia 1/
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Shadi Alzaqzouq is one of 20 Palestinian artists whose work will be featured in All Eyes on Palestine - an exhibition that opens on 11th December in Athens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBcp...
The Art of Not Belonging: Shadi Alzaqzouq’s Incredible Journey
YouTube video by DiEM25
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Shadi Alzaqzouq is one of 20 Palestinian artists whose work will be featured in All Eyes on Palestine - an exhibition that opens on 11th December in Athens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBcp...
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El Jones - Disturbing the Peace
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
El Jones - Disturbing the Peace
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
“And they should all be in a cell
As a prelude to their time in hell
Instead they lounge inside hotels
And backslap other clientele
Who pledge loyalty to Israel
And sign their names upon the shells
That land on hospitals and wells
Eternal war is what they sell”
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
The professor invited by UBC describes his work as an "archaeology of military occupation”, cites Foucault, but does not see the contradictions of working on an archaeological site built on ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village and next to one of the largest prisons for Palestinians👇
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The professor invited by UBC describes his work as an "archaeology of military occupation”, cites Foucault, but does not see the contradictions of working on an archaeological site built on ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village and next to one of the largest prisons for Palestinians👇
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Canadians have such limited understanding of what happened to Irish people during the Troubles and in its long colonial lead up.
#HumanRights #CivilRights #Militarization #ChildhoodTrauma
#HumanRights #CivilRights #Militarization #ChildhoodTrauma
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Canadians have such limited understanding of what happened to Irish people during the Troubles and in its long colonial lead up.
#HumanRights #CivilRights #Militarization #ChildhoodTrauma
#HumanRights #CivilRights #Militarization #ChildhoodTrauma
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This thorough discussion of the way that these archaeologists use concepts such as carcerality as career boosters to make the Roman past seem 'relevant' while contributing to the erasure of Israeli state violence against Palestinians, shows that heritage is powerful, in service of power
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This thorough discussion of the way that these archaeologists use concepts such as carcerality as career boosters to make the Roman past seem 'relevant' while contributing to the erasure of Israeli state violence against Palestinians, shows that heritage is powerful, in service of power
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
🐦🔎The University of British Columbia hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp: Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
sparrows4palestine.substack.com/p/ubc-hosts-...
UBC hosts talk on excavation conducted next to Israeli torture camp
Megiddo is the site of one of the largest torture camps for Palestinians; the dig is right next to the prison
sparrows4palestine.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
When I was under 1, my dad was arrested in the UK. As was the standard procedure, he had the beating of his life and was left on a cell floor to reflect on the errors of his ways. He got 3 years in a max security jail. One of the men arrested with him died on hunger strike.
Will anyone at this year's conference ask for ASOR to be held to account for its active complicity with the archaeology-washing of apartheid and genocide in Palestine? How are they complicit, you might ask? Here's a refresher 🧵 1/
The ASOR 2025 Annual Meeting begins today in Boston & online! Join scholars for 4 days of sessions, workshops, and celebration—starting tonight with the Opening & Plenary Session feat. Dr. Timothy P. Harrison.
Welcome to #ASOR25, celebrating 125 years of archaeological research and collaboration.
Welcome to #ASOR25, celebrating 125 years of archaeological research and collaboration.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Will anyone at this year's conference ask for ASOR to be held to account for its active complicity with the archaeology-washing of apartheid and genocide in Palestine? How are they complicit, you might ask? Here's a refresher 🧵 1/
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These Saudi motherfuckers need to be brought to heel.
Another unrelenting side effect of British and French imperial bullshit in the Arab world.
Another unrelenting side effect of British and French imperial bullshit in the Arab world.
"A top Turkish official, presidential adviser Yasin Aktay, has said he believes Jamal Khashoggi's body was dissolved in acid after being cut up" www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
These Saudi motherfuckers need to be brought to heel.
Another unrelenting side effect of British and French imperial bullshit in the Arab world.
Another unrelenting side effect of British and French imperial bullshit in the Arab world.
"A top Turkish official, presidential adviser Yasin Aktay, has said he believes Jamal Khashoggi's body was dissolved in acid after being cut up" www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"A top Turkish official, presidential adviser Yasin Aktay, has said he believes Jamal Khashoggi's body was dissolved in acid after being cut up" www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
"From Cairo’s parade routes to Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exhibition halls, the Egyptian past is staged as an investment asset or negotiating chip in diplomatic relations. The real cost—displacement, demolition, and historical loss—is treated as collateral."
By appointing Khaled El-Enany as head, UNESCO proves heritage has become spectacle and soft power for the institution, argues Mohamed Elshahed ⬇️
From UNESCO to GEM, Egypt hides a dark side to grand archaeology
By appointing Khaled El-Enany as head, UNESCO proves heritage has become spectacle & soft power for the institution, argues Mohamed Elshahed.
www.newarab.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"From Cairo’s parade routes to Louvre Abu Dhabi’s exhibition halls, the Egyptian past is staged as an investment asset or negotiating chip in diplomatic relations. The real cost—displacement, demolition, and historical loss—is treated as collateral."
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IDF soldiers should not be allowed to launder a genocide on Canadian campuses. youtu.be/Ya-auhpLKKY?...
ISRAELI SOLDIER MANHANDLES TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
YouTube video by ON THE LINE MEDIA
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
IDF soldiers should not be allowed to launder a genocide on Canadian campuses. youtu.be/Ya-auhpLKKY?...
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Absolutely beautiful
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Absolutely beautiful
Toronto city hall this morning ❤️🇵🇸
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Toronto city hall this morning ❤️🇵🇸
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Want to know how Canadian universities are complicit in Israel’s genocide?
Read this thread.
Read this thread.
🚨 Palestine tribunal on Canadian complicity - University panel starting now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNN...
Palestine Tribunal Day 2
YouTube video by Just Peace Advocates
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Want to know how Canadian universities are complicit in Israel’s genocide?
Read this thread.
Read this thread.
Media & cultural institutions panel about to start www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNN...
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Media & cultural institutions panel about to start www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNN...
🚨 Palestine tribunal on Canadian complicity - University panel starting now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNN...
Palestine Tribunal Day 2
YouTube video by Just Peace Advocates
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🚨 Palestine tribunal on Canadian complicity - University panel starting now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNN...
Reposted by Dr Katherine Blouin