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Keanu Heydari
@keanuheydari.bsky.social
History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
Christians, there is an alternative.
But you have to make the choice.
Please choose wisely.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Holiness is not ritual distance from ordinary good things.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Je signale le nouveau numéro de l'excellente revue "Marronages : les questions raciales au crible des sciences sociales" (lien dans le blousque suivant) 👀
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)

CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press Submission Guidelines  CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ...
read.dukeupress.edu
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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L'inhospitalité ordinaire mais systématique de l'Etat-nation 😒
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Behn changed the story. Her speech is a victory speech, because she shows how you can lead, push ahead, with head held high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Anyone want to do a Barth panel with me at AAR next year on Barth’s engagement(s) with natural theology in 1934?
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Are any of you Anglicans in New Zealand? If so, please get in touch with me! I have so many questions!
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Taizé service tonight at First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Fascinating new piece in @newleftreview.bsky.social: “This conflict is about more than just competing ontologies of scarcity and abundance; it is about how state capacity and political-economic interests are shaping the future development paths open to global capitalism.”
Nicholas Mulder, Interludes of Abundance, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Nicholas Mulder on Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué. Reading of the current neo-mercantilist lurch as a return to the norm of long-run capitalist history.
newleftreview.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="432218" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title"> French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p> <p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p> <p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p> <p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A new piece from me about the spirituality of shared responsibility in Presbyterian polity.
Sharing the Burden
Presbyterian Polity as a Gift of the Spirit
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro reut.rs/4rzUtB9
Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro
Pope Leo urged U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday not to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force.
reut.rs
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New arrival!
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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One of my go to examples of blatant neocolonialism when teaching or presenting on the topic, and woefully underresearched. Great book by a great scholar and journalist:
I would love for more French people to read “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” by Fanny Pigaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla. Currently 50% off at Pluto Books.

www.plutobooks.com/product/afri...
Africa's Last Colonial Currency - Pluto Press
How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in Africa
www.plutobooks.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Incredible things are happening in Lebanon.
That the Vatican's French account shared a pic of the Hezbollah-founded Imam Mahdi Boy Scouts celebrating his arrival (with a pic of Ayatollah Khomeini on their shirts) is too fun. Making the rounds among both Shia and Catholics with Shia friends
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“Dear young people, perhaps you regret inheriting a world torn apart by wars and disfigured by social injustice. Yet there is hope, and there is hope within you! […] You are the present, and the future is already taking shape in your hands!” – Pope Leo XIV
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I love how the media just decided to memory-hole the vast, administrator & state-directed, violent suppression of student, faculty, and staff speech about genocide because it simply does not fit with the ingrained narrative of higher education as a woke indoctrination factory.
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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First, the temperature/boreal forests turned to carbon source from sink, now the tropical forests are comfirmed to be sources also (instead of sinka what they used to be). That leaves oceans, which are heating up fast... this all is not good at all 1/n

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Quelles que soient les arguties procédurales, je trouve intéressant de demander une grâce avant même d’avoir été reconnu coupable de quoi que ce soit.
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM