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Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/ .. more

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Wendy R. Pearlman is an American historian and political scientist of the Middle East. She is the Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she has taught since 2008. .. more

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · Jan 29

25 years ago, I interviewed Issam in Gaza for my book, "Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada." This week - after months of forced displacement, starvation, and living under bombardment - he returned to his destroyed home. He sent this photo.

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 22h

This terrific article offers a taste of some of the essential research to be featured in Perspectives on Politics' upcoming special issue on "Political Science and the University."

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Populist Attacks on Academic Freedom: How Populist Leadership Erodes Academic Freedom in Liberal and Electoral Democracies | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Populist Attacks on Academic Freedom: How Populist Leadership Erodes Academic Freedom in Liberal and Electoral Democracies

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22h

this is a further sign of weakness, not strength, imo. It's not the red state publics that they needed to set off a general stampede. It's places like MIT. Turning this into a red state thing makes it _less_ likely to spread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 1d

“The killings have mercifully stopped for now in Gaza, but there must now be a refusal to normalise what will follow – a return to a status quo in which we all keep on pretending that Palestinian life is viable under the authority of Israel.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 4d

"Even if it does bring about a welcome respite from the suffering in Gaza in the short term, I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 5d

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east

theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 5d

Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.

theconversation.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 8d

Motaz Azaiza shared this video of a street in Gaza before and after the Israeli genocide started

www.instagram.com/reel/DOGfKA4...

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 10d

When I message Palestinian friends, I often write that I "have no more words."

I will never use that expression again without thinking of this brilliant essay by Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a 19-year-old writer and poet in Gaza.

In @thenation.com. Please read it.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak

The human mind, faced with relentless pain, erects invisible barricades. Here, amid genocide, one of them is the ability to express our trauma out loud.

www.thenation.com

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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 12d

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The families of Syria’s disappeared are asking for the truth. Our country cannot rebuild until we have it | Wafa Mustafa

Over 160,000 people, including my father, were abducted by the Assad regime. The country’s new commission for the missing must be inclusive and independent to restore our trust

www.theguardian.com

Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 18d

Synaps is offering five fellowships to take part in its research project on the role of women in the economy. Researchers must be young graduates based in Jordan. Applications due October 6, details below ...

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Jordan fellowships 2025-2026

Synaps is offering five fellowships to junior Jordanian researchers to take part in its research project on the role of women in the economy.

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OpheliaPG @opheliapg.bsky.social · 23d

“Every half an hour to an hour, we get huge mass casualty event” Dr Nada Abu Al-Rub, an Australian doctor working in #Gaza

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