#Scholars

JeffreyPennMay

AskWriteFish

#Trump Is Trump is a – fill in the blank.Lanky handsome he-man?Bold fearless leader.Is that too cartoonish?A man… a bigly man.A lover, a martyr, a mockery star?Is he a harmless

Elizabeth Tsurkov

Elizrael

On Thursday, Turkish intelligence summoned the commanders of all the Turkish-backed factions ("Syrian National Army") to a meeting in Gaziantep, following the publication of a damning UN report about the

in the wake

hystericalblkns

https://scholarstrikecanada.ca/ Scholars across Canadian universities are outraged at the relentless anti-Black police killings of Black people in the U.S. and in Canada. As athletes have done, so, too, must academics. We

The Glory of Religion

GloryofDeen

Why Tatbir should be frowned upon in Shia Islam [A THREAD] The argument suggesting that its medically beneficial and equivalent to the mustahab act of Hijama is weak:https://twitter.com/GloryofDeen/status/1282919286479024128?s=20 The enemie

rachel syme

rachsyme

today in a fact i learned after an hour of doing research for a story and falling into a rabbit hole; in order to make this famous ophelia painting, John

Jordan L. Perkins, Esq.

jordanlperkins

Continuing a prior rant with a bit of personal intellectual history: I actually came to my present political-jurisprudential philosophy from an analysis of, of all people, Ronald Dworkin. I think

Highlander Tajik

TimppaKarjala

For a long time, I wanted to create a thread on Iakinf (Bichurin), but too much info and I'm lazy LOL. He's one of the most important China scholars in

ʿAqīl

aqilazme

Being conservative won’t necessarily make you more pious However, I do think that the conservative view of social issues (especially in Malaysia) more often than not has more in common

Maaike Verbruggen

M__Verbruggen

I love the Nobel Peace Prize circus although I get the impression I'm increasingly alone in this amongst critical scholars so let me make a pitch for it.It's not just

CarrieLynn D.monic Reinhard

MediaOracle

Online teaching is not just content delivery. If your institution wants you just to post material for students to interact with and then do something for you to summatively assess,

The Spacetime Man ©

SohaibBala

Clarification: Zones. Grids. Sectors. If MbS receives a pardon he would have a sector in the Najd, not an entire Grid. He may have committed crimes against Sunni Muslims. If

Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.

shengokai

Academics: a whole bunch of our institutions are about to invoke the work of scholars in departments born of struggle, departments that these same institutions have tried for decades to

Peter Labuza

labuzamovies

When I was taught Intro to Film as an undergrad, I was not really taught to ever think about the production of film, so I wanted to end my class

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

So, why was Walid Saleh essential? His works were the first to address the ideological problems in our understanding of the history of tafsir. If you ask people about the

Ben Gross

bhgross144

Last week, @hssonline & @SocHistTech announced that this year's joint meeting in New Orleans had been postponed due to #COVID19.Many people, including myself, were saddened by this decision, even though

Meg

agameganon

I have issues with posts like this. No contemporary historians, even very few historians of the last few decades, writing on AtG uphold this idea of a chaste “buddy” relationship