Diana B. Greenwald
associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | local politics | palestine | states, institutions, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | views mine but will strive to listen
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- "Knowing how institutions were constructed provides insights into how they might come apart," (Thelen 1999, p. 400).
- Starting in half an hour: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- "Lexical algorithmic resistance" in >10k pro-Palestine Arabic-language Facebook posts Oct 7 2023-Apr 27 2024: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... "As a cursive writing system, written from right to left with a dense morphological framework, the Arabic script presents significant challenges for...
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- If your recipe calls for a jalapeño “seeds removed“, just no.
- Toddler holiday travel sleep schedule: 1 Peptide firming eye cream: 0
- Reddit is telling me I can block and unshrink my cashmere sweater that accidentally went in *the dryer* (gah! I know), but is this false hope? I’ll report back. In a the meantime, please feel free to share carefully curated anecdotes of success.
- French Army map of Mandate Syria in 1926. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
- Oof the title of this paper. Perfect strike. 🎳 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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- An eerie read from the archives: "Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant" by Graham Usher, June 28, 1996: www.merip.org/1996/06/clos...
- Common terms and phrases in my book, according to Google.
- With a sickening amount of caffeine, truly anything is possible.
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- FYI: @aneraorg.bsky.social 's timeline of events in Gaza is an invaluable resource: www.anera.org/gaza-war-tim... It also highlights the work of their teams, giving us a tiny sliver of a sense of what it has meant to do humanitarian work in Gaza over the past 26 months.
- Every year or two I think about this photo and wonder about this kid. Where is this young man now? It hit me again today, hard, almost exactly 8 years after the picture was originally taken. (Photo credit: Abed Alhashlamoun, European Pressphoto Agency)
- This is in the West Bank. Everyone should watch this footage. Amidst and on top of the continuous live stream of horrors from Gaza, this clip, too, will haunt me forever. www.dw.com/en/outrage-o...
- This story is from last week - watch the video too: www.reuters.com/business/env... The UN reports today that “some 1.5 million people still require “urgent support” with regard to shelter: news.un.org/en/story/202... Most are living in tents like these.
- ”‘They want the international stabilizing force to come into Gaza and restore, quote unquote, law and order and disarm any resistance,‘ a senior official in Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. ‘So that’s the problem. Nobody wants to do that.’” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
- There appear to be a number of simplistic takes on the broader implications of Israel's support for the Zaydi imamate during the North Yemen civil war, suggesting it is somehow surprising, or even ironic, now that the Houthis and Israel are staunch enemies. But... /1
- Of all of the bell peppers, I suppose I will start with this one that my kid bit into in the grocery store. Welcome to my cooking show
- Reposted by Diana B. GreenwaldThis is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
- It was my pleasure to guest edit this essay section of the Arab Studies Journal, in which @mesaglobalacademy.bsky.social scholars were asked to reflect on whether the MENA region is undergoing a "seismic shift": www.arabstudiesjournal.org
- Hind Khoudary reports IDF has moved deeper into Shuja'iya: “But the entire boundary has not been marked, so many Palestinians do not know exactly where it is...People say this is a cage, as they’re being pushed and squeezed into the western parts of Gaza.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
- Some people make utterly perplexing design and formatting decisions with their CVs. I am currently reading one that is YELLING AT ME IN ALL CAPS.
- I think I’ve been pronouncing “hermeneutics” wrong this whole time. (Positivist-trained lug nut trying to teach ethnographic methods over here. #sendhelp)
- On settler violence in the West Bank: These words are striking if only because they come from a high-ranking former general in the Israeli Defense Forces. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
- This is an insane clip. I feel insane.
- Slowly pulling together the syllabus for my first doctoral course in @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social's political science department. Suggested readings welcome!
- Great to meet Lucia Sorbera yesterday and host a discussion of feminist activism in Egypt with our students! Go get her book, a sweeping, collective biography that spans many years of field research and generations of Egyptian women: www.ucpress.edu/books/biogra...
- Really looking forward to (virtually) hosting Prof. Jasmin Lillian Diab for this talk next Monday, November 24 at 11:00 AM ET. The webinar is open to the public; please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/displaceme...
- If you are in NY on Wednesday, I will be moderating this discussion of B'Tselem's research and recent report on the genocide in Gaza. Link to register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Can someone who knows more about this than me tell me if there is a class element to this whole shutdown struggle? SNAP/Medicaid recipients versus ACA-insured/beneficiaries of enhanced premium tax credits?
- This doesn’t sound wrong.
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- A powerful essay by @hebagowayed.bsky.social: therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
