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Trump, 'birthright citizenship' and the Gulf model

1 month ago | rohanvenkat.substack.com | Rohan Venkat |Marc Lynch |Milan Vaishnav

When the techbro vs MAGA ‘civil war’ first broke out in December 2024 over the question of H-1B visas and high-skilled immigration into the US, its implications for Indians and Indian-Americans – as the community that has received the lion’s share of those visas – were obvious. (It also, unsurprisingly, led to a huge surge of anti-Indian hate in the US). Then US President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning birthright citizenship.
Frantz Fanon in the Middle East

Oct 31, 2024 | abuaardvark.substack.com | Marc Lynch

In mid-September 2023, POMEPS Board members Laryssa Chomiak, Jillian Schwedler and Lisa Wedeen helped me to convene an extraordinary workshop at CEMAT (Tunis) about the Middle Eastern context and resonances of the anticolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.
El fin del Medio Oriente

Oct 28, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Marc Lynch

Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda El fin del Medio Oriente Autores: Marc Lynch Localización: Foreign affairs: Latinoamérica, ISSN 1665-1707, Vol. 22, Nº. 3, 2022 Idioma: español Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...) Resumen Un desalineamiento entre los formuladores de políticas públicas estadounidenses y los mandos militares revela los peligros de aferrarse al viejo modelo del Medio Oriente.
The Message and Israel's one state reality

Oct 14, 2024 | abuaardvark.substack.com | Marc Lynch

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message has been a certifiable — and justiable — event in the national public discourse. The latest book by the author of “The Case for Reparations” includes four breathtakingly well-written essays about the purpose of his writing, his engagement with the world beyond the United States and his evolving mission as a writer.
Necropolitics in Syria and Gaza

Sep 3, 2024 | abuaardvark.substack.com | Marc Lynch

Yasser Munif, The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death (Pluto Press, 2020). Indiscriminate bombing and airstrikes which kill disproportionate numbers of civilians, women and children. Destroying hospitals and schools. Siege tactics to weaken and starve targeted populations, while encouraging the spread of contagious disease and debilitating the health care and water purification infrastructure.
Middle East Scholars Are Under Pressure

Jun 14, 2024 | chronicle.com | Marc Lynch |Shibley Telhami

Since October 2023, fierce arguments over the appropriate balance between free speech and campus security, the role of external advocacy groups and congressional intervention, and the real intentions of those protesting the Israel-Hamas war have consumed virtually all sectors of campus life. But faculty members and graduate students who work on the Middle East were among those most directly affected by the controversies.
Egypt Under El-Sisi

Feb 14, 2024 | abuaardvark.substack.com | Marc Lynch

Maged Mandour, Egypt Under El-Sisi: A Nation on the Edge (Bloomsbury/IB Tauris 2024). It’s been a decade since General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi carried out a military coup in Egypt to overthrow the elected government of Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohammed el-Morsi. A lot of ink was spilled at the time about how this was actually a popular revolution and couldn’t be called a coup. That debate, in all its passion and fury, has long since been settled.
Counting casualties in Israel’s war on Gaza

Dec 16, 2023 | abuaardvark.substack.com | Marc Lynch

What does it mean when the IDF claims a 2:1 ratio of civilian deaths to Hamas militant deaths in its war on Gaza? How should we make sense of studies reported in the media about 61% of the deaths being civilians? Are Gazan civilians being killed at a “historic pace”?
Opinion | Scholars Who Study the Middle East Are Afraid to Speak Out

Dec 5, 2023 | chronicle.com | Marc Lynch |Shibley Telhami

American college campuses have been at the center of charged political disputes in the weeks since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, and the subsequent attacks by Israel on Gaza. These heated debates have focused on the pressures on university presidents to take a stand, the behavior of student groups, allegations of antisemitism, and the censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.
Something Different: My Favorite MENA Podcasts!

Dec 1, 2023 | abuaardvark.substack.com | Marc Lynch

Beirut 1982Even though I’ve been doing the Middle East Political Science podcast for more than a decade, I was never much of a podcast listener. That’s changed this year as I’ve been regularly driving back and forth to Ohio, and also had a lot of long flights to and from Europe and the Middle East.