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Bilge Yesil

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Media Culture CUNY CSI // Middle Eastern Studies CUNY Graduate Center All things global communication, geopolitics, popular culture, surveillance, censorship, Middle East, Turkey, and food.

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The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is running a campaign to go entirely *tuition free*. If you want US media that is made by more
people with different kinds of experiences and backgrounds and languages, here’s where you can put your money:

www.journalism.cuny.edu/give-to-the-...

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"There will be no postwar for Gaza. The children of Gaza will forever be marked by the duration of time they spent in “hunger-time,” when their growth was arrested by starvation, their minds marred by trauma." lareviewofbooks.org/article/hung...

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More interesting than the news:

The British Academy’s Global Professorships are large investigator-led awards to attract internationally recognised established scholars to work in the United Kingdom:

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/glob...

The UK, it's a nice place to visit, I mean.

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This is the national trend, and it’s bar none the saddest thing in education right now

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This is terrible. Stanford Internet Observatory produced some great reports.

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You can use code SP24UIP on Uni of Illinois Press website to receive a 30% discount.

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I also discuss the implications of this expanding global outreach apparatus on global comm writ large: what happens when a power-driven regime obfuscates facts with identity politics, demonizes the West to aggrandize the East and rallies Muslims under its purportedly benevolent leadership? +

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so-called decolonial and pan-Islamist messages Erdogan’s emissaries deploy to position Turkey as a rising power opposed to imperialism and claiming to be the voice of oppressed Muslims around the world. +

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I examine the AKP’s English-language communication apparatus, focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. Moving away from the typical public diplomacy and soft power frameworks, I direct attention to the +

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My new book is officially out today 🧵www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087998

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I talked to @williamarmstrong.bsky.social abt my new book on Turkey’s global comm apparatus, how the Erdogan regime uses Muslim identity politics to position Turkey as a rising power +“voice of the voiceless,” and what all of this means in the context of propaganda.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Georgia’s speaker signs ‘foreign agents’ bill into law

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This is the bargain Trump voters made with themselves nine years ago so that they'd never have to think again: They decided that since everyone's a criminal, they didn't need to have standards about who they voted for. It's why they're mostly unreachable; this is a judgment against them too.

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In light of all the batshit crazy things that’s been normalized in this country since 2016, I’m totally prepared for a convicted criminal getting elected and running the country from prison. This is America.

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I don’t think it’s anyone’s duty to personally observe the heinous images coming out of Rafah right now but I do wish U.S. TV did fewer panel discussions debating “free speech” on college campuses and gave Americans a more honest accounting of the war crimes our government funds every single day.

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Authors! Clear, non-scary video explaining book contract terms. I can't recommend this video enough!

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Some write in really convoluted sentences that no one really understands and therefore dares not to criticize

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The NYPD are terrorizing this city with their illegal assaults and surveillance

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Paula Chakravartty slaying as usual 🔥🔥🔥

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Gutting op-ed from Hisham Awartani, the BrownU junior who was shot in Vermont back in the fall.

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This is barbaric: US authorities did not let the crew leave the ship at all, confiscated their phones isolating them from outside world, *and* carried out a controlled explosion while they are still on the ship !!!! www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

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We used to say in Turkey “C’mon they [Erdogan govt] can’t do that” and then watched them do it. Brace yourselves. Anything and everything is possible now.

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I was calling it "Patriarch's Beard" but this is better.

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"civilization sans culotte" says Turkish newspaper about Eurovision and slams the West for its moral decay

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In fairness, he did say he wanted to be a tampon

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I will announce future events here. We are just getting started.

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Duke students (some) walked out of Commencement when Jerry Seinfeld's speech was announced. Much booing.

For me, it's not merely a difference in opinion. His money paid for fascists to attack UCLA students, staff and faculty.

May he be a pariah always.

Twitter video:
twitter.com/iamschvitzin...

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“Macklemore's Hind's Hall is laid over samples from Fairuz' Ana la habeebi wa habeebi il’ (I belong to my love and my love belongs to me)” 🥹 ht Amal El-Mohtar. Here’s the
link to Fairuz’ song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7v...

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We're hiring a full-time non-tenure-track faculty member to teach in our growing Computer Science department. Ideal candidates able to support required undergraduate courses, including software development, data structures, algorithms, hardware systems, etc.

employment.marquette.edu/postings/21340

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