#Scholars

Zachary Rubin

ZachMRubin

The Babylonian "Dialogue of Pessimism" holds a special place in my heart - it's actually the piece that inspired me to become an Assyriologist to begin with! Today I'm going

Agiat

kawashima_ami_

It is an historical fact that the Lord Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. The evidence is so overwhelming that it would be absurd to reject it (a thread):

Ben Gellman-Chomsky

benjgc

Seeing a lot of tweets from folks outraged over Viacom effectively firing Nick Cannon, calling out names like Donald Sterling for anti-black racism. Uh... yeah! Absolutely true! He's a stain

Financial Times

FinancialTimes

Since Donald Trump has repeatedly refused to commit to accepting the election outcome, many people are asking: what would happen if he were to lose the presidency but refuse to

Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil (Needs more Yoga)

tnflorvil

France has never been colorblind in its colonies or in the metropole. Marcon‘s policy is certainly a longer French practice that is premised on notions of whiteness, belonging, unbelonging, and

Chuck

cghaberl

I think what my colleague at NYU's Stern School means to say is that the future of college LABOR is cheaper. This will not necessarily translate into tuition savings for

The Claremont Run

ClaremontRun

The Claremont Run is known for being highly sexual in nature, but the most prominent specific sexual symbol within it is that of BDSM, defined as a variety of practices

Mahir

mhussa95

Thread on the achievements of the Muslims throughout history and facts which you may not have known. As a student of Islamic history I've come across knowledge they would never

Mythology & Folklore

OldReligions

Someone asked about the story of gods Bulan & Sidapa from Philippine mythology (more accurately: mythologies). Their love story is a modern narrative. But don't fret, there are historical Filipino

Hans Noel

ProfHansNoel

The thing about James Carville’s faculty lounge comment is he’s not trying to provide a fair analysis of politics. He is doing politics. And to the extent that he’s praising

Tom Lange

TomLangeYYC

If you want to do better at political discourse, stop calling every academic (particularly female academics, I’ve noticed) who disagrees with a UCP policy an NDP partisan hack. Stop calling

Italians4Pete 🇪🇺

Italians4Pete

I don’t think Americans fully realize how the #KenoshaShooting (or any shooting) looks like from the other side of the Atlantic. This time I’m not gonna let it go.A thread.

ibnabeeomar

ibnabeeomar

Thread/ Here's what gets missed about building individual platforms for dawah purposes #FiqhOfSocialMedia You're operating in a landscape (social media) that trades in *attention*. In the same way we measure

Andy Hom

TheRealistHom

Ever wondered why there's a Doomsday Clock, why Big Ben had to ‘bong for #Brexit ’, or Trump promised to make America great *again*, or why ‘this time is different’,

ابنِ خان

IbneKhan01

HISTORY OF WAHHĀBISM IN PUNJABWahhābī Mawlawī Muĥammad Jaáfar Thānaysarī [1254-1322 AH / 1838-1905 CE] writes in Tawārīkh e Ájīb:“During my time in India [1280 AH / 1864 CE], there were

Comrade Fudge

HNIJohnMiller

1) I refuse to talk about Bari Weiss. I'm not acknowledging it. I don't give two hot fucking shits about a jackass on a failing newspaper's editorial team leaving because