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I wrote a piece for @JoDemocracy on a little-noticed court decision last week to effectively permanently outlaw Jordan’s teacher’s union
Biff Parker-Magyar
@BiffPM
Assistant Prof. in Political Science @Yale. Formerly @MITPoliSci @HarvardWCFIA. Contentious politics in Jordan & Syria. peripatetic product of the garden state.
- incredibly excited to dig into this book! @AlexGSimon and the amazing @SynapsNetwork team produced invaluable, eloquent, compassionate insights on Syria during the war, when most media attention had faded. Their insights will be invaluable for learning what comes next.Like its cover, "Syrians in the Shadow of War" is a collage. It binds together 32 reports by our team @SynapsNetwork, drawing on over 3,000 interviews between 2017-24. It orders them into six chapters, each tackling a question as relevant today as ever. Here's a preview: 🧵
- Pleased that my paper “Paper Pusher or President’s Guard: Contentious Action in Syria’s Revolution” has been conditionally accepted at the Journal of Peace Research The latest version is online here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…
- I met Motasem Alaiwi a decade ago on a beautiful spring hike in Jordan He became a prominent influencer: maybe the first Palestinian to attempt Everest It's joyful and sad to see him released after 9 mo. in administrative detention, never facing a chargeالاحتلال يفرج عن الرحالة الفلسطيني معتصم عليوي بعد 9 أشهر من الاعتقال الإداري
- RIP to the voice of my childhood, my adulthood, and way too many of the late nights of my PhD dissertationThere will never be another John Sterling. His voice and legacy will live on forever 💙
