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Amir Taha

@5000Emir

Historian. University of Amsterdam. Focus : 1980s Baathist Iraq. Interests: Neo-liberalization, state formation, mobilization and cultural representations

Joined August 2020
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🧵 Video thread — rare videos from the 1991 Iraqi Shia uprising and its aftermath. Listed in the comment section 👇👇👇
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@hashedelesoodJan 25
Leaked Footage of Gaza Flattened By Israel: Oh Nevermind, it's 1991 Karbala [Shia City] flattened by Sunnis of Iraq under Saddam Hussein's Regime Bulldozing every standing building and every residence.
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Does he know why the Abbasids rose to power in Baghdad?
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@BroHajji6 Jun 2025
The Umayyads have returned to Damascus, and soon, إن شاء الله, the Abbasids will return to Baghdad.
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SLUG@generalslug10 Mar 2025
me trying to remember that one lenin quote
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@Acyn10 Mar 2025
Trump on recent plane crashes: They have times when things happen a little bit more often than normal and then it goes back and then you go many years without having a problem
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hi! i’m a character in an ethnographic anecdote. i unwittingly support the argument
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Amir Taha@5000Emir7 Oct 2024
And yes ive read all the reports about supposed "Shia militias" persecuting palestinians, most of it is alleged and assumed. There is no hard evidence that tanzim Badr or Jaysh al Mahdi purposfully sought out Palestinians to kill them.
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@FT9 Nov 2024
The re-election of Donald Trump is a decisive rejection of liberalism, writes Francis Fukuyama: on.ft.com/3YJffkn
Francis Fukuyama: what Trump unleashed means for America

Francis Fukuyama: what Trump unleashed means for America

The Republican president-elect is inaugurating a new era in US politics and perhaps for the world as a whole

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I mentioned at the beginning of this episode that its been six years to the day that I launched the show. Can't believe it's been six years of screaming into a microphone. Thanks to all the guests, patrons, and listeners--and my many haters too!
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧 James Connolly: Requiem for a working class hero w/ Conor McCabe @CMacCaba is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast and editor of The Lost & Early Writings James Connolly (2024), published by @iskrabooks
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Iraq Now@irq_now23 Oct 2024
Over 100 Lebanese students in Iraq have enrolled in the Iraqi school system to continue their education without losing a year. So far, Iraq has welcomed more than 16,000 Lebanese citizens seeking safety following Israeli aggression. #lebanon
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Amir Taha@5000Emir6 Mar 2022
Found the selected works of Kim il Sung (1971, Pyongyang) at the public archive of Diwaniya in Iraq. No idea how it got there and it felt out of place next to mainly Iraqi newspapers and government publications. I suspect that N.korea donated it to them in the 1970s.
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Neil Renic@NC_Renic15 Sep 2024
This guy would have 3 million followers today
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Amir Taha@5000Emir26 Nov 2023
The claim that Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Badr) and by proxy Iran and "the Shia" signed the Iraq Liberation act to receive support through it from the US, is false. Those who say otherwise have no expertise or are purposefully lying for ignorant followers
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I said it before and I'll say it again: no one makes better jokes about academics than academics themselves.
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I've read many books on Fanon and affirm Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan wrote one of the best ones, way back in 1985! I've come to assume many reasons why people are not more aware of Bulhan's writings on Fanon, just look him up and see where he's based...
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Nuanced & thoughtful review by @edokonrad of new book by a nuanced & thoughtful thinker, the only person I really trust to explain Fanon - Adam Shatz. theguardian.com/world/2024/m…
Who was Frantz Fanon, the freedom fighter Palestine supporters love to quote?

Who was Frantz Fanon, the freedom fighter Palestine supporters love to quote?

The 20th-century psychiatrist, who saw violence as necessary to liberation from colonialism, is routinely referenced in conversations about Gaza. A new book considers the complexities of an icon

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Amir Taha@5000Emir7 Aug 2023
Amature historians in real life : archiving who made cheese in one's home town the past 200 years. Amature historians on twitter: literal ethnonationalists.
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for everybody who wanted this here you go
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@JoestarJokic27 Feb 2024
never forget castro spamming the euro step so much that it made Che Guevara question his commitment to the revolution
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never forget castro spamming the euro step so much that it made Che Guevara question his commitment to the revolution
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are they not suffering enough
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Exciting news! #JSTOR is now free in 1,000 correctional facilities worldwide, benefiting over 500,000 incarcerated individuals, demonstrating JSTOR's commitment to inclusive #education. Learn more about the #JSTORAccessInPrison program: bit.ly/49BTZkV
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In the last few weeks the US has bombed Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
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Solidarity is a weapon: Yemen fights for Gaza w/ Isa Blumi @IsaBlumi returns to the podcast to situate the story of Yemeni solidarity with Gaza against the backdrop of a longer war waged by generations of Yemenis against various imperial foes.
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Oren Barsky (@orenbarsky) profile pictureOren Barsky
@orenbarsky23 Dec 2023
The Syrians are a made-up nation. The Lebanese are a made-up nation. The Iraqis are a made-up nation. The Jordanians are a made-up nation. The Palestinians are a made-up nation. In contrast, the Israelite nation has been evolving and preserving itself for thousands of years. And that's what hurts them the most.
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