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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social
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Author, Teacher, Partner, Leader, Dean & CEO @NUQatar, Founder @IAS_NUQ, Professor @NU_SoC, Board Chair @ACLS1919 & Board Member @AnnenbergCARGC & @Casar_Aub
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Joined July 2013
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    Are you a humanist? An interpretive social scientist? Do you study the Arab World or Latin America? Better, is your work global, comparative, or transnational across both spheres? Then @acls1919 @utekraidy & I have great news! Deadline September 28!
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    If you think your 2020 has been tough, you may want to think of the Lebanese, who have experienced a social/political uprising, a currency collapse, COVID-19 & now a massive, capital city-transforming explosion, on top of endemic political corruption, environmental degradation...
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    Remembering Edward Said, who died on this day in 2003.
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    So I have big professional news! Marwan M. Kraidy named dean of Northwestern University in Qatar
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    Usually I don’t share family stuff here, but bc this is a huge deal for me, & bc so many friends r asking why I left Paris after the #disinfo preconf as #ica22 started: my daughter Maya graduated from high school last Friday!
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    It is raining in #Doha and there is a gorgeous, full rainbow over the Pearl
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    If you are Lebanese, born in the 1970s, you can remember your life as a series of explosions, each connected to a time, a place, sometime a color or a smell, sometimes to the death of a loved one, like other people remember favorite songs #BeirutBlast
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    I’m thrilled to join @NUQatar as dean to work with and advocate for all members of this unique university in the region.
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    Very psyched about this! ⁦@NUQatar⁩ launches research institute focused on Global South #NuQProud
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    My daughter has a knack for leaving messages of levity and positivity at my home office door. Makes the zoom life a bit easier. Thank you!
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    Condolences to the @AnnenbergPenn community, and the field of communication at large, for the passing of our esteemed colleague and founding figure Elihu Katz. RIP, Elihu.
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    In #Beirut in crisis, there is something reassuring about a bookstore open and with customers at 10.15 pm
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    I am thrilled to have been elected Chair of the Board of Directors @ACLS , which does important and meaningful work supporting excellence in the humanities and social sciences! acls.org/news/acls-welc… @NUQatar @NorthwesternU @KaplanHum @BuffettInst