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Monica Marks

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Monica Marks

@MonicaLMarks

Prof of Middle East Politics @NYUAbuDhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD @StAntsCollege Oxford. Fulbright, Rhodes, @HarvardWCFIA. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more.

Dubai - Tunis - Istanbul

oxford.academia.edu/MonicaMarks

Joined May 2011

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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Mar 20
I greatly enjoyed this nearly 2 hour interview with Dr. Karadag tonight. His questions were superb, enabling me to explore everything from analytical framing of this war, to its drivers & implications in US & Iranian politics, to its effects on the Gulf, Turkey & much more. 1/
Lokman Karadag 盧克曼
@DrLokmanKaradag
Mar 20
🚨 #LIVESTREAM As we are in the 22nd day of the Iran War, we are continuing to unpack its fast moving and deeply complex dynamics on my livestream show. In this timely conversation, I sat down with Dr Monica Marks (@MonicaLMarks)to examine how this conflict has evolved from a
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Oct 26, 2024
Hend Amry
@LibyaLiberty
Oct 26, 2024
Anyone who says Harris would be better for Palestinians should be asked if they asked Palestinians for their opinion on the issue.
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Apr 1, 2025
For whatever it’s worth to Zach or other students, I’ve sat on Rhodes Scholarship committees & reviewed many elite apps. This essay: (1) lapsed into hubris by the end of para #1, & (2) didn’t explain *why* Zach wants to learn from other humans, let alone at a particular uni.🧵
Zach Yadegari
@zach_yadegari
Apr 1, 2025
Replying to @zach_yadegari
My personal statement
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Oct 24, 2025
I’ve worn this outfit (sports bra, midriff, possibly shorter shorts) regularly in Istanbul, Dubai & Abu Dhabi w/o even attracting stares. Bikinis are a common sight on the beaches of Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey & the UAE. This style of tweet is so tired, so racist & so uninformed.
Debra Lea
@thedebralea
Oct 24, 2025
The only country in the Middle East I won’t get arrested for this outfit 🤪 🤍🇮🇱
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Jul 19, 2024
AOC just spent an hour weighing in on efforts to replace Biden as the nominee. It’s an important listen. She thinks an open convention is lunacy & that multiple red alerts on the dashboard aren’t getting enough consideration. Here are her 7 main points, as I understood them: 🧵
Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
Jul 19, 2024
NEW Congresswoman @AOC just did a nearly hour long live where she shared her grave concerns with replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee. Here’s the full video minus the very short intro she did on other work she is doing at the moment.
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Mar 11, 2024
The backlash to director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech at the Oscar’s—where his film The Zone of Interest won “Best International Feature Film”—is really beyond the pale. Let’s take a minute to watch his speech & examine what he said in context: 🧵
Middle East Eye
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Middle East Eye
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Dec 27, 2023
A must-read by Oxford’s Avi Shlaim, who pulls precisely zero punches. “The Palestinian people,” he writes, “are the only people living under military occupation who are expected to ensure the security of their occupier.” “What is happening in Gaza is… Israeli state terrorism.”
Will Hutton
@williamnhutton
Dec 27, 2023
Avi Shlaim is one of the most high integrity Jewish intellectuals of his generation. This piece is a required read by all of us so torn by the events since October 7th prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel/6…
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Mar 28, 2025
Imagine getting deported from a country where you’re a legal resident. A country that calls itself a democracy. A country whose most prestigious government scholarship, the Fulbright, you won. All because you coauthored this nuanced & articulate op-ed in the student newspaper ⬇️
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Nov 17, 2023
John Ossoff, the 36 yr-old Jewish senator from Georgia, articulated a clear-eyed case for why 🇺🇸 should insist 🇮🇱 protect civilians in Gaza. An unmitigated humanitarian disaster in Gaza, he said, is a moral failure & undermines American national security.
Ossoff's Office
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Ossoff's Office
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Jan 16, 2024
“Doctors in Gaza said that children, weakened by lack of food, had died from hypothermia and that several newborn babies with mothers who were undernourished had not survived for more than a few days.”
Aid officials believe there are ‘pockets of famine’ in Gaza
From theguardian.com
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Apr 1, 2025
Replying to @MonicaLMarks
No matter how impressive the application, painting oneself as a preternaturally gifted wunderkind who’s doing x or y elite university a favour by applying can turn off reviewers. Communicate confidence, curiosity & commitment to learning from/contributing to your new community.
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Feb 13, 2024
For months, this account has worked to memorialise a sliver of the 28,000+ Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct. 7. It offers Humans of NY-style snapshots of the lives lost: kids, college grads, new fathers, grandparents. Yesterday, the account posted their own daughter, Noor.
‏Martyrs of Gaza
@GazaMartyrs
Feb 12, 2024
Noor, my daughter, was the only one who held my heart in this world. Her story was different from other girls. Noor Al-Fara, 13 years old. She had dreams for the future and was planning to achieve things beyond her age. She lived in her own world, with thoughts and interests
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Oct 26, 2023
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor at Columbia Uni & an unparalleled authority on Palestine. This entire interview is a must-read. I was esp impressed by Khalidi’s advice for pro-Palestine activists, whom he argues must persuade the metropoles: thedriftmag.com/a-desperate-si…
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Monica Marks
@MonicaLMarks
Apr 7, 2024
It took me not 1 but 3 separate trips to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 to finally visit the gift shop. When I did, I was surprised to see that this was their top item for sale... Fortunately the Auschwitz Museum isn't selling "Arbeit Macht Frei" hoodies!
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