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safia aidid

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safia aidid

@safiyaaaay

historian & professor @uoft

toronto/horn of africa

history.utoronto.ca/people/directo…

Joined December 2019

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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Oct 16, 2025
excited to share that my AHR article is now available online – and open access! academic.oup.com/ahr/advance-ar…
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Apr 17, 2025
two rounds of revisions and nine reader reports later, my article “A Revolution of Letters: Text, Sight and Spectacle in Socialist Somalia” was just accepted for publication by the American Historical Review
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Jan 20, 2025
so a watermelon is antisemitic but a Nazi salute is neurodivergence
GIF
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Feb 15, 2025
yes you can have 70+ extended family members and more when you actually live in the place you’re from and have generational roots but you genocidal ghouls wouldn’t understand that
Neurofluoresce 🇮🇱🇺🇲🦎📟
@Neurofluoresce
Feb 14, 2025
"I lost 70 family members in gaza" no one fucking has that many family members to lose, what the fuck. LOL. Who believes this shit???
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Sep 26, 2025
I don't understand how a person who is a wanted ICC fugitive is allowed to address the United Nations
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
Sep 26, 2025
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Aug 2, 2024
so she's also a cop AND has connections to the Italian far right?? pls 😭
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Mar 16, 2025
I was thinking about the Columbia student who spent a semester dragging a mattress around campus years ago as performance art about carrying the weight of her rape. I just read that her rapist received a settlement from Columbia after HE sued for gender-based harassment
bothered black girl (@botheredblkgirl.bsky.social)
@IfuekoNadine
Mar 14, 2025
Saying the obvious but the way universities NEVER have this energy for the rapists they have frolicking through their campuses is so,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Sep 3, 2024
they had servants operating their manual fans
Robert Kroese
@robkroese
Sep 2, 2024
This is 79 degrees Fahrenheit. I don't understand how Brits ever colonized India
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Aug 12, 2024
about ten seconds of googling will tell you why the Catholic church in Buffalo is bankrupt and selling off its properties
Father V
@father_rmv
Aug 11, 2024
St. Anne’s Church, Buffalo, NY. Permanently closed. Sold to the Islamic community for $250,000 who are converting the historic church into a mosque.
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
May 11, 2025
this Somali girl made a tiktok while loopy from the inhaled medication that paramedics gave her for a broken ankle I’m crying
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Jul 28, 2024
me, an academic: nationalism is a disease, abolish the nation-state me watching the Olympics:
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Oct 27, 2024
she's cooked
Azi™️
@Azi
Oct 26, 2024
"No more Gaza war!" protester yells. Speech momentarily stops. When it resumes, Harris says: "...we must end that war and bring the hostages home. But now I am speaking about 2024."
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Jul 4, 2025
the real story is that three white NYT reporters teamed up with a white supremacist to write a hit piece implying that the Africa-born child of a leading African intellectual conveniently identified as African for college admissions lmao
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Sep 22, 2024
I learned a while ago that the only reason Nazareth is still Arab is because during the Nakba, the Canadian Jew leading the IDF unit there refused orders he received to ethnically cleanse the town. Then he headed home to Toronto to work at his family company, Tip Top Tailors
Abir Kopty
@AbirKopty
Sep 22, 2024
I’m from Nazareth, it’s not an Israeli town and we are not Israelis. Israel remembers Nazareth whenever it is convenient and serves its propaganda. If people die in Nazareth it is because they don’t have shelters as oppose to the Jewish Israeli town next to them.
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safia aidid
@safiyaaaay
Oct 21, 2024
his co-driver talks about crushing people so badly their bodies explode and how he’s so disturbed by this that he can no longer eat meat, but in the next breath says there’s “no such thing as citizens” in Gaza
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@thickyrubio
Oct 21, 2024
CNN tried to do a sympathy piece on IDF soldiers and then like halfway through the article you find out this guy was a D9 bulldozer driver who regularly drove over people while they were alive.
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