Isis Naucratis

@isisnaucratis

I decipher power through times and places Historian. Classicist. Egyptologist. Papyrologist. Professor. Lead editor of Everyday Orientalism The past is now مصر دائما 🐍 🎨🏺✍️ From 🐢 to 🍉: #Landback

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Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· 12d

Why are evidence about this network gone? Is the same being done about UofT's many partnerships with Israeli institutions? For while @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social has an huge archive of evidence on the matter, there seems all of a sudden to not be much new public info available anymore 🤔

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· 12d

Details about UofT's central role in the Canadian uni admin network aiming to spy and clamp down on anti-genocide activism on campus. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· 13d

🚨 Israel commits yet another war crime against world heritage by destroying the UNESCO site of Beaufort Castle in Lebanon 🚨 See alt text for more info as reported by @thecradlemedia.bsky.social

🚨 Israel commits yet another war crime against world heritage by destroying the UNESCO site of Beaufort Castle in Lebanon 🚨 rom The Cradle Media: "Israeli occupation forces detonated an estimated 700 tons of explosives beneath the UNESCO-listed Shaqif (Beaufort) Castle in Arnoun overnight, in what the military and prime minister's office claimed was an operation targeting part of a H-zb-llah tunnel network beneath the site.
▪ The massive underground explosion was heard across southern Lebanon, including Saida and Iqlim al-Kharroub, while dust blanketed parts of Nabatieh and the blast shattered windows in homes across nearby towns and villages, according to local residents.
▪ The nearly 900-year-old Crusader-era fortress, one of southern Lebanon's most important archaeological landmarks, has been repeatedly targeted by Israel since 1982, reports Al-Manar.
▪ Lebanon's Directorate General of Antiquities has previously rejected Israeli claims that the site contained H-zb-llah infrastructure, calling Israeli maps and videos fabricated, while noting the fortress has been under Lebanese state administration since 2000 and has enhanced protection under the 1954 Hague Convention.
▪ Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame recently welcomed UNESCO's decision to place Beaufort Castle on its List of World Heritage in Danger, warning it remained at risk after the destruction of Shamaa Castle.
▪Lebanese geologists have also warned that demolitions of this scale near major fault lines could potentially trigger human-induced seismic activity, noting the 700-ton blast far exceeded a 400-ton Israeli demolition in Odaisseh in 2024 that prompted earthquake alerts across northern occupied Palestine and the occupied West Bank."

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· 13d

F🦭CK AI (Screenshot from @sainthoax.bsky.social )

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jul 8

Well well

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jul 2

LAND BACK

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 26

🕯️ Eternal respect to Marc Bloch and Simonne Vidal's descendants for continuing their legacy, including by wearing keffiehs during the Panthéon induction ceremony and insisting that no member of France's far right/fascist party attends

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 26

I learned that Marc Bloch was to be inducted, together with his wife, into the French Panthéon when I was writing a tribute essay to him last January. In this age of dystopian academic cowardice, he remains my guiding light: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...

“Since we were not prophets we had not guessed about Nazism. But we were foreseeing well enough that, under a shape we were unable to draw, with precision, the contours of, the German outburst would one day come, fed by grudges, whose follies were multiplying the seeds, and whose outbreak would be terrible. […] We knew all of this. And yet, lazily, cowardly, we let it be. We feared the crowd’s shock, our friends’ sarcasms, the inexplicable spite of our mentors. We did not dare to be, in public, the voice who screams, first in the desert, but at least, no matter what the final outcome is, can always console themselves for having bellowed their faith. We preferred to confine ourselves to the fearful quietness of our workshops. May our juniors forgive us for the blood that is on our hands!”

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 25

BOYCOTT ASOR

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 24

In case anyone wonders why BASOR is desperately searching for new editors 🙃: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a...

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 23

🚨🏺🩸Look: In addition to being actively complicit with Israel's apartheid & genocide in Palestine, @asor-research.bsky.social is now touring occupied Cyprus AND posting about it on their socials. Yet another reason to abide by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social 's call to boycott them

#boycottasor
Roman theatre at Soli
ASOR TOURING OCCUPIED CYPRUS

Bellapais Monastery
not one to care about ethics, asor not only tours in occupied cyprus, but also posts about it. This is yet another reason to #boycottasor

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 17

PURE EVIL: ""The [Israeli] enemy has dropped b-mbs disguised as toys in South Lebanon, and this ball is one of them," Lebanese NBN reporter Rasha Al-Zein said, citing a local resident." www.instagram.com/p/DZru4D9imw...

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 10

BOYCOTT ASOR aka the Gwyneth Paltrow of archaeological associations 🤡 Meanwhile we are still waiting for their statements on Israel's obliteration of Gaza's heritage, theft and destruction of Palestinian heritage in the West Bank, and targeting of heritage in Iran and Lebanon Voir moins

"Stevan B. Dana Project Grants for Israel: $15,000 awarded
Sofia Avants (Duke University) Radiocarbon Analysis of Ritual Pool Plasters to Establish Household Use During the 2nd-3rd c. CE in Sepphoris, Galilee
Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University) Tel Hadid Archaeological Project
Omer Sergi (Tel Aviv University) Tel Shaddud Archaeological Project"

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 9

..."while “archaeological elements in the vicinity of the impact site, including columns and capitals,” were also damaged. The Ministry further confirmed that “the archaeological structures of the site sustained actual damage.”" 5/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 9

"This was confirmed today by a statement issued by Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture – Directorate General of Antiquities, which stated that the attack resulted in “direct damage to the site entrance and administrative buildings,”" ... 4/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 9

"These images show some of the damage inflicted on the Tyre Archaeological Site – City Sector, a UNESCO World Heritage property, as a result of the Israءli airstrike that targeted the city of Tyre on 7 June 2026." 3/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 9

"Based on information received from the site, Green Southerners had previously warned that the strike had caused damage within the archaeological sector. "2/

These images show some of the damage inflicted on the Tyre Archaeological Site – City Sector, a UNESCO World Heritage property, as a result of the Israءli airstrike that targeted the city of Tyre on 7 June 2026.
Based on information received from the site, Green Southerners had previously warned that the strike had caused damage within the archaeological sector. This was confirmed today by a statement issued by Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture – Directorate General of Antiquities, which stated that the attack resulted in “direct damage to the site entrance and administrative buildings,” while “archaeological elements in the vicinity of the impact site, including columns and capitals,” were also damaged. The Ministry further confirmed that “the archaeological structures of the site sustained actual damage.”
The attack affected a UNESCO World Heritage property that benefits from Enhanced Protection under the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention.
تُظهر هذه الصور جانباً من الأضرار التي لحقت بموقع آثار صور – قطاع المدينة، المدرج على لائحة التراث العالمي، نتيجة الغارة الإسراىيلية التي استهدفت مدينة صور في 7 حزيران/يونيو 2026.
وكانت “الجنوبيون الخضر” قد حذّرت، استناداً إلى معطيات وردتها من الموقع، من أن الغارة تسببت بأضرار داخل القطاع الأثري. وقد أكدت وزارة الثقافة – المديرية العامة للآثار ذلك في بيانها الصادر اليوم، مشيرة إلى أن الهجوم أدى إلى “وقوع أضرار مباشرة في مدخل الموقع والمباني الإدارية”، كما تضررت “عناصر أثرية في محيط مكان القصف، من بينها أعمدة وتيجان أثرية”، ومؤكدة أن “الإنشاءات الأثرية للموقع تعرضت لأضرار فعلية”.
‎ويطاول هذا الاعتداء موقعاً مدرجاً على لائحة التراث العالمي ويتمتع بالحماية المعززة بموجب البروتوكول الثاني لاتفاقية لاهاي لعام 1954 .
@unesco.beirut

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 9

Just like UNESCO last week, @icomos.bsky.social issues a statement of concern that omits who is targeting Tyre. Are you all for real? Let me help you for free, ICOMOS: Israel did that. I-S-R-A-E-L www.icomos.org/news/urgent-...

🆘 Urgent Alert: Strikes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Tyre
ICOMOS strongly condemns the reported airstrikes of 7 June affecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Ancient City of Tyre, which was recently granted Enhanced Protection under the Second Protocol of the 1954 Hague Convention.
A full technical assessment of the damage will only be possible once security conditions allow safe access. However, direct damage to the entrance precinct, administration buildings and archaeological warehouses has been confirmed. This follows earlier mass evacuation orders and strikes in the site’s vicinity on 27 May.
ICOMOS recalls that cultural property, particularly when under Enhanced Protection, must not be made the object of attack or used for military purposes.
➡️ Read the full alert: https://www.icomos.org/.../urgent-alert-strikes-world.../
Picture credits: RomanDeckert/Wikimedia Commons

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 8

🚨ISRAEL LIES ABOUT TUNNELS TO MANUFACTURE CONSENT FOR THE OBLITERATION OF @unesco.bsky.social's BEAUFORT CASTLE Source: www.instagram.com/p/DZUgItDjWrf/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 4

🧵4/ Indigenous and Colonist: What Do They Mean? by Christine Johnston. This is the second piece of our multi-authored #EOPalestine primer on ancient and medieval Palestine. everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/i...

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 4

🧵3/ Indigenous and Colonist: What Do They Mean? by Christine Johnston. This is the second piece of our multi-authored #EOPalestine primer on ancient and medieval Palestine. Full lineup here: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eopalestine/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 4

🧵2/ Indigenous and Colonist: What Do They Mean? by Christine Johnston. This is the second piece of our multi-authored #EOPalestine primer on ancient and medieval Palestine. Full lineup here: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eopalestine/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 4

🚨 Indigenous and Colonist: What Do They Mean? by @archaeologuest.bsky.social This is the second piece of our multi-authored #EOPalestine primer on ancient and medieval Palestine. 🧵1/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/i...

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 3

"The Role and Problems of 'Biblical Archaeology' in Writing the History of Israel-Palestine" by @chancebonar.bsky.social 2/ 🔗 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/t...

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 3

We at EO are sharing part 1 of our primer on ancient & medieval Palestine written by a stellar lineup of experts. Today: "The Role and Problems of 'Biblical Archaeology' in Writing the History of Israel-Palestine" by @chancebonar.bsky.social 🔗 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eopalestine/ 1/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 2

ISRAEL KIDNAPS FOUR PALESTINIAN STUDENTS FROM BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY IN THE WEST BANK Meanwhile Palestinian students who are accepted with full funding into Canadian unis are not getting visas

Israeli forces storm Birzeit University, women dorms, abduct four Palestinian students

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 1

Iran is. That's about it, it seems.

Iranian military warns northern Israeli settlements to evacuate if Beirut is attacked

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· Jun 1

🚨🚨🚨ISRAEL ORDERS "EVACUATION" OF OVER 800,000 PEOPLE IN BEIRUT @mark-carney.bsky.social and @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social where are the sanctions?

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· May 29

If you are on fb, ig or twitter, make sure to follow Lebanon-based Green Southerners, who are painstakingly documenting Israel's US-funded assault on their heritage in real time. Here's their latest post re the UNESCO site Beaufort Castle www.instagram.com/p/DY7mq7dMyMA/

Isis Naucratis@isisnaucratis· May 29

Where is @asor-research.bsky.social's statement on 🇮🇱's bombing of Tyre? They supposedly are into Lebanon's heritage now, w their exec director going to AUB a few months ago to tell locals how to care for their own heritage, which ASOR's bestie 🇮🇱 keeps bombing. 📸 from www.instagram.com/p/DY5jnIOMc6k/