Heba Gowayed هبة جويد

The Cost of Borders is finally under contract! Thank you to my incredible agent @sarahburnes.bsky.social to @naomischneid.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social for believing in this project & to all the people from Palestine to Haiti to Cameroon to Iran who shared their stories with me!

Naguib Mahfouz - Nobel Prize Lit (1988), Ahmed Zewail - Wolf Prize (1993), Nobel Prize Chemistry (1999), Omar Yaghi (Jordan) – Nobel Prize Chemistry (2025), Hisham Matar - Pulitzer (2017) - even if none of that were true, judging 500 million people by a prize tally is bigotry of the largest order.

NYC—come on through for this event next week!! We’ll talk human rights, war and revolution, and probably some reactions from whatever happens on election night.

LIVE EVENT: Join MERIP contributors Ervand Abrahamian, Heba Gowayed (@hebagowayed.bsky.social), Gabriel Young, Jillian Schwedler (@jillianschwedler.bsk.social) & James Ryan (@jdryan08.bsky.social) at Roosevelt House 11/4 @ 6PM to discuss Human Rights in the Middle East. buff.ly/Zpwr0vf

Is someone writing a book on why people vote fascists back in even after they do all their fascism. Inshallah Brazil makes another choice but the fact that it’s so close is terrifying (speaking from within a trump II America)

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

Awful mothering aside, also this is a TERRIBLE answer because it can be used to describe the vast majority of people. Like such a synopsis of the AI hellscape we find ourselves in.

I’m a father of two and you could not torture this story out of me.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

So this is horrific. The DoJ is offering funding to "support foundational research on gender dysphoria, its treatment, and the perpetration of violence and violent behavior." They are trying to gin up data to label trans people as terrorists. www.ojp.gov/funding/docs...

Another mass detention of activists in the West Bank, this time in Masafer Yatta. No mass detentions of Israeli settler terrorists. Instead, activists who came to help Palestinians harvest their olives are the ones being detained.

The organising by Lula's voters in Brazil right now is astonishing. They still might not win but they've put millions on the street and they have shifted the polls back to a tie -despite, in a friend's words, fighting "everyone -Trump, Meta, legacy media, the rich, betting companies, evangelicals".

In one video, a fascist politician was threatening a group of Indigenous people that he would withdraw their funding if they didn't vote for Bolsonaro. One of them replied, so what. We won't vote for you. You don't fund us anyway. Iconic. X

I feel like there need to be organizing classes offered somewhere as part of general education because going through this thing about 3k getting cancelled in our kids school you realize people have no idea how to strategically move as a group to a goal

I wonder if there’s any group other than Muslims you could write this about and keep your column at @theatlantic.com

Another successful distro! Got supplies out to neighbors in NoMA, Union Station, & on the metro ride down! Hygiene supplies, thermal socks, Halloween candy, & other snacks all very appreciated Help us keep rolling & stock up on winter supplies: CashApp $RemoraHouseDC or givebutter.com/remorahouse

Despite the recent opening of the secret 'shadow court', advocates still report concerns over the court hearings at 26 Federal Plaza, citing rapid processing and lack of due process.

Not only does politics matter for friendships but you have to be pro Palestine and support trans folks for us to be friendly

Everybody go see ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM please. www.vulture.com/article/once...

There’s this thing that people do right now like “don’t judge me i used AI lol” like if you object you’re the prude and it’s like babes this isn’t a scam you’re running on a corporation, this is you participating in our society’s demise. Please let’s just be literate.

"When we see people as primarily sources for profit, then basically we’re condemning ourselves to this result. It is a system that eats people. It is a system that kills masses of people" @hebagowayed.bsky.social on migration, sovereignty and borders spectrejournal.com/borders-as-c...

More about ICE's shooting of Oscar Belgal in Bronx: Agents didn't have proper warrant After they shot Belgal, his son began yelling that masked men killed his dad Belgal is now in solitary The left side of his face is numb He can't hear from one ear www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/14/i...

lol

Student debt is at the heart of why campus sexual violence derails victims’ lives too. The primary reason victims drop out of college is because they are encouraged to take temporary leaves of absence—and then they can’t return until they are current on student loan payments.

ICE Air third country removals to Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cameroon, and Liberia tracked and reported below by @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social

I haven’t thought of the word bimbo for a long time, because it’s derogatory and has been abolished and I’m a feminist etc. but I did think about it a lot today.