Will Hanley

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Settler. Middle East history #fsu #digitalHumanities #legalHistory #tallahassee #cycling #running #wikidata
Websitewillhanley.net
ORCID0000-0002-1832-6805
GitHubhttps://github.com/whanley

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كلنا خالد سعيد

A small Friday-evening project came to fruition. Analysing data on the dimensions of Arabic periodicals from #Wikidata, a quick and simple plot allows for a number of observations: Firstly, newspapers and magazines are of different sizes and the former tend to be significantly larger than the latter. This bestows confidence on our data set. Misclassification is seemingly rare, particularly for magazines. Secondly, the size of magazines is quite stable at around 24cm with a slight tendency towards larger heights in the 1920s. Thirdly, newspapers are of a much less consistent size with the majority of observations falling into the mid-thirties.

#PeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #MultilingualDH #DH #DigitalHumanities

Goodnight, with a Tom Gauld classic 🌃
Excited to see that #Grokipedia has conjured an entry on a certain "Will Hanley" who's a combination of me and a professional basketball player with the same name. What a versatile guy! https://grokipedia.com/page/will_hanley
Will Hanley

Will Hanley is a legal and social historian specializing in the Middle East, particularly the history of international law and its development in Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As an associate professor of history at Florida State University, where he has taught for over 15 years, Hanley focuses his scholarship on overlooked regional contributions to global legal frameworks, including projects centered on Cairo's role from the 1890s to the 1930s. His work integrates...

Grokipedia
Really pleased that #MESA and #AAUP are zealously defending academic freedom. Assertiveness gets results--assuming this proposal becomes an order. Awful that it is members-only, though. Sorry that #AHA and other societies did not join the action. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/student-protester-deportations-trump-khalil.html
Judge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Student Activists

In a case over the First Amendment rights of noncitizen scholars, a federal judge proposed extending protections to members of two academic groups behind a lawsuit.

The New York Times
‘This is censorship’: BOG regulations for CoreFSU cause controversy

What are the 2025 CoreFSU regulations set by BOG, and how do they affect FSU students?

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Think we should make a #wikipedia category called Kidnappings of Heads of State? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Lebanon%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_dispute
2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute - Wikipedia