Happy Newroz/Nowruz to all those celebrating. Sadly I’m not in Akre this year, as I was when I took this picture. Great memories of joy and hope then. More important than ever right now to wish and call for a peaceful and positive year ahead.

Keep migrants away - even if it's your oppression they're fleeing from - and I'll cover you with money

Ursula von der Leyen's infamous 'blueprint' hits again. After #Tunsia and #Mauritania , it's #Egypt 's turn 👇🏽
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#EHF2024 on media and forgotten crises:

 
'More media means more money. But it's correlation, not causation. Media reflects fund allocations but it doesn’t drive them. What does? Geopolitical significance' says Dr Martin Scott, from University of East Anglia, at #EHF2024 .

A journey through London’s Iraqi food culture - Hyphen via Hyphen hyphenonline.com/2024/02/27/a-j…

It’s been a year since our friend Elizabeth Tsurkov🌻 was kidnapped in Iraq while doing her phd research for #Princeton . Elizabeth is an amazing empathetic human and one of the best researchers I’ve met. That feeling of helplessness we her friends have is just painful on so many levels.

It took 10 years and three rounds of IVF for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.

An Israeli strike in Rafah on Saturday killed her children, her husband and 11 other relatives.

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Nothing says 'we're taking this seriously' like talking about a war that has killed ~30,000 people with an ice-cream cone halfway to your mouth

bye for now, baghdad

Incredible smearing of a fine journalist. Happy to help anyone who wants to investigate my activities as a student in the pre-Twitter 1980s.

Tens of thousands of individuals are imprisoned in #Iraq , convicted of terrorist-related offences in the post-ISIS period in trials where fair trial guarantees were not observed—often actively, because of extortion, false allegations, cruelty + corruption. ohchr.org/sites/default/…

Only 375 students in the whole of Italy have chosen to enrol at one of the 92 high schools offering the new 'Made in Italy' specialisation, strongly promoted by Meloni's Education Minister. That's 4 students per school. Complete fiasco.
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Amazing to hear that the Bruno and Dom project has been nominated for two awards at this year’s The Press Awards The Guardian Forbidden Stories