While Europe continuously tries to externalise borders, the maghreb is experiencing its own evolving relationship with migration. Read Tasnim Abderrahim's fantastic and insightful new paper to understand those changes and how EU & NA can better manage migration ecfr.eu/publication/ma…

Video reconstruction of how Israeli troops killed a young Palestinian boy in Gaza for no reason, then killed six of his family members as they returned from a cemetery to bury him, holding a white flag. Their remains were bulldozed into a pile of garbage. trib.al/9wf8crj

My commentary on #Meloni-#VonderLeyen relation. The Italian prime minister remains ambiguous and does not abandon euro-scepticism, yet such a weak #EU cannot afford to exclude #Italy from the games.

“turkish origin” is a very sinister framing here.

The RSF looting Sudan's cultural heritage and then selling it eBay feels like an apt metaphor for this war, the profiteering coming from it and the banality of our collective benign neglect. The country's identity isn't just being stolen, its been sold for cents on the dollar.

European fortune cookies, just like the Chinese ones, but with Draghi's quotes.

In a normal world, today 630,000 students from Gaza are supposed to start their educational year, but in the genocide era, today they lost the second educational year, and instead they are waiting in the water, food and aid distribution lines. Gaza, September 2024.

Mawasi Khan Yonnis is the largest area for the displaced population in Gaza, sheltering more than a million Palestinians, all in tents. Israeli occupation forces targeted it with eight missiles; the intensity was so strong that it buried tents and people underground. It has been

The inside of one of the craters from the Israeli strike on the refugee tents in Khan Younis. My God.

I remember talking to a senior official who told me- migration will one day kill the EU, because our inability to handle it will kill Schengen and without Schengen, what's the point? The depressing bit came after, when he explained they must keep doubling down on existing policy

It was obvious from Day 1 where Israel’s war on Gaza was headed, absent resolute engagement & accountability. Those journos/pundits/ooliticos who for months denied this reality & attacked those sounding the alarm/demanding action OWN the morally indefensible outcome.

New episode of The New Arab Voice #podcast out now. This week, I looked at the recent drama surround the Central Bank of #Libya, and the ousting of the bank’s governor. Many thanks to Jalel Harchaoui جلال حرشاوي and Tarek Megrisi newarab.com/podcast/bankin…

Vivid and shocking description of what happened to a #UN convoy which was part of the polio vaccination campaign in #Gaza yesterday. UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric says: "Yesterday's incident involving a #UN convoy stopped by Israeli forces is the latest example of the

jadaliyya.com/Details/23985 A powerful poem by Rajab Buhwaysh translated by Khaled Mattawa. I highly recommend reading it. Rajab Buhwaysh wrote it while being imprisoned in an Italian concentration camp in Libya during the "Pacification" of Libya.

🇱🇾🇹🇷🇷🇺Libyan Central Bank standoff fuels conflict fears as Turkey, Russia send weapons - Al-Monitor:The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source with ⁦Riccardo Fabiani⁩ ⁦Tarek Megrisi⁩ ⁦Jalel Harchaoui جلال حرشاوي⁩ & ⁦Wolfram Lacher⁩ via ⁦SWP Berlin⁩ al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

Excited to share my new ECFR paper on shifting #migration dynamics in the #Maghreb. As the #EU pursues externalization, current or future governments in the region may find that the costs of acting as Europe’s border guards outweigh the benefits. ecfr.eu/publication/ma…

In my latest commentary on Libya's unravelling, I invoke the old cliché to unpack the golden opportunity amidst the central bank crisis, and why Europe can't afford to miss it

NEW: #Egypt is considering a new Criminal Procedure Code that, if passed, threatens to destroy the country's entire criminal justice system. So what's in the law, and why does this matter? Our Executive Director Mai El-Sadany writes for Lawfare: lawfaremedia.org/article/egypt-…