I’m delighted to share that my article “‘I Have Learned Things Late in Life’: The Aftereffects of Revolutionary Participation in Egypt” is now out in Middle East Critique ! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

تضامنا مع الدكتورة ليلى سويف تقدمنا اليوم محامون ومحاميات بطلب إلى إدارة التعاون الدولي بمكتب السيد المستشار النائب العام المصري للإفراج عن علاء عبد الفتاح بعد أن انتهت مدة عقوبته بتاريخ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٤م إذا احتسبت مدة الحبس الاحتياطي وفقا لنصوص قانون الإجراءات الجنائية. #SaveLaila

نداء إلى أمهات ونساء مصر #الحياة_لليلى_سويف #الرحمة_بالأمهات #الحريةـللمعتقلين #الحرية_لعلاء بكره الساعة 6 مساءا على سلم نقابة الصحفيين شارع عبد الخالق ثروت - وسط البلد

#AcademicFreedom | With utmost urgency BRISMES CAF demands that the Prime Minister’s Office immediately intervene and lobby the Egyptian government for the immediate and unconditional release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah. Read our letter: shorturl.at/SALSt (1/3)

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An Egyptian government official told Mada Masr مدى مصر that they had communicated with authorities in foreign countries to try and prevent participants in the #GlobalMarchToGaza from traveling to Cairo as they would not be allowed to get to Rafah "for reasons of sovereignty and security"

simple joys: being in a meeting discussing social sciences in Arabic, each participant in their own (slightly standardized) dialect, talking about future exciting research projects.

⚠️ "100.000 morts à Gaza". Le journal israélien Haaretz.com s'appuie sur l'analyse du Prof. Michael Spagat (Univ. de Londres Royal Holloway, spécialiste des statistiques de morts violentes, Kosovo, Irak, Syrie): • "Le bilan des morts à Gaza rapporté par le ministère palestinien

A ceasefire is not enough. The Israeli military’s weaponisation of aid and starvation to displace and destroy Palestinian society will not stop as long as Israel controls aid distribution. Our new analysis shows how Israel has imposed a deadly aid system through GHF ration

📖 في هذا العدد نعرض لكم عن: العلاقة السببية بين الحريتين السياسية والاقتصادية في العالم العربي، دور المجتمع المدني السوري، الإبادة الثقافية في غزة، آثار المشاركة الثورية في مصر، صعود المرجعية الشيعية ما بعد التقليدية، ونشاط الإنترنت الديمقراطي في تونس. alzad.substack.com/p/7

"The facts are terrible.. 200 journalists have been killed. I don't know how we can just continue functioning normally with such a high number of our colleagues being killed for doing exactly the same job as we are trying to do from afar" Martin Roux from RSF

📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

🔻𝟑𝟒.𝟑 - Third issue of 2025 is OUT 🔻 This is a very rich issue, containing a 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑎𝑦𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎ℎ, a batch of article constituting the Special Issue on 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑔𝑦𝑝𝑡'𝑠

𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐠𝐲𝐩𝐭’𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Guest editors: Marie Vannetzel and Marine Poirier (IREMAM, Université d'Aix Marseille -CNRS) This special issue examines the paradoxical aftermath of Egypt’s 2011 revolution through the lens of

Our special issue is finally out !

Job alert: NYU Abu Dhabi invites applications for a three-year postdoc in political violence, legacies of conflict, and transitional justice. Starting date: Sept 1, 2026. If you’re a recent PhD in PoliSci or ABD, consider applying. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. apply.interfolio.com/172317

Total demolition is closing in on Gaza City, squeezing out the remaining life there. Leaving one exit southwards to the Al Mawasi dunes and then onwards.

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Scenes from youth led protests in Morocco’s capital Rabat over the weekend denouncing corruption, overspending on football infrastructure and lack of health and education reforms.

This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.