A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking with Shamim about some very timely issues on migration and media. First time podcasting as you can probably tell!

Call for paper for conference on DSGBV and Migration organised by @arpitac.bsky.social and @fabriziol.bsky.social at the @dcu-irgs.bsky.social to take place on 27 February 2026 at Dublin City University. Send your abstract by the 30th o November! www.dcu.ie/institute-re...

🎙️ Our first episode out now! ASHA: Crossing Borders, Breaking Silences explores gender, migration & sexuality as part of @arpitac.bsky.social’s project on South Asian communities in Ireland. Ep.1 w/ Dr Caroline West is live: www.dcu.ie/institute-re... @dcu-irgs.bsky.social @fabriziol.bsky.social

CfP: “They Are Here Too” – DSGBV & Migrants in Europe 27 Feb 2026 Seeking papers on migrant experiences of gender-based violence across Europe. CFP attached – pls share + submit! #CfP #DSGBV #Migration #DCU @dublincityuni.bsky.social @dcu-irgs.bsky.social @arpitac.bsky.social @fabriziol.bsky.social

Thanks @survstudiesnet.bsky.social for the chance to discuss my work and for the shout out! Check out my latest discussion with them on vernacular security, surveillance and the work of Tunisian imams

Honoured to join MECAM & German Africa Foundation in Berlin on June 27 to talk Maghreb–Sahel, migration & security.

We are at BISA! check out our panel "Connections and Disconnections between Migration and Violence" tomorrow at 1.15PM in the Madrid Room @arpitac.bsky.social @fabriziol.bsky.social

We join voices around the world calling upon the UK Govt to intervene for the immediate release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah from prison in #Egypt. We are concerned for the health and freedoms of both Alaa and his mother, Prof Laila Soueif at this critical moment.

Just published by Dr @arpitac.bsky.social and Dr Niamh Gaynor: Race, gender, and the immigrant student: Aspiring decolonisation in Irish universities, building a conversation around decoloniality in Irish academia. Check it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Decolonisation #HigherEducation

The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who passed away last week, at the age of 81, documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”

Israel confirms plans to create 22 new settlements in occupied West Bank

As part of our project, we are interested in interviewing anyone who has migrated to Ireland from South Asia and used the domestic violence support services here. If you, or someone you know has this experience, please consider getting in touch with Dr Arpita Chakraborty: [email protected]

The first issue of Surveillance & Society of 2025 is out, including 6 original articles, a dialogue section on “Authoritarian Surveillance,” an editorial on Trump’s second presidency & 4 book reviews. #surveillance #authoritarianism #data #privacy ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

My latest article is out in Surveillance & Society. It explores vernacular security and the role of religious leaders in international PVE programs, highlighting the power dynamics shaping these interventions. Read it here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... #SecurityStudies #menasky #polisky

In July 2015, I traveled to Tunisia for a language course. Ten years later, after a PhD and years of research, my book will be out with Routledge in August 2025. Can’t wait to share it! #Polisky #Menasky www.routledge.com/Preventing-a...

Some photos from Connemara for the weekend feed #photography #landscape #ireland #connemara

💸 We are now accepting applications for EISA Dissertation Fieldwork Support Grants! ✅ Designed to cover travel and accommodation for PhD candidates, especially those who face different forms of precarity and structural inequality/discrimination 🔗 Learn more here: https://buff.ly/41mA5Zi

IRGS @dcuresearch.bsky.social feminist writing retreat starting today at Kylemore Abbey. Can you believe this view?

Trump's vision for Gaza bolsters Netanyahu politically, normalises ethnic cleansing, and emboldens Israel to derail the ceasefire and return to war. Here's how 🔗 www.newarab.com/analysis/why...

One week left to apply for our workshop! #intsec #polisky

"Such an inversion of the values proclaimed by Western societies, such a political dereliction, such an intellectual collapse demands examination." jacobin.com/2025/01/gaza...

Still 2 week-ish to apply for our workshop!

Reposting this here away from X blergh: My book, Counterterrorism and Colonialism: Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt, is coming out on 31 March this year! Thanks to all who have supported me. ❤️ www.routledge.com/Counterterro...

So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’. Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e

JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

Hey everyone! If you’re interested in EU migration, security and foreign policy join me and prof. Sarah Léonard (Dublin City University) at the 12th European Workshops in International Studies, Krakow, 2-4 July 2025. Find our CfP on the EWIS website, workshop "WS S" #polisky #menasky

Aimé Césaire called this the Imperial Boomerang: Govts develop repressive techniques to control the colonised & eventually deploy the same against their own citizens back home too. I wrote about Israel's export of battle-tested tech from their 'Palestine Laboratory' here👇 jacobin.com/2024/12/term...

Finally got back to shooting digital after a couple years #photography #landscape #fujifilm #Sardinia

“Regardless of who ultimately controls a future government in Damascus, Israel exploited the chaos following Assad’s fall to make sure that Syria does not retain the military capacity to defend itself” — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An important reminder on ‘how to avoid the anti-imperialism of fools’. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“Israel had “brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell” on the strip’s 2.3 million population, noting that the “atrocity crimes” against Israelis by Hamas on 7 October 2023, which triggered the war, “do not justify genocide”.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Israel has demolished over 1,500 West Bank facilities in 2024, says UN - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-demolished-over-1500-west-bank-facilities-2024

5. Simply said, most popular “solutions” to the far right either underestimate the far right (by externalizing it from the “mainstream”) or are logically at odds with the analysis of the strength of the far right (eg asking the far right controlled state to oppose the far right).

'Before the leaves fall' - a new project. It's completely different from anything I've done so far. But it had to be that way. Working on these photographs woke me from a kind of deep sleep and aroused in me the desire to create again... after years of stagnation. #photography #nature #ilfordphoto

open.spotify.com/episode/1yAK... Interesting account of how the israeli military exploit Palestinian detainees

Delighted to see this now out & open access in EJIS. The article explores what happens when seemingly critical ideas around counterterrorism achieve wider currency. Coauthored with @michaellister.bsky.social, huge thanks to the reviewers & editors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/eis....

Asking for bibliographic help: I'm writing a book chapter on positionality, ethnography and security in North Africa. Is there any reading that I should not miss when writing this? #menasky #IntSec #sociology

Don't miss our final Anniversary Lecture! 'Freedom Dreams in #France: Notes on State Violence in France' with @jean23bean.bsky.social 26 Nov, 4-5.30pm GMT (Online) @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social‬ Register to attend: eventbrite.co.uk/e/f...

"Congolese-American sociologist Pierre van den Berghe has coined the term, “herrenvolk democracy”, that is “democratic for the master race but tyrannical for subordinate groups”.

I am the co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. www.tandfonline.com/journals/ywa... Get in touch if you have an idea for a Special Issue. We are keen to support research by ECRs & amplify the work of scholars from underrepresented fields & backgrounds.

Sharing a couple of 2020 Dublin shots for the weekend feed. #photography #Ilford #Hasselblad #blackandwhite

New mapping of Israeli attacks on Beirut. The mapping done by Beirut Urban Lab shows that Beirut's southern suburbs, Dahiya, have been the target of 186 Israeli announced strikes, demolishing at least 262 buildings between 27 September and 17 November 2024. beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/2...

It's critical to read about this & oppose it. The "terrorism" label is a political weapon for oppressing Palestinians, Muslims, and/or people of color. That's what it was designed for within US legal regimes. There is no way to reform or expand the label that undoes its fundamental colonial nature.

‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers

As critical scholars of terrorism, we are deeply concerned about the broad use of "terrorism" as a label to justify collective punishment in #Gaza and #Palestine. Our thoughts are with those affected and mourning at this time.

A bit late but happy to share the article co-authored by me and Alessandra Bonci (Laval University) for L'Année du Maghreb, looking at the work of female civil servants in Tunisia. The article is Open Access and available here: journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb... polisky menasky