I wrote about ongoing protests in Gabès, in south #Tunisia, against factories that continue to pollute, against 'development' policies that continue to eat away human lives 'The people want to breathe!' for @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...

In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...

ROAPE’s Pascal Bianchini interviews Malagasy historian Harilala Ranjatohery on Madagascar’s Gen Z revolt: the Youth-led protest for water and electricity grew into a nationwide movement for systemic change, backed by trade unions, that toppled Rajoelina buff.ly/SYBbb4M

#Algeria continues its turnaround and significantly expands anti-migration and border regime cooperation with #Europe. Yesterday, Algiers signed a bilateral police agreement with #Switzerland that covers "clandestine migration" and joint police training 1/ www.aps.dz/algerie/1887...

In gorgeous Strasbourg for GIS-MOMM conference I will be co-organizing a panel on gender, class, and race in post-revolution Arab Worlds on 27th June, 8h30-10h30 Join us if you are around!

Doctors and survivors of the Hell on Earth that is Gaza under an ongoing genocide took time to document their lives for the BBC, and the BBC just decided to censor their documentary ‘due to impartiality concerns.’

In #Egypt, the new asylum bill,ratified in Dezember, provides,for the first time, for the establishment of a state authority charged with refugee issues such as RSD―the Permanent Committee for Refugee Affairs―as, so far, no such entity exists in Egypt 2/ rosaluxna.org/publications...

#Algeria has started drafting an asylum law. Yet, such a law will neither improve the precarious situation of people on the move nor counter Algeria’s selectice enforcement of int. refugee law or the state's deportation practices. Via RLS Tunis @jfcrisp.bsky.social 1/ rosaluxna.org/publications...

While #Tunisia is mass-deporting black migrants, this poster with a black 'tourist' advertising tourism in Tunisia is everywhere across Parisian metros There is something so clearly 'white' about this black woman, assumed to be a French tourist Not everyone who is black is 'black' in Tunisia

political opponents in #Tunisia given long prison sentences by the court This marks yet another moment of the end of rule of law under Kais Saied www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/afriqu...

📖 "In Search of Saadia" par notre docteur associée @shreya-parikh.bsky.social Qui était Saadia, et pourquoi a-t-elle été oubliée ? La recherche de l’histoire d'une femme soulève de plus grandes questions sur la race, la migration, l'appartenance et les lacunes de l’histoire. 👉 À lire :

How #Egypt-ian authorities manipulate migrant smuggler arrests by expanding the practice of recycling suspects in court cases to appease European states "eager to see tangible results in Egypt's efforts to combat irregular migration" Via @MadaMasr #EgyptBorderRegime www.madamasr.com/en/2025/04/1...

I wrote about Saadia, daughter of Bou Saadia, lost between myth and history and Saadia Mosbah, black activist who remains a political prisoner for speaking about those like her mythical namesake who continue to be humiliated because of their blackness in #Tunisia

AESAT, the key organization representing sub-Saharan students in #Tunisia, is asking students to always carry passport +residence permit with them every time they step outside their home All black migrants, irrespective of status, are assumed 'illegal' by TN police and society

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We’ve got the POMEPS website back up. We’ve had repeated DDOS attacks on the site over the last year which started right after we published this collection on Gaza, completely coincidentally I’m sure 🙄 pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...

Is race a valid concept to study socio-political inequalities and transformations in Africa? If yes, is race all about phenotype? Very excited to organize the round-table "Thinking race in/through Africa" at Sciences Po Paris, 12 February, 14h-17h Register: www.sciencespo.fr/africa-progr...

Uniforms of Syrian soldiers from the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army, abandoned as they fled Damascus. A historic image marking the end of the dictator and his army.

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

The Syrian embassy in Stockholm has replaced its flag with the opposition's flag. A number of people have gathered outside the embassy, also holding the flag. The revolutionary flag has been raised at the Syrian embassy in Athens too, AFP reports.

My annotated interview with Dr. Maha Abdelhamid, Tunisian black scholar and activist, about the discursive opposition between black and maghrebi identities in North Africa as well as in Europe is out on Meridians Journal Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/ar...