OQTF : comment l’administration française fait de nous des «illégaux» A French version of my essay originally published on @africasacountry.bsky.social is now up on @liberation.fr www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

It seems the +972 article was based on an earlier piece written in 2023 by Hadeel Assali:

Reports about the UAE cancelling visas of resident Iranians are true. There are no official numbers, but it is estimated that half a million Iranians live in the UAE. Even those with properties, businesses and Golden Visas have had their residencies revoked. This happened to Qataris before.

La traque des migrants subsahariens Depuis 2023 et l'accord entre l'UE et Tunis, les interceptions de migrants illégaux au large des côtes tunisiennes ont augmenté. En parallèle, la xénophobie de Kaïs Saïed alimente la violence envers les migrants subsahariens. 🎧 @franceculture.fr urls.fr/6sDRL5

France’s mass deportation orders reveal how colonial logics persist in migration policy, turning former subjects into administrative problems to be expelled. africasacountry.com/2026/02/we-t...

I wrote about #France's migration administration mass-producing illegality & legal liminality among all migrants, including so-called minority migrants like myself should it be seen as an extension of France's colonial history? for @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/02/we-t...

📢 Nous avons un 𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 ! Découvrez le décryptage de 𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐡 qui déconstruit le mythe selon lequel 𝐝𝐞𝐬 “𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐥𝐥é𝐠𝐚𝐮𝐱” 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥’𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐝. Et d'ailleurs, les Maghrébins sont-ils africains ? Partagez, 𝐟𝐚î𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞 𝐃é𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐱 ! desinfoxmigrations.fr/les-africain...

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

Happening next week! Join us!! And don't forget to register!

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...