Grateful to @devcomms.bsky.social for the opportunity to present my work on the NGO crisis’ impact on civil society adaptations in autocracies ( #Egypt and #Syria), and to hear from #Gaza scholars about best practices and challenges in academic solidarity against scholasticide at #DSA2026 🇮🇪🇵🇸

Why do movements leverage “nationalist discourse” to reclaim popular sovereignty, and what can it tell us about global modernity regimes shaped by neoliberalism and imperialism? 👉 Out now in Social Movement Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social #Iraq #Tishreen

Wholeheartedly grateful to @ipsarc14.bsky.social @ipsa.org @euracminorities.bsky.social @autonomyexperience.bsky.social for the inspiring exchange of research ideas, directions, and dilemmas at #ipsarc14bz! Love to know there are such great people doing research on politics in our troubled times.

Looking forward to next week’s @ipsarc14.bsky.social Colloquium “Minorities under siege? Plural societies facing plural challenges” organised by @ipsa.org @euracminorities.bsky.social. Will present a forthcoming article on movements’ mobilisation of “nationalism” in the 21st century 👇 #ipsarc14bz

The #Italian government opposes the suspension of the EU-Israel #AssociationAgreement, proving that the suspension of the renewal of the 🇮🇹-🇮🇱 defense memorandum which came earlier this month was no more than a symbolic move to placate discontent with #Meloni’s leadership. Genocidal fascists

Just published in the new ESA Special Issue, my amazing colleague A.Gileva on the 2024 student protests in #Serbia and the legacy of anticapitalist movements europeansociology.org/european-soc...

'Pick up the torch': The revival of Algerian feminist media - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/the-revival-of-algerian-feminist-media

What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this: An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

#Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories in the #Amazon, right where #COP30 will be held Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10... @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Horrifying images coming out of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, this morning after a massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight. As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack. Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.

“This revelation highlights the continued presence of Western technology in Moscow's weapons, despite years of sanctions”

ISA RC 47 “Social classes and social movements” invites: 🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President “Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times” 🗓️ 9 September 2025 📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online 🔗 usgm.link/socialchange

“[the] National Transitional Justice Authority […] is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime, excluding abuses by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and any prospect for real accountability” #Syria timep.org/2025/08/28/o...

#ReArmEurope will impact European public spending, but what are the effects on the EU normative frameworks on #arms production and transfers? An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD. 📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i... #disarmament #armscontrol #europe

APPELLO della RUP al Presidente della Repubblica perché intervenga con assoluta urgenza e con ogni mezzo a disposizione per interrompere lo sterminio della popolazione di Gaza portato avanti da Israele. 📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...

Mabruk to #SFHR on their report documenting hundreds of enforced disappearances in #Sinai and exposing Sisi’s “security campaign” for what it is: a ruthless exercise of power consolidation through state terror 🇪🇬 sinaifhr.org//upload//2gz... 🇬🇧 sinaifhr.org//upload//1lx...

🚨 #Syria is on the brink of civil war. Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late. ✍️Sign the petition and share widely: act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...

In solidarity with the people of Suwayda and everywhere else where civilians live in fear for their lives, loved ones and homes. Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.

all eyes on #Suwayda 👇

NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7

This is the only thing that matters. Nothing European politicians claim to believe in matters. The only thing that matters is what they’re doing.

Family and friends of Syrian activist Ali Mustafa, forcibly disappeared by Assad since 2013, gathered in Damascus to commemorate the first anniversary of his arrest since the fall of the tyrant, and to demand truth and justice for Ali and all of Syria’s disappeared. 📸 Ali Haj Sulieman

Still very relevant and insightful today, especially the considerations about campism and centring the agency of ordinary citizens and movements👇 🇸🇾

Shame on #EU

A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala @irpimedia.eu 🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...

An amazing resource on the political landscape in #Syria post-revolution and the struggle of Syrians for the future of their beautiful country👇

The #OHCHR report on the Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Rights is out! So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore. 🇪🇺 exporters, we see you! 🔗 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...

📢 No to weakening the #CSDDD 📢 No to corporate impunity 📢 #NoToOmnibus Today, @eccjorg.bsky.social & 360+ civil society & trade unions worldwide urge @europarl.europa.eu & @consilium.europa.eu to reject turning corporate due diligence into an empty shell.

@adalahjustice.bsky.social launched a petitition in support of Palestine advocate #MahmoudKhalil facing arbitrary detention & risk of deportation from the #USA over his activism at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. #StopGenocide, free 🇵🇸 & all political prisoners! actionnetwork.org/letters/rele...

Federal Judge Jesse M. Furman has ordered that greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil not be removed from the United States unless and until the court orders otherwise. He has also ordered counsel for all parties to appear for a Wednesday conference involving Mahmoud's habeas petition.

Nuovi dati SIPRI: eppure il Governo di Giorgia Meloni e Guido Crosetto sta modificando (in peggio) la #Legge185 su #ExportArmi perché le aziende italiane avrebbero "troppe regole" rispetto alla concorrenza, soffrendone... Ovviamente non è vero, i motivi sono altri!

SNHR has documented the killing of at least 240 people since Thursday www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

An important reading on how the @ec.europa.eu is sidelining sustainability, climate justice, human rights, and corporate accountability in the name of “competitiveness” #omnibus

🇧🇪 Despite the EU arms embargo of 2013, Walloon Decree of 2012, and the #ATT, Walloon arms manufacturers consolidated business ties with Sisi’s Egypt for years, supplying weapons, ammo, and components currently in use to the Egyptian army in #Sinai. 💡New report coming 24/02 on egyptwide.org

#EGYPES2025 has been the theatre of another triumph of #ENI ‘s greenwashing strategy that capitalizes on escalating tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, while #Egypt consolidates international leverage thanks to #LNG exports while unable to achieve energy security. Neoliberalism at its finest

Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt. I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝 #students #highered #Serbia

SESAMO denounces the threat to academic freedom posed by Law bill 1236, particularly under art.31 which commits universities & research institutes to cooperate with the secret services. In short, another repressive device against engaged research & mobilisation. 👉 www.sesamoitalia.it/ddl-sicurezz...

Verità e giustizia per #RamyelGaml, ucciso a 19 anni da profilazione razziale e brutalità della polizia in Italia. Truth and justice for Ramy el Gaml, killed at the age of 19 by racial profiling and police brutality in Italy. 👉 x.com/egyptwide/st...

2025 began less than a week ago and we’re already counting the first racist police murder #MadeInItaly. As reported by Coordinamento Antirazzista Italiano Mohammed Abdallah Hamid Sitta was shot 8 times- all aiming at vital organs. La terra gli sia lieve. www.facebook.com/share/p/1D1D...?

Israel has carried out multiple strikes aimed at dismantling Syria's military capacities. Airstrikes have hit locations in Damascus, Quneitra, Homs & Raqqa. Israel's telling the world what we already knew, that it sees a free Syria as more of a threat than Assad's Syria

Basic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235). The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6

No matter what is to come, Syria’s liberation from the Assad family’s half-century long reign of terror deserves celebration and the Syrian people, so long betrayed by the international community, deserve unconditional solidarity in their quest for freedom and dignity. #Syria Art by Hani Abbas

If you listen to Syrians, you'll see there is a huge focus on the prisons. Thousands of people are now being released from these slaughter houses, some of them had been there since 1982. #Syria

The EPF €20million assistance package to the Egyptian Armed Forces “to enhance security” looks a lot like a reward for Egypt’s role in the externalisation of EU borders & might be used for new #OperationSIRLI. 🧵 www.egyptwide.org/publication/...

So a lot is happening right now in Syria, but this didn't start yesterday. Here's a thread of resources to understand the Syrian context that centres Syrian revolutionary and liberatory voices. First up, humbly, I made a comic a couple years ago on this very thing! unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolut...