For Portuguese speaking readers interested in N Ireland: pt.mondediplo.com/2026/05/a-ir...

Great to see Sociology’s Cathal McManus profiled in this piece for his sterling work on Queen’s Open Learning programme, bringing learning back into the community 175 years on. www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

My piece on Israel's onslaught and Hezbollah: theconversation.com/israels-onsl...

⚠️New #openaccessarticle online! 🛡️Space, #Security and #SovereignPower: The Case of #Bahrain 🔍 How has Bahrain used space as a tool of securitisation since 2011? l1nq.com/vzmnf3o ✒️@profmabon.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social & John Nagle (Queens University Belfast)

I spoke on the Why Curve podcast about Lebanon: whycurve.com/episode/poor...

🌐 Join us @ the launch online event of the new Special Issue of The International Spectator 👥 Guest Editors Javier Bordón, @profmabon.bsky.social, in dialogue with @leogoretti.bsky.social, @dhuber.bsky.social and Tamirace Fakhoury 🔗 Info & registration: shorturl.at/8r9zk

With Eduardo Aboultaif, I look at how a Beirut suburb became a “doctrine” — and why it’s invoked in debates about Gaza, urban warfare, and civilian harm: theconversation.com/dahiyeh-the-...

Last night I recorded an episode of Radio 4’s Moral Maze on whether it is moral to attack Iran. Short answer: it’s not. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good to see this out. It looks like a tremendous collection of articles.

1/ Our special issue—Protesting Power-sharing: Contentious Politics in Divided Societies (co-edited with Simon Mabon)—has now been published in Ethnopolitics: www.tandfonline.com/toc/reno20/c...

On Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition, I talk about the special issue I co-edited with Simon Mabon, and how it frames debates on power sharing and contentious politics in divided societies

My article on framing irredentism is now out in print in Nations and Nationalism. Drawing on cases including Russia/Ukraine, it examines the ideational frames that drive states to pursue 'lost' lands and peoples. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In this powerful new article, Gazan scholars—including my PhD student Saga Hamdan—reflect on how the concept of resilience has become a burden that obscures the reality of colonial violence. A must-read for those engaging with Palestine in academia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Essay by group of Gazan scholars, including our Khalid Dader @dader-khalid.bsky.social, problematising framings of Gazan resilience, ingenuity and strenght. Highly recommended read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This paper builds on our 2023 co-edited book "When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic" published by @policypress.bsky.social & the work of its wonderful contributors. #disaster #emergency #resistance #trauma #embodiment #politics policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/when-t...

Our intro to the 2026 Ethnopolitics special issue on Protest & Power-Sharing is out. It brings together great scholars & cases — Lebanon, Bosnia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Northern Ireland — on how protest & power-sharing interact. Grateful to contributors: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out now with @smokegatherer.bsky.social and Nasir Almasri on the Palestinian movement and demobilization. We look at the protests of 2021, the unity intifada, and their aftermath on the structure of the movement. Hopefully the 1st of a few articles on this topic doi.org/10.3167/cont...

Good news that this edited volume has hit the shelves. Self-promotion klaxon: lovely to see the review quotes describe our chapter as "worth the price of the whole book": brill.com/display/book...

Fantastic to see this highly important book on civic parties and divided societies by a really excellent scholar and author: www.mqup.ca/civic-partie...

John Nagle looks at ideational frames justifying irredentist claims in our next #earlyview article, "Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands & Causes & the National Family" (and neatly sums up the 3 frames in the title!). It's #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Financial Times article on upcoming Kneecap trial: www.ft.com/content/8346...

Al Jazeera article on Ballymena riots: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

My new open access article on power-sharing: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Enjoyed reading this wonderfully rich account of street art in postwar Beirut: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All thanks and credit to @profmabon.bsky.social for this excellent article on how Bahrain's regime seeks to to use space to try&manage and crush dissent

She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

My new article in Nations&Nationalism identifies the ideational content of irredentist frames in a range of cased, including Russia/Ukraine, Croatia/Herceg-Bosna, Armenia.Nagorno-Karabakh: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....