The editorial team is very saddened to hear of the passing of Laila El Baradei. Laila was a member of the journal's editorial board. Take the time to remember Professor El Baradei by reading her 2011 article doi.org/10.1111/j.14....

It is with profound sorrow that SICA joins in the mourning of Professor Laila El Baradei of the American University in Cairo. Our thoughts are with her family and the many communities touched by her work. Her legacy will continue to inspire generations of public administration scholars in the world.

I see a stark difference between Twitter/X and Bluesky today. Bluesky is worried about the election and Trump. On Twitter/X, there's tremendous agitation over the massacre in Northern Gaza that's likely continuing rn. 18 hrs ago, Sharif Kouddous shared the IDF's threat: x.com/sharifkouddo...

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

WSJ ran an oped so violently anti-Arab and Islamaphobic that the Mayor of Deaborn Michigan has had to step up police presence around mosque's because they're afraid of being targeted by bigoted attacks. And then NYT ran an Op-Ed where Thomas Friedman compares Middle Eastern countries to animals

In memoriam - Dr Wiesam Essa. Wiesam was a CARA Fellow in our Department from 2019. Killed in Gaza in January. Rest in Power. #CeasefireNOW #Geosky www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/new...

Does anyone know how to a) do a FOI subject access request? And b) report to GDPR? And c) knows how to get a free speech lawyer involved (does the UK even have such a thing?) Can you please provide a pithy instruction doc for all to use, please?

The UN votes for ceasefire. We will not forget.

Internet down, ground invasion imminent. A disaster.

October 28, an amazing group of Palestinians. Diana Buttu, Noura Erekat, Ahmed Eldin, Tareq Baconi, Isabella Hamad.

Cairo right now. Solidarity with Palestine.

Yeah Israel has a history of hitting hospitals -- as recently as 4 days ago.

LULLABY FOR A PALESTINIAN CHILD by Faiz Ahmad Faiz translated by Azfar Hussain Weep not, child! In your courtyard The sun has bathed the dead And the moon has buried them.