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Assistant Professor of Sociology at , researcher on Egypt/Middle East, writer for , media commentator, alumni

Cairo/Alexandria
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    Mar 31

    I'll be giving this lecture at Goethe Alexandria (in Arabic), Wed 4 April, exploring utopian lines of thinking to engage with the modern problem of mediocrity, dehumanising individualism, loneliness, fragmentation of meaningful spaces/narratives. Fb event:

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  2. 7 minutes ago

    "'Phoenician’ was just a generic label invented by ancient Greek authors for the Levantine sailors they encountered in their own maritime explorations." Oh no Lebanese nationalists, another scholar debunks the claim of your Phoenician ancestry.

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    3 hours ago

    Amr Adib would be shocked to see how Egyptians are more anxious about 'Mo Salah' medical report than they were with the Presidential "election" result.

    Video: A jealous pro-regime anchor Amr Adib expresses shock at 's youth mourning and turning out to novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's funeral in large numbers and he can't understand why they don't go out in those same numbers to an election. Seriously.
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  4. 3 hours ago

    Video: A jealous pro-regime anchor Amr Adib expresses shock at 's youth mourning and turning out to novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's funeral in large numbers and he can't understand why they don't go out in those same numbers to an election. Seriously.

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    Apr 4

    "When ME analysts treat minorities like undifferentiated wholes, they lend credence to ... sectarian inciters determined to cast doubt on the political status of those minorities": on the myth of Christian support for

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    Apr 2

    "The end of dictators is a beautiful thing but unfortunately we mostly do not live till we see it" Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

    إن نهاية الطغاة لشيء جميل، لكننا للأسف لا نعيش غالباً حتى نراها. د. أحمد خالد توفيق
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    Apr 4

    Egypt has arrested the editor of a news website that published a translation of a (totally valid) story about how voters were offered bribes for higher turnout.

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    Apr 3

    What's missing from this is Assad's role in ensuring that all other attractive narratives disappear, and ensuring that the opposition to him are radical Islamist/Jihadist. Assad isn't just part and parcel of this, he's the impetus behind it.

    On the alternatives to the regime in Syria, from
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    Apr 2

    I'm going back to Lebanon because the UK has become too sectarian.

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  10. Apr 3

    The book is "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think." The title alone packages in many American things: listicles, positivity industry, generalization, sensationalism, and bold statements. And who is "we"?

    Bill Gates says this book is "one of the most important" he's ever read
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    Apr 3

    Good God I almost forget he’s actually not a king...yet.

    MBS is an exhausting spectacle, and he is not even king yet.
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  12. Apr 3

    MBS is an exhausting spectacle, and he is not even king yet.

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    Apr 3

    Ahmed Khaled Tawfik created the dystopias that we deserve. The bestselling Egyptian thriller author has passed away...

    Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, prominent Egyptian writer, dies at 55
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    Apr 3

    Oh look a piece on M.B.S in a major American magazine that includes some non-propaganda reporting

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    Apr 2

    Now that Sisi has won his "landslide" vote, not long after Putin did the same, it's worthwhile to look closer at why authoritarian states even bother with elections in the first place.

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    Apr 2

    It's true - a million Yemenis have already experienced this life-changing vision by way of the cholera they contracted as a result of his bombing campaign.

    h/t to for this amazing intvw. all should watch . he is far from perfect + there is a long road ahead, but in a region long dominated by hateful despots, MbS envisions a very diff future for Muslims, Jews, Christians & all in MidEast
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    Apr 2

    what a tortured tweet, it makes it seem like Israel fell just short of some legal technicality that would have justified it blowing away Palestinians teenagers

    No Palestinian at the demonstration is known to have crossed the Gaza border, reinforcing the lack of imminent lethal threat that would have justified Israel using lethal force.
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  18. Apr 3

    MBS praises the "virtues" of France's former absolute monarchy, but he forgets the conclusion part, the one about revolution and stuff.

    Out of many fascinating bits of Mohammed bin Salman's 🇸🇦interview with The Atlantic, this is the most fascinating.
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    Apr 3

    Al Sissi a battu son propre record en étant réélu avec 97% de voix, mais 66% des électeurs se sont abstenus ou ont voté nuls, explications avec Chloé Berger, et de

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  20. Apr 3

    Tomorrow

    I'll be giving this lecture at Goethe Alexandria (in Arabic), Wed 4 April, exploring utopian lines of thinking to engage with the modern problem of mediocrity, dehumanising individualism, loneliness, fragmentation of meaningful spaces/narratives. Fb event:
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    Apr 2

    Mohammad bin Salman wants to reform Saudi Arabia from an abnormal Arab tyranny into a normal Arab tyranny, and that's the farthest extent of his vision or agenda.

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