Tutor and PhD candidate in modern Middle East history.
#1
hater of the nation state. |
#FreeGhanem
#FreeThemAll
| from the river to the sea🇵🇸 (she/her)
Egypt is a conveyor belt of political imprisonment and repression. We celebrate the release of our friend one day and the next we anguish over the kidnapping of our family members. There is no method to the madness, just ceaseless brutality and injustice. #الحرية_لتوفيق_غانم
When I was ten years old, I went on a school trip to
@britishmuseum
. The Rosetta Stone is displayed in the entrance hall. I told my classmates that it was mine, my teacher got angry and gave me a demerit.
Unelected Prime Minister, and unelected party leader, Rishi Sunak asked unelected King Charles to make unelected David Cameron an unelected Baron so he could sit among unelected Lords and not answer to elected MPs ✨British democracy✨
The King confers a peerage on David Cameron so the former Prime Minister (who resigned as MP for Witney) can return to government as Foreign Secretary (but he’ll be answerable to, and speak from, the House of Lords, not the Commons)
According to Israeli media, Israel warned Egypt that it will bomb any medical supplies or aid Egypt sends to Gaza. Israel has also bombed the Gaza side of Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza twice in less than 24 hours
This is the sign I held up a year ago protesting Sisi’s visit to COP26 in Scotland. My heart is warm to see that some of the many names I managed to scribble are now free, yet many are still in Sisi’s dungeons. Freedom is out journey, one that won’t end until we free them all.
إن ما يمارسه الاحتلال الصهيوني الغاشم الآن في غزة من قصف مكثَّف، وقتل، وقطع للكهرباء والإنترنت، وتدمير لكل مظاهر الحياة، وحجب كلِّ مصادر الحقائق والمعلومات حول ما يحدث من مجازر وجرائم حرب، لهو إرهابٌ أعمى، وانتهاكٌ واضحٌ لكل المواثيق والأعراف القانونية والإنسانية، وعلى العالم
To live in the Gulf is to endure a mix of systemic othering, wilful provincialism and an odd, one sided, expectation to honour some grotesque form of Arab nationalism. I’ve been called a lot of racial slurs but يا مصرية will always be the most hurtful
#NewContent
Mariam Diefallah reflects on her life in Qatar before COVID-19 forced her and her family back to Cairo, painting a vivid picture of how painful it can be to feel "forgotten" when leaving the life you've known behind.
“Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed … Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons—not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized.”
Paulo Freire
لما بنشوف الدولة العسكرية بتفرض سياسات اخلاقية دينية ده مش معناه ان الاخوان كانوا مظلومين لما اتقال انهم هيفرضوا سياسات مشابهة، معناه ان الاتنين انظمة يمينية وجهين لنفس العملة
Deleted the tweet but plastered it in 30pt font on the front page of the newspaper anyway?! Expected more from someone who has made her name off of our trauma & struggles against oppression. We should disabuse ourselves from the illusion that our humanity is part of any equation
I just wanted to clarify that I did not tweet 40 babies had been beheaded. I tweeted that foreign media had been told women and children had been decapitated but we had not been shown bodies - which was my response to reports which had gone viral about the 40 babies. I realised
Egyptians are not inherently violent. We do not deserve violence. Violence is not a habitual for us nor is it a function of our identity. Your subtle racism is not so subtle. Also it’s Tahrir, not Tahir, educate yourself.
I can’t bring myself to retweet that picture of two coppers holding a young woman down on the floor but God Almighty. This is beyond belief. Clapham Common not Tahir Square.
Alaa is a British citizen, since his arrest the British embassy has been denied consular access. The UK is the largest foreign investor in Egypt ($21.5bn) yet the British government has done the bare minimum to secure his release or his rights to fair legal proceedings
#FreeAlaa
Exactly 4 years ago
@alaa
was taken once again from us to prison, only a few months after finishing a five-year sentence
That same night he will be tortured and told he will never make it out of prison
And true to their brutal threat, he is still in prison
#FreeAlaa
This is a foundational justification of anti-Arab racism and colonialism before it. The tactic is to sabotage and hinder Arab populations from managing our affairs and then disparaging us as “uncivilised” and “inherently undemocratic”
despite its talk of democracy, the us cannot allow the countries of the middle east to democratize. any government accountable to the people could no longer get away with supporting israeli genocide
@NadineElEnany
“The society that gave you the opportunity to flourish” this line of thought is the bane of my existence, we flourish despite England not because of it.
الإعلامي أحمد موسى: إسرائيل اعتذرت لمصر عن جريمة القصف الخاطئ اللي ارتكبتها بعد نصف ساعة.. اعتذار إسرائيل مش بالساهل لكنهم عارفين الحكاية وهمَّ مش ناقصين بصراحة
Don’t let temporary relief of this apparent breather distract from how pathetic an amount of aid this truly is or that it doesn’t include any fuel leaving Gaza without the electricity needed to perform medical care or desalination of water
🔴 BREAKING: 20 trucks of aid enter Gaza via Rafah crossing
Twenty trucks of aid crossed from North Sinai into the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning via the Rafah border crossing, the first supplies to be delivered to Gaza’s population of 2.2 million Palestinians in almost two
I love how my mum grows with my sisters and I. She was never too shy to ask us to teach her something no matter how small. She was never too proud to evolve on issues and to admit that her beliefs were wrong ❤️
شوفت الوثائقي ده امبارح بيحكي قصة انتفاضة مساجين سجن اتيكا في ولاية نيويورك سنة ١٩٧١. على قد ما الفيلم موجع هو ملهم جدا..شرح الناجيين لطبيعة ومفهوم السجن والحبس ولدوافعهم وللطريقة اللي نظموا بيها انتفاضتهم عظيمه بجد. الفيلم دراسة عن قد ايه السجن فكرة قمعية
النهاردة ذكرى حريق القاهرة. اتعلمنا من صغرنا انها من اكبر المؤمرات فى تاريخ مصر لكن بعد ما قالوا ان ثورة يناير هي كمان مؤمرة مهم اننا نعيد النظر في احداث حريق القاهرة.
The two most important things I learned in therapy are; don’t try to explain yourself to those who don’t have the capacity or the maturity to understand, and people’s actions are 90% about them and 10% about you.
Stay healthy, go to therapy!
#WorldMentalHealthDay
@3arabawy
كانوا واقفين برا كدا طول الوقت، نزلت مشوار بدري جدا وكانوا لسه موجودين. ووقت المظاهرة طبعا كانوا واقفين بيصوروا اي حد في المظاهرة ده غير الشتيمة حتي البوليس اللي كان واقف يحميهم كانوا بيشتكوا من وجودهم. مش فاهمه والله لو بيحبوه اوي كدا مايرجعوا يعيشوا في عزه 🙄
The brave and ever lovely
@Monasosh
and
@sana2
continuing to take a stand to
#SaveAlaa
. Alaa escalated his hunger strike three days ago foregoing the 100 calories that had sustained him for the past 200+ days. On November 6th, first day of
#COP27
, Alaa will no longer drink water
Finally some good news out of Egypt.. Such a heartwarming video♥️ May all the families of the tens of thousands of hostages held by the Egyptian military regime experience this joy soon
#FreeThemAll
Impossible not to shed tears of joy watching Seif embraced by his loved ones after two years behind bars.
May 2023 bring ever more freedom, love, and celebration to the Thabets, and may all families who have suffered the injustice of wrongful detention experience the same!
People need to stop celebrating. The constitution didn't change, they didn't even change a law, the only thing that changed was a procedural mechanism that could easily be ignored. The Egyptian government is still not our ally and will never be.
Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the wish to drop everything and just go home. Does the Egypt I miss still exist? No. Can I be so detached and survive in Egypt as is? No. Does Egypt even want me? Probably not.
I’m homesick for a place that no longer exists.
النغمة دي بتتردد على كل جيل من بعد حرب اكتوبر، وحتى قبلها، بعد النكسة اتقال نفس الكلام عن الحركة الطلابية.. الوطنية المصرية بعد ٥٢ تحولت لأداه في أيد السلطة للسيطرة على الشعب وابتزازهم عاطفيا للقبول بالقهر والذل.
في جيل كامل من الشعب المصري من سن العشرينات لحد اواخر التلاتين تقريبا مبيحبوش البلد ومش بينتمو ليها ومش بيتمنو ليها الخير اصلا وده كلام من الاخر للي عاوز يفهم.
611 days since Tawfiq Ghanem was arrested.
611 days in pre-trial detention.
He was arrested six years after he quietly retired as a journalist.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#الحرية_لتوفيق_غانم
#FreeThemAll
The only reason they added this procedure is because the survivors in the Ahmed Zaki case specifically have important rich daddies. Menna Abdulaziz is still charged as a criminal in her own rape case because she didn't go to the AUC. Please leave your compounds and join reality.
Breaking: this is absolutely insane
The government are planning to broaden the definition of extremism to include any individual or groups who “undermine” the country’s institutions and its values
Groups mentioned include the Muslim Council of Britain
محمد لما بيكتب مش بس بياخدنا معاه في رحلته، هو بيلهمنا اننا نتأمل طريقنا وبيساعدنا نلاقي الكلمات اللي نوصف بيها حاجات جوانا ممكن مش قادرين نعبر عنها.. من قبل ما الكتاب ينزل عارفه ان محمد هيتألق♥️
ربنا يشفيك ويرجعك ليحيى وإسراء ولنا♥️♥️
🛑أنا قادم أيها الضوء.. كتاب يصدر قريبا للصحفي محمد أبو الغيط عن دار الشروق
يصدر قريبا عن دار الشروق.. كتاب «أنا قادم أيها الضوء» للصحفي المصري محمد أبو الغيط ومن تحرير صديقه الكاتب الصحفي أحمد سمير
Lets hold a few different, very uncomfortable, things together
Bassem trumpted Sisi’s coup called it a revolution, never backtracked & only reflected after it personally affected him.
His politics are emblematic of Egyptian upper middle class classism mixed with identity politics
An amazing night of essays, poems, songs and solidarity. It was truly insightful and moving. Thank you Glasgow for the first of many
#FreeAlaa
events, thank you to
@Henbell
and the other great organisers and speakers. Next time, Edinburgh!
#FreeThemAll
أبوالفتوح بيضحك ويخفف عن ولاده وأخوه، وقصاص بينادي على ايمان مراته تعالي أسلم عليكي بسرعة، والعسكري يفصل ما بينهم ويشده .. الله يقهرك ويحرق قلبك يا سيسي والقاضي اللي حكم ووكيل النيابة والظابط اللي لفق الله يقهركم ويحرق قلبكم يا رب
Today in covert British racism
Local barista: so what’s your PhD in?
Uncaffeinated me: political history of the Middle East
Barista: ahhh! If anyone has a political history it’s them!
Me: ??????
اصتبحي وقولي يا صبح 😭
ألقت أجهزة الأمن في الثانية من صباح اليوم القبض على الصحفي كريم أسعد، أحد أعضاء فريق تحرير منصة «متصدقش»، من منزله بمدينة الشروق، بعد مداهمة منزله والاعتداء عليه وزوجته بالضرب والسب، وتهديدهما بابنهما، والولوج إلى حسابات المنصة وحذف منشورين يتعلقان بهوية المصريين الموجودين
@_amroali
I remember when this first came out, my mum made my sisters and I watch it then went on to awkwardly point out the embarrassing level of similarities we all had with the main character. Then we all cried when the song came on LOL
مؤلم جدا ان ستات تتلاعب بالتقنيات عشان تتستر على مغتصب وتستخف بشجاعة الناجيات وتقلل من معاناتهم وتخفي حقيقة العنف الجنسي اللي معظم، لو مش كل، ستات المنطقة بيعانوا منها
Forres in the far north of Scotland- we are a small village but we needed to come out into the streets to send solidarity to the people of Gaza and to call for an immediate ceasefire and end to the occupation.
Women don’t lie about abuse, especially sexual abuse, simply because we have more to lose by telling the truth. When we tell the truth we face a society that blames us for our own victimisation, why would anyone put herself through that?
🔴URGENT: They just told mama she is not allowed to stay by the prison, confirmed that "Medical intervention has been taken with
@alaa
, with the knowledge of judicial entities" !!
How can they not inform us and the lawyers?? how can we not see
@alaaa
ourselves!!
#SaveAlaa
#Cop27