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Amro Ali

@amroali.bsky.social
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I explore fractured modernities across the Arab world and the Mediterranean. Political sociologist, public scholar and UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. 📍 Casablanca 🌐 www.amroali.com

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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re in Paris next week, then come join us at UNESCO for what promises to be a fascinating week exploring social transformations, tech disruption, inequality, and the future of inclusive societies. Details: www.unesco.org/en/social-tr... registration: indico.un.org/event/102444... #UNESCOMost
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m getting tired of the “Mamdani was 9 years old when the 9/11 attacks happened” defense. Yeah. And even if he’d been 42 years old, that still wouldn’t mean he had anything to do with 9/11.
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My short story has been published by Rowayat. In January 1929, during the Al-Karam winter storm, Cavafy and Ahmed Shawqi meet at Baudrot Café in Alexandria in their final reunion. Two visions of Egypt, and a waiter named Mina. rowayat.org/at-cavafys-t...
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My short story has been published by Rowayat. In January 1929, during the Al-Karam winter storm, Cavafy and Ahmed Shawqi meet at Baudrot Café in Alexandria in their final reunion. Two visions of Egypt, and a waiter named Mina. rowayat.org/at-cavafys-t...
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My UNESCO report, 'Towards a Human-Centered Scientific Culture in the Arab World: from crisis-driven science to visionary renewal', has been published and is now publicly available. unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Mamdani may have done more to shatter anti-Muslim stereotypes in a few months than decades of anti-Islamophobia campaigns and policies
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember when Germany admired Greta Thunberg so much that "the Greta of data privacy/corporate accountability/Africa etc" was a regular shorthand for virtue? The second Greta applied the same universal justice principles to Palestine, that admiration vanished overnight.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.” These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.
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Youssef Chouhoud @chouhoud.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
For the first time in 25 years of Gallup polling: Americans report having more sympathy for Palestinians than Israelis in "the Middle East situation" As anyone worth listening to on survey design will tell you, this is NOT an informative standalone question--but the trend speaks volumes
Graph showing the trend over time from 2011-2026 on the question: "In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?" with the most recent year showing 41% of Americans sympathizing more with Palestinians compared to 37% who sympathize more with Israelis 

Percentages who say both, say neither or do not have an opinion are not shown
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My Facebook feed is suddenly but slowly pushing more anti-Danish content, e.g. Denmark discriminating against English and non-Danish speaking job applicants. In light of the Greenland issue, the timing doesn’t feel accidental.
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share far and wide and encourage colleagues to give generously! leonardeducation.org/the-palestin... (HT @nsdoud on X)
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The Palestinian Futures Fund - Leonard Education Organization
The Palestinian Futures Fund is a higher education scholarship initiative led by university faculty and staff across the United States who stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom. As people of conscience at institutions of higher learning, we believe that support for justice in Palestine and free Palestinian futures
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Cool, so the message from UMN to students is that they can use AI to summarize, answer questions, edit writing, and write code. This really doesn’t jibe with the university giving professors autonomy over how we want AI used (or not used) in our courses.
New Generative Al Tools Available
Gemini

Google's generative artificial intelligence (Al) assistant, Gemini, is now available systemwide at the University of Minnesota.
Gemini can:
• Summarize information
• Answer questions
• Provide feedback on the tone of your writing
• Create stock images
• Assist with writing code
• Brainstorm ideas
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Voici mon article sur Hannah Arendt dans le monde arabe, publié dans le magazine français Philosophie. Vous pouvez également le retrouver sur mon site web. amroali.com/2025/07/refl...
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I have a piece (in French) on Hannah Arendt in the Arab world that has just been published in a special edition of the French philosophy magazine, Philosophie. Unfortunately, it is paywalled, but I'll later publish the English version elsewhere or on my site. www.philomag.com/philosophes/...
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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Insane that Israel will be able to compete in the world cup and olympics while systematically murduring every Palestinian athlete.
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
هو فين ممكن ألاقي مسلسل 'أهل إسكندرية' بتاع بلال فضل اللي اتمنع في 2014؟ في مكان ممكن أتفرج عليه؟
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Next week in Bologna
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Al Saoud Library is a gem of Casablanca. Well-resourced and elegantly situated, it overlooks the ocean, a feature that should be mandatory for all coastal cities. It brings knowledge and nature into quiet harmony.
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Passport officer at Muscat airport: "Welcome to Oman, it seems it's your first visit to Oman, hopefully it won't be your last," he said smiling. You see how easily hospitality can be done? This trait is becoming rare at many airports that greet you with frowns & interrogations.
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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
All I understood from this is that the Trump administration will be coming soon to the University of Buffalo with knives and pitchforks
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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Opinion | Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be
The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19/04/2025
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Unspeakable evil. "Twenty-four hours before she was killed, it was announced that a documentary focusing on Hassouna’s life in Gaza since the Israeli offensive began would be debuted at a French independent film festival that runs parallel to Cannes." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you.” - Cavafy #Alexandria
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The Register @theregister.com · 15/04/2025
EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits
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EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits
That would put America on the same level as China for espionage The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…
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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“Overseas arrivals to the US from all origins dropped 11.6% in March, the government data showed” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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US sees biggest drop in Australian visitors since Covid as travellers avoid Trump’s America
Almost 4,600 fewer people went to the US in March compared with the same time last year, according to government data
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Alexandria in an infinite loop 🌊
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Brace yourself for public figures to be even smaller and more cowardly than you thought possible, and some neighbors and family, too. (Even if you thought they couldn't disappoint you any more than they have.) But we can't give ground. This is deliberate evil. They're testing how far they can go.
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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/04/2025
Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
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Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research
A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/04/2025
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
38. Once they finally took me to the medical center, the nurse took my temperature. She said "you need to take that thing off your head" and took off my hejab without asking my permission. I told her you can't take off my hejab and she said this is for your health. After a few minutes I put my hejab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen.
39. I had a third asthma attack at the Louisiana facility. Again, this happened in the cell and other woman knocked on the window to get the attention of the officers. I was told that the nurse would come to the cell to see me. She took me outside for a short bit and told me that it was all in my mind. She finally took me to the medical center but I was not treated for my difficulty breathing. The nurse left the room and didn't answer my questions
40.I had a fourth asthma attack on Wednesday March gth around noon. I used my inhaler and waited for it to pass. I was in pain and very scared but I didn't ask to go to the medical center because I don't feel that they address my medical needs.
41. I don't feel safe at the medical center because of my prior experiences there.
They complain when I go there and speak to me in an insulting and condescending manner. They also write information in my medical records that is not accurate. The doctor and nurses there are rude and uncaring.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This whole deportation of students in the name of stopping antisemitism literally makes everyone who is not a Christian white citizen unsafe. Including and especially Jewish people. And that some folks can’t see that is beyond me.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
And where, pray tell, do these expected beliefs come from? On what basis do you determine what a person's expected beliefs are? I'm sure it has nothing to do with ethnicity or national original, that would be crazy.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/04/2025
From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now, the government has terminated those grants.
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Where did U.S. humanities grants go? To projects from a baseball film to AI research
From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I'd bet most Americans don't realize the six Nazi extermination camps during World War II also involved rendition to a foreign country. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Alhamdulilah, small baby steps to increased capacity. Now we just need to go from one year valid residency to three according to Egyptian law 🙏🏻
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Leila Nachawati @leilana.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
❤️ ❤️
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
truly beautiful
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2. - German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations - Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days
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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We’ll keep saying it: none of this is about fighting antisemitism. It’s about gutting our education institutions and democracy under the guise of fighting antisemitism. And it ultimately makes Jews less safe.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
How to (Self-)Destroy a Hegemon in 6 Easy Steps: 1. Wreck academia + science infrastructure 2. Erect massive tariff barriers + supercharge econ inequality 3. Re-segregate your (very) diverse military 4. Destroy elements of soft power (e.g., USAID) 5. Dismantle your democracy 6. Nuke immigration
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