Reposted by Assem Memon عاصم ميمنHafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 16/01/2025There is a record of everything. This administration has been shameless, completely unhinged. 03913
Reposted by Assem Memon عاصم ميمنHafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025“Sudan is Gaza on the Nile…Khartoum,& other cities & villages are levelled. It is the largest state to collapse in modern history & the largest displacement crisis in the world today. The remaining population is enduring what will probably be the worst famine in Africa in 100 yrs.” on.ft.com/4ae5aB7on.ft.comSudan’s last hope lies in external actors ending the warMiddle Eastern states and their allies must not continue to exploit the country as a battleground for their rivalries 073
Reposted by Assem Memon عاصم ميمنHafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I’m at a loss to see how easily people have brushed past Gaza, like it’s not still happening, hasn’t happened, still arguing over how it happened. Professionally or personally, I don’t know what to do with it, how to respond, or how to engage. It will haunt us, though - All of us. It truly will. 57022
Assem Memon عاصم ميمن @assem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I think I should start a social club, one that is interested in tennis, gardening, a cynical world view and good beers. 101
Reposted by Assem Memon عاصم ميمنJake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Getting older means that some of your worst case scenarios become your best case scenarios. 517335
Assem Memon عاصم ميمن @assem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Just started to read Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis. I think 10 years ago I was quite skeptical of Yanis but now more than ever I am quite certain there are no adults behind the wheel. 100
Reposted by Assem Memon عاصم ميمنLisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social · 02/11/2023New from me for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. This one is about the far-right Israeli gov't's unprecedented repression of free expression since Oct. 7, with a campaign coordinated at the ministerial level to have dissenters arrested, expelled, fired, and threatened. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/is...newlinesmag.comIsrael’s Freedom of Expression Falls Victim to the War in GazaSince Oct. 7, hundreds of citizens — most Palestinian but many Jewish as well — have been fired, threatened or harassed in an official campaign to throttle antiwar dissent 0129
Assem Memon عاصم ميمن @assem.bsky.social · 03/09/2023Was listening this weekend to this podcast about how Chicago sold all their sidewalks (and regretted it) to Morgan Stanley when they were in a minor financial bind, made me wonder about the shitty deals Egypt has/will be signing to try to dig us outside of this whole .podcasts.google.comCautionary Tales with Tim Harford - The City That Sold Itself To Wall StreetCautionary Book Club: When Morgan Stanley offered to lease Chicago's parking meters for the princely sum of $1 billion, the City Council were convinced that they had struck gold. They hastily signed t... 031
Assem Memon عاصم ميمن @assem.bsky.social · 03/09/2023Reading Mada Masr's reporting on the decline of country production in Egypt, is quite frightening. Supposedly 78% of SME farms shutdown and daily bird production down from 4M a day to 800K. 123
Reposted by Assem Memon عاصم ميمنBrandon Streussnig 📽️ @brndnstrssng.bsky.social · 01/07/2023When the twitter mutual doesn't follow you back here 11288682373