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Francisco Mazzola

@drmazz.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, @kcl.ac.uk | PhD in War Studies | Policing in MENA and LatAm | RT≠ endorsement

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War Studies @warstudieskcl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Research by Dr @drmazz.bsky.social explores how policing in Middle Eastern states serves not only as a tool of direct coercion but also reproduces structural & slow violence. Read to see how everyday policing practices shape political orders through exclusion: bit.ly/3Fg8tg8

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Reinoud Leenders @leendersreinoud.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

In the predominant, grand geopolitical theorizing about the fall of the Assad regime, Syria and Syrians are strikingly absent. The writing is on the wall. Quite literally, Syrians risk being written out of their own revolution and future. www.thepolicyinitiative.org/article/deta...

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The Policy Initiative - After the Fall of Assad: Where are the Syrians?

As TPI senior fellow Reinoud Leenders warns, after Assad’s fall, Western focus on geopolitics and security threats ignores Syrians' needs, perspectives, and agency —risking erasure from th...

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

seems the ceasefire will take effect at 10am tomorrow morning. So that means sleeping with the ringer on tonight just in case another evacuation warning comes our way.

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Francisco Mazzola @drmazz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Let alone that Israel is likely to continue to pound Beirut in the next few hours. The agreement might not even hold a week at this rate

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Francisco Mazzola @drmazz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hey Jannis, could you also add me please (if you haven't hit the cap yet ofc)?

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