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Elena Habersky

@elenahabersky.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @UofGlasgow. Looking at migrants contesting borders/RLOs in Egypt. Critical Border and Migration Studies. I ❤️ Cairo’s Street 🐈 🐈‍⬛. Always missing NEPA Summer Bazaars. 🍉🇸🇩

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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yalla looking forward to reading your abstracts, submit by Monday!
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UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When the VC earns £26,583 per month compared to the less than £22,000 per year for most PhDs, it's a slap in the face when he says the University will have to make “tough choices” just as it posts a budget surplus. Join us to protest GTA budget cuts opposite University Library at 12pm, 17th Sept ✊️
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Working with/on RLOs and want to join us for @imiscoe.bsky.social this July in Brussels? If you are interested in joining our session, send a 250-word abstract, including the names, affiliations and contact details of the author(s) via email (hsiddikoglu@auaf.edu.af) by 21 September 2026.
Call for Papers IMISCOE conference July 2026 Page 1 Call for Papers IMISCOE conference July 2026 Page 2
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
By my dear colleague and friend, Aya Khatir: The grammar of survival: Women on the frontlines of Al -Fasher www.cmi.no/publications...
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The grammar of survival: Women on the frontlines of Al -Fasher
"No woman stood here out of love for the army or the joint forces, but out of love for the homeland, because it was a matter of s...
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🇸🇩 in 🇪🇬
A Sudanese meal
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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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French police accused of rising use of violence to stop Channel crossings
NGO criticises ‘human cost’ of UK-funded crackdown on attempts to set off from French beaches in small boats
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My dear colleague, co-author, and brother Salah Jawish has been elected to a two-year term on UNHCR’s Global Refugee Advisory Board. Beyond proud and thrilled to have an advocate for the Sudanese community, refugees in Egypt, and refugee-led organizations on the board! 🎉🎉
A bio of a member of UNHCR’s Refugee Advisory Board
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Egypt asylum shift deepens 'Fortress Europe' concerns www.newarab.com/news/egypt-a...
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Egypt asylum shift deepens ’Fortress Europe’ concerns
Egypt’s new asylum system takes effect as rights groups warn EU migration funding risks entrenching abuses against refugees and migrants.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
El Mohandis Mohamed Farouk is free and in Sudan!! 585 days in Emirati jail with no charges or trial. Alhamdulilah Ala Salamaaa
Poster showing that Engineer Mohamed Farouk has is now free and in Sudan
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I know a lot of Sudanese who decided to go back to Sudan from Egypt this summer due to changing policies in the country. Alas, many of them are returning/planning to return to Egypt w/in these few weeks, they say the situation is getting unbearable again “it’s like hell” one told me.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m so excited for Gerda Heck, my dear mentor and friend, whose book will be out this November! It will be open access lup.be/book/souther...
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Southern Routes | Leuven University Press
Congolese migrants’ lived experiences through a focus on South–South mobility. Southern Routes draws on more than a decade of multi-sited ethnographic research of the Congolese diaspora, following mig...
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Happy to share my latest for @e-international.bsky.social on the human impact of migration deterrence in Egypt by looking at the changing policies towards Sudanese: www.e-ir.info/2026/07/22/o...
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Opinion – The Human Cost of Migration Deterrence in Egypt – E-International Relations
Despite the challenges of Egypt’s deterrence policies, one of which is smuggling, the adaptability of the Sudanese people persists.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Happy to share my latest for @e-international.bsky.social on the human impact of migration deterrence in Egypt by looking at the changing policies towards Sudanese: www.e-ir.info/2026/07/22/o...
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Opinion – The Human Cost of Migration Deterrence in Egypt – E-International Relations
Despite the challenges of Egypt’s deterrence policies, one of which is smuggling, the adaptability of the Sudanese people persists.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Read about the important TRACES of Mobility project which recently finished at AUC. This project aimed to see the ‘traces’ and memories of migrants’ lives and journeys as essential to the fabric of Cairo www.aucegypt.edu/news/amira-a...
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Amira Ahmed Traces Migrants’ Past, Present and Future | The American University in Cairo
Amira Ahmed leads the Traces of Mobility project, documenting the memories of migrants from around the world.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
And it’s as grim as was expected
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New refugee bylaws set 9-month deadline for state to take over asylum processing from UNHCR
The bylaws for Egypt’s first ever asylum law were finally issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuly on Monday — a full year after the legal deadline for their completion. In the belated set of regulat...
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The humanitarian system celebrates refugee-led organisations, then starves them: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
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The humanitarian system celebrates refugee-led organisations, then starves them
This is the story of what refugee-led organisations are systematically prevented from building.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Inside Egypt’s crackdown on Sudanese refugees 3ayin.com/en/egypt-3-/
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Inside Egypt’s crackdown on Sudanese refugees – Ayin network – شبكة عاين
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The latest from @sofiannaceur.bsky.social The border management fairytale: roape.net/2026/05/06/t...
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The border management fairytale | ROAPE
There is no lack of outspoken voices that continue to remind us that Europe’s ‘well-being and progress’ had been built up during the colonial era at the expense of The Wretched of the Earth, as Frantz...
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am shocked. Allah yrhamu Thankful that I was able to sit on a panel with Hamid at AUC Tahrir in May 2023, may his loved ones find solace 💔
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
‘Real Revolutionaries Don’t Punch Down’—Remembering Muzan Alneel www.merip.org/p/51079070-6...
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‘Real Revolutionaries Don’t Punch Down’—Remembering Muzan Alneel
In Memoriam.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sudanese scents ✨
Traditional products used in Sudanese perfume Boxes of bint el Sudan perfume Raw oils to be mixed for perfume Cardamom
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Editor's Pick: In southern Lebanon, volunteer paramedics bury their colleagues and head back out to the next strike location. On the ground wiith the first responders in Nabatieh: newlinesmag.com/reportage/inside-a-…
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Beautiful Islamic Illumination workshop at a refurbished Ottoman House in Cairo (and the finished design)
Old Ottoman House in Darb Al Ahmar Cairo Painting with gold paint A group painting Cutest cat in the world and an Islamic illumination finished piece
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Way to go GRAMNet! www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-immigr...
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What research says about UK’s proposed immigration reforms
Labour’s vision will lead to permanent insecurity, deepen destitution, and exclude a generation from full civic rights
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
By Tamer Abdelkareem www.cmi.no/publications...
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Is there such a thing as a Legal Sudanese Migrant?
We Sudanese have a long and proud tradition of illegality. For centuries, the British tried to cure us but they eventually gave up. So...
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Another Sudanese citizen has died, either in detention or during deportation back to Sudan. RIP to Rashid Mohamed Abbas.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Cairo Connections, come to this in-person seminar on Thursday evening at AUC Tahrir. Free entry, ID required
CMRS seminar poster for a talk on Thursday, March 26 at 6:30pm at AUC Tahrir.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.
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Judge ends asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, orders family's removal
The family’s lawyers plan to appeal the judge’s decision to deport the family to Ecuador.
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The podcast ep I’ve been working on for months about my aunt in Sudan is finally out!! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/5... An incredibly inspiring story - please have a listen wherever you get your podcasts!!
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#5 Hanabneehu: Rebuilding Sudan, One Class at a Time
Podcast Episode · More Muslim · 19 March · 36m
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front-LEX @front-lex.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
@frontex.bsky.social found that Greece uses Afghan paramilitaries to torture and push back asylum seekers to Turkey. Article 46(4) requires it to end its operations in Greece, as recently affirmed by @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social. But Frontex still refuses to act. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I cannot describe just how much people in the region feel this is an existential war. This isn’t contained to the Gulf, Iraq, Lebanon. In Jordan, Egypt, people are panicked, nervous, completely discombobulated by what is happening. “It is an end to everything familiar”, a friend wrote. She’s right.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Getting ready for Eid in Cairo with some Kahk preparation
Making the dough for KahkAs the only non-faster, I was designated taste testerRolling the Kahk in the courtyard of Bayt YakanMalban balls
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Including refugees, Lebanon has a population of just under seven million. We're talking about 15% of the population displaced!!
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/03/2026
WHO briefing: 3.2M displaced in Iran, over 1M in Lebanon. Overcrowded shelters are now raising the risk of disease outbreaks.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
theeyeopener.com/2026/03/the-...
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The chaotic closure of TMU’s Cairo campus
In 2022, TMU welcomed 39 students to a state-of-the-art satellite campus in Egypt. Less than a year later, they shut it all down—what went wrong?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
just plainly evil.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/03/2026
War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine | Nesrine Malik
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War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine | Nesrine Malik
In the Middle East, the occupation is the original sin. And those who banked on this US-backed ‘stability’ now find it giving way beneath them, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Gender historian Joan W. Scott: "The suppression of #GenderStudies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself. Witness the removal of any mention of slavery from Philadelphia’s Independence Mall, (...)." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
With all that's happening in the region, I am pleased to start work with the The Middle East Council of Churches as a Research Consultant on their 'Church in Migration' project for Egypt.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
So absolutely, earth-shakingly horrific we heard it and felt its force throughout the entire city
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/03/2026
Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet
On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘The fish fled’: Nile fisherman earning more from collecting plastic than fish
Mohammed Ahmed Sayed Mohammed is among those redeploying his skills for a local recycling company that is cleaning up the Nile
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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 11/03/2026
38 people in distress were rescued by a courageous merchant vessel captain who wants to bring them safely to Crete. The Greek coastguard blackmails him by threatening to arrest the crew if they go to 🇬🇷 instead of unsafe Libya. We call for solidarity with the crew & all who uphold international law!
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@alarmphone on X: "The group has been rescued by the crew of the merchant vessel NEXUS. Instead of allowing them to disembark the group in a safe harbour of #Crete, the @HCoastGuard threatens to arrest the captain & crew if they do so." / X
The group has been rescued by the crew of the merchant vessel NEXUS. Instead of allowing them to disembark the group in a safe harbour of #Crete, the @HCoastGuard threatens to arrest the captain & crew if they do so.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
By blocking Chevening scholars from coming to the UK the Home Secretary has officially put paid to any arguments that her hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies are anything other than right wing xenophobia. These are the best and the brightest, and she is blocking them.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's joint military command says that banks and financial institutions are now a target in the Middle East. @apnews.com
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Egypt: UN experts raise alarm over violations against refugees and migrants
GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over an intensifying campaign of deportations, arbitrary arrests and human rights violations targeting refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Egypt — inclu...
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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Thank you, almond trees of Sinai, for reminding me of the earth’s beauty 🌸
Almond trees of Sinai Almond trees of Sinai Almond trees of Sinai with cat Almond trees of Sinai
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