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Emma Soubrier

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Director of the PRISME Initiative; Associate Researcher at the Institute for Peace and Development at the Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France); also associated with the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University (Boston, U.S.A).

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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Meet our wonderful 2026 RIVIERA cohort: Emma Bixler, Juliane Schillinger & Manal Shqair have spent months working on Ecological (In)Securities in and with the Middle East. RIVIERA brings together rising scholars from MENA, Europe & North America for research development, mentoring & peer exchange.
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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
At the PRISME Initiative, we’re proud to work with a brilliant group of Associate #Experts helping us reimagine security in #MiddleEast beyond arms & the military. Meet our expert trio shaping conversations in 2025–2026 | prismeinitiative.org/about/ 👇 #SALAM #InclusiveSecurity #MENA
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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Security Beyond Arms: The Dual-Use Debate. How can Gulf states enhance security as they boost trade? Lauriane Héau (SIPRI) explains how export controls aren’t just about restrictions, they are tools for responsible trade & regional stability prismeinitiative.org/blog/relevan... #ArmsControl
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday [and] pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests...legal scholars said the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights..." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump administration to cancel student visas of all 'Hamas sympathizers', White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“Yesterday, though he likely doesn’t realize it (or care), Donald Trump just put [the Jordan-Israel peace] treaty at serious risk by suggesting that Jordan accept the single most important thing the treaty was meant to prevent.” abuaardvark.substack.com/p/jordan-rea...
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Jordan really doesn't want to host a Trump wave of Palestinian refugees
Neither does Egypt, but for Jordan it's existential.
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In #LookingAhead2025, @jeffabramson.bsky.social says "Biden admin. has left President Trump a surprisingly low bar when it comes to improving U.S. arms trade restraint. Unfortunately and dangerously, the Trump admin. is likely to lower the bar even further." www.forumarmstrade.org/blog/predict...
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“The watchdog added that people without Saudi nationality would not be allowed to own more than 49% of shares of the firms involved.”
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Saudi Arabia allows foreigners to invest in firms with property in Mecca, Medina
Saudi Arabia's market regulator said on Monday it would allow foreign investment in listed companies that own real estate within Islam's two holiest sites of Mecca and Medina, as the Gulf country looks to attract more investment.
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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
4th SALAM Workshop: Decentering Arms in Middle East Security (DAMES) The DAMES Forum (September 2024), focused on solutions and community-building, gathered experts to ponder how stakeholders in and engaged with the MENA can reduce the reliance on arms as a cornerstone of their security strategies.
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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
3rd SALAM Workshop: Impacts of Militarized Foreign Policy The third SALAM workshop (April 2024) gathered experts to discuss the impacts of militarized foreign policy, and in particular how it affects the emergence of different approaches to issues like migration and terrorism.
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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
2nd SALAM Workshop: The Opportunity Cost of the Arms Trade The second SALAM workshop (September 2023) gathered experts to discuss how arms manufacturing and trade divert attention from or interact with other pressing conversations in and between North America, Europe, and the MENA.
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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
1st SALAM Workshop: The Role of the Arms Trade The inaugural SALAM workshop (April 2023) gathered experts to discuss the role the arms trade plays in bilateral and multilateral ties between countries in North America, Europe and the MENA region.
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PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🌍 Introducing PRISME: Rethinking Security in the Middle East 🌍 We’re excited to launch PRISME on Bluesky! 🎉 Our initiative fosters collaborative, non-militarized approaches to security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Here’s what we’ve been working on! 🧵👇
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