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Mariam Kirollos

@markir.bsky.social
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Researcher. Writer. Feminist. MENA+

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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🧵New report shows how migrant workers behind the #RiyadhMetro system have been subjected to a decade of devastating abuse This is one of several flagship projects in #SaudiArabia, which also incl the 2034 World Cup, and illustrates the risk of abuse in the construction sector
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
🧵Manahel al-Otaibi, a fitness influencer and women’s rights activist from #SaudiArabia, has now been in prison for three years, merely for tweeting in support of women’s rights as well as posting photos of herself at the mall without an abaya.
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 30/09/2025
No more bargaining chips. @amnesty reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire and unconditional release of all civilian hostages. Every moment of inaction costs more lives and deepens the horrors civilians are facing.
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Israel/OPT: No more bargaining chips: Immediate ceasefire and release of hostages urgently needed
Palestinian armed groups must immediately and unconditionally release all civilians held hostage in the occupied Gaza Strip, reiterated Amnesty International nearly two years after they were seized during the Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. The organization is also reiterating its calls for an immediate ceasefire and for Israel to end its […]
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I realize that I’m writing this from the comfort of a safe home, under a missile-free sky, with a fully stocked fridge and smooth access to medical care. A deal which lacks any accountability mechanisms is a license for war crimes and genocide.
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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 09/09/2025
I’m not so sure this time. The Gulf countries are genuinely stunned, particularly as they see Israel as operating without any constraints. That is unnerving and creates real concern about their security relationship with the U.S.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A brief timeline: 7 Sept: Trump presents a new ceasefire proposal, warning Hamas this is their “last chance.” 8 Sept: Gideon Saar announces Israel has accepted the proposal. 9 Sept: IDF carries out an airstrike in Doha, killing senior Hamas negotiators while they were reviewing the proposal.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I love how engaged I am in this treasure hunt even though I’m in Scandinavia. Yo go Zohran!
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
My full statement on the Gaza Famine :
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Gaza is in famine. A man-made, deliberate, and calculated disaster. A genocide. Or call it what you will. Yaani while we debate the correct use of legal terminology, while politicians, bureaucrats, and clout chasers play God, some humans are deemed disposable.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Gaza is in famine. Half a million people starving. Children dying of hunger in a place where food and medicine are deliberately blocked. How did we reach this point? Because some lives are treated as if they don’t matter. Because the world tosses around numbers of entire family lines erased.
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astrisjoner.bsky.social @astrisjoner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Verden følger med en gang til 👀
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🧵Israel er bare toppen av isfjellet Mange av selskapene #oljefondet er investert i kan knyttes til menneskerettighetsbrudd, og det tilhører sjeldenhetene at advarslene våre blir hørt. www.dn.no/innlegg/olje...
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Israel er bare toppen av isfjellet
Oljefondets investeringer i selskaper som medvirker til grove menneskerettighetsbrudd går langt utover Israel og det okkuperte palestinske territoriet.
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astrisjoner.bsky.social @astrisjoner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
De snakker hele tida om at oljefondet ikke skal være politisk. Men så er det hovedsak i partilederdebatten 4 uker før valget. Det virker politisk på meg. Og det er jo bra. Neste steg: politisk ansvar og politiske tiltak.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
What we are witnessing is a continuous and deliberate assault on the world’s right to know. International journalists must be allowed to enter Gaza immediately. Anything less is complicity in the erasure of reality.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🚨 Don't sleep on this rare opportunity to be able to spend 6 months housed at @timep.bsky.social's DC office, getting to know the ins and outs of policymaking, while producing high-impact programming and analysis on a topic of importance to the MENA region. Applications due August 28!!
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Many of us already on October 2023 said this could very likely become genocide. Instead of stopping it, people argued and argued over the word, and slandered those who used it. But it is here, for all to see. Let us all wear sackcloth and ashes.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Who would have thought that Arabs would all agree on one thing: Ziad Al-Rahbani was a genius, and like all geniuses, he was never easy to contain. Though I may not share all his political views, his legacy, engraved in melody and hearts, rises above all disputes.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Time to revive this bumper sticker: “Be nice to America, or we’ll bring democracy to your country.”
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
عزائي لكل أصدقائي السوريين في الهجوم الإرهابي على كنيسة مار إلياس.
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
🧵 Trygve Hegnar mener #oljefondet må kunne investeres i selskaper som feks. produserer gravemaskiner som brukes til å rive palestineres hjem. Iallfall så lenge man er minoritetsinvestor, fordi han mener at man som en liten eier ikke kan påvirke selskapet.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Laila is no longer just fighting, she’s slipping away. A mother whose love has become her final act of resistance, desperation, and devotion. We cannot let this end in silence. Free Alaa. Save Laila. Before it’s too late.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The UK government’s final chance to act is NOW. Laila Soueif is at death’s door after 242 days on hunger strike — demanding freedom for her son Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist unjustly imprisoned in Egypt for years. The clock has run out. Free Alaa. Save Laila.
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Do the right thing @jensstoltenberg.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Norway/OPT: Divesting pension fund a crucial step towards dismantling Israel’s unlawful occupation
On 27 May, Norway will decide whether to divest The Government Pension Fund from companies unlawfully operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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astrisjoner.bsky.social @astrisjoner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Fikk nyhetssak på høring, gitt. Har man tatt i litt hardt da, eller har man bare påpekt helt åpenbare og også hårreisende mangler ved regelverket for Oljefondet?
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Amnesty hardt ut mot oljefondets og etikkrådets praksis
Amnesty går hardt ut mot oljefondets investeringer i selskap som bryter folkeretten og kaller det total etisk ansvarspulverisering.
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astrisjoner.bsky.social @astrisjoner.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Bør vi være stolte av #Oljefondet ? @frankctangberg.bsky.social og jeg er tvilende til det i @finansavisen.bsky.social , og mener åpenheten i NRK-serien ikke ekte nok. Den etiske arbeidsfordelingen i fondet bør ikke bli en unnskyldning for etisk ansvarspulverisering. #mittoljefond
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🧵 A new report by Amnesty International reveals how Kenyan domestic workers in #SaudiArabia endure grueling, abusive and discriminatory conditions, which often amounts to forced labour and human trafficking.
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#MittOljefond “handler [ikke] om å boikotte Israel, men de klare folkerettslige røde linjene for hvilke selskaper Oljefondet burde vært investert i og ikke, @astrisjoner.bsky.social www.tv2.no/nyheter/inne...
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Krever endringer: - Tatt helt av
Det koker på sosiale medier. Nå reagerer flere kjente profiler.
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Erika Guevara-Rosas @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The @sportrightsall.bsky.social report, ”It’s not just a game. It’s part of who I am” details how the Afghan women’s team, a symbol of women’s empowerment in post-Taliban #Afghanistan, was specifically targeted for reprisals when the Taliban returned to power in 2021 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Global: FIFA must recognize, support Afghan women's team in exile
FIFA should act to stop the ongoing discrimination against Afghan women footballers living in exile and facilitate their return to international competition
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
«Sharaa also said he established for the first time a ministry for sports and another for emergencies, with the head of a rescue group known as the White Helmets, Raed al-Saleh, appointed as the minister of emergencies.» www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Syria's president al-Sharaa forms new transitional government
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, appointing 23 ministers in a broadened cabinet seen as a key milestone in the transition from decades of Assad family rule and to improving Syria's ties with the West.
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🧵I dag spiller Norges herrelandslag VM-kvalifiseringskamp mot Israel, men Israel er en større utfordring for Klaveness enn for Ødegaard og co 🇮🇱🇳🇴 #ISRNOR
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Many families in Gaza are either homeless, living in the streets or crammed into small tents, making it impossible to observe the Ramadan traditions they once cherished." Palestinian writer Shadi Salem, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile, on Ramadan in Gaza, amid the ruins:
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Ramadan in Gaza: Fasting Under Fire, Praying Among the Ruins
Many families in Gaza are either homeless, living in the streets or crammed into small tents, making it impossible to observe the Ramadan traditions they once cherished.
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Krev at Oljefondets investeringer ikke bidrar til folkerettsbrudd mot palestinerne - signer aksjonen her: amnesty.no/gaza 📷 #nrknyheter #debatten #NRKdebatt
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🚨Kirsty Coventry has just made history as the first woman to be elected president of the #IOC. While this is an important achievement, we call on the new president to use her influence to focus on protection & rights of athletes, workers, spectators & communities. #IOCsession #IOCpresident
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Roses are red Violets are blue
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In early March, Syrian armed groups descended onto the coast after an insurgency attack by Assad loyalists. Sectarian-motivated killings against Alawites soon followed. Many Alawites now fear they will never be safe in the new #Syria. My story for AJE www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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‘Don’t trust anyone’: Have Syria’s Alawites lost faith in new government?
Syria’s Alawites fear they may never be safe after hundreds were killed in sectarian-motivated violence.
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Erika Guevara-Rosas @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The detention of +100 people, including Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, together with a four-day protest blanket ban represent a massive escalation in the Türkiye authorities’ crackdown on peaceful dissent and the targeting of the main political opposition party www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Türkiye: Massive escalation in ongoing crackdown including arrest of Istanbul mayor
Reacting to the detention of more than 100 people, including Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, in connection with “corruption” and “terrorism” related investigations, together with a four-day protest b...
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Maren Sæbø @marensa.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Elon Musk hevder USAs bistandsfrys ikke har kostet liv. Det er nok ikke sant i Sør-Sudan. I en leir for internt fordrevne i Unity nord i landet har man sluttet å tømme latriner som følge av kuttene, og det midt i en koleraepidemi. www.panoramanyheter.no/sor-sudan-us...
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– Usikkerheten er det verste
Innsatsen mot en koleraepidemi nord i Sør-Sudan er rammet av USAs bistandsfrys. I en leir for internt fordrevne i Bentiu med rundt 100 000 innbyggere, blir ikke lenger latrinene tømt.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Nowruz Mubarak to everyone celebrating! May the new year and the beauty of spring bring peace and happiness to our hearts. And may we have the strength to stand against injustice and hate wherever we see it.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm not writing this because I believe it now, but because I once did—and someday, I will have to believe it again: good will prevail.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I'm flying domestically today and my husband asked me to take my passport, not just my license, as an added layer of protection as an Arab woman traveling. "Just in case" he said. This is not normal.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Let's be clear: there hasn't been a moment since 19th of January when Palestinians in Gaza were spared from death. If the bombs didn’t kill them, hunger, thirst, and illness will. So will Israel's impunity.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
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Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🧵This year marks seven years since the assassination of Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes. Former police officers Ronnie Lessa and Elcio de Queiroz were convicted on Oct. 31, 2024, as the perpetrators of the crime, but justice has not been fully served. #MariellePresente
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Rawya Rageh @rawya.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Between 2016-2019, my colleagues & I documented extrajudicial executions under #Duterte’s “drug war” among other violations. The work was cited in the request to investigate him over crimes agnst humanity. That the people of the #Philippines could witness justice served… apnews.com/article/rodr...
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Former Philippine President Duterte arrested on an ICC warrant over drug killings
Police took him into custody on orders of the ICC, which has been investigating the massive killings that happened under the former president’s deadly crackdown against illegal drugs.
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Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com · 08/03/2025
I'm still trying to wrap my head around what has happened over the passed 48 hours. A true leader would admit their failure to protect all Syrians, rather than act as if they only represent one segment of Syrians. Al-Sharaa has utterly failed in this responsibility.
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Erika Guevara-Rosas @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Netanyahu halts entry of all goods & supplies to the illegally blocked and occupied Gaza Strip in defiance of countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation Israel deliberately inflicting conditions of life on Palestinians in Gaza intended to lead to their destruction is genocide
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Lisa Maier @lisamaier.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Humanitarian aid must get into #Gaza, regardless of any ceasefire. International humanitarian law & ICJ rulings are crystal clear. Israel keeps violating both, with impunity. Starving 2 million people is not a negotiation tactic. It’s a war crime.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This resistance deserves just as much focus as the tyranny itself, or else the tyrants win. The fight for freedom, for human dignity, is not won in elections. It is fought in the streets, underground, in the quiet acts of defiance that shake regimes to their core.
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Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I need Bluesky handles focusing on resistance globally and within the United States. Khalas we know that it’s the reign of the bullies, but where’s the spotlight on those standing up to them?
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