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Maryam Aldossari

@maryamaldossari.bsky.social
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Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!

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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 20h
Today marks five years since Saudi Arabia's takeover of @newcastleunited.com. Read coverage of fresh calls for action on human rights, with comments from ALQST Acting Director @maryamaldossari.bsky.social. “For fans, do not underestimate what you can do." www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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‘We have failed as a city’ – Human rights activists on NUFC Saudi takeover
Campaigners on Tyneside have issued a fresh plea to highlight human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, five years on from the Saudi Public Investment Fund's takeover of Newcastle United
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NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing @nosauditoon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As @NUFC marks five years of Saudi ownership, ALQST and Newcastle fans (@NoSaudiToon) are calling on the newly elected City Council to take a stronger position on the deteriorating human rights situation in Saudi Arabia. Speaker include @maryamaldossari.bsky.social www.alqst.org/en/post/five...
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Five years on from Saudi takeover of Newcastle United, ALQST and fans renew demands for action on deteriorating human rights
As Newcastle United FC marks five years of Saudi ownership, ALQST and Newcastle fans are calling on the newly elected City Council to take a stronger position on the deteriorating human rights situati...
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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📅 Tomorrow, @nosauditoon.bsky.social is holding a public meeting at the Bridge Hotel from 7-9:30pm, featuring ALQST Acting Director @maryamaldossari.bsky.social as a speaker.
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NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing @nosauditoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEWCASTLE SUPPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS IN SAUDI ARABIA - PUBLIC MEETING 👇🏾 OCTOBER 7th #saudiarabia🇸🇦 @maryamaldossari.bsky.social #humanrights #nufc⚫⚪⚫⚪ #nufc #nufcfans
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re in Washington, DC, briefing members of Congress on the Saudi regime. I talked about the contradiction in its claims of women’s reform. And obviously, we have to drop by Rashida Tlaib’s office.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men. “I was also worried that if I reported the rape it would make it more likely that my asylum claim would be refused.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men
Women say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecution of rapes, for fear of having their claims refused
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence. Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
British family of man abducted by Saudi Arabia speak out over nine-year ordeal. British family of man abducted by Saudi Arabia speak out over nine-year ordeal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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British family of man abducted by Saudi Arabia speak out over nine-year ordeal
Mira Lozi says quiet diplomacy has failed to free Rami Naimi who was first seized in Dubai in 2017
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hahaha, what a diverse panel. Totally not biased. 😂
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NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing @nosauditoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
PUBLIC MEETING: 5th Anniversary of Saudi Regime Takeover of #Newcastle United Confirmed speaker 👉 @maryamaldossari.bsky.social More to follow 👉
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NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing @nosauditoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
MEETING: 5th Anniversary of Saudi Regime Takeover of #NUFC Confirmed speaker 👉 @maryamaldossari.bsky.social More to follow 👉
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
University chasing money while human rights fall off the agenda. ‘Exeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers and officials.’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think the “free speech” folks can’t get any more disgusting…🤮
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At this stage this is no longer about anything except "we should not be held accountable for the racist bile we spew out for money."
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
200+ articles were not enough. Arday is dead, yet the scrutiny continues, now extending to his memoir. The people who rage about “cancel culture” seem remarkably comfortable with it when the target is a Black academic.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nathan Cofnas has “very limited expertise,” a “far-right agenda” and a “lack of transparency around the appointment”, “an ideological choice… decided in advance.” His racist supporters couldn’t imagine a white person being unqualified.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So, it is now official. X has confirmed that my account is blocked inside Saudi Arabia following a request from Saudi authorities. This is transnational repression in practice, using global platforms to silence critical voices and control what people inside Saudi Arabia can see.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nathan Cofnas is no innocent “whistleblower”, his racist, sexist and white-supremacist views deserve scrutiny, not protection. Academics defending him in the name of “academic freedom” shows how deeply institutional racism remains embedded in academia. johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...
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As academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Cofnas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Israeli organisation still condemns Saudi lessons describing Israel as an occupation” .. Serve the regime right. Zionists will never be happy until they erase the history and truth of the Palestinian people. www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a...
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Saudi Arabia deletes 'the Muslims will never give up Jerusalem' from its textbooks
Israeli organisation still condemns Saudi lessons describing Israel as an occupation and recounting a Zionist bribery attempt to abandon Palestinians
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Jason Arday’s death is institutional murder. Arday was subjected to a vicious campaign fuelled by anti-Black racism. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Jason Arday’s death is institutional murder
Arday was subjected to a vicious campaign fuelled by anti-Black racism.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I just read what Dave Harris used to witch-hunt Jason Arday, and it’s pathetic: (1) two quotations in two articles that are similar, not identical; (2) similar descriptions of methodology; and (3) a few similar sentences. Any academic knows this is NOT evidence of plagiarism.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Everyone posted about Jason Arday to push whatever agenda you had. I hope that sits on your conscience (if you have one.) news.sky.com/story/jason-...
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Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row
A former University of Cambridge professor who resigned following accusations of plagiarism has been found dead.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Israeli troops force families from homes amid settler terror campaign in West Bank, the day after a top Israeli commander personally promised he would end a violent settler campaign to drive them out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israeli troops force families from homes amid settler terror campaign in West Bank
Former PM of Israel calls events ‘concerted and meticulous attempt at ethnic cleansing’ against Palestinians
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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Academic and ALQST Board Member @maryamaldossari.bsky.social speaks about the power of literature to highlight human rights abuses, and the importance of global solidarity in the fight for women’s rights. Watch the full discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCY...
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Zionism has warped the lexicon, so words are now convenient weapons.” Zionism's ability to control what words mean has been crucial to Israel's genocide of the Palestinians.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/zion...
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Criticising Israel is becoming a crime, one redefined word at a time
Pro-Israel groups have altered the meanings of 'intifada' and 'Palestine', enabling genocide and criminalising those who oppose it
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Nearly 4,000 pregnancy losses during the first six months of 2026, reaching a peak of 920 in April. And 1,200 miscarriages in the second half of 2025. #Gaza www.972mag.com/gaza-genocid...
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
‘They set the house on fire while I was still inside’ www.972mag.com/tuba-pogrom-...
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed. 231 femicide cases highlights the dire situation in Afghanistan, where men are empowered to murder and face no punishment while their crimes are covered up by the state. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed
An investigation into 231 femicide cases highlights the dire situation in Afghanistan, where men are empowered to murder and face no punishment while the state covers up their crimes
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000 An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations. Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and private briefings. He now directs UNICEF’s Washington office. www.dropsitenews.com/p/for-your-e...
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"For Your Eyes Only": Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations
Hacked emails show Yahav Lichner, a UN official, repeatedly supplied Israeli diplomats with confidential UN reports and private briefings. He now directs UNICEF’s Washington office.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
‘Liddle’s targets as a columnist were not the authorities. Often they were Muslims and immigrants, transgender people and chronic illness sufferers, African-Caribbean men from Harlesden. He did not attack the establishment, he attacked the marginalised’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew Rod Liddle and hated what he became. He would have wanted me to say so | Zoe Williams
A man who prized blunt speaking has been selectively eulogised. There’s a balance between decency and honesty: I’m sad he caused such harm, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our recent discussion around the novel "Gulf" is now available to watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCY... It features its author Mo Ogrodnik, Saudi academic @maryamaldossari.bsky.social, international human rights lawyer Rothna Begum, and is moderated by our Executive Director Julia Legner.
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From Fiction to Human Rights: An ALQST discussion of the novel "Gulf"
YouTube video by ALQST القسط
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
‘Allegations of plagiarism in a doctoral thesis do not usually make for riveting, front-page news… Few people could care less about what academics get up to.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Rod Liddle played the politics of hatred - we should be honest about his legacy, he was a racist, a bigot and an Islamophobe! www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/rod-...
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Rod Liddle played the politics of hatred - we should be honest about his legacy
Tributes praised a 'great journalist', but very few touched on the fact that he was also a racist, a bigot and an Islamophobe
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom. Alaoudh said: “I think it’s horrible because we were fighting tyrants back home and now we’re fighting tyrants and their cronies here where we are in exile.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom
Exclusive: More than 60 accounts on X have been made unavailable in Saudi Arabia, after similar action on Snapchat and Facebook
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism. "I have witnessed a colleague being called a monkey by a patient." news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
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Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ethiopians on death row in Saudi Arabia: Prisoners calling the BBC from their cells - “We are waiting for our turn, even though we do not know when it will happen." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ethiopians on death row in Saudi Arabia: Prisoners calling the BBC from their cells
Dozens of Ethiopians are awaiting execution - some called the BBC to tell their stories.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Saudi Arabia’s economy shrank 4.8% year over year in Q2 2026 (the steepest decline since the COVID-19 pandemic) primarily because the US-Iran war caused a 24.7% collapse in the oil sector after the Strait of Hormuz was effectively closed to shipping.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Saudi Arabia prepares sea and possible land offensive against Houthis. Yemeni sources say Saudis concentrating forces for what could be attack in central Yemen. Saudi Arabia prepares sea and possible land offensive against Houthis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Saudi Arabia prepares sea and possible land offensive against Houthis
Yemeni sources say Saudis concentrating forces for what could be attack in central Yemen
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
'End this nightmare': Wife of ailing Briton jailed in Saudi Arabia appeals for release - he was convicted in an unfair trial on charges which violate his right to freedom of expression. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'End this nightmare': Wife of ailing Briton jailed in Saudi Arabia appeals for release
Ahmed al-Doush has been in jail in Saudi Arabia since 2024, apparently over a handful of social media posts dating back several years.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Saudi Arabia executed five Ethiopian migrants for non-violent drug offences on 27 July 2026, bringing the total to at least 17 Ethiopian executions this year, with 79 more people at imminent risk. www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...
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Saudi Arabia: New Executions of Ethiopian Migrants
Saudi authorities executed five Ethiopian migrants for nonlethal drug-related offenses on July 27, 2026 without due process.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Kellie-Jay Keen’s latest anti-Muslim angle: from “Free Your Face” last year to this today.
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Newcastle Amnesty UK @newcastleaiuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Answer: not much #SaudiArabia
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My interview with BBC Radio 4 after one decade of MBS’s #Vision2030. The key question remains: what has actually been achieved? Very little. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The World This Weekend - Transforming Saudi Arabia - BBC Sounds
How much has the kingdom changed under Mohammed Bin Salman and his grand plans?
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Earlier today, I joined BBCArabic to discuss the escalating tensions between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What’s the point of this!
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“Filipino domestic workers exploited and subjected to sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia.” It’s also important to highlight police complicity,,workers who escape abusive employers and report the abuse are usually returned to the same employers instead of being protected. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Global: Filipino domestic workers exploited and subjected to sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia
Filipino women are being overworked, exploited and subjected to degrading treatment, as well as sexual assault in some cases.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
MBS turning international banking into a playground tantrum: “You can’t play with us. I’m taking my toys and going home.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Israel kidnapped 5 Palestinian women activists in the West Bank this morning. They forced their way into their homes, terrifying them and their children, before handcuffing, blindfolding, and kidnapping them. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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Doctor and nurse amongst five Palestinian women arrested by Israel in occupied West Bank
Prisoners' group says Israeli forces have recently escalated arrests of female activists
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Visitors to Saudi Arabia, including those travelling for tourism and religious pilgrimages such as Hajj and Umrah, risk being detained, subjected to grossly unfair trials, and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for their social media activity www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Saudi Arabia: Visitors to Saudi Arabia imprisoned for social media posts
Visitors to Saudi Arabia, including those travelling for tourism and religious pilgrimages such as Hajj and Umrah, risk being detained, subjected to grossly unfair trials, and sentenced to lengthy pri...
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