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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos. Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

books of the year. sensing a theme!

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo.

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

gym memberships that require you to pay per class or class packs are such a scam! the only gym membership that should be allowed is if you pay one standard fee per month/quarterly/annually

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

any editors wanna give me a book deal to do this?

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Guy who teaches @teachsf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Nihal El Aasar on RWN: "I want a Philip K Dick style novel of what would have happened if Nasser invaded Saudi Arabia"

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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 29/10/2023

Nihal El Aasar explains Egypt's role in the Gaza crisis. Despite Egypt's staunchly pro-Palestine public, the West nevertheless has major financial and geopolitical leverage over its authoritarian state—and want it to absorb a mass exodus. proteanmag.com/2023/10/29/the-quest…

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The Questions for Egypt • Protean Magazine

In the present crisis, the question of allowing refugees into Egypt is most often framed as one of humanitarian concerns, obscuring the actual goal of this “solution” to the crisis: ethnic cleansi...

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 Nihal El Aasar on why we have not seen mass uprisings in Egypt (and other US comprador states) in response to Israel's genocide in Gaza, and why violent repression is only part of the story: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

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“Where are the Arabs?” w/ Nihal El Aasar

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 17/10/2024 · 42m

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

can’t believe it’s considered rude to not reply to an email on the same day

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

the British urge to stand outside a pub for 2 hours after work

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

still can’t get over how terrifying British children sound

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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 08/08/2023

Besides arming the officers with credentials that would enable their second career after retirement, the Egyptian Military Academy and its affiliates have come out as primary tool for militarizing the state organs.

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Militarization of the civil service

Over the past couple of weeks, the drive towards militarizing the Egyptian state organs seem unhindered. Today’s officers, tomorrow’s bureaucrats In July 2022, Sisi announced the creation of the E...

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

art and music bros will do heroin but won’t drink coffee after 5 pm

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

finally succumbed and updated the twitter app

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

when are the “unprecedented heatwaves” hitting Britain? I can’t live like this anymore

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

why don’t doctors consign you to bed for a month anymore?

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Nihal @notnihal.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

someone needs to teach reply guys some reply guy etiquette. you can’t be responding to every single tweet and Instagram story. less is more. let me wonder where you’ve gone at least.

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