Nihal

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":

books of the year. sensing a theme!

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.

https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/29/the-questions-for-egypt/

“Where are the Arabs?” w/ Nihal El Aasar Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 17/10/2024 · 42m

📢 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:

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is this thing on?

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

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

still can’t get over how terrifying British children sound

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...

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.

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

finally succumbed and updated the twitter app

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

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

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.

Egypt: A Decade of Counter-Revolution - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung The ten years since the coup have witnessed unprecedented repression and censorship

I have a long read published today on the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung portal, on Egypt's decade of counterrevolution

we have faith in future Nihal!

i always let future Nihal deal

i always say yes and double book myself and anger everyone in the process

“next week” stays kicking my ass I’m afraid

if today is Sunday and someone asks if I’m free to hang “next week” is it this week or the following week?

only sending my invite link to other arabs. call that pan-arabism

A poster's soul never dies, it simply migrates like a demon from a dying host to a new one

wait where can I find my likes?? Lol

can’t believe I’ll have to show my face everytime I have a thought, can’t just shitpost from bed

Elon’s child: Dad?

Elon: