Please show solidarity. Visit them if you can. Take action. Follow Free Alaa. #FreeAlaa and all Egypt’s political prisoners. 4/4 freealaa.net

Alaa’s sister and friends are camping to put pressure on the British government which has done virtually nothing despite Alaa being a British citizen. They’ll be staying until #CoP27 , using the international attention to put pressure on Egypt ✊ 3/4

Alaa is a brilliant and inspirational writer, one of the voices of the Revolution. His writing means he’s been in jail for much of a decade. Most recently for a Facebook post 2/4 independent.co.uk/news/uk/family…

Today I went to see family and friends of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, camped outside the foreign office, demanding justice for Alaa who has been on hunger strike in an Egyptian jail for 205 days. #FreeAlaa 1/4

I've just written to Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock & Jennifer Lee Morgan to tell them: No #COP27 until Alaa Abd El Fattah is free! Write to them here to tell them not to let the Egyptian government use COP27 to greenwash human rights abuses #FreeAlaa : freealaa.net/no-cop-until-a…

📢 DC: On 10/27, GU CCAS is hosting a book talk w/ Yasmin El-Rifae to mark the launch of Radius, which follows story of the women & men who formed قوةضدالتحرش/الاعتداء in Egypt to intervene in cases of sexual violence against protesters.

Join in-person or virtually: georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Good morning Sanaa 🌻

Hi again, Berliners!
I am still looking for an apartment with two rooms and a half or three. I can move to the new place any time from now, ideally by early December.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Reviewing Noor Naga’s novel, If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English, Yasmin El-Rifae writes, “The book winks at us as it packages itself as a familiar love story, and then uses the characters’ self-awareness to ask its most uncomfortable questions.”
madamasr.com/en/2022/10/20/…

Exciting that Fadi Kattan is opening a new Palestinian restaurant, Akub, in London in Notting Hill. If anyone has ever been to his restaurant, Fawda in Bethlehem, then you’ll know this is a real treat.

london.eater.com/2022/10/20/234…

The UK government cannot turn a blind eye to this.

James Cleverly🇬🇧, will you come out and meet Sanaa?

independent.co.uk/news/world/afr…

'Mr El-Fattah is a dual Egyptian-British national: gaining consular access & ultimately securing his release is a priority for the UK.'

New Minister for North Africa, Gillian Keegan.

gov.uk/government/new…

Today, students of Sharif University in Tehran successfully broke the gender-segregation of school cafeteria. Male students then stood to create a passage for female students and applauded their entry into the desegregated cafeteria.
#Mahsa_Amini

قبل أيام من قمة المناخ في شرم الشيخ: أكبر ائتلاف في العالم لمنظمات البيئة والتغير المناخي يطالب الحكومة المصرية بإطلاق السجناء السياسيين ووقف ملاحقة المعارضين السلميين ورفع القيود على الحريات العامة

جماعة ده اكبر ائتلاف لمنظمات البيئة في العالم