Delighted to share my first solo-authored article: "The European Investment Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa: Constrained Expansion" published in the Journal of Economic Policy Reform!🎉It examines the European Investment Bank's strategic & operational dynamics in SSA. Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…👇

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Mexico is scandalously dangerous for journalists—and far safer than Gaza, where in eight months Israel has killed about 2/3 as many journalists as have been murdered in Mexico in 24 years

The way that our concerns about AI and online misinfo/disinfo can be addressed by helping people improve their critical thinking/media literacy skills but it’s hard to do that if we continue to defund/look down on humanities subjects that teach people these skills

Not just a testament to decades of slaughter of Palestinians, but also their dehumanisation: “his bag becoming a little heavier, ” reducing a father's grief to a literary device, echoing the voyeuristic gaze of lynching postcards. Some moments demand respect, not literary flair.

In my 30 years working in war zones, I knew if I wasn’t allowed in a country - something truly evil was happening. Israel Defense Forces is preventing international journalists from entering #Gaza. Our brave and embattled #Palestinian colleagues are our eyes and ears. Committee to Protect Journalists Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism

Their father Mohamed Abu al-Qumsan had gone to get their birth certificates. When he returned, he found his wife and the twins killed by an Israeli missile that struck their home. The ink on their birth certificates is barely dry and now he has to process their death certificates

"Service provision, with offloading public assets and service capacities to private actors, usually below market value and with subsidies attached, promotes rent-seeking over quality improvements. This logic holds where decarbonisation is concerned, too." 👇 #climatefinance

Israel will be studied in history books as one of the most sadistic periods in modern history

Did you see the baby whose head was blown open today? Or the one whose remains hung from a wire? Or the two boys crushed by a building in embrace? Israel systemically targets Palestinian civilians to achieve a political goal. Textbook terrorism. #Gaza

I follow Eman Abdelhadi — and absolutely had to know a sociologist’s take on the Harris / Waltz campaign + young voter skepticism: (Listen to our podcast if you’re curious)

Professors, since many Palestinian professors have been assassinated—Volunteer to teach a class in Palestine remotely so that students can continue their studies. Spread the word.

thinking about Judith Butler on grievability. Palestinians cannot be mourned in death because they have never counted as lives to begin with. We know this, we see it elsewhere too, but sometimes the hierarchy of human life is so clear it takes your breath away.

Our debate will be timely: POLITICO leaked Draghi will recommend the European Investment Bank to further expand funding to military companies and it looks like the Commission wants to combine austerity with making social services, especially housing, more profitable for investors with EU money.

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Attending #UACES2024 in stunning Trento, Italy! Especially loved Ester Sabatino bringing attention to the European Investment Bank’s increasing investment in the defence sector, during the plenary on EU policies & macro-economic governance.

Super panel at #UACES2024 on concepts and methods to decolonize EU studies with a significant UGent Ghent Institute for International&European Studies participation by Sara Canali and Anissa Bougrea and great discussion by Maria Garcia!

Another inspiring UACES Conference. Loved how engaged people were, both when presenting at 9am, until the very final EUROGLOT panel. Highly topical plenary as well on the EU’s rhetorical “rediscovery” of geopolitics. & So good to reconnect with everyone. #UACES2024

It’s been a good run. Grateful to Szilvia Nagy Jan Orbie Anissa Bougrea for co-organising and to everyone who joined our EUROGLOT panels at UACES Trento! Plus many congratulations to Prof prof toni haastrup for being the new chair of UACES. ☀️

Total death toll in Gaza is now estimated at 368.000. Not 18.000, not 40.000 (figures people still use), not 186.000 (Lancet), not 200.000 (Nader - to his credit: in March), but 368.000.