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Dec 6 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Morocco celebrates their victory by raising the Palestinian flag 🇵🇸. Palestine has been the winner in this World Cup. Arab regimes can pursue normalisation, but the people of the Arab world will have the final say. Congratulations Morocco for your victory and principled stance 🇲🇦 ImageImageImage
It’s infectious 🇲🇦❤️🇵🇸
Have to drop this one here
The power and humility of the sujood. Congratulations Morocco. It was destined for you. Image
Still applicable as ever 🇵🇸
They need to find this Moroccan fan again and give him more air time
Given the above thread has dissolved into a heated identity conflict, I’m putting this here to whom it may interest
And again! #FIFAWorldCup #MoroccoVsPortugal

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The trending hashtag in Egypt is “support Putin” and “we are with Russia”. As disheartening as this is, there are several, sometimes obvious, explanations for it. Here is my analysis 🧵
To start with the most obviously bleeding one. Many decades of the west’s double standards on Palestine and moral ambiguity to the Middle East will make the likes of Putin seem digestible.
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Hello wonderful scholars in Morocco 🇲🇦, I’ll be in Casablanca & Rabat next week, and me and my colleagues are interested to meet PhD students & post-docs in the social sciences & humanities to discuss membership benefits with @AGYA_events. 1/2
If you can link me up with your university department in Morocco (it does not have to be in Casablanca or Rabat), it will be greatly appreciated. There is still space in the schedule to give talks or have meetings. Thank you Bezaf :) 2/2
This can also include research institutes, not just universities.
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European solidarity is not what is being criticised here. The worry is about the racist version of European solidarity that calls non-Europeans uncivilised and excludes black African students from crossing borders to safety.
Present and past ideologies like Pan-Arabism, Pan-Africanism, Third Worldism etc are direct reactions to a predatory form of European solidarity that once dismembered the global south and still keeps global structural inequalities in place.
Also, let’s face it, Arab solidarity with the Palestinians is often hot air, at least on the policy and consequential level.
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May 27, 2021
This is a beautiful, honest, and must read long essay by @fuwolff on being a Jew in Germany. No wonder why this essay has been widely discussed by Germans and now translated into English. I’m going to do a thread of some of the many insightful quotes zeit.de/amp/kultur/202…
“These Germans hope that their unconditional love for Israel, their stance against antisemitism, might somehow transcend their guilt. The declared aim of this authoritarian project is the protection of Jewish life.”
“There are many Jews in Germany –- perhaps, even a majority – who shake their heads at the excesses of this performance, who are distressed by it.”
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I had lunch with Robert Fisk as an MA student in 2005, Australia. I was awed by his bravery, resilience, writing style, and passion for the truth. Then came post-2011 Fisk who whitewashed Assad’s crimes. It saddened me. I could not reconcile the two Fisks irishtimes.com/news/world/vet…
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A Nubian grandmother to her six-year-old granddaughter: “You’re going to see the sea for the first time! exited!?”

“Yes! I’m going to see the sea!!”

She runs, suddenly stops, and with a mix of entrancement and laughter, this becomes her first ever sight of the sea. #Alexandria Image
*with some height adjustments, 191cm to 90cm :)
Sounds much cuter in her stuttering Arabic "Ana Ana Ana 7ashoof el ba7r!!"
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