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Amro Ali

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Dec 15

I’m glad I live in actual Morocco that’s far removed from Moroccan twitter where identity battles rage. I rarely encounter anyone from Tangiers to Agadir who engage intolerantly in these Arab vs Amazigh, African vs non-African binaries. They are nuanced & at ease with themselves.

The word “Arab” on this platform is treated worse than by the European far right by what is largely, let’s be honest here, the diaspora & given a veneer of legitimacy by the circulation of problematic memes by those who should know better. Internal orientalism is alive & kicking.

A simple example of nuance. When my apartment building’s doorman argues with a classist neighbour from Fez, his Amazigh identity will matter as he finds common ground with the nearby store owners from his same town, with me, he will say “we Arab nations have to stick together.”

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Amro Ali

@_amroali

Dec 6

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 🇲🇦

It’s infectious 🇲🇦❤️🇵🇸

https://twitter.com/_amroali/status/1596996650337435648

Have to drop this one here

https://twitter.com/_amroali/status/1596996650337435648

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Amro Ali

@_amroali

Mar 2

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.

There is an attraction to strongmen, especially ones who don’t put conditions on support & military aid. Ironically, western leaders put conditions on weapons exports but they almost always go through. But it’s the initial refusal & empty critical statements that are remembered.

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Amro Ali

@_amroali

Mar 1

@AGYA_events

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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Amro Ali

@_amroali

Feb 27

https://twitter.com/bergaslak/status/1497857198608764933

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.

https://twitter.com/bergaslak/status/1497857198608764933

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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Amro Ali

@_amroali

May 27, 2021

@fuwolff

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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