The tweet we have been waiting for since 2019! Welcome back Alaa!

He is home! فين الولد ما يروح..لازم يعود اسمر… قلب الوطن مجروح… لا يحتمل اكتر

If at #APSA2025 don’t to miss the Climate and Conflict panel, Friday at 8 am. My amazing co-authors, Natalie Ayers, Laura Saavedra-Lux and Blair Welsh will be presenting our paper “After Rebel Rule”, examining how rebel occupation affects agricultural recovery after conflict. It is a great panel!

The National Council for Human Rights in Egypt has petitioned for the release of Alaa Abdel Fatah, among others. Sisi asked the relevant authorities to examine the petition! Extremely cautious hope! #FreeAlaa

Today, we remember Sarah Hegazi, raising the pride flag in a concert in 2017 in Egypt. That moment that cost her everything. Sarah left us 5 years ago. Her last words were: “… To the world, you have been extremely cruel, but I forgive”.

I love sunset in Colchester. But what started as photos of appreciation became a question of whether peace of mind lies behind those trees, then became an obsession of locating it just after the red sky and before the blue sky which then ended in me yelling: flat earther??!! Peace of mind you say?