“Like the statues I admired, I was chiseled before I knew it,”

Read Farah Abdessamad's piece, 'Blood Antiquities, Arab Tears,' in the Spring 2024 Issue of Ploughshares: pshr.us/spring24

Free to read this week!!!

On objects that France values and the Arab lives it doesn’t 👇👇👇

The Spring 2024 Issue, guest edited by Laila Lalami, features both established and emerging writers. Check them all out by getting your copy today! pshr.us/spring24

Even the dead deserve dignity, esp if they didn’t have any in life.

Gruesome images don’t elicit empathy for people who have chosen to dehumanise others.

All while legitimizing and consolidating authoritarian rule across the Mediterranean.

It’s a lose-lose for everyone except angst-ridden racists.

Human rights defenders and regime critics are getting arrested faster than institutions are able to put out statements #Tunisia

Tunisia: not even trying to hide use of torture anymore then off to blame “external influences”

How to Help the People of Sudan?500wordsmag.com/suda-lists/how…

And yet, total impunity.

French PM announcing army deployment in New Caledonia/Kanaky, Macron calling for a defense council meeting. TikTok banned. State of emergency.

The instinct of force there, in Mayotte, in the French banlieues… notice a pattern… I do.

EU officials have been busy sealing anti-migration pacts with Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Lebanon as the boat season is about to start in Libya and Tunisia and European elections coming up. But pressure is building up in Agadez. Some observations from my trip:

دار المحامي بعد إقتحامها و إيقاف المحامي مهدي زقروبة

The Lawyers HQ after the violent arrest tonight of Lawyer Mehdi Zagrouba.

Tunisia: another day, another brutal arrest of a lawyer…

“From Senegal's perspective, it's tough to understand why Senghor left the entirety of his estate in France'

rfi.fr/en/africa/2024…