Nahla El-Menshawy
@nahlael.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt working on trust and Yemeni diaspora.
Forever in a grumpy mood. Fed up by colonial epistemologies.
I won’t hold back here.
Forever in a grumpy mood. Fed up by colonial epistemologies.
I won’t hold back here.
It’s been a minute since I’ve been here. Wanted to share our recently published article. We wrote about social imaginaries that are being reproduced and contested in the Yemeni diaspora in Cairo. Eager to hear feedback!
Echoes of the Past: The Reproduction of Social Imaginaries amongst ...
I. Diasporic imaginaries in Cairo As the war in Yemen approaches its decade mark, bookshelves are filling with an assorted collection of volumes dissecting its root causes, conflict parties, proxy ...
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May 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It’s been a minute since I’ve been here. Wanted to share our recently published article. We wrote about social imaginaries that are being reproduced and contested in the Yemeni diaspora in Cairo. Eager to hear feedback!
Reposted by Nahla El-Menshawy
If you're a professor, you have a LOT of power. Not to freak you out, but authoritarian regimes' favorite first move is to shut down the intellectuals in one way or another. Which means you're a threat to them.
Use your power. Speak out. Go on TV. Give interviews. Be loud!
Use your power. Speak out. Go on TV. Give interviews. Be loud!
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If you're a professor, you have a LOT of power. Not to freak you out, but authoritarian regimes' favorite first move is to shut down the intellectuals in one way or another. Which means you're a threat to them.
Use your power. Speak out. Go on TV. Give interviews. Be loud!
Use your power. Speak out. Go on TV. Give interviews. Be loud!
As part of their election campaign, the AfD distributed ‘deportation tickets’ to individuals who, in their view, didn’t appear German. If someone handed me one of these, I think it would be the final push I needed. Take it as a god sent sign to leave before everything takes an even darker turn
January 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As part of their election campaign, the AfD distributed ‘deportation tickets’ to individuals who, in their view, didn’t appear German. If someone handed me one of these, I think it would be the final push I needed. Take it as a god sent sign to leave before everything takes an even darker turn
(1) Seeing how overwhelmingly white scholars in Germany are who specialize in the politics of the Middle East and North Africa, I’m again reminded by how early the odds are stacked against people like me. The education system systematically filters out so many voices long before
January 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
(1) Seeing how overwhelmingly white scholars in Germany are who specialize in the politics of the Middle East and North Africa, I’m again reminded by how early the odds are stacked against people like me. The education system systematically filters out so many voices long before
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Ppl worried abt "instability" - was Assad a haven of stability?
-facilitated jihadists to Iraq
-forcibly displaced ~50% of Syrians to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Europe
-fuelled the rise of ISIS
-enabled Iran to extend its axis
-enabled Russia to extend its malign influence
-facilitated jihadists to Iraq
-forcibly displaced ~50% of Syrians to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Europe
-fuelled the rise of ISIS
-enabled Iran to extend its axis
-enabled Russia to extend its malign influence
December 8, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Ppl worried abt "instability" - was Assad a haven of stability?
-facilitated jihadists to Iraq
-forcibly displaced ~50% of Syrians to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Europe
-fuelled the rise of ISIS
-enabled Iran to extend its axis
-enabled Russia to extend its malign influence
-facilitated jihadists to Iraq
-forcibly displaced ~50% of Syrians to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Europe
-fuelled the rise of ISIS
-enabled Iran to extend its axis
-enabled Russia to extend its malign influence
This morning I couldn’t stop watching TikToks of Egyptians telling Syrians they don’t want them to leave because they’ve grown too attached. The brotherhood, solidarity and love for each other 😭
December 9, 2024 at 1:36 PM
This morning I couldn’t stop watching TikToks of Egyptians telling Syrians they don’t want them to leave because they’ve grown too attached. The brotherhood, solidarity and love for each other 😭
I finally get the reviewer 2 memes hahaha (help)
December 5, 2024 at 4:45 PM
I finally get the reviewer 2 memes hahaha (help)
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The images Israel has been producing on a daily basis for over 13 months will haunt the "liberal world" for decades
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
The images Israel has been producing on a daily basis for over 13 months will haunt the "liberal world" for decades
Hopelessness and despair is for the privileged.
But I don’t find the times hopeless, just hard.Humans have been building from wreckage as long as we’ve existed. Folks in our position last century watched their world crumble too. And then they built something new.There are opportunities for a better world in the demise of the one we have known.
November 19, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Hopelessness and despair is for the privileged.
Not sure whether to be shocked or unsurprised by an email from the university administration, which coordinates an international fellowship program, asking me to supervise a Zionist MA student. Can’t tell if they’re ignorant, intentionally provocative, or completely out of touch 🫠
November 19, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Not sure whether to be shocked or unsurprised by an email from the university administration, which coordinates an international fellowship program, asking me to supervise a Zionist MA student. Can’t tell if they’re ignorant, intentionally provocative, or completely out of touch 🫠
I haven’t posted here in a long time. Reading through my old posts, I’ve realized that not only has nothing changed, but things have grown even more absurd. Buckling up for the new fascist world order.
November 18, 2024 at 8:25 AM
I haven’t posted here in a long time. Reading through my old posts, I’ve realized that not only has nothing changed, but things have grown even more absurd. Buckling up for the new fascist world order.
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It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
August 21, 2024 at 10:35 PM
It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
People in academic conference be saying shit like “wow fascinating” as if we’re talking about an object or abstract concepts and not real life people who went through traumatic conflicts. How detached can people be…
June 13, 2024 at 1:31 PM
People in academic conference be saying shit like “wow fascinating” as if we’re talking about an object or abstract concepts and not real life people who went through traumatic conflicts. How detached can people be…
Ich kann das alles nicht mehr - und das seit Monaten. Deutschland hat seinen Verstand verloren und ich bald auch, wenn ich gezwungen bin solche absurden Debatten weiterhin mitzuverfolgen. Wie kann es sein, dass es nur schlimmer wird.
February 27, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Ich kann das alles nicht mehr - und das seit Monaten. Deutschland hat seinen Verstand verloren und ich bald auch, wenn ich gezwungen bin solche absurden Debatten weiterhin mitzuverfolgen. Wie kann es sein, dass es nur schlimmer wird.
Sie fordert mehr Sicherheit an den Unis, damit sie und ihre Kolleg*innen ungestört rassistischen Unsinn von sich geben getarnt als wissenschaftlichen Austausch. Solange solche Figuren durch mein Uni Campus rumgeistern & munter mit öffentl. Geldern hetzen dürfen, werde ich mich hier nie sicher fühlen
Gutes Bsp. für gescheiterte Sendung. Der Einspieler kann als Werbeblock für Schröter durchgehen. Die Moderatorin hält tapfer dagegegen, hat aber keine Chance, wenn sich Schröter immer wieder auf persönliche Erfahrung & (feigere) Kollegen hinweist @3sat /2
www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...
www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...
Susanne Schröter über Wokeness und Cancel Culture an Unis
In "Der neue Kulturkampf" beschreibt Susanne Schröter, wie Sie die Diskurse zu identitätspolitischen Themen wahrnimmt. Wir haben mit ihr gesprochen.
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February 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Sie fordert mehr Sicherheit an den Unis, damit sie und ihre Kolleg*innen ungestört rassistischen Unsinn von sich geben getarnt als wissenschaftlichen Austausch. Solange solche Figuren durch mein Uni Campus rumgeistern & munter mit öffentl. Geldern hetzen dürfen, werde ich mich hier nie sicher fühlen
Two months later and this is still going on. What the actual fuck.
I still can’t get over the fact that many colleagues around me are still obsessing over what Hamas committed two months ago in one day and continue to ignore the ongoing (!!) apocalyptic conditions in Gaza. Palestinians do not have the luxury to mourn their dead or deal with their trauma.
February 15, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Two months later and this is still going on. What the actual fuck.
Observing the current public discourse in Germany feels like watching an uncomfortably cringeworthy sitcom that you can't help but continue watching. It feels like a slow crash.
February 14, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Observing the current public discourse in Germany feels like watching an uncomfortably cringeworthy sitcom that you can't help but continue watching. It feels like a slow crash.
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This is fucking despicable. We've known this since Refaat (ok, before that), but they're seemingly systematically targeting the ability of Palestinians in Gaza to articulate their own view of what's happening to them. I've seen censorship. I've seen attacks on journalists. But I've never seen that.
Hours after appearing on a live interview with Al Jazeera last night, the apartheid regime murdered Palestinian political analyst Dr. Ayman al-Rafati in a targeted airstrike this morning in Gaza.
t.me/QudsNen/96093
t.me/QudsNen/96093
Quds News Network
Hours after appearing on a live interview with Al Jazeera last night, Israeli occupation forces killed political analyst Dr. Ayman al-Rafati in a targeted airstrike this morning in Gaza, according to ...
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February 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
This is fucking despicable. We've known this since Refaat (ok, before that), but they're seemingly systematically targeting the ability of Palestinians in Gaza to articulate their own view of what's happening to them. I've seen censorship. I've seen attacks on journalists. But I've never seen that.
Whoever is still talking about Hamas while Israel is bombing the last hiding place of Palestinians has lost the plot.
February 12, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Whoever is still talking about Hamas while Israel is bombing the last hiding place of Palestinians has lost the plot.
Warte immer noch auf Deutschlands Lernkurve
February 8, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Warte immer noch auf Deutschlands Lernkurve
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If you don’t want to be misread, don’t write.
January 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
If you don’t want to be misread, don’t write.
For days I can’t stop thinking about these people who tried hinder an aid truck from entering Gaza. How much hate do you need to carry within you to wake up in the morning and make your way there to ensure that more people die of starvation or disease.
January 28, 2024 at 9:22 AM
For days I can’t stop thinking about these people who tried hinder an aid truck from entering Gaza. How much hate do you need to carry within you to wake up in the morning and make your way there to ensure that more people die of starvation or disease.