omnia khalil أمنية خليل
@omniakhalil.bsky.social
Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
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Idil Onen (CUNY Grad Ctr), Irina Shirobokova (CUNY Grad Ctr),Nehal Amer (CUNY Grad Ctr), and Jesse McLaughlin (CUNY Grad Ctr) have received #CUAA’s 2025 award for Best Panel Presented by PhD Students or Recent PhDs. The award comes with a $1,000 award. Congratulations Idil, Irina, Nehal and Jesse!
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Idil Onen (CUNY Grad Ctr), Irina Shirobokova (CUNY Grad Ctr),Nehal Amer (CUNY Grad Ctr), and Jesse McLaughlin (CUNY Grad Ctr) have received #CUAA’s 2025 award for Best Panel Presented by PhD Students or Recent PhDs. The award comes with a $1,000 award. Congratulations Idil, Irina, Nehal and Jesse!
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Welcome to New Orleans!!
For the #CUAA Business Meeting Agenda (November 21, 2025) at AAA New Orleans, visit our page: cuaa.americananthro.org/aaa-2025-cua...
See you all soon!
For the #CUAA Business Meeting Agenda (November 21, 2025) at AAA New Orleans, visit our page: cuaa.americananthro.org/aaa-2025-cua...
See you all soon!
AAA 2025 CUAA Program | Critical Urban Anthropology Association
cuaa.americananthro.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Welcome to New Orleans!!
For the #CUAA Business Meeting Agenda (November 21, 2025) at AAA New Orleans, visit our page: cuaa.americananthro.org/aaa-2025-cua...
See you all soon!
For the #CUAA Business Meeting Agenda (November 21, 2025) at AAA New Orleans, visit our page: cuaa.americananthro.org/aaa-2025-cua...
See you all soon!
Join us tonight at 7:30 pm
Hear CUAA’s Distinguished Lecture, “California Forever? Speculating on ‘New Cities in the Wild Frontier,’” by Prof. Desiree Fields 11/22 @7:30 PM at the AAAs
FREE FOOD & DRINKS to follow at the reception--CUAA members AND friends welcome!! #Anthropology
Join CUAA: americananthro.org/membership
FREE FOOD & DRINKS to follow at the reception--CUAA members AND friends welcome!! #Anthropology
Join CUAA: americananthro.org/membership
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Join us tonight at 7:30 pm
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This is the fucking cowardice that will get us all killed:
“A spokesperson for Columbia said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property. The spokesperson declined to say if the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest.”
“A spokesperson for Columbia said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property. The spokesperson declined to say if the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest.”
Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest comes as Trump vows to deport foreign students involved in protests against Israel’s war
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is the fucking cowardice that will get us all killed:
“A spokesperson for Columbia said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property. The spokesperson declined to say if the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest.”
“A spokesperson for Columbia said law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property. The spokesperson declined to say if the school had received a warrant for Khalil’s arrest.”
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UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
صوت السجناء السوريين في سجون #الاسد وهم بيخرجوا وبيقولوا "طلعنا من ها المكان، طلعنا من ها المكان" .. شيء يبكي من القهر وفرحتهم بتحررهم، ومبروك ليهم تحررهم
يسعد اهاليهم واحبابهم بشوفتهم ويطمنوا عليهم
يسعد اهاليهم واحبابهم بشوفتهم ويطمنوا عليهم
December 7, 2024 at 9:09 PM
صوت السجناء السوريين في سجون #الاسد وهم بيخرجوا وبيقولوا "طلعنا من ها المكان، طلعنا من ها المكان" .. شيء يبكي من القهر وفرحتهم بتحررهم، ومبروك ليهم تحررهم
يسعد اهاليهم واحبابهم بشوفتهم ويطمنوا عليهم
يسعد اهاليهم واحبابهم بشوفتهم ويطمنوا عليهم
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Abu Zaabal 89 received the Best Documentary Award, a recognition shared with the Palestinian film State of Passion: Ghassan Abu Sitta.
It also received a Special Jury Prize from the Africa No Filter Foundation, which collaborates with the CIFF for the first time, awarding African films.
It also received a Special Jury Prize from the Africa No Filter Foundation, which collaborates with the CIFF for the first time, awarding African films.
November 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Abu Zaabal 89 received the Best Documentary Award, a recognition shared with the Palestinian film State of Passion: Ghassan Abu Sitta.
It also received a Special Jury Prize from the Africa No Filter Foundation, which collaborates with the CIFF for the first time, awarding African films.
It also received a Special Jury Prize from the Africa No Filter Foundation, which collaborates with the CIFF for the first time, awarding African films.
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The number of people who have died in Egyptian prisons and police stations has risen to at least 46 since the start of the year.
Egypt Security Sector Report
25/11/2024: This week’s dispatch includes reports on Egypt and the regional wars, the Red Sea, arms imports, military business, the army senior brass, surveillance, prisons, and security crackdowns.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM
The number of people who have died in Egyptian prisons and police stations has risen to at least 46 since the start of the year.
يلتقط شادي لويس خيط الملل في "على خط جرينتش"، ملل يصيب الغرباء مننا في مدن العالم الغربي. ملل شديد وقرف من ممن يحاولون إستقرائنا من لكناتنا أو ملامحنا.
تقابل من يصر أن يحدثك عن تاريخ الفراعنة ويحبطون بشدة إنك زرت الاهرامات مرة واحدة بالعافية في رحلة المدرسة.
تقابل من يصر أن يحدثك عن تاريخ الفراعنة ويحبطون بشدة إنك زرت الاهرامات مرة واحدة بالعافية في رحلة المدرسة.
November 25, 2024 at 1:39 PM
يلتقط شادي لويس خيط الملل في "على خط جرينتش"، ملل يصيب الغرباء مننا في مدن العالم الغربي. ملل شديد وقرف من ممن يحاولون إستقرائنا من لكناتنا أو ملامحنا.
تقابل من يصر أن يحدثك عن تاريخ الفراعنة ويحبطون بشدة إنك زرت الاهرامات مرة واحدة بالعافية في رحلة المدرسة.
تقابل من يصر أن يحدثك عن تاريخ الفراعنة ويحبطون بشدة إنك زرت الاهرامات مرة واحدة بالعافية في رحلة المدرسة.
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Five Detained, Child Sent to Juvenile Facility Amid Protests in Matariya, Dakahlia, #Egypt
حبس 5 أشخاص وإيداع طفلٍ بـ"الأحداث" في احتجاجات المطرية
قررت نيابة شمال المنصورة الكلية، اليوم، حبس 5 من أهالي مدينة المطرية بمحافظة الدقهلية، 4 أيام على ذمة التحقيقات، وإيداع طفل بمؤسسة رعاية الأحداث لمدة أسبوع، وإخلاء سبيل 23 آخرين بكفالة 10 آلاف جنيه، ع...
manassa.news
November 19, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Five Detained, Child Sent to Juvenile Facility Amid Protests in Matariya, Dakahlia, #Egypt
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Léopold Lambert of The Funambulist is leading a phenomenal teach in right now on the architecture of settler colonialism
Join us www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qgx...
Join us www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qgx...
Léopold Lambert "Teach-In: The Architecture of Settler Colonialism in Palestine"
In the "Ten Days of Architectural Fortitude" hosted by the AUC Architecture Department, the AAA and AA. We are honored to start off AAA’s ‘Architecture Leih?...
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November 11, 2023 at 5:27 PM
Léopold Lambert of The Funambulist is leading a phenomenal teach in right now on the architecture of settler colonialism
Join us www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qgx...
Join us www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qgx...
My latest at @thefunambulist.bsky.social with art work and photo by Azza Ezzat
SECURITIZING THE URBAN GEOGRAPHY: CAIRO BETWEEN DESTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION
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SECURITIZING THE URBAN GEOGRAPHY: CAIRO BETWEEN DESTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION
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Securitizing the Urban Geography: Cairo Between Destruction and Construction
TEXT BY OMNIA KHALIL PHOTOGRAPHS AND ARTWORK BY AZZA EZZAT Few cities in the world have experienced the level of mass destruction and construction to which Cairo has been subjected in the past decade.
thefunambulist.net
November 18, 2024 at 9:12 PM
My latest at @thefunambulist.bsky.social with art work and photo by Azza Ezzat
SECURITIZING THE URBAN GEOGRAPHY: CAIRO BETWEEN DESTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bul...
SECURITIZING THE URBAN GEOGRAPHY: CAIRO BETWEEN DESTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION
thefunambulist.net/magazine/bul...
Cairo’s Incarcerated Geographies
A Reflection on the Counterrevolutionary Effects of Urban Planning
merip.org/2024/10/cair...
A Reflection on the Counterrevolutionary Effects of Urban Planning
merip.org/2024/10/cair...
Cairo's Incarcerated Geographies - MERIP
n 2015, the Egyptian government announced a series of urban development plans, a schema that included having a city free of slums. As part of this plan, the state implemented a policy to relocate resi...
merip.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Cairo’s Incarcerated Geographies
A Reflection on the Counterrevolutionary Effects of Urban Planning
merip.org/2024/10/cair...
A Reflection on the Counterrevolutionary Effects of Urban Planning
merip.org/2024/10/cair...
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Greetings new followers! If you’re new to us, we’ve been publishing critical reporting and research on the Middle East since 1971. Our latest issue is 👇and we’ll thread here some helpful links for the newbies!
Our latest issue, Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams, is live! It covers the state of unfreedom across the Middle East and North Africa, with contributions from activists, analysts and scholars from Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, and more. Read, share, teach!
312 - MERIP
Issue Editors: Lisa Hajjar, Basil Farraj, Kanwal Hameed and Jacob Mundy. MER’s fall issue, ‘Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams,’ centers carceralism—that is forms of unfreedom—and organized resista...
merip.org
November 16, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Greetings new followers! If you’re new to us, we’ve been publishing critical reporting and research on the Middle East since 1971. Our latest issue is 👇and we’ll thread here some helpful links for the newbies!
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German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow
German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow
Schelling Architecture Foundation refuses to give James Bridle his €10k prize after he signed open letter
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow
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بعد 6 سنوات احتجاز.. تدوير المحامية هدى عبد المنعم للمرة الثانية بنفس الاتهامات
بعد 6 سنوات احتجاز.. تدوير المحامية هدى عبد المنعم للمرة الثانية بنفس الاتهامات
أعلن المحامي خالد بدوي، أمس، في بوست على فيسبوك، استدعاء نيابة أمن الدولة العليا زوجته المحامية هدى عبد المنعم، 64 عامًا، من محبسها، للتحقيق معها على ذمة قضية جديدة. وهذه المرة الثانية التي يتم فيها ت...
almanassa.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:10 PM
بعد 6 سنوات احتجاز.. تدوير المحامية هدى عبد المنعم للمرة الثانية بنفس الاتهامات
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Gladiator II Filmmakers Slammed for Cutting Role of Palestinian-Egyptian Actress
Gladiator II Filmmakers Slammed for Cutting Role of Palestinian-Egyptian Actress
Social media users have slammed the makers of Gladiator II for removing all scenes of Egyptian-Palestinian actress May Calamawy.
www.palestinechronicle.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Gladiator II Filmmakers Slammed for Cutting Role of Palestinian-Egyptian Actress
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Egyptian writer, publisher, and Current Party leader Hisham Kassem has been sentenced to 6 months in prison and an LE 20,000 fine by the economic misdemeanor court.
Hisham's lawyers have appealed the verdict and the first court date in the appeal will be October 7.
Hisham's lawyers have appealed the verdict and the first court date in the appeal will be October 7.
September 16, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Egyptian writer, publisher, and Current Party leader Hisham Kassem has been sentenced to 6 months in prison and an LE 20,000 fine by the economic misdemeanor court.
Hisham's lawyers have appealed the verdict and the first court date in the appeal will be October 7.
Hisham's lawyers have appealed the verdict and the first court date in the appeal will be October 7.
Another important contribution from the dear Aya Nassar .. #geography #Cairo
Lots of debts to loads of people who heard me speak about kites and glitches for the past 3 years, and to Azza, especially.
New article just out with EPD on reading the city through a glitch.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02637758231196414
New article just out with EPD on reading the city through a glitch.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02637758231196414
Kites, billboards and bridges: Reading the city’s curfew through the glitch - Aya Nassar, 2023
This article is an attempt at reading the city through what gets extended and/or suspended in it in a time of an interruption, or a glitch. It does this while t...
journals.sagepub.com
September 11, 2023 at 11:31 AM
Another important contribution from the dear Aya Nassar .. #geography #Cairo
طالعات سوريا
August 28, 2023 at 3:27 AM
طالعات سوريا
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In Egypt, a voice of protest is jailed. End the carousel of repression.
Opinion | In Egypt, a voice of protest is jailed. End the carousel of repression.
Egypt holds thousands of political prisoners for months and years without trial, frees a handful — and then takes in more.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 25, 2023 at 2:43 PM
In Egypt, a voice of protest is jailed. End the carousel of repression.
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I know folks who have received disproportionate sentences for protesting Elbit. Really shitty to see this now. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/20/israeli-embassy-officials-attempted-to-influence-uk-court-cases-documents-suggest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Israeli embassy officials attempted to influence UK court cases, documents suggest
Exclusive: documents seem to show embassy officials pressing attorney general’s office over Palestine Action protesters
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2023 at 9:38 PM
I know folks who have received disproportionate sentences for protesting Elbit. Really shitty to see this now. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/20/israeli-embassy-officials-attempted-to-influence-uk-court-cases-documents-suggest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other