Sofian Philip Naceur
@sofiannaceur.bsky.social
Journalist/researcher, formerly Cairo-based, now on the move for RLS North Africa Office and others
Currently Tunis/London, working on 🇪🇬🇩🇿🇹🇳🇵🇸 border regimes, migration, arms trade, genocide, urban development/destruction
Contact: mail(a)sofiannaceur.de
Currently Tunis/London, working on 🇪🇬🇩🇿🇹🇳🇵🇸 border regimes, migration, arms trade, genocide, urban development/destruction
Contact: mail(a)sofiannaceur.de
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Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of discourses & state policies across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in #Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported. Thus, this @FT_DES report aims at contributing to bridge this gap 1/
ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
Recycling a smear campaign: The Left in the EU parliament had done something similar in 2014, using old tweets of #AlaaAbdelFattah to justify withdrawing their nomination of Alaa for a HR award. He was free at that time but got rearrested shortly after #Egypt #UK manassa.news/en/news/29426
Tories and Reform UK urge deportation of Alaa Abdel Fattah
After old social media posts were resurfaced and framed as “antisemitic” and inciting violence, Egyptian political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah said he was shaken by what he described as attempts to sme...
manassa.news
December 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Recycling a smear campaign: The Left in the EU parliament had done something similar in 2014, using old tweets of #AlaaAbdelFattah to justify withdrawing their nomination of Alaa for a HR award. He was free at that time but got rearrested shortly after #Egypt #UK manassa.news/en/news/29426
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but rather a decades-old migration & emigration crisis in the "underdeveloped" & indebted South, stemming from restructured power dynamics & postcolonial dependencies that were never fully overturned 7/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but rather a decades-old migration & emigration crisis in the "underdeveloped" & indebted South, stemming from restructured power dynamics & postcolonial dependencies that were never fully overturned 7/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
The most effective playbook to follow by Southern elites―from Rabat to Amman & from Dhaka to Baku―to supply their police with modern equipment & maintain their uncontested grip on power, is to tap into the ever-rising “border management” funds set up by EUrope 6/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The most effective playbook to follow by Southern elites―from Rabat to Amman & from Dhaka to Baku―to supply their police with modern equipment & maintain their uncontested grip on power, is to tap into the ever-rising “border management” funds set up by EUrope 6/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
After "anti-communism", "the war on drugs" and "the war on terror'", "combating irregular migration" has, since 2015, turned into the new main smokescreen for supplying elites in the Global South with policing equipment, surveillance tec and training 5/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
After "anti-communism", "the war on drugs" and "the war on terror'", "combating irregular migration" has, since 2015, turned into the new main smokescreen for supplying elites in the Global South with policing equipment, surveillance tec and training 5/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
The collapse of Europe’s colonial empires gradually morphed into a neocolonial arrangement, in which population control, public order, and resource extraction were to be maintained through the policing support for southern regimes by the former masters 4/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The collapse of Europe’s colonial empires gradually morphed into a neocolonial arrangement, in which population control, public order, and resource extraction were to be maintained through the policing support for southern regimes by the former masters 4/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
Border externalisation's/management's key feature―police cooperation―not only aims at surveilling, preventing & containing migration movements, but also keeping southern regimes and their elites aligned and able to control their own populations 3/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Border externalisation's/management's key feature―police cooperation―not only aims at surveilling, preventing & containing migration movements, but also keeping southern regimes and their elites aligned and able to control their own populations 3/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
The large-scale extractivism of resources and people from #Asia and #Africa during the colonial era has not ended—rather, it has transformed. To further maintain this order, the notion of "border management" is being mainstreamed across the globe 2/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The large-scale extractivism of resources and people from #Asia and #Africa during the colonial era has not ended—rather, it has transformed. To further maintain this order, the notion of "border management" is being mainstreamed across the globe 2/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point
We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.
turningpointmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...
The invention of the foreigner
"The roots of both ethnic exclusion and migrant marginalization in Africa lie in the colonial attempt to manage difference—not by transcending it, but by weaponizing it" via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
"The roots of both ethnic exclusion and migrant marginalization in Africa lie in the colonial attempt to manage difference—not by transcending it, but by weaponizing it" via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The invention of the foreigner
"The roots of both ethnic exclusion and migrant marginalization in Africa lie in the colonial attempt to manage difference—not by transcending it, but by weaponizing it" via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
"The roots of both ethnic exclusion and migrant marginalization in Africa lie in the colonial attempt to manage difference—not by transcending it, but by weaponizing it" via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
Sinai and regime-affiliated "businesses" remain key for "managing" and profiting from the devastation, hunger and genocide in #Gaza via #MadaMasr www.madamasr.com/en/2025/12/1...
Kings of famine
How a network of businessmen made over US$1 billion in “goods coordination”
www.madamasr.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Sinai and regime-affiliated "businesses" remain key for "managing" and profiting from the devastation, hunger and genocide in #Gaza via #MadaMasr www.madamasr.com/en/2025/12/1...
Today 👇
Tomorrow's webinar on Syria: "Coming Back Is Not Going Home. Return and Displacement after the Fall of the Assad Regime" organized by RLS Beirut and Disorient @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_...
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today 👇
Tomorrow's webinar on Syria: "Coming Back Is Not Going Home. Return and Displacement after the Fall of the Assad Regime" organized by RLS Beirut and Disorient @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_...
December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Tomorrow's webinar on Syria: "Coming Back Is Not Going Home. Return and Displacement after the Fall of the Assad Regime" organized by RLS Beirut and Disorient @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_...
An Egyptian imam, Mohamed Shahin, is facing deportation from #Italy for allegedly describing the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October as an act of “resistance after years of occupation” #Egypt www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-d...
Italy to deport Egyptian imam over comments at pro-Palestine rally
Mohammed Shahin told a Turin court that his expulsion to Egypt would risk his imprisonment, torture and even death
www.middleeasteye.net
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
An Egyptian imam, Mohamed Shahin, is facing deportation from #Italy for allegedly describing the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October as an act of “resistance after years of occupation” #Egypt www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-d...
"The same Europe that enslaved our ancestors & continues to exploit our countries is again & again holding us to stay bound within walls. Africans must wake up & denounce Europe’s assumption as teachers from whom we have to learn how to manage our borders" refugees4refugees.org/en/2025/11/2...
Return-reintegration – Illusion of an EU moral for solidarity – Refugees4Refugees
refugees4refugees.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"The same Europe that enslaved our ancestors & continues to exploit our countries is again & again holding us to stay bound within walls. Africans must wake up & denounce Europe’s assumption as teachers from whom we have to learn how to manage our borders" refugees4refugees.org/en/2025/11/2...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
This report aims at providing a mapping of the state’scrackdowns against harraga, the authorities’ retention infrastructure, the security services’ deportation practices, and Algeria’s engagement with foreign governments regarding the suppression of movement @FT_DES 11/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This report aims at providing a mapping of the state’scrackdowns against harraga, the authorities’ retention infrastructure, the security services’ deportation practices, and Algeria’s engagement with foreign governments regarding the suppression of movement @FT_DES 11/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of public discourses and government interventions across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported 10/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of public discourses and government interventions across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported 10/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
The Algerian government nourishes the country’s alienation from its African neighbors by fueling racism, exploitation and the continuation of intermediary repression, helped along by EU agencies, EU governments, UN-affiliated bodies and neighboring states 9/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The Algerian government nourishes the country’s alienation from its African neighbors by fueling racism, exploitation and the continuation of intermediary repression, helped along by EU agencies, EU governments, UN-affiliated bodies and neighboring states 9/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
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Today, the international solidarity occasionally vocalised by the #Algeria-n state is a conditional and selective one that is limited by the regime’s internal tug-of-war over access to hydrocarbon revenues and, at best, the “anti-imperialist strategies” of foreign policy 8/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Today, the international solidarity occasionally vocalised by the #Algeria-n state is a conditional and selective one that is limited by the regime’s internal tug-of-war over access to hydrocarbon revenues and, at best, the “anti-imperialist strategies” of foreign policy 8/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
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As of today, however, only traces of this once staunch alignment with the Global South remain. Yet the state maintains a political imagery and foreign policy nurtured by the spirit of the post-colonial #Algeria of the 1960s and 70s 7/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
As of today, however, only traces of this once staunch alignment with the Global South remain. Yet the state maintains a political imagery and foreign policy nurtured by the spirit of the post-colonial #Algeria of the 1960s and 70s 7/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
Reposted by Sofian Philip Naceur
The state’s reprisals against non-Algerian harraga, their precarisation and the widespread racism (re-)produced by the state and large parts of society are, however,in stark contrast to #Algeria-s anti-imperialist past 6/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The state’s reprisals against non-Algerian harraga, their precarisation and the widespread racism (re-)produced by the state and large parts of society are, however,in stark contrast to #Algeria-s anti-imperialist past 6/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
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Under President #Tebboune and army chief #Chengriha, however, the state initiated a cautious turnaround and expanded its (anti-)migration cooperation with #Italy, #Germany and #IOM, mostly in regards to police training and deportation cooperation 5/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Under President #Tebboune and army chief #Chengriha, however, the state initiated a cautious turnaround and expanded its (anti-)migration cooperation with #Italy, #Germany and #IOM, mostly in regards to police training and deportation cooperation 5/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
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In the past, #Algeria, unlike neighboring countries, was considered extremely reluctant to formally integrate into the European border regime, near-consistently refusing to take part in Europe-funded ‘border management’ projects 4/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In the past, #Algeria, unlike neighboring countries, was considered extremely reluctant to formally integrate into the European border regime, near-consistently refusing to take part in Europe-funded ‘border management’ projects 4/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
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The image of a prosperous New Algeria, propagated by President #Tebboune & the regime since 2021, is strongly contradicted by the reporting about the increasing number of Algerian harraga who are once again favoring the risks of clandestine migration over remaining in #Algeria 3/
June 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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In 2023, #Algeria responded to #Tunisia-s new deportation practices by also tightening migration control. Mass expulsions of people by ALG authorities to #Niger were expanded while the state deports more & more people to #Libya & once again, to #Morocco 2/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...
June 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In 2023, #Algeria responded to #Tunisia-s new deportation practices by also tightening migration control. Mass expulsions of people by ALG authorities to #Niger were expanded while the state deports more & more people to #Libya & once again, to #Morocco 2/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...