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Alice Franchini
@alicefranchini.bsky.social
PhD candidate in social movements studies at Scuola Normale Superiore | Co-founder & advocacy officer at EgyptWide | working on activism and civil society in the Mediterranean region, BHR (arms trade, energy).
Activist. Views mine.
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July 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
July 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala
@irpimedia.eu

🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...
June 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The #OHCHR report on the Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Rights is out!

So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore.
🇪🇺 exporters, we see you!

🔗 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
April 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
@adalahjustice.bsky.social launched a petitition in support of Palestine advocate #MahmoudKhalil facing arbitrary detention & risk of deportation from the #USA over his activism at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.

#StopGenocide, free 🇵🇸 & all political prisoners!

actionnetwork.org/letters/rele...
March 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Licensed/offshore arms production is the manufacturing of existing models by another firm/state via trade of property rights. It is the case of the Egyptian #Helwan920 machine gun, an adaptation of the FN MAG by #Herstal, now largely in use to army & ANSAs in #Sinai.
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#LicenseToAbuse started from a simple question: if transfers of arms are internationally regulated, why production lines and property rights are (almost) not?
So we documented the consequences of this gap looking at 🇪🇬 +🇧🇪 deals, and demand that policymakers now answer that question
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our report coming Feb24 explores the issue of #offshore licensed #arms production, an established trend in global arms production and transfers which remains under the radar of policymakers but significantly contributes to proliferation and lethal violence.
#LicenseToAbuse
Egyptwide.org
CNAPD.be
February 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🇧🇪 Despite the EU arms embargo of 2013, Walloon Decree of 2012, and the #ATT, Walloon arms manufacturers consolidated business ties with Sisi’s Egypt for years, supplying weapons, ammo, and components currently in use to the Egyptian army in #Sinai.

💡New report coming 24/02 on egyptwide.org
February 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#EGYPES2025 has been the theatre of another triumph of #ENI ‘s greenwashing strategy that capitalizes on escalating tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, while #Egypt consolidates international leverage thanks to #LNG exports while unable to achieve energy security.
Neoliberalism at its finest
February 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
SESAMO denounces the threat to academic freedom posed by Law bill 1236, particularly under art.31 which commits universities & research institutes to cooperate with the secret services.
In short, another repressive device against engaged research & mobilisation.
👉 www.sesamoitalia.it/ddl-sicurezz...
January 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Verità e giustizia per #RamyelGaml, ucciso a 19 anni da profilazione razziale e brutalità della polizia in Italia.

Truth and justice for Ramy el Gaml, killed at the age of 19 by racial profiling and police brutality in Italy.

👉 x.com/egyptwide/st...
January 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
No matter what is to come, Syria’s liberation from the Assad family’s half-century long reign of terror deserves celebration and the Syrian people, so long betrayed by the international community, deserve unconditional solidarity in their quest for freedom and dignity.
#Syria

Art by Hani Abbas
December 8, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Finally, it’s unclear how the 🇪🇺 High Commissioner will assess compliance with IHL/IHRL by the EAF in the Western region in the context of the agreement. Will access to the area be granted?

#EPF #Egypt
December 2, 2024 at 1:53 PM
However, the EAF operate under a regime of unaccountability which doesn’t prevent + sanction breaches of IHL/IHRL, and cases such as the Maspero massacre and Operation SIRLI show why the distinction between lethal/non-lethal arms is inadequate to prevent civilian harm.
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December 2, 2024 at 1:46 PM
The package shall cover the cost of services and training at request of the EAF + the purchase of “non-lethal” materials produced by French group DCI (which the EU also put in charge of the provision of arms to 🇯🇴 , 🇨🇮, 🇸🇴 and has previously collaborated in training EAF personnel).
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December 2, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Per questo, per altro, per tutto.

For decent working conditions in healthcare & education, for #GKN, for #FreePalestine, for an education sector free from the military-industrial complex, for #RamyelGaml, died at the hand of police officers in Milan.
For all of this, and so much more.
November 29, 2024 at 6:43 PM
In the absence of evidence, the article goes as far as indicating social media posts as a source of threat. This way the dehumanising narrative of Arab/Muslim “barbarism” spreads unquestioned and uncensored, from Israel back to Europe and the West, entrenching racism, consolidating impunity.
November 25, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Jasbir K. Puar denounced the co-optation of #queerliberation struggles by Western imperialism coining the term “homonationalism”. #Israel, a world leader in this practice, uses #rainbowashing to dehumanise #Palestinians, contributing in turn to the dehumanisation of Arabs & Muslims in the “West”.
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November 25, 2024 at 11:15 AM
New to Bluesky, will share here a few things done recently:

💡co-founded EgyptWide.org (yes I’m the 🇮🇹 quota) 2021

#Florence student encampment for #Palestine🇵🇸 (from a disabled perspective)

🖊️ campaigning against cross-border bombings in 🇮🇶Kurdistan with #ICSSI since 2020
November 14, 2024 at 9:44 AM