Francisco Mazzola
Francisco Mazzola
@drmazz.bsky.social
Lecturer in Middle East Studies, @kcl.ac.uk | PhD in War Studies | Policing in MENA and LatAm | RT≠ endorsement
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Research by Dr @drmazz.bsky.social explores how policing in Middle Eastern states serves not only as a tool of direct coercion but also reproduces structural & slow violence.

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May 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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In the predominant, grand geopolitical theorizing about the fall of the Assad regime, Syria and Syrians are strikingly absent. The writing is on the wall. Quite literally, Syrians risk being written out of their own revolution and future. www.thepolicyinitiative.org/article/deta...
The Policy Initiative - After the Fall of Assad: Where are the Syrians?
As TPI senior fellow Reinoud Leenders warns, after Assad’s fall, Western focus on geopolitics and security threats ignores Syrians' needs, perspectives, and agency —risking erasure from th...
www.thepolicyinitiative.org
December 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Francisco Mazzola
seems the ceasefire will take effect at 10am tomorrow morning. So that means sleeping with the ringer on tonight just in case another evacuation warning comes our way.
November 26, 2024 at 7:59 PM