Timothy E. Kaldas
@tekaldas.bsky.social
Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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📍Barcelona
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
Like much else from the history of Egypt's revolution, the story of Maspero continues to be contested as Egypt's leaders work to erase their crimes from public record and public memory. But videos of armored vehicles deliberately plowing through unarmed crowds cannot easily be forgotten.
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Like much else from the history of Egypt's revolution, the story of Maspero continues to be contested as Egypt's leaders work to erase their crimes from public record and public memory. But videos of armored vehicles deliberately plowing through unarmed crowds cannot easily be forgotten.
Here @amyfallas.bsky.social captures the tensions, fears, struggles & debates witnessed in the Coptic Hospital that night. Families brought loved ones for treatment, seeking medical care as much as refuge from the violent sectarianism they found outside the hospital walls timep.org/2025/10/15/a...
A Marginalized Memory in Egypt: Remembering the Maspero Massacre from the Coptic Hospital
Fourteen years ago, on October 9, 2011, Egyptian security forces violently attacked protesters in Maspero, killing 28 and injuring hundreds. There was one demand from the protesters and their loved on...
timep.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Here @amyfallas.bsky.social captures the tensions, fears, struggles & debates witnessed in the Coptic Hospital that night. Families brought loved ones for treatment, seeking medical care as much as refuge from the violent sectarianism they found outside the hospital walls timep.org/2025/10/15/a...
Maspero was a formative experience for Egypt's Christians.
It showed that the military they served in was ready kill them. It showed that even after Mubarak's fall, State TV remained a sectarian mouthpiece of power, as an anchor dangerously told citizens to "protect" the military from Christians.
It showed that the military they served in was ready kill them. It showed that even after Mubarak's fall, State TV remained a sectarian mouthpiece of power, as an anchor dangerously told citizens to "protect" the military from Christians.
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Maspero was a formative experience for Egypt's Christians.
It showed that the military they served in was ready kill them. It showed that even after Mubarak's fall, State TV remained a sectarian mouthpiece of power, as an anchor dangerously told citizens to "protect" the military from Christians.
It showed that the military they served in was ready kill them. It showed that even after Mubarak's fall, State TV remained a sectarian mouthpiece of power, as an anchor dangerously told citizens to "protect" the military from Christians.