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Acting Provost & Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education), British University in Egypt. Former DVC (Chichester & UCA). Chair Professor, Woxsen University, India. Co-Editor: TEXTILE: Cloth&Culture (T&F) Artist, Writer, Textiles Irish European in Cairo, Egypt ☘
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We categorically reject China’s recharacterization of multiple species. Nationalism belongs to the depths of Hades.

At least 3 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on starving crowds at a US- and Israel-backed aid site in Rafah, causing outcry from the UN and aid groups aje.io/z8rqc7

AJ EXCLUSIVE: Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit has obtained exclusive images of the remains of the weaponry used by Israel in the bombing of the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City on Sunday. Read more: aje.io/u3a5qt

Army under pressure to provide answers amid growing evidence that orders to use Palestinians as ‘fodder’ come from top.

Visiting northwest Ireland or hosting guests here in Summer 2025? Get your complete 'Handy Wee Guide to Derry' and Inishowen on your phone for just a quid.

IRISH DNA ATLAS PTOJECT - check out the link below for information on this important academic and scientific research project - a collaboration between the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Genealogical Society of Ireland familyhistory.ie/irish-dna-at... @rcsi.bsky.social

Global march to Gaza. marchtogaza.net

“A moral responsibility.” Malta's PM Robert Abela has announced that his country will recognise the state of Palestine next month, according to local media. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/0n2xv9

Our Chairperson Zoë Lawlor on Irish solidarity with Palestine and how our government must sanction apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes. #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸 Irish pro-Palestine activists embrace ‘Paddystinian’ term as badge of honour www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Enough. This has to be ended. This poor woman, watching over the critical care bed of her one remaining child, her other nine children killed by Israel while she was carrying out her work as a doctor. This is criminal, out-of-control carnage. 🇵🇸💔

Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar lost her nine children all under the age of 12. A mother, a doctor, a symbol of life—reduced to grief beyond imagination. This is not collateral damage. This is a crime against the very soul of humanity.

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Outrage after an Israeli attack kills nine of a Gaza doctor’s children while she was at work, aged seven months to 12 years, with two still under the rubble aje.io/i7m1nb

He really does say these words. Astonishing.

I came for 6 months, have been here for 31 months + love it! 🇪🇬❤️🖤 The British University in Egypt has academic job vacancies open to Egyptian and international applicants: apply here www.bue.edu.eg/job-vacancies - Professor in Political Science - Assistant Lecturer, Radio & TV ...

All our solidarity with our friend Sue Pentel @BelfastIPSC and @JewishPeace, who was arrested for 'criminal damage' for the henious crime of allegedly putting a sticker on a bank machine. Barclays Bank is aiding and abetting apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

'The Holocaust required an entire society to become implicated, either directly or indirectly, through structures of labor, surveillance, and obedience.' Dylan Aunger

Artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works #womensart

Not the main point, I know, but I reckon the primary purpose of the EU is to build a Europe where we don't repeatedly engage in world-wide murderous warfare. Trade is the vehicle for this. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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What on earth are we buying? That all needs to stop … #boycott #speirgorm #stopthegenocide

#WorldTurtleDay PSA 1902 Never torment a turtle. #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Israeli settlers have attacked a community in the occupied West Bank town of Bruqin, setting fire to cars and houses. Several Palestinians suffered burns.

National TV Awards…. begging you to vote for Gary LIneker in the PRESENTER category, but the rest is up to you www.nationaltvawards.com/vote 💚

In Donegal, at the weekend, at a local environmental group called The Gathering, my 89-year-old mother joined in singing 'From the River to the Sea'. Know that you are remembered, thought of, cared for #Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤️

Delighted to see this mock up of the front cover of my first book, due to be published later in the Summer with @cambridgeup.bsky.social . It's been several years in the making, and has had input and guidance from so many people - but it nearly exists!

I get that some people are restricted from speaking out about oppression, genocide, and cruelty, but if you have privilege - freedom to speak - then use that precious voice, use your privilege to speak for those who can't. Silence (when you have a voice) = complicity. 🇵🇸 youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs?...

‼️JOB KLAXON‼️ Calling Quality Assurance & Enhancement colleagues in the UK/Ireland. The British University in Egypt seeks another Senior Academic Registrar to join our growing team, working with UK Validating Partner Universities on our 'dual degree' provision. Contact: [email protected] ❤️

Pakistani artist Naiza H. Khan, 'Armour' series (2007-8) #womensart

When future generations ask how we let a livestreamed genocide happen, what will you say?🇵🇸🩸💔 Silence is not neutrality. Your silence will not be forgotten. Martin Luther King Jr: “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”🇵🇸🩸💔 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sometimes it feels like yet another pledge, survey, petition, and what good does it do? Please don't lose faith in this, and keep signing. If nothing else, this keeps eyes on #Palestine and shows solidarity with suffering brothers and sisters. I've signed, will you? 🇵🇸 www.antigenocidepledge.com

So proud of British University in Egypt colleagues Dr. Noha Fawzy, Dr. Marwa Zein, Professor Ahmed Elseragy, and World Craft Council's Africa President, Passent Nossair for co-authoring an exceptional essay for Selvedge Magazine on Egyptian tally cloth.🇪🇬 🧵

My word, the toddler-in-chief has excelled himself in South Africa. The "Death....Death...Death" speech will go down in history as a model of monotone idiocy. No less, I tell you, a stroke of real idiocy. 👶

🚨 Take Action: Demand SANCTIONS NOW! #SanctionsNow www.ipsc.ie/action-item/...

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Looking forward to “The Future of Museums” discussion with Dr. Moamen Othman (Head of Museums Sector), Dr. Tarek Tawfik (Prof. Egyptology, Cairo University), Dr. Mary Kupelian (Prof. Coptic Art & Archaeology, Helwan University); and Dr. Ali Abdelhalim (Prof. Egyptology, Ain Shams University) 🇪🇬❤️🖤

Anecdote here, but my WHITE Irish sister lives in S. Africa with her husband and kids, and has been there for around 15 years. Ardently anti-apartheid, she doesn't have ANY sense of being unwelcome. Her kids are South African-born. 🇿🇦

Embroidered bead-work created by a self-help group of women in a remote part of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa #womensart

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇