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Keir Starmer says at Prime Ministers Questions that the last government was a "one nation experiment in open borders." Keir Starmer is being a dangerous fool. He is fueling the conditions for xenophobia, racism & fascism. Labour needs to reject this dark turn. Quickly. #PMQs

Extraordinary joyful videos from #Syria today with people from all backgrounds dancing in the squares, including clerics and old ladies.

In BBC coverage, mentions of Israeli and Palestinians deaths competed for space since 7th October. That's despite far more Palestinian deaths. There's one exception - a huge spike in the mentions of Palestinian deaths in early April. The reason for this should disturb you.

We are excited to kick off the 2025 Theory and Method Winter School at #IAS_NUQ! Focused on Arab and Southern Digitalities, this 3-day workshop features master classes by Rahul Mukherjee, Tanja Bosch, and Omar Al-Ghazzi. Organized by #IAS_NUQ with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Day 3 of our ⁦Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South⁩ 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass on Historical Methods with ⁦Omar Al-Ghazzi⁩ on the beautiful ⁦Northwestern Qatar⁩ campus.

Our term 2 seminar series kicks off this Thursday 16 January with Omar Al-Ghazzi from LSE. He will be speaking about "Anti-Ottoman meta history and gendered imaginaries of sovereignty in Syria." Join us! 5pm, RG01 in SOAS. paolo novak SOAS Department Of Anthropology SOAS Development Studies

Omar Al-Ghazzi (LSE Media & Communications), Tanja Bosch (UCT), and Kecheng Fang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK) will examine the role of social media influencers as opinion leaders and the ethical dilemmas surrounding self-media platforms at Northwestern Qatar’s Rawabet conference, Journalism in the Global South:

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Claudia Mellado Silvio Waisbord Ibrahim N. Abusharif 𝔼𝕕𝕕𝕪 𝔹𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕤 ℝ𝕖𝕪 Dr. Noura Al Obeidli Zahra Hankir Christina Paschyn 🇺🇦 Ilhem Allagui Panel 3, Social Media Influencers and Self-Media, explores the transformative role of influencers and self-media in journalism. Omar Al-Ghazzi, Tanja Bosch, and FANG Kecheng 方可成 examine how influencers, as opinion leaders, shape societal trends and consumer behavior in a conversation

I am pleased to share my new academic article on the complexity of home in exile, published in the Journal of Refugee Studies at the University of Oxford. The paper delves into the ambivalence of exiles and highlights 4 dilemmas they encounter. To read 👇 doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fe…

We are recruiting two LSE fellows LSE Media & Communications (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Redirect.aspx?…

What drives the logic and culture of digitisation in pan-#Arab news? A new paper by Omar Al-Ghazzi and Abeer Al-Najjar shows the prevalence of a top-down techno-centric approach in the pan-Arab news industry. eprints.lse.ac.uk/122859/

Historian, famous for his conception of the “sites of memory”, the creator of the magazine “Le Débat” died on June 2, at the age of 93. lemonde.fr/disparitions/a…

I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on Allegra Lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'. allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-still…