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Author Amro AliPosted on Wednesday, 16 July, 2025Wednesday, 30 July, 2025Categories Arab World, EventsTags Arab world, Egypt, Italy, Mediterranean

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  4. On the Need to Shape the Arab Exile Body in Berlin
  5. Where Couscous Ends: Maghrebi Routes to Alexandria
  6. Unpacking the Arab Part of Identity, Spring, and World
  7. Kinetic Karama: Bargaining for Dignity in the Pursuit of a New Arab Social Contract
  8. Unhappiness and Mohamed Salah’s Egypt
  9. Re-envisioning Civil Society and Social Movements in the Mediterranean in an Era of Techno-Fundamentalism
  10. Passport, the fallen (prose poem)

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