Originally posted on MENA Solidarity Network:
We’re delighted that Middle East Solidarity magazine is supporting the following teach-out organised by University of Cambridge UCU union members as part of the strike action across the country in defence of academics’ pensions Monday 5 March How UK policy fuels war and repression in the Middle East 2-3.30pm…
Academics, students and university campuses have recently become major targets for repression by authoritarian governments in Egypt and Turkey. In Egypt hundreds of students and academics have been arrested as part of an escalating crackdown on dissent since the military coup of 2013. In January 2016, Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni went missing. His body…
A discussion and film showing of ‘Out on the Street’ by Philip Rizk and Jasmina Metwaly hosted by Middle East Solidarity magazine Strikes, sit-ins and protests by workers resisting privatisation, corruption and police brutality played a key role in preparing the ground for the Egyptian revolution of 2011, while mass walkouts during the uprising itself…
We’re joining Amnesty International’s campaign this weekend to mark 5 months since the disappearance of Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni and the International Day for Victims of Torture on 26 June. Please join the Facebook event here for updates over the weekend. Cambridge 11am, Saturday 25 June, outside the Guildhall, https://www.facebook.com/events/1737837973097262/ Berlin 2pm, Saturday 25…
Where: Torrington Square (between Birkbeck and SOAS buildings), London WC1E 7JL (closest underground: Russell Square or Goodge Street) Download a poster / leaflet here When: Friday 27 May 1730-1830 Why: Early in February 2016, Giulio Regeni an Italian PhD student at Cambridge, was horrifically murdered while doing field research in Cairo, Egypt. Giulio disappeared on…
Join author Jack Shenker and guest speakers Maha Abdelrahman (University of Cambridge) and Sameh Naguib (SOAS), to mark the release of The Egyptians: A Radical Story and discuss revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt, five years on from when the anti-Mubarak uprising began. Hosted by Egypt Solidarity Initiative and SOAS Unison Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 7pm Djam…
From 7 to 12 September, Stop the Arms Fair is organising a week of action in protest of the DSEI arms fair. Egypt Solidarity Initiative will be joining other anti war organisations in solidarity.
