Join us next week for our penultimate seminar this term:

'Book launch: The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon'

Speaker: Dr Estella Carpi (UCL IRDR)

🗓️ 5pm, Wed 29 May, ODID

Full details: rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/book-la…

UK academia in 12 points (with perfectionism being overrated).

To Oxford people interested: my book talk is on 29th May (see details below).
UCL IRDR Indiana University Press

What do the spatial, political and social relationships between humanitarian and urban actors look like after Syrian displacement? My new chapter builds on my 2016-17 research on urban humanitarianism and the recent in Istanbul. Available OA here:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

'Unconventional and compelling' Middle East Eye

THE SOIL AND THE SEA BerthaDocHouse
Thursday, May 9
🎟️dochouse.org/event/the-soil…

Join Lina Khatib Ramzi Kaiss / رمزي قيس & Daniele Rugo for Q&A to discuss #Lebanon Civil War and #disappearances

news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

In Cairo soon to present my book. Thanks to the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo for the invitation.
Excited and scared at the same time to see after 12 years a place which has been my home for so long...
Indiana University Press UCL IRDR
facebook.com/events/7332330…

With the aim of Istanbul-based migrants and refugees being able to access safe housing and rethink disaster risk preparedness (Afet Bilinci Eğitimleri), our new article advocates for a holistic-yet social group informed-understanding of disaster knowledge.
oxfordre.com/naturalhazards…

If you're around and you're interested in discussing aid in Lebanon, I'm presenting my book in Naples next Tuesday. Thanks to Lea Nocera and Daniela Pioppi for organising this, much grateful <3

Fast for Gaza. Continuing every Thursday until a permanent ceasefire is called. Because we have had enough. lithub.com/a-coalition-of… via Literary Hub . (On a personal and yet-to-be-organised level, I am also fasting for a permanent ceasefire in Sudan).

📅 I'm very excited to discuss my book at UCL IRDR on 23 April - thanks to Yulia Ioffe for organising, to Kate Cronin-Furman and Yulia Ioffe for being the discussants, and to Estella w bas for chairing!

Gentle reminder for Bergen dwellers. 👇
Let's make rain and cold worth it :D

For those interested, IFEA seminar on 3rd of April with Francesco Pasta and Cosmico Pica. Register here:

Highly suggested!
Located between Brixton, Tulse Hill and Streatham Hill, that's my fav cafe' in town <3

Sheikh Jumaa Lehib, a Syrian opposition activist and refugee, faces deportation from Lebanon despite the danger he and his family face upon return to Syria

Lebanese authorities have threatened to deport at least three Syrian refugees over the past month

newarab.com/news/lebanon-t…

If you are a UK resident or citizen, this is a very simple petition you can sign to create a Palestinian family visa scheme for Palestinian people affected by war. I also hope you will show up to the protest on Saturday.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

Maybe we have to visualize so we understand how serious the situation is in Lebanon!