Hend Aly
@hendaly.bsky.social
PhD student @ucl.ac.uk @tcru-ucl.bsky.social, ESRC fellow, former UN Habitat, Editorial Assistant, Migration and Society Journal @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, interested in migration and inequality
This podcast is based on a report I co-authored and was published by @britishfuture.bsky.social earlier this year. Have a look:
Studying and staying: public attitudes towards international students - British Future
Examining public attitudes to international students, including numbers and net migration, and contribution to the economy and universities.
www.britishfuture.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This podcast is based on a report I co-authored and was published by @britishfuture.bsky.social earlier this year. Have a look:
Reposted by Hend Aly
Finland has also put in place an exceptional emergency law that allows it to reject asylum applications from migrants crossing its closed eastern border with Russia and to send them back.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Finland passes law to block migrants crossing from Russia
Finland's parliament passed a law on Friday granting border guards the power to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia, after more than 1,300 people arrived in the country, forcing Helsinki to close its border.
www.reuters.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Finland has also put in place an exceptional emergency law that allows it to reject asylum applications from migrants crossing its closed eastern border with Russia and to send them back.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
🚨 🎓 My chapter on "Wilson in Versailles and the Kurdish Question" has come out. In the chapter I look at the presence, or rather absence of the Kurdish question in the WWI peace negotiations and what this means for our understanding of self determination.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Wilson in Versailles and the Kurdish Question
This chapter studies the discussions of the Kurdish question during the peace negotiations held in Versailles in 1919, with a particular view to the American position and more specifically the positio...
link.springer.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My chapter on the Afro-Palestinian community of Jerusalem and how they relate to and integrate into the Palestinian Nation has just been published — to be precise on the first of January. 🧵
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
April 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am pleased to share my new publication “Saudi’s NEOM: A New ‘Utopian City’ Gluing the Jewel to the Crown”. The chapter engages with neoliberal urbanism and authoritarianism focusing on NEOM www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
11 SAUDI’S NEOM: A NEW ‘UTOPIAN CITY’ GLUING THE JEWEL TO THE CROWN
11 SAUDI’S NEOM: A NEW ‘UTOPIAN CITY’ GLUING THE JEWEL TO THE CROWN was published in Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa on page 270.
www.degruyterbrill.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
and “Royal dream: city branding and Saudi Arabia’s NEOM” archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/arti...
Royal Dream: City Branding and Saudi Arabia’s NEOM
| Middle East - Topics & Arguments
archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de
April 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
and “Royal dream: city branding and Saudi Arabia’s NEOM” archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/arti...
I've been writing on neoliberal urbanism & authoritarianism since 2019 and I think it is very important to understand politics in the Middle East. If interested, check “Place Branding as a Political Act: Approaching Saudi Arabia’s NEOM beyond its Shiny Façade” www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Place Branding as a Political Act: Approaching Saudi Arabia’s NEOM beyond its Shiny Façade
Place Branding as a Political Act: Approaching Saudi Arabia’s NEOM beyond its Shiny Façade was published in Branding the Middle East on page 543.
www.degruyterbrill.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I've been writing on neoliberal urbanism & authoritarianism since 2019 and I think it is very important to understand politics in the Middle East. If interested, check “Place Branding as a Political Act: Approaching Saudi Arabia’s NEOM beyond its Shiny Façade” www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Simon and Thomas wrote an interesting blog post on the book: "The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias. How can we recognize emancipatory visions instead?” you can access it here euppublishingblog.com/2025/04/04/m...
Oppressive Utopias in the Middle East | Edinburgh University Press
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa.
euppublishingblog.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Simon and Thomas wrote an interesting blog post on the book: "The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias. How can we recognize emancipatory visions instead?” you can access it here euppublishingblog.com/2025/04/04/m...
I was super happy to receive the book last week, titled “Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa” edited by @simonwfuchs.bsky.social and Thomas Pierret. The edited volume includes inspiring chapters on utopias and dystopias in the Middle East. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa
This is the first systematic exploration of the diversity of utopian thought and practice in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Beyond intellectual debates, utopianism has infused the many ideol...
www.degruyterbrill.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I was super happy to receive the book last week, titled “Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa” edited by @simonwfuchs.bsky.social and Thomas Pierret. The edited volume includes inspiring chapters on utopias and dystopias in the Middle East. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...