PinnedPublished inDigital DiplomacySmart Cities in Egypt: Utilising Techno-Utopianism to prevent Democratic ParticipationThe Egyptian government’s plans for a new smart capital are a telling example of post-revolutionary political insecuritiesJan 17, 2024Jan 17, 2024
eSIMs of Solidarity: Communication Blackouts and Human ResilienceThe 2011 Egyptian Revolution has been widely termed the ‘Facebook Revolution’; a nod to the wide-scale use of communication technologiesNov 19, 2023Nov 19, 2023
Published inAn Injustice!Healthcare as Praxis: Mao, Guevera, Fanon and the Black Panther…The role of health in anti-racist political ideologyDec 5, 2022Dec 5, 2022
Published inDigital Diplomacy“Policing by consent”: Modern British Policing and Live Facial RecognitionHow the adoption of surveillance technologies is challenging British policing’s long-standing model of consentOct 10, 2021Oct 10, 2021
Published inDigital DiplomacyCOVID-19 and the Dangers of Accelerated DigitalisationThe pandemic has shone a spotlight on the dangers of depending on technologies that have been developed without adequate ethical oversight.Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021
Published inDigital Diplomacy“Fuck the Algorithm”; the Rallying Cry of Our Youth?While the A level results algorithm has been scrapped, this is just the beginning of the fight against encoding biasAug 17, 2020Aug 17, 2020
Published inThe Apeiron BlogBLM — The Social Contract has been Broken; What Now?According to John…Jul 11, 20201Jul 11, 20201
Boris Johnson and a ‘Veil of Ignorance’As Boris Johnson is made a victim of his government’s disastrous COVID-19 policy, can we hope for a new age of empathetic politics?Apr 11, 2020Apr 11, 2020
The day we lost the Internet; parallels between Sudan and EgyptWhen I was ten years old, our Internet completely cut off. So did SMS messaging and our access to mobile data. It was the night of 27…Jun 13, 2019Jun 13, 2019
