PinnedAmmaraeSIMs 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 technologies8 min read·Nov 19, 2023----
AmmaraSmart Cities in Egypt: Utilising Techno-Utopianism to prevent Democratic Participation6 min read·Jan 17, 2024----
AmmaraThe Radio as the Master’s Tool: How the Algerian Revolution Repurposed a Colonial Technology into…For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will…6 min read·Jan 17, 2024----
AmmarainAn Injustice!Healthcare as Praxis: Mao, Guevera, Fanon and the Black Panther…The role of health in anti-racist political ideology8 min read·Dec 5, 2022----
AmmarainDigital 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 consent5 min read·Oct 10, 2021----
AmmarainDigital 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.4 min read·Mar 4, 2021----
AmmarainDigital 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 bias4 min read·Aug 17, 2020----
AmmarainThe Apeiron BlogBLM — The Social Contract has been Broken; What Now?According to John…4 min read·Jul 11, 2020--1--1
AmmaraBoris 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?4 min read·Apr 11, 2020----
AmmaraThe 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…4 min read·Jun 13, 2019----