Alaa Abd El Fattah

Movement techie, revolution turned me into a writer, counter revolution turned me into a political prisoner, solidarity turned me into an exile.

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

Silicon Valley has turned the whole internet infrastructure into dual use tech. Implicating us all in the war machine that is killing our people in Palestine and beyond.

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

@AbeerAbdLghafar الله يسلمك

[Aleksandar Matković @salematkovic]

Tomorrow at 6 pm London time, I will be discussing firsthand experience of what has been happening in Serbia at the David Graeber Institute series "Who gets to be human?" with Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Nika Dubrovsky. It will be streamed via the link below

https://t.co/FKtOK7gpH6

[Mada Masr مدى مصر @MadaMasr]

تزامن سجن علاء عبد الفتاح الممتد مع انتشار جائحة فيروس كورونا عالميًا في عام 2020، حيث دخلت الدول في درجات متفاوتة من الإغلاق وتوقف جزء كبير من الاقتصاد العالمي.

عندما أجرى رئيس التحرير محمد حمامة مقابلة معه لـ«مدى مصر»، تحدث عبد الفتاح عن مشاهدته للوباء وهو يتفشى من زنزانته، مع وصول محدود للمعلومات وبعيدًا عن المواقف السياسية التفاعلية التي كان يتبناها الكثيرون في ذلك الوقت.

بالنسبة لأولئك الذين يهتمون بتخيل بدائل للرأسمالية، يرى عبد الفتاح أن هناك دروسًا يمكن استخلاصها من الحجر الصحي في بلدان الجنوب العالمي لم نأخذها في الاعتبار بعد.

لمشاهدة الحوار كاملًا: https://t.co/WFF6KvxY4P

[Shohdy Elsheemy @shohdi2]

@alaa في 2010 كان فيه حراك سياسي قوي وكان فيه سياسيين , الغضب لواحده فعلا مش بيعمل حاجة , دلوقتي الناس غضبانة بس ما فيش سياسة فا ما فيش حل واضح والنظام فاهم ده وبيشتغل عليه كويس لغاية ما ها يحصل انفجار عنيف في يوم من الايام ولان مافيش سياسة ها تكون عواقب الانفجار ده كبيرة جدا

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

For those interested in Egypt, here @alaa explains some of the history during the fall of Mubarak and the subsequent events.

[Sharif Abdel Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس @sharifkouddous]

"These are the substances of political living that we are fighting not to lose"—Read this piece by Mada Masr chief editor @Linaattalah 2 days ahead of her trial, where she faces up to a year in prison as authorities in Egypt move to quash independent media
https://t.co/s7ZBaBjX2v

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

We held a talk about Serbia, Egypt and the revolutions/uprisings across the world.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah(@alaa) & Aleksandar Matković spoke. You can see the full discussion here.
https://t.co/C22B1wiJJ2

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

وصل وصل وصل ... اولى مساهماتي مع معهد المرحوم حرايبر.
حوار أتمنى يكون ثري عن حراك الطلاب في صربيا.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

We held a talk about Serbia, Egypt and the revolutions/uprisings across the world.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah(@alaa) & Aleksandar Matković spoke. You can see the full discussion here.
https://t.co/C22B1wiJJ2

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

Even more strikingly, out of Madas regular contributors (10+ articles total):
• 203 have written at least one long-form features
• 130 have written for the Opinion section

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

Of these regular contributors, 203 have written at least one feature. and 130 have written for the Opinion section.
Mada helped two generations of journalists sharpen their craft, and encouraged activists, artists, and academics to write for a broader audience and bear witness.

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

Over 13 years, Mada Masr has published 23,558 articles by 1,735 unique writers (240 with 10+ articles).
​That includes:
• 6,292 long-form features (959 bylines; 131 wrote 10+)
• 2,561 op-eds (857 bylines; 53 wrote 10+)

[UntoldMag @UntoldMag]

“We need to become much more hostile toward them”, he says of Big Tech. Alaa Abd el-Fattah argues the internet should be treated as a public utility, compares major platforms to Lockheed Martin.
“These monopolies need to cease to exist”
https://t.co/Fy7aqhPDF4

[UntoldMag @UntoldMag]

@alaa “All of the internet is now dual use”. The same AI systems are used to control migration, target people in Gaza and surveil dissidents in the Arab world, while the infrastructure itself is concentrated in the hands of Google, Amazon and other major players.
#BigTech #AI #Gaza

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

الواد ده بيقول الكلام ده في فبراير 2010 ليه؟ أكيد تمويل ايراني

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

@eKatyusha الثورات قليلة في التاريخ و الغضب كثير أظن مطلوب أكثر من الغضب الشعبي لاحداث ثورة و أكثر بكثير لانجاحها و أكثر لاستمرار مكاسبها

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

@AhmedEl67761191 بلاش خوض في اعراض بقى

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

انا رأي نتقبل ان الدين عند الله هو رشدي و القيم عند الأسرة هي مرتضي و الوطنية عند مصر هي مصطفى بكري و الرجولة عند الدكره هي حسام حسن و نموف اون كلنا...

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

@asemaliiii ياسر جلال

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇫🇷 French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon pledged Saturday that, if elected, French navy ships would escort citizen flotillas trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza “if necessary."

"We will act head-on to help the Palestinians, against both the genocide in Gaza and the gradual annexation of the West Bank," Mélenchon, the leader of the left-wing party La France Insoumise, said at a rally at Le Bourget, near Paris, where he presented his program for the 2027 election.

He said France would not accept Israel's "gradual annexation" of the West Bank, southern Lebanon or the Golan Heights.

[Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa]

@kalnaga ما حتى اللي بيموف اوت محتاج يموف اون و انت سيد العارفين

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

Happiness, music, love.

Meanwhile, France, and the rest of Europe, is under cyberattack. Fridges are dying, food is rotting on supermarket shelves, and France’s central blood bank came within hours of losing blood stocks.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah (@alaa) at our talk at @Graeber_social described how, after the Egyptian uprising, people endured hardship for so long that in the end they were ready to accept any ruler, if only the suffering would stop.

I hope the French and other Europeains figure out fast how to take the structures that keep life going into their own hands, before shock therapy rolls over them, the kind that makes any dictator look like a kitten.