Sofian Philip Naceur

Revolution without illusion The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule.

The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule. africasacountry.com/2026/02/revo...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but rather a decades-old migration & emigration crisis in the "underdeveloped" & indebted South, stemming from restructured power dynamics & postcolonial dependencies that were never fully overturned 7/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

The most effective playbook to follow by Southern elites―from Rabat to Amman & from Dhaka to Baku―to supply their police with modern equipment & maintain their uncontested grip on power, is to tap into the ever-rising “border management” funds set up by EUrope 6/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

After "anti-communism", "the war on drugs" and "the war on terror'", "combating irregular migration" has, since 2015, turned into the new main smokescreen for supplying elites in the Global South with policing equipment, surveillance tec and training 5/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

The collapse of Europe’s colonial empires gradually morphed into a neocolonial arrangement, in which population control, public order, and resource extraction were to be maintained through the policing support for southern regimes by the former masters 4/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

Border externalisation's/management's key feature―police cooperation―not only aims at surveilling, preventing & containing migration movements, but also keeping southern regimes and their elites aligned and able to control their own populations 3/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

The large-scale extractivism of resources and people from #Asia and #Africa during the colonial era has not ended—rather, it has transformed. To further maintain this order, the notion of "border management" is being mainstreamed across the globe 2/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order

How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

Tories and Reform UK urge deportation of Alaa Abdel Fattah After old social media posts were resurfaced and framed as “antisemitic” and inciting violence, Egyptian political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah said he was shaken by what he described as attempts to sme...

Recycling a smear campaign: The Left in the EU parliament had done something similar in 2014, using old tweets of #AlaaAbdelFattah to justify withdrawing their nomination of Alaa for a HR award. He was free at that time but got rearrested shortly after #Egypt #UK manassa.news/en/news/29426

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but rather a decades-old migration & emigration crisis in the "underdeveloped" & indebted South, stemming from restructured power dynamics & postcolonial dependencies that were never fully overturned 7/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

The most effective playbook to follow by Southern elites―from Rabat to Amman & from Dhaka to Baku―to supply their police with modern equipment & maintain their uncontested grip on power, is to tap into the ever-rising “border management” funds set up by EUrope 6/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

After "anti-communism", "the war on drugs" and "the war on terror'", "combating irregular migration" has, since 2015, turned into the new main smokescreen for supplying elites in the Global South with policing equipment, surveillance tec and training 5/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

The collapse of Europe’s colonial empires gradually morphed into a neocolonial arrangement, in which population control, public order, and resource extraction were to be maintained through the policing support for southern regimes by the former masters 4/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

Border externalisation's/management's key feature―police cooperation―not only aims at surveilling, preventing & containing migration movements, but also keeping southern regimes and their elites aligned and able to control their own populations 3/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

The large-scale extractivism of resources and people from #Asia and #Africa during the colonial era has not ended—rather, it has transformed. To further maintain this order, the notion of "border management" is being mainstreamed across the globe 2/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order - Turning Point We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but a decades-old migration and emigration crisis in the underdeveloped and indebted South.

#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order

How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

The invention of the foreigner

"The roots of both ethnic exclusion and migrant marginalization in Africa lie in the colonial attempt to manage difference—not by transcending it, but by weaponizing it" via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...

Kings of famine How a network of businessmen made over US$1 billion in “goods coordination”

Sinai and regime-affiliated "businesses" remain key for "managing" and profiting from the devastation, hunger and genocide in #Gaza via #MadaMasr www.madamasr.com/en/2025/12/1...

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Tomorrow's webinar on Syria: "Coming Back Is Not Going Home. Return and Displacement after the Fall of the Assad Regime" organized by RLS Beirut and Disorient @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_...

Italy to deport Egyptian imam over comments at pro-Palestine rally Mohammed Shahin told a Turin court that his expulsion to Egypt would risk his imprisonment, torture and even death

An Egyptian imam, Mohamed Shahin, is facing deportation from #Italy for allegedly describing the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October as an act of “resistance after years of occupation” #Egypt www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-d...

"The same Europe that enslaved our ancestors & continues to exploit our countries is again & again holding us to stay bound within walls. Africans must wake up & denounce Europe’s assumption as teachers from whom we have to learn how to manage our borders" refugees4refugees.org/en/2025/11/2...

This report aims at providing a mapping of the state’scrackdowns against harraga, the authorities’ retention infrastructure, the security services’ deportation practices, and Algeria’s engagement with foreign governments regarding the suppression of movement @FT_DES 11/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of public discourses and government interventions across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported 10/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

The Algerian government nourishes the country’s alienation from its African neighbors by fueling racism, exploitation and the continuation of intermediary repression, helped along by EU agencies, EU governments, UN-affiliated bodies and neighboring states 9/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

Today, the international solidarity occasionally vocalised by the #Algeria-n state is a conditional and selective one that is limited by the regime’s internal tug-of-war over access to hydrocarbon revenues and, at best, the “anti-imperialist strategies” of foreign policy 8/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

As of today, however, only traces of this once staunch alignment with the Global South remain. Yet the state maintains a political imagery and foreign policy nurtured by the spirit of the post-colonial #Algeria of the 1960s and 70s 7/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

The state’s reprisals against non-Algerian harraga, their precarisation and the widespread racism (re-)produced by the state and large parts of society are, however,in stark contrast to #Algeria-s anti-imperialist past 6/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

Under President #Tebboune and army chief #Chengriha, however, the state initiated a cautious turnaround and expanded its (anti-)migration cooperation with #Italy, #Germany and #IOM, mostly in regards to police training and deportation cooperation 5/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

In the past, #Algeria, unlike neighboring countries, was considered extremely reluctant to formally integrate into the European border regime, near-consistently refusing to take part in Europe-funded ‘border management’ projects 4/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...