Tarek Megrisi
@tmegrisi.bsky.social
By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
With all the manufactured hysteria over the recent 'migration crisis' in Ceuta it seems timely to re share this documentary I did with Path 14 We cover why Europe is hostage to constant migration crises, how this came to be, and what can be done path14.net?utm_source=i...
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@tmegrisi.bsky.social in the arabdigest.org podcast: Disarm #migration as a weapon against #Europe but use it as a tool for #EU economic growth & political power in the non-European #Mediterranean.
A template for troubled times
Podcastaflevering · Arab Digest podcasts · 6 mei · 30 min.
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Europe shows discrepancies in the ideological position of Saied, as he wants to push himself as a sovereigntist, third-worldist, and revolutionary leader, but at the same time, he is desperate for money to keep the lights on; he needs the budget that Europe provides, notes @tmegrisi.bsky.social.
"North Africa’s longer-term struggle will be maintaining the foreign currency streams that fund imports and, by extension, social programmes. In other words, the war has triggered consequences that will become new structural realities", writes @tmegrisi.bsky.social
Down and out from Rabat to Cairo: The Iran war and North African instability – European Council on Foreign Relations
The war between the US and Iran is destabilising North African economies, putting an already fragile region at the very edge of polycrisis
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🚨 LAST CALL: Not too late to register to join @timep.bsky.social for our event on Tunisia today at 10 am EST. Don't miss @tmegrisi.bsky.social, Sahar Mechmeh, Aymen Zaghdoudi, Mondher Tounsi for a 360 analysis on where the country stands 5 years since the 2021 power grab: timep.org/2026/07/09/t...
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy@timep.bsky.social · 2w ago🔔 It's not too late to join us! This Thursday at 10 AM ET, we'll be hosting Mondher Tounsi, Sahar Mechmech, Aymen Zaghdoudi, and @tmegrisi.bsky.social to discuss Tunisia's political, economic, and foreign affairs landscape five years since Saied's power grab. Register now: timep.org/2026/07/09/t...
This Sunday, I'll join Maghreb Ciné for a screening of Libya in Motion (2015), a series of short films from Libya. Providing a short intro and maybe joining the post-film discussion. Details below for those interested and many thanks to the organisers! www.tickettailor.com/events/maghr...
Buy tickets – Libya in Motion (2015) with intro + post-film discussion – Good Shepherd Studios, 15a Davies Lane, Leytonstone
Libya in Motion (2015) with intro + post-film discussion – Good Shepherd Studios, 15a Davies Lane, Leytonstone, Sun 21 Jun 2026 - Join Maghreb Ciné for a screening of shorts from Libya, with an intro...
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A tour de force from @tmegrisi.bsky.social and a must read for anyone engaged with the Med: "The full monty: Why the Mediterranean pact needs to offer the works" Proud to have him on the @arabdigest podcast team ecfr.eu/publication/...
The full monty: Why the Mediterranean pact needs to offer the works – European Council on Foreign Relations
Europe’s energy, industrial and migration interests all converge in its southern neighbourhood, where rivals are eroding its influence. The new Pact for the Med
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Islamophobia codified into the patriot act decades ago is now being weaponized against all Americans. The same will happen with the normalization of war crimes against Muslim nations in contravention of international laws and norms and normalization of genocidal anti Muslim rhetoric by lawmakers.
“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.” These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
📰 “The foreign powers maintain the pantomime as much as Haftar does. They can claim to support Libya’s sovereignty while backing the man who undermines it” comments @tmegrisi.bsky.social for @theguardian.com buff.ly/8hotNd4
Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya – and is answerable to no one
The long read: When Nato helped overthrow Gaddafi in 2011, there were hopes of a new beginning. More than a decade later, this former CIA asset runs the country – and Libya has become yet another…
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🧵 US and Israeli strikes on Iran have plunged the region into wider war. Each power involved will leave the war with less than it entered, but the damage will be felt unevenly. @ecfr.eu experts weigh in on the unfolding conflict 👇️ ecfr.eu/article/a-wa...
Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families. How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’
Stepping back it's quite a macabre indictment of modern society how we all follow wars on social media these days as if they're sporting events. All suffering is fought over, and war is reduced to just more online content. Ironically only detaching us further from its reality
Sad, yet unsurprising, to see the BBC uncritically echoing reform's racist unprovable excuses for losing yesterday's by-election. What and how establishment media chooses to report, and what they gloss over (like an armed attack on Manchester central mosque) feeds spiralling anti-Muslim hatred
It was not inevitable that generative AI would lodge in the culture as an explicitly right-wing technology; that it has done so is the result of a series of ideological decisions by its makers, the ideology growing more overt and desperate as AI's very serious problems become more apparent
6/ Europeans should view Libya and Russia's African operations as a "second front" in the threat in their eastern neighbourhood. To combat this, they must make a real effort to make Russian involvement more costly. @tmegrisi.bsky.social buff.ly/WcSeUVi
The bear who came to tea: Russia, Libya and the Kremlin’s playbook for fragile states – European Council on Foreign Relations
Russia's re-entrenchment in Libya, Europe's soft underbelly, offers profound lessons on how it exploits geopolitical instability—and how Europeans can push back
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
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Never thought I'd see the day where the British establishment is standing up for violent football hooligans over a police force's attempt to maintain public safety and order
Thanks to Bill Law for inviting me back on the Arab Digest podcast where we chat about the Trump 'peace' plan before moving onto discuss all things Libya and what developments there tell us about modern diplomacy's corporatist overtones. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
Vultures over Libya
Podcast Episode · Arab Digest podcasts · 10/15/2025 · 27m
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It's 2025 and sports washing is plumbing ever murkier and bloodier depths. Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan journeying to Benghazi today on Haftar's €3m invitation to lend some sporting legitimacy and glamour to his bloody and brutal authoritarian regime ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/reveale...
Revealed: How Much Inter Milan & Atletico Madrid Will Earn From Libya Friendly In Benghazi
Inter and Atletico Madrid will both earn around €3 million each from their friendly in Benghazi, Libya, part of the Reconstruction Cup, according to reports from Spain.The match takes place despite .....
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Fascinating to see Isabel Oakeshott now blending her traditional right-wing grifts on issues like migration with UAE foreign policy projects, after moving to Dubai See her recent puff-piece on Saddam Haftar, brutal authoritarian and ironically people smuggler
Ten years since the so-called "migration crisis," the EU is walking away with the wrong lessons when crafting migration policy. So what can rights-based, cooperative migration governance look like for MENA? Don't miss @tmegrisi.bsky.social, Diana Rayes, Mohamed Lotfy, and Nadine Kheshen ⤵️
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy@timep.bsky.social · 11mo ago🔔 Join us on Thursday, Sept 18 at 10:00 am EST for “Beyond Fortress Europe: Rethinking Migration Governance in the EU and MENA,” an online event with @tmegrisi.bsky.social, Diana Rayes, Mohamed Lotfy, and Nadine Kheshen, moderated by @tekaldas.bsky.social. Register here: timep.org/2025/09/02/b...
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws. Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities "I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
The commentary of armed actors in #Libya from the likes of Haftar to local commanders shows that even if this situation doesnt inflame, the environment is already one of war. The new UN roadmap alone wont be enough to change this, it's where the diplomats must come in to build out on it
Tarek Megrisi@tmegrisi.bsky.social · 11mo agoTensions in Libya are rising dangerously, whether it's: -The parade of Egyptian, Turkish & Emirati intelligence chiefs visiting Haftar -Dbeiba aligned troops pouring into the capital. -May's peacekeepers being removed -Anti-Dbeiba troops parading Something's cooking & it's unlikely to be good
The UAE continues to replicate their Libya policy in Sudan as their local proxy Hemedti announces himself head of his own political authority deepening a de facto division in response to losing a war. Tbf it worked for them in Libya, but will cause deep & complex trauma locally
