Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
Maryam Aldossari
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‘Aramco is selling our sweat and blood’: workers in World Cup sponsor’s supply chain faced safety risks, report finds. Migrant workers injured in Saudi Arabia received no compensation, including one who says his legs were crushed.
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NEW: China's campaign of oppression in Xinjiang has entered a pernicious new phase - and FT analysis shows that the region still has the highest detention capacity in the world, relative to its population.
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Major tech companies including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms have blocked 100+ human rights accounts following orders by Saudi authorities.
Read the Guardian's coverage here, featuring comments from ALQST's board member @maryamaldossari.bsky.social.
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“Blocking these accounts would not protect public safety, it would project authoritarian power from scrutiny. X cannot hide behind vague references to ‘local legal requirements’ when those laws are routinely used to criminalise peaceful dissent.”
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
IDF baby killers opened fire on Friday on a car carrying an infant and his parents in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron. The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was critically injured and evacuated to a hospital, where he later died. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Instagram, X and others blocking Saudi dissidents’ accounts.“This is how authoritarian censorship travels: through legal notices, platform pressure and the attempted outsourcing of repression to global technology companies.” said Dr Maryam Aldossari. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
Maryam Aldossari
Saudi mega-projects follow the same script every time: flashy launch, global headlines, then delays, downsizing, or something completely different from what was promised. From The Line to Trojena to LIV Golf, it’s a decades-old pattern dating back before MBS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“Women of the world, I call on you to stand with us. We’ve been deprived of the most basic human existence. We’ve lost our homes, our freedom and our privacy. Our lives as we knew them have been destroyed” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It will surprise no one that Your Party has split. Why can’t the left stick together? ‘whether someone who is anti-Zionist (Sultana) can coexist with someone who doesn’t like that term, yet supports Palestine (Corbyn)’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Alison Killing
FairSquare report claims migrant workers injured in Saudi Arabia received no compensation, including one who says his legs were crushed
I survived months of bombardment before escaping. The systematic dismantling of our home has harmed every aspect of women’s lives, says B’Tselem field researcher Olfat al-Kurd
MBS's Vison 2030 project seemed the stuff of science fiction. Now reality has bitten
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Talk of witch-hunts and personality clashes was very publicly aired, when all we wanted to know was what the party actually stood for, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
Saudi Arabia contacted US social media companies demanding they restrict the accounts of activists and human rights defenders. The companies complied. (*TBD on X) www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
Temperatures approaching 50°C. Shifts from 5am to 10pm. When the migrant worker quoted here collapsed, he was sent home to Nepal, where he was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.
#football #climate #humanrights
Stephanie Kirchgaessner
US social media firms acting on orders from Middle East kingdom accused of being ‘instruments of repression’
