PhD in IR & Law, Lebanese-British, owned by a dog called Mango, in my spare time I cross stitch swearshttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiaoc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiaoc.bsky.social/post/3mjoi3c57gk2kIf anyone has anything spare to support a Palestinian academic please consider donating. In times of horror it feels like a small difference but it can make a life changing impact for one family https://chuffed.org/project/177148-i-just-want-to-hug-my-children-again?utm_campaign=success&utm_id=177148&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=chuffedreferral17 Apr 2026 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:hhvtxsoey2eoahxesv256rep/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoi3c57gk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiaoc.bsky.social/post/3midmlwa2ds2ePresented yesterday the first day of #SLSA2026 and now I get to just relax and listen to the wonderful academics around me for two days 🥰🥰31 Mar 2026 07:08 +0000at://did:plc:hhvtxsoey2eoahxesv256rep/app.bsky.feed.post/3midmlwa2ds2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sophiaoc.bsky.social/post/3le2ni5dslc22Until you taste olive oil made fresh by family from their land you haven’t lived. This olive oil is from my mums aunty’s olives & za’ata is homemade too 🇱🇧 It also makes the ongoing ecocide in Palestine 🇵🇸 & Lebanon more painful. May our lives & our trees’ lives be saved from ongoing genocide.24 Dec 2024 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:hhvtxsoey2eoahxesv256rep/app.bsky.feed.post/3le2ni5dslc22https://bsky.app/profile/sophiaoc.bsky.social/post/3ldopabnpv226Successfully defended my thesis this morning & I’m now officially Dr Sophia Hayat Taha Thank you for the wonderful support from my co-supervisors Dr Moran Mandelbaum & Dr Jane Krishnadas I’m grateful to my examiners Prof Dallal Stevens and Dr Forough Ramezankhah & my chair Dr Mario Prost19 Dec 2024 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:hhvtxsoey2eoahxesv256rep/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldopabnpv226https://bsky.app/profile/sophiaoc.bsky.social/post/3l65nqoxyqh23Just submitted my thesis: Progressing a transformative critique; from necropolitics to abolition: Migrant Women, and Third-Sector Resistance to No Recourse to Public Funds 85,382 words 396 pages My 3 pages of acknowledgements start with Lebanon and Palestine Thank you everyone10 Oct 2024 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:hhvtxsoey2eoahxesv256rep/app.bsky.feed.post/3l65nqoxyqh23