Congratulations to Mahmoud Abdou, who passed his viva on the 10th January. His internal examiner was Professor George Christou (PAIS) and his external examiner was Professor Neophytos Loizides from the University of Kent. His thesis on "International law and the territorial controls of non-state armed groups in Yemen and Libya (2011-2015)" was supervised by Briony Jones and Richard Aldrich at PAIS, and is informed by postcolonialism in IR theory and the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL). Mahmoud hopes to publish it as a book soon.