Elia is a revolutionary communist currently based in Freiburg. His writings have been featured on The Reservoir, Left Voice, the Pluto Press Blog, Spectre Journal, Salvage, imago journal, the Historical Materialism blog (twice) and Jacobin.
He is a PhD student and researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and the University of Freiburg. In his PhD project he explores how the 'logistics revolution' that accompanies the promotion of solar energy in Jordan and Iraq reshapes mobilization from below.