Honored & humbled. @nytimesbooks says #NoTurningBack “offers page after page of extraordinary reporting & many flashes of exquisitely descriptive prose… Abouzeid’s remarkable journalistic & literary work has given us, at last, a book worthy of the enormous tragedy that is Syria”

#Lebanon’s Cabinet has tasked the army with devising a plan by end of month to monopolize arms by year’s end. Hours earlier Hezbollah’s Sheikh Naim #Qassem said first end Israeli violations incl. occupation then discuss a national defense strategy.

Do Arab leaders see her?.

“Gaza has been held under water for 22 months, allowed to gasp for air only when Israeli authorities have succumbed to political pressure from those with more leverage than international law itself.” OCHA’s @_jwhittall on the horrors he saw in Gaza before Israel told him to leave.

RT @Alonso_GD: *Sigh*.As Edward Said said decades ago Palestinians don’t have permission to narrate their own destruction. It can only be t….

RT @MohammRafik: I wrote about Gaza’s mental health crisis. I spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through r….

My latest for @ecfr: 100s of 1000s of Iraqis are missing. Many are believed to be in mass graves. Iraq has so many mass graves it has a specialized directorate. It even has a Mass Graves Day. Every number is a person who was part of a family that is integral to a community.

A sober presentation of minimum number of deaths; minimum b/c those who count the dead are being killed & 1000s remain trapped under rubble. Killing Palestinian women - & men who are too often dehumanized & presumed guilty of X, Y, Z just b/c of their gender - are also atrocities.

RT @MairavZ: An Israeli media personality says that Britain’s move to recognize Palestine in September is totally fine because “by Septembe….

RT @democracynow: U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he….

RT @haaretzcom: Israeli court releases settler suspected of fatally shooting Palestinian in West Bank to house arrest .

RT @AnasAlSharif0: Breaking:.The Government Media Office: 40,000 infants in Gaza are at risk of slow death due to the ban on the entry of b….

Fairuz, beloved voice and symbol of a nation🇱🇧, icon of a golden era of Arab divas, mourns her son Ziad Rahbani, a creative legend in his own right. Today #Lebanon grieves with its forever first lady. #فيروز.

RT @AbuJamajem: Barrack says the quiet part out loud (at 9:39), on the role the United States envisions for the Lebanese army: "They have t….

RT @MacaesBruno: The WSJ has now published an oped from the Isis leader in Gaza, a bandit supported by Israel to try to bring about a civil….

RT @LibyaLiberty: 1,2….3.

RT @FranceskAlbs: I have never felt so shaken. Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Und….

RT @specialreports: The shadow committee remaking Syria's economy is being led by the new president's brother and a sanctioned Australian.….

RT @AnasAlSharif0: CPJ Urges Protection for Anas Al-Sharif Amid Israeli Smear Campaign. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expr….

RT @AnasAlSharif0: Important – Please share and tag all press freedom and human rights organizations. Once again, the Israeli army spokespe….

RT @AnasAlSharif0: A Palestinian civilian was shot and killed by Israeli warships while filming his friend in front of the displaced famili….