Dara Conduit
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ARC DECRA Fellow @unimelb | Digital Authoritarianism | Syria | Iran | Author of The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria | She/Her
Melbourne, Australia
Joined May 2011
I spent the first part of my DECRA project on Digital Authoritarianism thinking about the role that patriotic hackers play in authoritarian regimes. My first paper on this has just been published in @democ_journal : https://t.co/KWhuZDmDN7 1/
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Given the sensitive nature of cybersecurity in authoritarian regimes, the existence of semi-autonomous patriotic hackers raises questions about their function because no security-adjacent actor can...
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🚨Delighted to announce the winner of the Boyer Prize for best article published in the AJIA in 2024. Warm congrats to Dr. Liam Moore for this paper analysing the complexity of 🇦🇺relations with Pacific states. #OpenAccess ⬇️ https://t.co/3TDoVZsbZS
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🧵 Personal Thread on the UN Coastal Report 1/ It’s been incredibly hard to work quietly these past few months. I’ve watched disinformation spread like wildfire — some from well-meaning individuals, others from those whose intentions are unclear and seem to be driven by
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Anas al-Sharif was #Gaza’s mockingbird. He lived a life of courage, truth and love for his family. #Israel killed him. We must remember who he was, and why they wanted him silenced. A beautiful tribute by @kshaheen for @newlinesmag. #NotATarget
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The Palestinian journalist’s life was devoted to truth and dignity, and his death lays bare Israel’s impunity in Gaza
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Says Gideon Levy in Haaretz: “The 60,000 people killed in Gaza weren't enough, nor were the 20,000 Gazan children or the 1,000 babies that have been killed or starved to death there.” He writes the Israeli cabinet is about to commit to “a forever war” against civilians.
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Here a video of yesterday’s fascinating @VisualPolUQ discussion between Gillian Whitlock & @zhila_gholami on archival research about refugees. Chaired by @cormacticon, topics include Gillian's new @BloomsburyAcad book and Zhila’s Fryer Collection project. https://t.co/4MhLPccXHJ
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In 2012, the Assad regime had also tasked Lebanon ex-minister Michel Samaha (secretly recorded passing orders) with blowing up Muslim & Christian sites so they could blame Islamists during full-blown Syrian revolution. Assadists and their minions are the OG sectarian arsonists.
According to Syria’s Ministry of Interior, remnants of the former regime tried to conduct a false flag attack against the Mar Elias Maronite Church in al-Khraybat in Tartus. And sought to have it blamed on the Islamic State, since they both want to create sectarian tensions.
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I join UN experts in calling for the resumption of unimpeded humanitarian relief to avert starvation in Gaza, and to dismantle Israeli's privatised, militarized aid delivery model that has killed Palestinians
UN experts call for dismantling of the #Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, condemning the exploitation of humanitarian relief for covert military & geopolitical aims: “Palestinians are paying the ultimate price for failures of the international community” #GHF
https://t.co/3ermRn31qb
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There was a follow-up meeting today with the Emirates about the Damascus Metro project. Aiming to have an initial map of the proposed route, 16.5 kilometers long from al-Ma'damiyah to al-Qaboun, including 17 integrated service stations.
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I am forever grateful for the people of Beirut who have taken Isaac as their own and always seek to honour his memory. Thank you ❤️
Today, 5 years after the #BeirutBlast, I carried little Isaac’s photo during the commemoration for his parents, who left the country but could never leave their grief behind. He was just a baby… full of love, light & promise. As a mom, I held his photo with trembling hands and a
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Five years ago, my son Isaac died in the #Beirutblast For the past 5yrs, for 1,826 nights, I have been learning how to cope with the grief, while also learning how to live again. I miss Isaac desperately &wrote some words about what it is like 5 years on https://t.co/NCjIzd4SRk
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Five years ago, my son died. Some months after Isaac’s death in the Beirut Blast, I put pen to paper for the first time to try and understand my grief. My first words were “Five months ago, my son …
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An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague @Heidiphotos.
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This is a new one to me: Blackmailing journalists … by saying that if they report on certain basic things, food (a tiny bit of dangerously delivered aid) will be taken away from starving people
Sky News reporter says journalists were told by Israeli officials that aid drops into Gaza could be cancelled if media onboard filmed the shattered enclave from above.
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Today in @washingtonpost we published a portion of the known names of 18,500+ Gazan children killed in the war, in Arabic and English. We could only fit 18% of the names on these 2 pages – it would have taken 5 more pages to list them all:
In the @washingtonpost today, we have published every one of the 18,500 known names of children killed by Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
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That's 52 tons of aid air-dropped into #Gaza today -- by #UAE, #Jordan & #Egypt. Laudable of course, but you could fit that on ~3 trucks across a land border.
Earlier today, military cargo aircraft of the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and for the first time Egypt, airdropped 52 pallets of humanitarian aid, including food, water, and other supplies, to residents in both the Northern and Southern Gaza Strip. The airdrops were coordinated
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Panel event: Sydney, Monday 11 August If you get into trouble abroad, should the Australian government come to your rescue? What is an Australian passport worth in an age of growing global insecurity? Join academic and former Iran detainee Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Professor and
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Register on Humanitix - The Price of Citizenship hosted by School of International Studies. Find event information.
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These graphs are devastating but don't even tell the whole story. "Tons of aid" is not a good metric. 100,000 tons of flour does not provide needed nutrition for a family, doesn't supply clean water or sanitation, or health facilities and medical treatment...🧵
WSJ chart on the dramatic reduction in aid to Gaza after Israel upended the UN’s aid distribution system
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