In recording Middle East Analysis (MEA) monthly pod today, I spoke about Armenia 🇦🇲 too although it's in an'er South Caucasian space. It was a philosophically nativist moment! So here's the @YouTube episode anyway, w/ its psychedelic background - in 11":

Shifting Plates or Shifting Sands? ⌛️What would u prefer as a title to this latest episode? ➡️ My hour-long pod w/ @JimmyAbbott1 on the MENA & Gulf regions, covering 5 conflict areas of varying intensity or nature, will become available soon! And it's free too! 👨🏻‍⚖️

I'm heading to @JimmyAbbott1 's studio this morn to record our November pod of "Middle East Analysis" - or MEA for the cognoscenti amongst u on the MENA & Gulf regions! 🤔🥸 Today, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia & Gulf region ↔️

I felt I was walking a bit on eggshells when I recorded & disseminated/posted this @YouTube episode. But I had to live w/ myself, & integrity 4 me is ensuring that the things I say & the things I do r in alignment. Not easy; I try, I fail, I try again! >

I don't know much about the DRC, but I'm more familiar w/ the horrors of what is happening in Sudan ➡️ and it's horrific. What man can do unto man & unto woman in this day & age is unspeakably horrific & gut-wrenching! <> Here, @TheElders in a statement:

Israel bans a high protein peanut butter used to help starving children because it's a "luxury." They ban peanut butter

I wasn't there personally, but I know that the Palestinian Christian Initiative published a fresh document building on the original one of December 2009.

Quite a mystery for now! ➡️Palestinians out of Gaza via Israel & into Africa: was that a free personal choice or the uncomfortable beginnings of some form of ethnic cleansing? ↔️ @NickClarkAlJaz hosts W Schabas, O Goldberg & I Sooliman @AJInsideStory : 

I enjoy Centre Stage via @AJEnglish interviews 4 its genial sharpness & I still recall one I did w/ @Rawaak many moons ago (produced if I remember correctly by Dave Brundle!) ➡️ Here, @tparsi discusses US-Iran issues past & present w/ @natashaghoneim :

Les Cantiques de l’amour au Festival du Monde Arabe rassemblait le chanteur soufi d’origine syrienne Khaled Al-Hafez, aussi bien que la contralto québécoise Gabrielle Cloutier, une chorale et un derviche tourneur ↔️ via @TV5MONDE : https://t.co/kq0je3wDfV

Why did I never learn to play the piano this well?! 😳😅 🎹➡️

An #Armenian trilogy for Sunday! ➡️ (3/3) ARMENIA: What Next in the State-Church Conflict? >

An #Armenian trilogy for Sunday! ➡️(2/3) Armenia - 45 Facts:

An #Armenian trilogy for Sunday! ➡️(1/3) Armenian DNA:

Some tut-tut, whereas others raise eyebrows in despair or scream obscenities! But then again, some people will slow down long enuf to consider what I say in the 11 mins of this @YouTube episode ↔️ https://t.co/VpyqMoAVDQ ➡️ Courtesy: @CivilNetTV + @PremierRadio + @Oikoumene

This is a critical & emotive issue for Armenians worldwide. It's not only for politicians or priests! So I hope all 11 mins will be watched before dis/agreeing, welcoming or dismissing my few thoughts as I scratch the surface of a bruising conflict ➡️

I've known Ehud Olmert since the days he was a mayor of Jerusalem, & I was never tempted to describe him as a helpless dove! But his narrative has morphed, & when he criticises the futility of this 2-year Gaza carnage in this #shorts clip, I take heed:

The @catholicEW , in regular contact w/ the Christians of Gaza, managed to invite the Latin-rite Catholic parish priest to London. So I would say 'difficult', not 'impossible' ↔️ Martin Thomas of @SAT7UK on the tiny Gaza community - @Christianitymag :  https://t.co/7oG8ibM468

The Arab intellectual scene is morphing - slowly but surely - & we ordinary mortals witness it in our daily lives. So it's the duty of academics & the press to disinvest themselves of dusty theories & explore the new way ➡️ Elizabeth S Kassab @resetdoc :

Cet article de Dominique Eddé via @LOrientLeJour est un rappel opportun des polarités à travers le monde - y compris dans notre monde occidental où, dans le passé, nous nous considérions souvent comme l'un des pôles mondiaux de la liberté d'expression ➡️