Robin Yassin-Kassab
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https://t.co/varrXfwoqJ Factual: Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War Fictional: The Road from Damascus essayist/editor at the Critical Muslim
Joined March 2022
I wrote this text for Time magazine about the motivations and methodologies of the Syria Prisons Museum
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The Syria Prisons Museum has now launched with an event in the National Museum in Damascus, and as a website here. The first in-depth investigation, complete with 3D virtual tour, witness testimoni…
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Since December, Syria’s leadership, largely composed of former HTS figures, has been accused of reshaping the economy along the group’s previous governance model. This “Idlibization” process involves: ▪️ Centralised decision-making ▪️ Privatisation of public assets ▪️
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Since assuming power in December last year, the Syrian authorities - whose core leadership and administrative apparatus are largely composed of figures from Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) - have been...
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Warmest congratulations to our friends @Plaid_Cymru on the sensational victory in Caerphilly. Every good wish to Lindsay Whittle as he begins to serve as Member of the Senedd.
🏴 Plaid Cymru WIN Caerphilly 💚 Plaid Cymru yn ENNILL Caerffili. Llongyfarchiadau Lindsay Whittle - the new Member of the Senedd for Caerphilly. 🏴
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After the latest ceasefire, thousands are returning to northern Gaza to try to make their destroyed homes livable again. This is the third ceasefire since Oct. 7, 2023.
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🧵As Promised: A thread on why I, as a Free Syrian, choose NOT TO identify with the Umayyad Dynasty. Firstly, let’s begin by setting some facts straight. The Assad regime (both Hafez and Bashar) deliberately glorified the Umayyad Empire as part of its state narrative, for both
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Helpful reminder that Smotrich and the Israeli apartheid regime see all Arabs - not only Palestinians - as inferior and sub-human.
Israeli ultranationalist minister of finance Smotrich: "If Saudi Arabia is telling us that in return for normalization they want a Palestinian state - we will say: Friends, no thank you, you can continue riding camels on the sand in the Saudi desert"
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Although a group of Uzbek fighters went to help the French (Fırqatu’l Ghuraba) today, Katibat at-Tawhid wa’l-Jihad, composed of Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, is acting as a mediator between the Syrian government and Omer Omsen.
Uzbek fighters have arrived at the camp in Idlib to support the French fighters.
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#تل_أبيض عضو اللجنة العليا لانتخابات مجلس الشعب السيد محمد ولي في حديث #خاص باللغة الكردية حول مجريات الإقتراع ضمن دائرة تل أبيض شمال الرقة. #الصحفي : مصطفى الخلف
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Gaza’s medical community impressed me deeply. Doctors maintained up-to-date knowledge, absorbing training like sponges. The health care system included 38 hospitals. The Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Gaza’s largest facility, served as a tertiary center and Level 1 trauma center — not
Having led four medical missions to Gaza, @sahloul describes the war’s devastating impact on the territory’s inhabitants and hospitals, and recounts a revealing conversation with President Biden, for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/cmBIXy0DZF
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This isn’t Gaza today, it’s Yafa in 1948. No Hamas, no October 7. Just the same story repeating itself: erase, then occupy.
هذه ليست رفح ولا جباليا ولا عيتا الشعب في جنوب لبنان هذا حي المنشية في يافا في حرب 1948 يومها لم تكن هنالك حماس ولا السابع من أكتوبر، بل حتى الجيوش العربية لم تكن قد دخلت فلسطين بعد! دمروا يافا وقتلوا وهجروا أهلها تحت إشراف الاحتلال البريطاني، بدأ العدوان على المدينة بتفجير
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My book is finally out in the world! I can hold it in my hands and take it places🧡 You can purchase your copy on amazon: https://t.co/iM2EibEiW4
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This is the essence of the matter. The Israeli political class is united behind the elimination of the Palestinians, in defiance of international law.
Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz will vote in favour of Jordan Valley annexation today in the Knesset. This is Israel’s opposition. They will only change course unless forced to. Like Netanyahu.
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This reminds me of the fascist Golda Meir saying, "We can't forgive you for making us kill your children." Monstrous ideology produces monstrous people.
He admits to killing 40+ Palestinians, then expects sympathy because he now has PTSD. It’s a disgusting inversion of reality: the murderer gets empathy, while the actual victims are forgotten.
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Dozens of Palestinians were laid to rest at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Their bodies, once held by the Israeli army & later released in the recent prisoner exchange, bore unmistakable signs of torture, a haunting testimony to the suffering they endured before death. #Genocide
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@levantophile I agree but there's one crucial mistake: "the fascist genie is out of the bottle in Syria". It hasn't been in the bottle for ~75 years. The most mind liberating insight about Syrian politics is that all relevant Syrian political ideologies are variations of extreme nationalism
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When we treat Palestinians well, they treat us well in return. It’s simple.
I was last in Ramallah in June, openly wearing, as I always do, a Star of David necklace
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The crime of the century. Never forgive, never forget.
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The discourse about 'disarming Hamas' is like the talk of a 'two-state solution'. It's a diversionary, stalling tactic. Anybody who knows anything knows Hamas will not disarm, and if it did, the other militias won't, including the gangs that Israel is arming. A dystopian,
@Elizrael @adamrasgon This official discourse is not only ridiculously divorced from reality, it's also disgusting after two years of unforgivable, irredeemable, full-scale genocide. The last two years have changed the situation entirely. It may not be possible to see that from inside the monster.
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More than 450 prominent Jewish figures around the world call on the United Nations and world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over its “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.
theguardian.com
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
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mid-genocide strip of rubble and unexploded ordinance will never be safe enough for foreign troops to operate in comfortably. That's all been planned for by the genocidaires. Let's have the dignity to not repeat their propaganda.
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The discourse about 'disarming Hamas' is like the talk of a 'two-state solution'. It's a diversionary, stalling tactic. Anybody who knows anything knows Hamas will not disarm, and if it did, the other militias won't, including the gangs that Israel is arming. A dystopian,
@Elizrael @adamrasgon This official discourse is not only ridiculously divorced from reality, it's also disgusting after two years of unforgivable, irredeemable, full-scale genocide. The last two years have changed the situation entirely. It may not be possible to see that from inside the monster.
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