Zineb Riboua
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I argue that Putin strives for strategic coherence.
Unlike Washington, each of Moscow’s foreign operations, in Europe, Africa, or in the Middle East, no matter how ramshackle, reinforce every other.
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In Morocco, cities have a color of their own (blue, red, white,...). I’m from the Red city, Marrakech. I still don’t know what is the logic behind it, but it always fascinates me.
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Intellectual insanity
Judith Butler: "Hamas and Hezbollah are social movements that are progressive and are part of the Global Left"
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Amazing mobilization in Iran today. This is increasingly looking like the 1979 Revolution scenario.
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Yesterday in Tunisia, anti-Israel protesters gathered and destroyed Al-Hammah Tomb and Synagogue, one of Tunisia’s most important Jewish sites.
From 100,000 Jews, there are only 1000 left today in Tunisia.
Ignorance, hatred, and barbarism.
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"Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road
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This is incredible, happening now, residents of Tehran are heading towards Sharif University to rescue the students from the Revolutionary Guards, Basij and Iranian Special Forces.
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Fertility in Japan: up
Military spending: up
Sports: up, more engagement
He must be so proud
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“Where men are forbidden to honor a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food, and it will gobble poison.”
― C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns
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While Iranians get acid attacks on the face for not "properly covering their hair", the granddaughters of the Member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Emami-Kashani, are allowed to wear miniskirts.
Abhorrent hypocrites. I despise these people.
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I will never forget how people I respected justified this.
🔴 Report: Israeli doctors say many out of 30 released hostages, aged 12-48, were raped in
#Gaza
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Morocco, a Muslim country, where women don't have to wear a hijab, wear bikinis, & where alcohol is widely available, had to build 200 mosques last year, and the religiosity of the youth is steadily increasing.
Religion is about principles.
Completely different worlds.
Senior Iranian cleric Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi says around 50,000 of Iran's 75,000 mosques are closed, showing the declining numbers of Iranians attending and the weakening of religiosity in the Islamic Republic.
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Hey
@elonmusk
, please set this rule: Political leaders who ban Internet & Twitter access to their own people should not have a Twitter account.
Khamenei, the Butcher of Tehran, has more than 4 accounts in different languages while Iranians can hardly gain access.
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Devastating video from Syria.
This little girl protecting her brother says to the rescuer when he reached her: "Uncle, help me, I’ll be your maid"
Clear how much this little girl suffered, everything is transactional in her mind. Breaks my heart.
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Le roi du Maroc est un Roi, il bosse, il n’a pas à jouer le clown sur les ruines d’un séisme car il n’a pas d’image à maintenir pour des élections, il travaille.
Le roi du Maroc aurait-il dû se rendre sur le terrain tout de suite ? Pourquoi ne s'est-il pas immédiatement exprimé ?
On en parle avec nos invités chez
#Quotidien
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I find this sad and it’s disgusting that it is even celebrated. It’s not an act of kindness but of desperation. It’s all reversed. It’s all the passengers who should make sure the mother & baby are comfortable, not the other way around.
During a 10-hour flight, she was heading from Seoul, Korea, to San Francisco, USA.
This mother distributed more than 200 passengers on the plane a plastic bag to each one. The bag contained candy, chewing gum and earplugs as a kind of advance apology for use in the event that
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Another great cartoon from Charlie Hebdo.
Khamenei screaming : "That’s horrifying!" as he discovers some cartoons while he’s sitting near bodies of Iranians he executed. Sums it all.
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Probably the largest protest so far in Zahedan in Iran, mobilizations continue!
This one is part of the weekly Friday prayer protests.
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If Soviet Union collapsed, there is absolutely no reason why the Islamic Republic won’t.
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The video of the killed naked woman that was captured while Hamas terrorists were in a joyful parade cheering and dancing, is the most horrifying thing I have ever seen.
I’m sure diplomacy and negotiations will work.
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The revolt in Iran is escalating, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news, 32 IRGC members, including Basiji forces were wounded, and 19 killed (including four elite members).
Iranians are going after the regime.
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So beautiful. In 1967.
Interview with French shepherds and what they Iike to read, interviewer realizes they’re really scholars: "I prefer the doubt of Descartes to the wisdom of Montaigne" said one.
"I have all of René Char’s books" said the other.
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Bravery
Iran's team refuses to sing Islamic Republic’s national anthem before World Cup game against England
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India, which is a rising power, a credible threat and competitor to China, a partner of US allies in the Middle East, is now the enemy.
Incredible the amount of stupidity at a time where the US needs allies in a contested region. They did the same to Japan few years ago.
Prime Minister Modi's government has cracked down on the press and civil society, jailed political opponents, and pushed an aggressive Hindu nationalism that leaves little space for India's religious minorities. President Biden should raise these facts in his meeting with Modi.
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Big deal for Red Sea Security and expansion of Turkey’s footprint:
Today, Somalia’s Council of Ministers has approved a 10-year Maritime Security Agreement with Turkey, granting Turkey full authority over Somalia's territorial waters.
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Jane Birkin died today, and all I can think of is how in her interviews she would speak about Art, fashion but also about Proust and how she finds Dickens funny to read.
It’s quite amazing how most celebrities today are illiterate compared to those of just a few decades ago.
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Incredible!
Benjamin Netanyahu announced to the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, that Israel now formally recognizes Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara.
I have been waiting for this day for so long 🙏🙏 🇲🇦🇮🇱
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Maths are one of the few subjects that enable people from different social backgrounds to excel and move up because it doesn’t require a cultural capital.
The cult of maths has brainwashed our schools – and Rishi Sunak has fallen for it too | Simon Jenkins
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Amazing news! 🕎🇲🇦
Morocco has now the first synagogue in a university in the Arab and Muslim world.
This is the Synagogue of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, one of the best universities in the country.
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It got buried, but the terrorist attack at the synagogue yesterday in Jerusalem was carried out by a Palestinian child, he was 13 years old, was encouraged to perpetuate terror. Result of years of indoctrination, vicious hate, and constant demonization of Jewish people.
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The Jewish girl of Tangier, Morocco, by Charles Landell, (1812-1908)
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My latest:
"A pregnant woman is the antithesis of transhumanist progress, as she is out of the human condition debates, & out of history, but she is the center of ideological battles, an interchangeable pawn in the sea of ambitious dystopian futurists."
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When Khomeini launched his Islamic Revolution from Neauphle-le-Château in Paris, it was the French Intellectuals like Foucault, Sartre and Beauvoir, who supported his coup in Iran against the Shah.
Opium of the Intellectuals is real.
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Why is the situation in Niger worrisome?
➡️Niger has two significant uranium mines providing about 5% of world mining output.
➡️Also rich in gold, salt, calcium, phosphates, cassiterite, and gypsum
➡️Country already suffered from Islamist insurgencies, now becoming a potential
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"The next global renaissance in the next 30 years will be in the Middle East."
He’s right.
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إن جمهورية إيران الإسلامية أذلّت الإيرانيين وكانت وصمة عار على العالم الإسلامي ، ودائماً ما روجت للطائفية والخطاب المعادي للغرب ، وكل ذلك غريب علينا. آمل أن يتغير الشرق الأوسط إلى الأبد ، وآمل أن يتغير إلى الأفضل.
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Umberto Eco’s The Name Of The Rose opening is just so perfect.
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China & Wagner Group are now collaborating in Africa:
Wagner Group militants have conducted a mission last night to evacuate and search for Chinese citizens who were targeted by terrorist groups, they were working at a mine near Dimbi village in the Central African Republic.
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When Iranians destroy statues of Qasem Soleimani, it’s also on behalf of all the children in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere he killed without any mercy for IRGC’s imperialist plans.
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It’s official:
King Mohammed VI to Netanyahu following Israel’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty:
"You are welcome to visit Morocco"
The Israeli-Moroccan rapprochement will be a game changer, on so many levels. Israel has always been Morocco’s natural ally.
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On Iranian regime TV, two mullahs promoting child marriage, talking about the benefits of a husband to 9-year-old girls. The Islamic Republic made it possible for children to "get married" at 9 years old.
This is sickening and outrageous. Poor girls.
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80% of being a berber is about missing the mountains.
High Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
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Another beautiful day to see pictures of Soleimani burning. I doubt anyone can stop what’s coming.
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I'm quite astonished.
We are for the first time witnessing a ferocious movement led by Women in the Middle East, & yet it has such low & weak support from feminists.
The reason is quite simple: In the name of cultural relativism, they've justified Mullahs' terror for decades.
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My latest:
"When the Iranians chant “Death to Khamenei,” it is because they are well aware that reforms and negotiations will not transform the nature of the regime that continues to oppress them."
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Many forget this, but Napoleon Bonaparte read the Quran as if was Machiavelli’s Prince, thought that the only way to explain Islamic conquests was to read the Quran in a political manner. Even considered becoming a Caliph, influenced the Quranic interpretation more than scholars.
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Look at the number of Moroccans on Aid Al fitr who went to pray. Anyone forcing them? They could have went the beach.
That’s the beauty of understanding Islam from first principles & having a sincere love for God instead of a performative one.
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THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE
Iranians have entered the mosques of Tehran, and are calling people to protest to overthrow the Islamic Republic regime through loudspeakers.
#مهسا_امینی
#MahsaAmini
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Iranians aren’t protesting against a hijab law, they are revolting against the regime, stop changing and modifying the narrative.
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Iranians are burning a center of the IRGC in Saqqaz city.
This center is specialized in jamming communications & disrupting the broadcast of channels opposed to Islamic Republic.
Bold move. Iranians are getting more organized.
#IranRevolution
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This is why Morocco did not accept humanitarian aid from many countries, in a few days we’ve built a hospital, bakery, school, dorms,.. from scratch, the Morocco of yesterday is not the Morocco of today:
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6 important things happening in Africa:
1- Dissolution of French influence
2- Erosion of Algerian sphere of influence in North Africa/Sahel & rise of Moroccan one
3- Russia pursuing an anti-NATO strategy from Africa
4- Gulf countries and Turkey becoming big players
6- China
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Instead of saying "I want to relax" Moroccans literally say " I want to listen to my bones" ( بغيت نتصنت لعضامي)
and it’s beautiful
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On this day, we remember the King Mohammed V for his refusal to hand over Moroccan Jews to the Nazi & French Vichy regime. At the time Morocco was under French protectorate & was under immense pressure.
“There aren’t any Muslims or Jews here, there are only Moroccans”, he said.
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"Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation."
— Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
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I’m sorry but you can’t "Stand with Israel" while encouraging policy of appeasement towards the Islamic of Republic of Iran which controls and finances the proxies like Hamas.
Pick a side.
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Biden administration discovering in real time that world trade was not the product of hugs, kisses, and candies but of brute naval force
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Why do you have to make it such a cringe political & weird victimization thing?
Morocco colonized many countries, Spain & part of Portugal included, also expanded in Africa.
No one care, we are a new nation, stop making it about ideological agendas.
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Major development:
Germany is pushing the EU to designate IRGC as a terrorist organization.
About time!
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Whenever someone wants to make it about Hijab, Islam, or whatever ideological appetizer there is on the menu today, it's your duty to shut them down.
It has always been about repression, the Mullahs only care about raw power and expanding their influence.
Iranians aren’t protesting against a hijab law, they are revolting against the regime, stop changing and modifying the narrative.
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Orwellian picture diffused by the Mullahs today.
It is the nature of totalitarian regimes to work this way. The innocence of young girls is weaponized to serve the interests of death cults.
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Yes, probably CCP propaganda, but shows how the Chinese are invested in preparing their children for potential wars/conflicts. It’s deliberate.
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Moroccan woman drinking tea, 1994.
Picture taken by British photographer Alan Keohane.
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Marching, will the Biden administration hear the crowd?
“NO DEAL WITH IRAN”
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Happening now, Iranians are blowing up Basij buildings!
8th district of Sepah (branch of IRGC)
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In Tehran they replaced billboards of Khamenei with others stating :
"We are no longer afraid, we will fight"
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Khomeinism is at this point more prevalent in the West than in Iran itself.
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Countries to watch in 2023:
Azerbaijan
Morocco
Poland
They’re increasingly playing key strategic roles but still underrated.
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I think it’s just wholesome and noble that all Moroccan players brought their moms with them and went to see them as soon as they won
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Chomsky also tried to rehabilitate Hezbollah’s legacy as legitimate. He even went to visit a leader in Lebanon in 2010.
Reminder that until 09/11 attacks Hezbollah was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization.
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Can’t help but to notice that current culture is so weak, fragile, empty, that there isn’t currently any literary movement.
All movements are now political.
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Transhumanism is will soon be part of the orthodoxy because for 40 years everything was done to 1/ be okay with constant hatred of the body, 2/ erase any sense of dignity and see human experience only through deterministic lenses
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There is a notable Khomeini speech where he says that students are dangerous when they rebel, he said it because he weaponized the youth for his own Revolution. But, as one can clearly see, the brainwashing efforts failed.
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