Aron Lund

@aronlund

I write about the Middle East, mostly for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, IRIN News, and The Century Foundation.

aron.lund.syria@gmail.com
Joined December 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 5

    Syrian cities are being reshaped in mid-war by a new law that cuts through decades of complex property conflicts to eliminate slum housing. The government says it's necessary to rebuild ruined suburbs—the opposition says it's a land grab. Read more:

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  2. 11 seconds ago

    Heeeere's Donny!

    I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%. Our relations with Turkey are not…
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  3. 5 minutes ago

    Erdonomics: turns out you can't eat flags.

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  4. 26 minutes ago

    Zoltan Pall on how the Salafis of Ihya al-Turath benefited from Kuwaiti royal patronage to displace the Muslim Brotherhood, and how it had ripple effects as far away as Cambodia. Shorter version with :

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  5. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    Greece is throwing a slender economic lifeline to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by reviving phosphate imports from mines near the ancient city of Palmyra

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  6. 1 hour ago

    Searching for Othman: returns to Iraq to try to find a wounded little boy she saw two years ago among the survivors of a massacre near Fallujah—and eventually, she does. This is fantastic writing, but so, so sad:

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    21 hours ago

    "For Saudi Arabia, [Canada's tweets] were unacceptable 'foreign interference'. If anyone is qualified to opine on meddling abroad, it is the Saudis."

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  8. 16 hours ago

    What's next in Idleb, Syria? , , , and :

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  9. 16 hours ago

    With its allies ascendant, Russia eyes a bigger role in Lebanon, writes .

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  10. 16 hours ago

    Syria’s first lady starts breast cancer treatment: Damascus

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  11. Aug 8

    . explains the chemistry of sarin to Russia Today’s dynamic alt-science duo, Professor Postol and the Partisan Girl.

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  12. Aug 8

    Bit of public diplomacy around the edges of the Syrian state: the SDF says it is willing to give up IS prisoners in order to free the Druze taken by IS in Sweida, prompting Hekmat al-Hajari—one of the three Druze sheikhs al-aql—to profusely praise the SDF.

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  13. Aug 8

    Life in Afrin is not pleasant, says .

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  14. Aug 8

    . on the Saudi-Canadian spat and what seems to be driving it: Mohammed bin Salman's efforts to harness Saudi populist nationalism for purposes both internal and external.

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    Aug 6

    Abadi's statement that Iraq now needs $75 brent ($67 Iraqi oil) to cover operational costs - I quote it here - is the most significant thing he's said lately. That's a break-even price that doesn't include any CapX, just operational spending to keep the state clunking along.

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  16. Aug 8

    New U.S. sanctions on Iran will sting… …and Iran is already in quite a bit of economic pain.

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  17. Aug 8

    On how U.S.-backed Saudi- and Emirati forces fighting Yemen's Houthis work to co-opt fighters from jihadi-tribal networks run by al-Qaeda, while the United States bombs those same networks and curses under its breath.

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  18. Aug 8

    On Khaled al-Ahmad, Syrian government fixer, by .

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  19. Aug 8

    The Urgency of Idlib: The Impending Regime Offensive and the Delicate Balance in Syria’s Northwest, by .

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  20. Aug 8

    Sweden had a similar experience in 2015, after the Swedish foreign minister criticized the whipping of a Saudi dissident. The government strutted around mightily at first, then chickened out and sent the Swedish king to apologize. For lack of kings, let's hope Canada has a spine.

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  21. Aug 8

    The government of Saudi Arabia goes insane after Canada asks it not to jail peaceful female activists, and proceeds, in a fit of weird self-harm behavior, to punish Saudis enrolled in Canadian universities or receiving Canadian medical care.

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