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Contributing writer, . NYT Bestselling Author . Senior Fellow, . Email: hhassan@timep.org

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 10

    Pompeo’s Egypt speech is a perfect fit for this piece I wrote recently: The winds are blowing in one direction in the region — autocrats see victory within reach, and that makes them erratic, blind & uncompromising.

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Trump: “If there is going to be peace and legislation, there can't be war & investigation." Nancy Pelosi then started going through the papers, as if wondering this was off-script.

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  3. Retweeted
    Feb 4

    The problem with Trump’s “America First”: If the US is pursuing only its self-interest, why should other countries help us? And if other countries don’t help us, how can we achieve our national security objectives? My column:

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  4. 7 hours ago

    If you want to have a different perspective on the Pope’s visit to the UAE, away from the misleading fluff, read this well-informed piece: “Pope Francis just made history by visiting the Arabian Peninsula. But was he a pawn?”

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  5. 9 hours ago

    Airwars tracked & mapped every single Coalition anti-ISIS air & artillery strike (all 32,000) in Iraq & Syria from 2014 to 2018:

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  6. 9 hours ago

    This sounds more like the good treatment livestock receive before being sacrificed, alas.

    Ilham Ahmed at the State of the Union is a win. Support for SDF is and will remain bipartisan— for everyone except pro-rebel Twitter analysts, her being there is the message, not who she’s with.
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  7. 13 hours ago

    Interfaith has become a PR tool for Arab regimes. Simple as that. Such gestures don’t advance anything other than official image. As religious clerics (both Muslim & non-Muslims) associate themselves with autocrats, that even hurts legitimacy & message. The most basic of facts.

    Good on the UAE for making a public gesture toward religious coexistence. But it's wrong to imply that such gestures are unique—or that the only possible models for the region are either Emirati-style autocracy or ISIS.
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  8. 23 hours ago

    A prediction: Trump will be the American president who will strike a strategic alliance between the US & the current regime in Iran. Just wait. well, of course, unless he somehow leaves prematurely.

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  9. Retweeted
    Feb 4

    The US sold weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Now, some are in the hands of al Qaeda-linked fighters and Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen.

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  10. Feb 4

    Bold NYT editorial: “a decision to withdraw could prompt the Afghans, the Taliban and regional players like Pakistan, Russia, Iran, India and China to work together on a cooperative solution to stabilize Afghanistan and deny terrorists a regional base.”

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  11. Feb 4

    Insane story: “The US shipped weapons and secrets to the Saudis and Emiratis. Now, some are in the hands of fighters linked to al Qaeda and Iran.”

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    Feb 4

    Trump just jeopardized negotiations to keep a U.S. military contingent in Iraq and endangered the safety of the troops that are already there. It’s dangerous to have a president who does not know what he is talking about. My column:

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  13. Feb 4

    . on : Karl Sharro’s Acid-Tinged Satire of the Middle East

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  14. Feb 4

    Syria has the world’s worst immigration crisis. The US asks countries to pick up their citizens (ISIS fighters currently jailed by the SDF.) These foreign fighters with their organization came to Syria, ruined its uprising against Assad & maimed its people. They need to go!

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  15. Feb 4

    A huge-if-true but worth saying: Myths are produced when too many serious people promote an error produced by the ill-informed.

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  16. Feb 4

    Hobbled in the Middle East, an Islamic State affiliate rises in West Africa. via

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  17. Feb 4

    Intriguing that, contrary to some expectations, ISIS foreign affiliates are generally becoming more like ISIS & more active after the defeat of the caliphate in Iraq & Syria than at the height of its strength there some years ago.

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  18. Feb 4

    Pentagon in a new report: “ISIS is regenerating key functions and capabilities more quickly in Iraq than in Syria.” 100%

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  19. Feb 4

    Egyptian constitution amendment upholds the ban on presidents to run for a third term, and extends terms from 4 to 6 years. An interim clause allows the current president to start over, and run for only two new consecutive terms!

    عرض رئيس مجلس النواب علي عبد العال مقترحًا…
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  20. Feb 3

    The president doesn’t know what he’s talking about:

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  21. Feb 3

    Four years ago today, ISIS released a horrific video showing the immolation of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh. I don’t think we’ll ever fully know the impact of that on many in the region. ISIS, for a moment at least, persuaded lots that the act was justified.

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