orit perlov

@oritperlov

Middle East media and social network analyst, regional observer lived and worked almost everywhere around this neighbourhood.

Joined February 2011

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    19 hours ago

    2-Worth noting that talk show host Daoud Sharyan had been recently appointed President of Radio & TV Authority, & is perceived as having support of Crown Prince. A conserted social media campaign targeted him for addressing flight of Saudi women abroad, drugs, sexuality & poverty

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    19 hours ago

    1-Women empowerment & social liberalization in Saudi hardly linear process. Two setbacks as conservatives pushback against attempts to chip away at guardianship laws restricting female freedoms.First is cancellation of popular talk show for breaking taboos

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    14 hours ago

    True, although on those items it still appears to be a "framework" agreement, not an agreement on specific candidates. We'll see if it works out.

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    It was more than just distribution of posts in the new KRG Government, the main issues were Kirkuk next Governor and Iraqi Justice Minister position.
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    14 hours ago

    So the KDP & PUK have finally reached an agreement, after five months of back-and-forth, on the distribution of posts in the new KRG government.

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    ISIS militants are regrouping in the Libyan desert as Washington becomes increasingly disengaged from efforts to stabilize the country. Exclusive interview by via

    Islamic State Could Rise Again in Libya, Interior Minister Says
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    17 hours ago

    Iranian backed Al-Sabrin movement in unhappy about Hisham Salem's arrest by Hamas recently. They claim Israel and the US want him captured.

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    16 hours ago

    Hamas is increasing the flame at the border. The amount of balloons loaded with homemade explosives and RPG warheads has risen. I expect the trend to continue until some sort of understanding is reached between Israel and the militant groups.

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    20 hours ago

    "Secondly, analysis shows that the actual range of the new Russian anti-aircraft system, S-400, which is promoted as having a range of 400 kilometres, is actually only 150-200 kilometres. Against low-flying missiles, the S-400’s range may be as short as 20 kilometres."

    New report: Bursting the Bubble, in which capabilities in the Baltic are scrutinized, with a critical look at assets, vulnerabilities and implications
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    20 hours ago

    Seven Assad regime ministers added to the EU sanctions list today. Good - there can be no normalization with a regime still committing crimes against humanity

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    Great thread 👇

    Nothing is more difficult than going against the majority of your own ethnic/religious/sectarian group. It is even more difficult when your people have gone through tragic events and have a strong collective identity as ‘victims of others’.
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    2 hours ago

    The current divide in the world is not between East & West, Islam & Christianity, capitalism & communism, right & left, it is between those who want to build bridges & those who want to build walls. Bridge builders shall inherit the Earth.

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    22 hours ago

    Former head of the Egyptian Central Auditing organization sentenced to 5 years in jail for "spreading false news".

    تأييد حبس هشام جنينة 5 سنوات لاتهامه بإذاعة معلومات كاذبة
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    5 hours ago

    Egypt has had nine constitutions since 1882. With the exception of the 1882 & 1923 constitutions, all the constitutions included an article for the Armed Forces stipulating that they only have one task: protecting the country and preserving its security and territorial integrity.

    The vague wording of the amendments making their way through Parliament raise questions about the impact they could have on the future role of the military in Egypt. Sources who spoke to Mada Masr offered different…
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    7 hours ago

    IS attacks slightly up from winter dip in Iraq 95 Dec 112 Jan 114 Feb 115 killed 130 wounded + 135 bodies found in mass graves in Feb

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    מעניין

    הבחירות לפי בליך (באחוזים): כחול לבן לוקחים בגדול, העבודה מתחת לאחוז החסימה
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    14 hours ago

    #2 Local sources reporting that the Assad loyalist shelling occurred meters away from a Turkish observation base in northern Hama countryside of . According to it is around 500 meters from the base.

    عصابات الاسد استهدفت منطقة جسر مورك على بعد عشرات الامتار من نقطة المراقبة التركية
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    8 hours ago

    🇩🇿 Algeria: this could be the beginning of a snowball effect leading to civil disobedience strike - "Lawyers union in Cosantina goes on an open strike in protest over [Bouteflika's 5th] term"

    Lawyers on Strike #العصيان_المدني
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    21 hours ago

    Nationalism is religious fundamentalism after the shaving of the beard.

    'Infidel' has been the insult of choice in the conservative Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Now, it's 'traitor' via
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    3 hours ago

    A practice reminiscent of Gaddafi's Libya, Saddam's Iraq, and Assad's Syria - punishing family members of activists in order to curb their activism in exile. Now adopted by MBS's Saudi Arabia, MBZ's UAE, and of course, enthusiastically by Sisi's Egypt.

    Egyptian authorities have enforcedly disappeared ’s two siblings, their wives and children near the Cairo suburb of Nasr City. Moataz is a prominent opposition TV host in exile that has started peacef…
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