These local councils are all under SDF-PYD control. Often, local participants/leaders are seen as figureheads that give cover to the PYD. Hard to imagine any of them surviving once foreign actors depart.
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Yet another Western visitor sees what she wants to see in #Syria. Drinks the Koolaid. Shades of Tom Friedman.https://thehill.com/opinion/international/433177-the-future-and-present-of-northeast-syria-is-female …
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The PYD, like the PKK, has given real space for women's participation. But let's not romanticize the position of women either in the PYD or in Kurdish communities. A mistake, one of many, of the philo-PYD left.
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Hi Steven. If you'd like to engage with my oped, that's great. Maybe next time you could: - tag me so I see your comments (you call me a visitor; I'm a tenured prof like you) - explain why promoting women, abolishing child marriage is drinking the koolaid
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- explain why drawing attention to the dire humanitarian situation, including lack of medical facilities in
#DeirEzzour is drinking the koolaid. They have one incubator for a population of 1.6 million people, plus about 450,000 IDPs who fled to DeirEzzour from regime territory. -
- Here are photos I took last week of one of the three hospitals in DeirEzzour, which has to be repaired before it can even be used, so you can 'see' what I saw.
#Syria#WomensReality#WomeninAcademiahttps://twitter.com/AmyAustinHolmes/status/1101912232684859393 …
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Finally by highlighting that both the Civil Code in
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The so-called empowerment of women in Arab communities by the PYD, which governs in a coercive, autocratic fashion is unsustainable.
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Do you know any place in the Arab world, where women have more rights than in the area governed by the PYD?
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Is Brookings once again going to host Erdogan on his next visit? Asking for a friend.https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/04/04/turkeys-downward-spiral-and-the-scuffles-at-erdogans-brookings-speech/ …
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Think it's you drinking the koolaid from Turkey.
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