Thomas Pierret

@ThomasPierret

Senior Researcher at CNRS-IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence. Tweet in private capacity. RT not endorsement. Header: A l'Est de Damas by Majd al-Dik & Nathalie Bontemps

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  1. Mar 23

    Who could have foreseen that "reconciliation" agreements were a scam? Any sensible person actually

    Daheek is one of multiple former rebel commanders who've "reconciled" with the regime, sometimes with Russian guarantees, and have since been arrested or killed by the regime. This pattern is repeating itself in Daraa, eastern Ghouta and Damascus city.
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    Mar 19

    Bassel Khartabil conceived this project, and even chose its name, before being murdered in Assad's death camps. Now his widow Noura and other Syrian activists have launched it to support the families of those forcibly disappeared. A very important endeavor to boost and amplify.

    I launched my NGO today, Nophotozone. It was a dream of Bassel and I. Nophotozone Seeks the Fate of People Forcibly…
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    Mar 21

    C’est ce soir avec De l’ : Conférence : Thomas Pierret (CNRS, IREMAM) « État sans nation ou nation sans État ? Identités, solidarités et institutions en Syrie contemporaine », 21 mars, 18h – 19h30 à Beit Beirut

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  4. Mar 19

    Does anyone know why Muwaffaq As'ad wasn't promoted to chief of staff when Ayyub became defense minister? Who opposed his promotion and why?

    Iranian and Iraqi chiefs of staff Hossein Bagheri and Othman Ghanem visit Damascus, and announce, at a press conference with (for lack of a Syrian chief of staff) defense minister Ali Ayyoub, that the Iraqi-Syrian border will reopen "in the coming days."
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    Mar 19

    [RÉÉCOUTEZ] Notre Décryptage sur le bilan des 8 années de guerre en avec nos invités vice-présidente et chargé de recherche Emission à réécouter sur >

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    Mar 18

    Recorded with for a talking , and . Lots of fascinating insights from one of the best there is on the topic. Coming soon.

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  7. Mar 18

    My point isn't apologetic: there's not excuse to what the GW Bush administration did in Iraq. It's rather that the "original sin" line of thinking is lazy: it finds the source of all evil in a single event rather than in long-term historical processes

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  8. Mar 18

    It suggests that before it was committed, things were juste fine (before the Original Sin there was the Garden of Eden). It also suggests that hadn't it been committed, things would still be fine, which is absurd.

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  9. Mar 18

    The Iraq invasion was an indefensible decision that had many disastrous consequences, but I very much dislike the expression "original sin".

    "The Iraq invasion was the original sin. It was born of hubris, as well as failures of imagination and process." -- by William J Burns How We Tried to Slow the Rush to War in Iraq via …
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    Mar 15

    Il va falloir arrêter d'incriminer seulement «l'extrême droite». C'est pas «l'extrême droite» qui invite Renaud Camus sur France Culture. C'est pas elle qui déroule des tapis rouges à Éric Zemmour. C'est pas elle qui vomit son islamophobie à longueur d'éditoriaux.

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    Mar 15

    Assad e(s)t le chaos via

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    Mar 15

    Coming next week for three more with , and . I feel very lucky to have chance to speak with such wonderful scholars whose work continues to have a huge impact on intellectual debates. More lined up.

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  13. Mar 13

    Note that Agha & Malley reserve essentialist clichés for Sunnis: in their narrative, Iranians are strategic actors that seize opportunities, whereas Saudis are "ascetic Wahhabis" and Turks are "statist neo-Ottomans"

    This is quite a weird way of framing the Khashoggi murder.
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    Mar 12

    \ foreign fighter is trying to stop the protest of Kurdish people in the anniversary of 2004 uprising today in

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  15. Mar 13

    Because, here goes the reasoning, if an "Islamist opposition" unsupported by "ordinary Sunnis" captured (quite easily at first) most of rural and suburban Syria, then the people who live there are probably not "ordinary Sunnis".

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  16. Mar 13

    Agha & Malley's conflation of the entire insurgency with "Islamists" echoes a talking points pushed by pro-Assad spin doctor "Cyrus" "Malik" (aka "Mahboubian"), according to whom suburban and rural Syrian Sunnis are collectively guilty of extremism

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  17. Mar 13

    2. that the insurgency has enjoyed widespread popular support among what Malley & Agha call "ordinary Syrian Sunnis"

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  18. Mar 13

    This spurious claim only makes sense if 1. you deliberately ignore that leadership of Syrian military is almost entirely Alawite except for a handful of Sunni tokens, and that the regime's best units are essentially Alawite too

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  19. Mar 13

    This is an easily recognisable regime talking point that's been promoted by pro-Assad spin doctors: Syrian conflict is actually a war between moderate Sunnis ("ordinary Syrian Sunnis") and extremist Sunnis ("Islamist opposition").

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  20. Mar 13

    "It was a choice based on the mistaken conviction that ordinary Syrian Sunnis hoped the Islamist opposition would prevail over the Assad regime because of its atrocities."

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