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In the end, one thing is clear: #Trump will not change the identity of the #SyrianGolan, for there is no ‘statute of limitations’ when it comes to the ownership of land – whilst people’s identity cannot be simply dissembled.https://raseef22.net/article/1072715-trump-will-not-change-the-identity-of-th-the-syrian-golan-or-the-identity-of-its …

“I was disgusted by some of the reactions, particularly by those who likened the spire’s fall to a blow against #France’s colonial past, and saw it as retaliation for its bloody history in the old colonies. I read comments full of hatred”https://raseef22.net/article/1073019 

‘Modern pharaoh’: how #Mauritania’s government uses precautionary detention to silence dissidentshttps://raseef22.com/article/1073046 

‘I am father, mother and breadwinner’: 24 hours with #Egypt’s single mothershttps://raseef22.com/article/1073045 

More than eight years after it gave birth to the Arab Spring, a new movement has sprung up in #Tunisia calling for the legalisation of #hashish.https://raseef22.net/article/1072507-meet-the-tunisian-lawyer-fighting-to-legalize-hashish …

In Turkish-controlled northern #Syria, a proto-state is taking shapehttps://raseef22.net/article/1073020-how-do-syrians-live-in-the-turkishcontrolled-northern-syria …

"I am not just a vessel to unload your desires and your psychological, sexual and religious complexes. My father taught me to doubt and read. I have broken your idols with my mind.I went out of your darkness to the light. Freedom is my doctrine and my law"https://raseef22.net/article/1072540 

The Saga of Buying Alcohol in #SaudiArabia and #Kuwait https://raseef22.net/article/1071428-saga-buying-alcohol-saudi-arabia-kuwait …

“What happened in #Paris is a loss that for me means the death of part of my relationship with this city that I came to in the summer of 2015”: Like #Aleppo, #Baghdad and #Palmyra, #NotreDame’s fire is a loss to all humanityhttps://raseef22.net/article/1073019-like-aleppo-baghdad-and-palmyra-notre-dames-fire-is-a-loss-to-all-humanity …

Between a rock and resistance: how #Hamas crushes dissent in #Gazahttps://raseef22.net/article/1072896-between-a-rock-and-the-resistance-how-hamas-crushes-dissent-in-gaza …

Shaving Practices: the "Halal" and the "Haram"https://raseef22.net/article/1070717 

"We bleed out possible children. Perhaps we want them, or perhaps we don’t. We bleed and go to work, we bleed and sit with our parents smiling": To our bodies that are deprived of motherhood by our societieshttps://raseef22.com/article/1072830 

I think it’s true, even if I’m not the first to say it: it’s not enough to leave the geographical realm of a tyrant for his traces to vanish: a Syrian writer in exile reflects on totalitarianismhttps://raseef22.net/article/1072734 

Why do #Arabs fear retirement?https://raseef22.com/article/1069684 

How do Syrians live in the Turkish-controlled northern #Syria?https://raseef22.net/article/1073020 

Like #Aleppo, #Baghdad and #Palmyra, #NotreDame’s fire is a loss to all humanity, writes @Souhaib_Ayoubhttps://raseef22.com/article/1073019 

‘As long as there is an Ahly game on everything in the world has to stop until the end of the match, even if the universe starts collapsing on top of itself’: Murder, divorce and broken businesses… The hidden side of #Egypt’s #Ahly-#Zamalek rivalryhttps://raseef22.net/article/1072679 

On Valentine’s Day which he knows nothing about, Abu Mohammed, a 70 year old, bought a cake for his family like everyone else in the camp at the cost of a box of his diabetes medicine: Love and other demons in a Palestinian⁩ refugee camp #Beirut⁩⁩https://raseef22.net/article/1072453