Dana Nawzar

Facing the threat of the far right is a battle for the soul of the West. Muslims could be the scapegoat and the number one victim of an illiberal West, but an illebral West won’t surive long. Wars and devastation awaits it.

Western far right has genocidal tendencies. They look with amazement at how China deals with its own ‘Muslim problem’. To the dislike of proponents of cultural war, Muslims and non Muslims, what protects Muslims in the West now is actually the established Western norms

Western far right shares more values with China, Modi’s India & Myanmar than it does with what we have gotten to know as Western values i.e human rights, democracy etc Far right is inherently anti-Western despite its self identification as guardians of the Westhttps://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1136329169133023232 …

The post-Arab Spring counter-revolutions are no longer counter revolution. They are the main political project in the region. It’s vision for the future of MENA in which the former police states are reinvented under the rule of a general(s)

Arab doctorates have learnt from Syria and Egypt that revolutions and protests aren’t necessarily a death sentence. A combination of brutal force and generous allies can save you.

An must read *original* piece from a brilliant young Kurdish mind on jihad, nationalism and devotion.https://twitter.com/MohammedFatieh/status/1126121547234795520 …

Suffering isn’t good or bad in itself. And no, we live in a world where the victim isn’t loved that much. Yes, our death might bring few condemnation tweets but they don’t bring the change we want if we don’t die with a vision and a plan.

Poetry isn’t planning. We can play Um Kalsum’s Anna al-Sha’bu forever but if we don’t know where we are heading and don’t read the events very well, we end up removing a Mubarak and empowering a Sisi. I’m gutted for Sudan but even more that we didn’t learn nothing.

The post-Arab Spring counter revolution is strong. It has allies in the US, Russia & China. It is smarter & more ruthless. Without leadership, organisation & strategy, revolution is not a revolution.

I know Sudan isn’t Egypt and Algeria isn’t Libya BUT we are psychologically exhausted with the misery we already have on our hands. As an Arab poet used to say ‘No tears left to be shed’

The most tragic aspect of the Sudan events is that the stories don’t scare anymore. We follow the events in Sudan as if they were a less violent version of a horror movie we have seen several times before.

I don’t like the term white suprematist. It is like the term ‘Islamist’. It doesn’t tell much, it has a generalising tendency and could have negative PR consequences. BUT, great to see AOC using her charming platform to bring up this much needed questionhttps://twitter.com/AOC/status/1136329869783117824 …

The post-Ottoman Middle East is a place of perpetual violence. What is scary is that violence (as understood by a Syrian orphan who has lost his entire family to a barrel bomb) isn’t in the past but it is in the now and has a big probability to be in the future too.

If you are 10+ years of age in Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan or 25+ In any country in MENA -except Gulf countries-, you most probably have first hand experience with war crimes, genocide, civil war, chemical warfare & ethnic cleansing; all/some of the above.

We, the humans of Middle East, have a very ‘high standard’ of what is violent and what constitutes misery. The meaning a 10 year old girl from Aleppo, Mosul or Gazza assigns to violence is categorically different from her peers in Amsterdam, London or New York.

الله اكبر ... الله اكبر ... الله اكبر لا اله الا الله و الله اكبر الله اكبر و لله الحمد تقبل الله مني و منكم صيامنا و قيامنا و دعاءنا Eid Mubarak to all Muslims around the planet. May you be stronger, happier and closer to the One and Only.

#RamadanKareem everyone. I'm going offline for the month. May you all have become stronger physically and spiritually after Ramadan. And whatever the pain you endure now, personal or collective, remember this: The righteous shall inherit the Earth.

And here is my final message before I leave you to enjoy #Ramadan, the best month of the year https://twitter.com/TheDanaJaf/status/1123059350979907586 … Visit my YouTube to see the full videos. P.S.: Any shortcoming in the videos, I'm the source #RamadanKareem #BestMonthOfTheYear #Ramadan2019 #رمضان_كريم

Why Lindsay Lohan isn't the only one who needs rehab? We all do https://twitter.com/TheDanaJaf/status/1123533128470016000 … #RamadanKareem #BestMonthOfTheYear #Ramadan2019 #رمضان_كريم

Why fasting is like killing the Night King? https://twitter.com/TheDanaJaf/status/1123586520542326786 … #RamadanKareem #BestMonthOfTheYear #Ramadan2019 #رمضان_كريم