Leila Al-Shami

@LeilaShami

Co-author (with Robin Yassin-Kassab) of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War', Pluto Press.

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Joined June 2015
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  1. 22 hours ago

    Hospitals in Khartoum record more than 70 cases of rape in aftermath of attack on protest

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  2. 22 hours ago

    Regime demolishes homes in dissident communities to prevent refugee return

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  3. 23 hours ago

    Thread on Syrian revolutionary icon Abdul Baset al-Sarout RIP

    The loss of Abdul Baset al-Sarout is so tragic in so many ways. First, and above all else, Abdul Baset al-Sarout is a son and nothing is more heartbreaking than seeing Abdul Baset's mother saying goodbye to her fifth son, she had lost four children before Abdul Baset… /Thread/
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    Jun 6

    Wow. "Why race science is on the rise again", by Angela Saini, who has just written a book that could not be more timely. This is an outstanding article, and her book looks like an essential read.

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  5. Jun 5

    Syria Through an Artistic Lens

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    Jun 5

    Locked in inside their home in Khartoum, a family standing helplessly,unable to rescue a family member shot in the head by the Janjaweed militia in front of their house. “We can't take him to hospital. They’re still out there. They’ll kill us all" says one of them.

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    Jun 5

    Today again, fires in crops, in the north of Hama as a result of the bombing of the regime

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  8. Jun 5

    On Ted Postol and chemical weapons denialism: "This is junk science in the service of war criminals" writes

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  9. Jun 5

    Highly recommend the film 'Still Recording' - a powerful view of life inside the besieged and bombed Eastern Ghouta

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    Jun 3

    Idlib is the last sanctuary for millions of IDPs faced with unspeakable collaborative (supra)state violence: the Assadist-Russian scorched earth campaign, Turkey's closed border/targeting of refugees & approval of the int'l community The casual Islamophobia here defies belief

    tells Syria and Russia to stop "bombing the hell" out of Syria's last jihadist stronghold Idlib
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    Jun 5

    The architects with radical designs for rebuilding Syria

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  12. Jun 5

    The horrors we see in Syria today didn't begin in 2011. Prior to that Syrians had lived four decades of oppression and humiliation at the hands of the Assad regime ...

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    Mahmoud knows prison. He knows it under Assad the father and Assad the son. Here is his story. 📍Rural Idlib, Syria …
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  13. Jun 3

    Dr. Assad attacks medical facilities to break the will of the people — and to destroy evidence of his war crimes, writes

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    Jun 3

    Today we are all Sudanese. If you value freedom, tweet your solidarity with the Sudanese protesters and revolutionaries being crushed, beaten, and shot by their army - an army that gets its orders and funding from the regimes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

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    Jun 2

    The guy who oversaw Bashir's massacre in Darfur is now leading a violent attack on civilian protesters in Khartoum. That's what impunity does - it festers and consumes. Everyone who was complicit in helping the Bashir regime escape culpability is complicit in this violence.

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    Jun 3

    "On the fourth day, Huda was called again into the interrogation room. This time, she wasn’t blindfolded, and when she entered the room she found her husband tied up, almost naked with blood dripping from his head, nose, mouth and legs."

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  17. Jun 3

    Ma'arat al-Nu'man: the town that resisted both the regime & extremist groups

    So far, 3 civilians and 15 wounded have been killed by shelling by Syrian warplanes The popular market in the town of Ma'arat al-Nu'man in the southern Idlib countryside
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    Jun 3

    As RSF brutally disperses sit-ins in Sudan w/ live ammo, peaceful protesters are being killed, others are injured or missing, hospitals are being attacked. Follow and share posts of who are tweeting updates. Do not let these crimes go unnoticed.

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    Jun 3

    Imagine... these are the security forces who have sworn to protect the people💔

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  20. Jun 3

    Stop bombing hospitals: Nobel laureates and surgeons issue a plea to save their colleagues and patients

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