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Passionate about human rights. Research Fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking focusing on Syria & Iraq. Admin

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    Jul 22

    Assad's victory came at an immense cost to his sect. My new research based on multiple interviews with Alawis inside Syria is finally out with

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  2. 6 hours ago

    مقالي الجديد مع عصام الحسن عن مركزية صنع القرار في المناطق الواقعة تحت سيطرة قسد

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    6 hours ago

    Thank you for exposing this tragedy . "But the logic of withholding food from starving people now because we might not be able to feed them later is lost on those people and Americans who support them."

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  4. 6 hours ago

    My new piece for with Esam al-Hassan, based on extensive fieldwork in northern & eastern Syria, examines the centralized decision-making processes in areas under SDF control & the tensions arising from it

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    22 hours ago

    Egyptian minister appears to threaten dissidents during Toronto speech. “We will not tolerate anything to be said about it. Anyone who says anything [negative] about Egypt abroad will be cut.” (ht ⁦⁩)

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  6. 21 hours ago

    Streets, squares & shops in Aksaray and Fatih are noticeably less busy than usual. I could still see families out, but many young men are staying indoors. A friend with a kimlik issued in Hatay but works in Istanbul told me "you make 100 calculations before you leave the house."

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  7. 22 hours ago

    Syrians in Istanbul are wasting so much of their time avoiding places where there is police presence due to fear they'll be caught with a kimlik (temporary protection card) issued by a different province & deported to Idlib. Many have entirely stopped using the metro.

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  8. 23 hours ago

    The scary thing is that normal people, not sociopaths, can be made to carry out heinous crimes. Arendt termed it "the banality of evil"

    Sociopathy
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    23 hours ago

    The Israeli army admits it secretly changed its policy once it realized that shooting unarmed protesters in the leg was lethal. One rights group says this is an admission that Israel was killing protesters without any justification | By

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    Jul 24

    Bloody hell - I cannot even imagine... A father in today, desperately trying to climb down to his 2 children - one is stuck within rubble & another, a baby, is hanging mid-air, held up only by its t-shirt.

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    Jul 23

    New in-depth research by into Syria's Alawi community, which incurred immense losses to keep in power a corrupt authoritarian regime that the community sees as essential to its survival

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    Jul 23

    Me and Qosai Amameh spoke to Syrian refugees deported from Istanbul to Syria since last week—including those registered in the city, despite official claims that this is a campaign against “irregular” refugees there. Our latest for

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    Jul 23

    Iraq began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims, including children, likely killed during ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's campaign against the country's Kurds, a forensics official told AFP

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  14. Jul 23

    The Assad regime arrested multiple fighters & two commanders from southern Damascus who "reconciled" with the regime & joined the 4th Division of the Syrian Army

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    Jul 23

    Syria's ruling Assad family are from the minority Alawite sect, a group often unfairly painted as beneficiaries of the authoritarian regime. Yet poverty & loss of young men to war haunt these coastal communities - who still fear change. Great by

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    Jul 22

    The Israeli military has opened criminal investigations into 24 shootings of Palestinians over the past year. But none of the cases have yielded indictments, and in most instances, the army hasn't interviewed key witnesses or gathered evidence.

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  17. Jul 23

    I shared the article with an Alawi contact who lives near Qardaha (he was too scared to be interviewed for the piece). The NYRB is blocked in Syria so he couldn't read it & discuss it with me. Instead he started trying to convince me I should believe in God 😅

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    Jul 22

    Must-read: A rare insight capturing the complexities of the dilemma of the in by ⁦⁩ for the The New York Review of Book

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    Jul 22

    If only there was a word for an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression & domination by one racial group over another, you know, with separate laws & segregation.

    BREAKING: Israeli work crews begin demolitions of dozens of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem.
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  20. Jul 22

    מאמר חדש שלי על בסיס ראיונות שערכתי בעיראק ובסוריה

    האבות לחמו עם דאע"ש, משפחותיהם ממשיכות לסבול מאת אליזבט צורקוב
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  21. Jul 22

    Israeli soldiers and police are cheering after destroying homes of Palestinians in Sur Baher, occupied east Jerusalem, yesterday. The homes were built without permits (since Israel largely refuses to grant them).

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    צור באהר, היום.
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