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@faysalitani

Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Adjunct Professor at George Washington University. Motorcyclist. Amateur parrot trainer. All views my own.

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Joined October 2012
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    11 Sep 2018

    Latest by me and on seven years of US policy in .

    NEW Issue Brief→ US Policy in Syria: A Seven-Year Reckoning by and
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    4 hours ago

    Lebanon’s political class is so corrupt, so beyond empathy, so disconnected from the people that an MP from minister and president’s party boasts he can leave in his yacht now that protests died down. .

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    11 hours ago

    is trying to steal the streets. This is worrying. They want to be both the authority and the opposition. It’s ridiculous!

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  4. 5 hours ago

    Excellent read via

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  5. 5 hours ago

    How big of them. Belgium to evacuate Isis suspects from Syria detention camps

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  6. 8 hours ago

    Sorry brother, you're part of the elite too.

    BREAKING: Nasrallah will address developments in televised speech tomorrow morning
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  7. 9 hours ago

    Amazing that, for a country that is considerably more open and accessible, insta-expert Lebanon takes are even more idiotic than Syria ones.

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    12 hours ago

    Here’s 1400 words on what just happened in Lebanon over the last 2 days

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    12 hours ago

    People hurled tear gas canisters back at security forces. Other officers rubbed onions gently on their faces to help w/ the sting. Asked if they wished they could join the crowds, policemen stood stonyfaced. “I cannot answer you. I just cannot answer you.”

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  10. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    😂👇🏻😂😂😂😂😂😂👇🏻

    The Syrian foreign ministry calls for Syrians to immediately leave Lebanon due to the security situation there. 😑
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  11. 14 hours ago

    This by Bilal Saab.

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  12. 17 hours ago

    The Syrian ceasefire the US brokered is already falling apart via

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  13. 18 hours ago

    absolutely agree. the system is supple and masterful. let's see what they come up with. lebanon is a very difficult place to have an uprising.

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    The political class has 72 hrs to mount its counter-revolution. They can be pretty wily & ruthless. Expect anything.
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  14. 18 hours ago

    Cop-out but at least his solution isn't mass murder and indefinite domination.

    RESIGNATION deferred. PM Hariri blames coalition partners, requests 72h for deliberations to judge whether they will be…
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    20 hours ago

    Lebanon FM Bassil presser: •I feel your pain & understand why our supporters joined protests, but beware of others’ (ie Jumblatt/Geagea) political agenda. If you follow them chaos awaits. •We will lead the reforms, PM Hariri is ready & Nasrallah is with us yadayadayada...

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  16. 19 hours ago

    By far the best thing.

    The best thing about protests is that the Shia are burning Amal’s and Hezbollah’s posters, and the Sunnis are burning ’s posters.
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  17. 20 hours ago

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  18. 21 hours ago

    Also spared aoun the embarassment of trying to make sense for ten minutes straight.

    updates: Protestors heading to the president palace in . to address the nation in 2 hours. will address the nation later. It should’ve been , but we know Bassil thinks he’s already the president. Why wait!?
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    Oct 17

    Hilarious take-down of OTV, a “news” channel affiliated with the Free Patriotic Movement that was broadcasting cooking shows as thousands protested across the country

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    الثورة بس تصير نكتة You must watch😂😂
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  20. Retweeted
    Oct 18

    • At least 4 ministers won't take part in Cabinet session set for this afternoon (Lebanese Forces) • may cancel the session and address the nation • Number of protestors increasing again and with the weekend ahead, this isn’t likely to die down

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    Oct 18

    Is this guy smoking something? “...the regime won’t interfere in their local self-administration and people’s affairs at all”

    He underlined that the intervention is purely military and the regime won’t interfere in their local self-administration and people's affairs at all (2)…
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