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Random, but I’m still looking for stable employment (research/analysis/writing/teaching) and I’m happy to send along my CV in English/French. Job has to be in the UK, Canada or online.
September 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Random, but I’m still looking for stable employment (research/analysis/writing/teaching) and I’m happy to send along my CV in English/French. Job has to be in the UK, Canada or online.
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I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.
August 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.
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There is already a nuclear-armed country in the Middle East that does not allow international inspectors despite having nukes for decades - and it’s not Iran.
Israel is also one of a handful of countries to have never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Israel is also one of a handful of countries to have never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
June 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
There is already a nuclear-armed country in the Middle East that does not allow international inspectors despite having nukes for decades - and it’s not Iran.
Israel is also one of a handful of countries to have never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Israel is also one of a handful of countries to have never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
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He’s been in office 18 of the last 30 years and 15 of the last 20. if you’re at risk of a “deep state” coup after all that, seems you’re suffering from a major skill issue
March 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
He’s been in office 18 of the last 30 years and 15 of the last 20. if you’re at risk of a “deep state” coup after all that, seems you’re suffering from a major skill issue
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First time the Kurdish New Year is celebrated in central Damascus
Newroz Pîroz Be 💚
Newroz Pîroz Be 💚
March 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
First time the Kurdish New Year is celebrated in central Damascus
Newroz Pîroz Be 💚
Newroz Pîroz Be 💚
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I know I sound like someone from another age or another planet, but... I strongly believe that we would be more prosperous, more secure, and more happy if all the borders in the world were abolished.
February 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I know I sound like someone from another age or another planet, but... I strongly believe that we would be more prosperous, more secure, and more happy if all the borders in the world were abolished.
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“The personalisation of Musk’s politics has concealed wider trends. It forces discussion and analysis down a fruitless route exploring the psychology of individuals and intentionality behind their actions, away from politics and ideology and their impact deriving from their power”
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"At no point in history have so few people controlled so much of global communication, while also being so closely aligned with an authoritarian leader." New commentary by @aurelmondon.bsky.social and me
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...
Why It's Time to Fight Back Against the Dystopian Tech-Trump Oligarchy
Those who watched silently as reactionary tech bosses seized power in the US must now wake up and fight back, argues Johan Farkas and Aurelien Mondon
bylinetimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“The personalisation of Musk’s politics has concealed wider trends. It forces discussion and analysis down a fruitless route exploring the psychology of individuals and intentionality behind their actions, away from politics and ideology and their impact deriving from their power”
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My new video essay 'Where are the Arabs?' is premiering on Patreon this Sunday (26th). It's free for all members and available for one-time purchase for everyone else (only $5).
www.patreon.com/posts/where-...
www.patreon.com/posts/where-...
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My new video essay 'Where are the Arabs?' is premiering on Patreon this Sunday (26th). It's free for all members and available for one-time purchase for everyone else (only $5).
www.patreon.com/posts/where-...
www.patreon.com/posts/where-...
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Because "woke" and DEI are merely the convenient rallying cries of the day for white patriarchal supremacist politics that seek to dismantle civil rights for all. To turn back the clock on all 20th century emancipation movements.
If that wasn't clear to you before, take it in now - and fight back.
If that wasn't clear to you before, take it in now - and fight back.
If DEI has just "gotten out of hand," then why is the Trump administration going all the way back to a 1965 LBJ civil rights executive order for repeal?
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Just Revoked Anti-Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
www.huffpost.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Because "woke" and DEI are merely the convenient rallying cries of the day for white patriarchal supremacist politics that seek to dismantle civil rights for all. To turn back the clock on all 20th century emancipation movements.
If that wasn't clear to you before, take it in now - and fight back.
If that wasn't clear to you before, take it in now - and fight back.
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The first time I checked, in November 2023, there were 19 of me killed — later that number grew to over 50 known killed Safas, ranging from ages 1 to 82.
Namesakes in Gaza: Carrying the martyrs with us in diaspora
The first time I checked, in November 2023, there were 19 of me killed — later that number grew to over 50 known killed Safas, ranging from ages 1 to 82.
globalvoices.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The first time I checked, in November 2023, there were 19 of me killed — later that number grew to over 50 known killed Safas, ranging from ages 1 to 82.
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We're burning the planet for a technology that has so far mainly produced mediocre animation clips and terrible student essays
AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 28, 2024 at 2:36 PM
We're burning the planet for a technology that has so far mainly produced mediocre animation clips and terrible student essays
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Palestina, Líbano, Siria, Egipto, Irán, Yemen: seis países que #Israel ha bombardeado en el último año.
¿Qué más necesita el mundo? ¿Que bombardee Europa? ¿Que saltemos todos por los aires porque una élite ha decidido crear un etnoestado arrasando todo a su paso?
¿Qué más necesita el mundo? ¿Que bombardee Europa? ¿Que saltemos todos por los aires porque una élite ha decidido crear un etnoestado arrasando todo a su paso?
December 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Palestina, Líbano, Siria, Egipto, Irán, Yemen: seis países que #Israel ha bombardeado en el último año.
¿Qué más necesita el mundo? ¿Que bombardee Europa? ¿Que saltemos todos por los aires porque una élite ha decidido crear un etnoestado arrasando todo a su paso?
¿Qué más necesita el mundo? ¿Que bombardee Europa? ¿Que saltemos todos por los aires porque una élite ha decidido crear un etnoestado arrasando todo a su paso?
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We must remember that no one, including Ahmad Al-Shara'a, is the only one capable of leading Syria. Thinking otherwise is a leftover mindset from the past 54 years. I say this because I am noticing a lot of pushback of valid criticism citing: "sensitive times" and I don't think this is wise.
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December 23, 2024 at 2:13 PM
We must remember that no one, including Ahmad Al-Shara'a, is the only one capable of leading Syria. Thinking otherwise is a leftover mindset from the past 54 years. I say this because I am noticing a lot of pushback of valid criticism citing: "sensitive times" and I don't think this is wise.
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Today, I obtained my detention file from the Intelligence Branch (Branch 215) dated September 4, 2011, in Damascus. The file is 88 pages long and includes wiretaps of my calls and security reports about my journalistic work.
The jailer photographed me before the series of lengthy interrogations.
The jailer photographed me before the series of lengthy interrogations.
December 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Today, I obtained my detention file from the Intelligence Branch (Branch 215) dated September 4, 2011, in Damascus. The file is 88 pages long and includes wiretaps of my calls and security reports about my journalistic work.
The jailer photographed me before the series of lengthy interrogations.
The jailer photographed me before the series of lengthy interrogations.
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I participated in this webinar 'After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria' with Joseph Daher, Yasser Munif and Shireen Akram-Boshar.
You can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMr...
You can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMr...
After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:15 PM
I participated in this webinar 'After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria' with Joseph Daher, Yasser Munif and Shireen Akram-Boshar.
You can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMr...
You can watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMr...
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Progressive activists are not the ones concerned all Syrian rebels are jihadists and willing us to fail.
They are the people reaching out to & raising the voices of Syrian democrats, leftists, feminists and those working against sectarianism & for peaceful coexistence.
They are the people reaching out to & raising the voices of Syrian democrats, leftists, feminists and those working against sectarianism & for peaceful coexistence.
December 10, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Progressive activists are not the ones concerned all Syrian rebels are jihadists and willing us to fail.
They are the people reaching out to & raising the voices of Syrian democrats, leftists, feminists and those working against sectarianism & for peaceful coexistence.
They are the people reaching out to & raising the voices of Syrian democrats, leftists, feminists and those working against sectarianism & for peaceful coexistence.
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In a television interview earlier tonight, Fadel Abdul Ghany the Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights announced, through tears, that our worst fears are confirmed: the majority of the 100,000 missing in Syria are dead. Killed by Bashar Al Assad and his truly tyrannical, barbaric regime.
December 9, 2024 at 10:23 PM
In a television interview earlier tonight, Fadel Abdul Ghany the Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights announced, through tears, that our worst fears are confirmed: the majority of the 100,000 missing in Syria are dead. Killed by Bashar Al Assad and his truly tyrannical, barbaric regime.
And it's not even Just Sednaya. Horros were happening in many other prisons.
The images coming out of Sednaya are too horrific to share. But they tell us what we already knew from countless testimony over the years.
Never forgive those who defended and justified this regime. They have the blood of Sednaya on their hands.
Never forgive those who defended and justified this regime. They have the blood of Sednaya on their hands.
December 10, 2024 at 12:33 AM
And it's not even Just Sednaya. Horros were happening in many other prisons.
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En portada de @publico.es:
Los rebeldes abren un futuro de incógnitas en #Siria tras tumbar a la dinastía Asad en una ofensiva relámpago.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Los rebeldes abren un futuro de incógnitas en #Siria tras tumbar a la dinastía Asad en una ofensiva relámpago.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Los rebeldes abren un futuro de incógnitas en Siria tras tumbar a la dinastía Asad en una ofensiva relámpago
Diez días. Es el tiempo que necesitó la ofensiva iniciada el 27 de noviembre en Alepo para llegar a Damasco. Una operación coordinada desde el norte, que avanzó hacia la capital prácticamente sin resi...
www.publico.es
December 8, 2024 at 9:44 PM
En portada de @publico.es:
Los rebeldes abren un futuro de incógnitas en #Siria tras tumbar a la dinastía Asad en una ofensiva relámpago.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
Los rebeldes abren un futuro de incógnitas en #Siria tras tumbar a la dinastía Asad en una ofensiva relámpago.
www.publico.es/internaciona...
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In the city of Sahnaya, located in the countryside of Damascus, Syrian Christians are celebrating the fall of Assad: “One, one, one the Syrian people are one” as the church bells rings.
December 8, 2024 at 10:18 AM
In the city of Sahnaya, located in the countryside of Damascus, Syrian Christians are celebrating the fall of Assad: “One, one, one the Syrian people are one” as the church bells rings.
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hundreds of Syrian army personnel chanted "The Syrian people are one", after they defected and refused to point their weapons at the people of #Suwayda, who returned the favor by welcoming them, providing them with food, and not harming them.
December 7, 2024 at 2:27 PM
hundreds of Syrian army personnel chanted "The Syrian people are one", after they defected and refused to point their weapons at the people of #Suwayda, who returned the favor by welcoming them, providing them with food, and not harming them.
Sednaya ❤️🩹. We are waiting. There cannot be bigger news. Parallel in importance to even the fall of the regime itself.
I eagerly await the arrival of the Free Syrian Army at Sednaya Prison to liberate the detainees. Sednaya Prison is known for the tragic loss of thousands of detainees who lost their lives under torture under Assad's regime, and many more remain imprisoned there.
December 7, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Sednaya ❤️🩹. We are waiting. There cannot be bigger news. Parallel in importance to even the fall of the regime itself.
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Wavering on international justice, restricting civic space https://buff.ly/3ZrJtZm by @cathalsheerin.bsky.social for @ifex.org
Wavering on international justice, restricting civic space - IFEX
November 2024 in Europe and Central Asia: A free expression round-up produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Cathal Sheerin, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
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December 6, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Wavering on international justice, restricting civic space https://buff.ly/3ZrJtZm by @cathalsheerin.bsky.social for @ifex.org
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Why has Iran State TV stopped using the term “terrorist” adopting instead the term “opposition” when referring to Syrian rebels?
Bcause calling them terrorists comes with a duty to go to war, & they’re clearly not willing to put their money where their mouths were just yesterday
Bcause calling them terrorists comes with a duty to go to war, & they’re clearly not willing to put their money where their mouths were just yesterday
December 6, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Why has Iran State TV stopped using the term “terrorist” adopting instead the term “opposition” when referring to Syrian rebels?
Bcause calling them terrorists comes with a duty to go to war, & they’re clearly not willing to put their money where their mouths were just yesterday
Bcause calling them terrorists comes with a duty to go to war, & they’re clearly not willing to put their money where their mouths were just yesterday
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December 6, 2024 at 11:48 AM