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Walid El Houri
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Editor in Chief @untoldmag.org | West Asia & North Africa Editor @globalvoices.org | Senior Communications Specialist Centre for Lebanese Studies
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What happens when billionaires treat dystopian science fiction as blueprint?
@alirizataskale.bsky.social explores how sci-fi is being weaponized by Silicon Valley to centralize power and how we can reclaim the genre’s radical roots. Read on @untoldmag.org

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How Silicon Valley Billionaires Use Sci-Fi to Rule – and How We Can Resist - Untold
Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Read this powerful and shilling investigation by Zina Qabbani for @untoldmag.org about yet another sadistic genocidal practice in Gaza, this time on Google Earth and its latest update.
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The Cartographic War: How Google Earth Turned Gaza’s Ruins Into a Digital Battlefield - Untold
Google Earth’s latest images of Gaza reveal 'Haunted house' pins marking destroyed homes, exposing a chilling layer of digital mockery and psychological warfare.
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August 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Read Samanth Subramanian's powerful words on @globalvoices.org about Israel's latest journalist massacre & the murder of Anas al-Sharif, one more war crime to be added to an endless list of depraved genocidal violence, and the complicity of Western journalism:

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The killing of Anas al-Sharif and Western journalism’s moral collapse
The West defends press freedom — unless the journalist is brown, Palestinian, and reports for an Arab outlet.
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August 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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My latest for @globalvoices.org :
Israel’s recent demolition of Palestine’s last seed bank in Hebron is not just destruction, it’s a colonial act of erasure.
Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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If you haven't yet, do read @reemalma.bsky.social 's brilliant and meticulous investigation into the complicity of Silicon Valley in the Israel's ongoing genocide and apartheid in Palestine on @untoldmag.org

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This article was originally published in Ar by 7iber.com
Beyond Project Nimbus: How Silicon Valley Fuels Israel’s War Machine - Untold
As Israel wages its genocidal war on Gaza, Big Tech’s investments in Israel show how Silicon Valley underwrites apartheid—by recruiting Unit 8200 veterans and embedding occupation tech into Google Clo...
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July 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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globalvoices.org Global Voices @globalvoices.org · Jul 17
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July 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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What is the Kill Cloud and how is it changing war as we know it? What happens when your phone, data & mvt are part of a military target profile? What oversight exists, if any, when AI flags a person for a strike?
Read my itv with whistleblower Lisa Ling @untoldmag.org
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Invisible Systems, Endless Wars, and Hypermanned Killing Machines: Lisa Ling on AI, Surveillance, and the Future of Conflict - Untold
War is no longer confined to battlefields, it’s embedded in everyday tech with global data networks being weaponized with little oversight or accountability.
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July 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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My latest for @globalvoices.org
When did genocide stop shocking us?
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How two shocking stories from Gaza barely made global headlines
What happens when the siege itself becomes a tool of extermination? In Gaza, hunger, contaminated aid, and targeted killings expose a brutality that the world seems willing to accept.
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July 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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My latest on @globalvoices.org

Egypt’s strategy continues to attract scrutiny. Activists, aid organizations, and legal experts are urging accountability, not just of Israel’s blockade, but of regional enablers like Egypt.

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Solidarity under siege: Egypt cracks down on Palestine support movement
Under the pretext of national security and diplomatic stability, the regime is actively preventing humanitarian engagements and criminalizing solidarity.
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June 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Until the siege is lifted and the bombs stop falling,
Gaza will remain a place where people grieve without bodies,
bury without names,
because even sorrow is under occupation.

📎 Read Husam Maarouf’s report on @untoldmag.org
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#Gaza #Palestine #RightToMourn #HumanRights #UntoldMag
“I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go": Gaza’s Endless Grief and Unknown Bodies - Untold
With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.
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May 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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My latest on @globalvoices.org
On May 2 one @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ship, was struck by drones in international waters near #Malta, en route to deliver food and medical supplies and 30 global peace activists including climate activist Greta Thunberg to #Gaza
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The Conscience under attack: A story of aid, silence, and starvation
As Gaza faces mass starvation, a humanitarian flotilla carrying aid was bombed — while governments looked away.
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May 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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GLOBAL VOICES: Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates globalvoices.org/2025/05/02/s... @globalvoices.org @walidhouri.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime
Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates
As the toll mounts, so too does the sense of abandonment felt by Gaza’s journalists who continue to witness and report in the most difficult conditions.
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May 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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For World Press Freedom Day, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mohammed Al-Fazari, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Muwatin, about the outlet’s vital coverage of the Gulf region & the challenges of practicing journalism in exile.

Read on @globalvoices.org

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Journalism in exile: Muwatin’s fight for independent media in the Gulf
Exiled in London, Mohammed Al-Fazari leads Muwatin, a London-based independent media outlet reporting on Gulf issues, facing state censorship, funding challenges, and the risks of exile journalism.
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May 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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In the wake of #WorkersDay & with #PressFreedomDay around the corner, we must recognize those whose labor brings us the truth about the ongoing Israeli genocide in Palestine as well as its war crimes in Lebanon and beyond.
My latest article on @globalvoices.org:
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Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates
As the toll mounts, so too does the sense of abandonment felt by Gaza’s journalists who continue to witness and report in the most difficult conditions.
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May 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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On #internationalworkersday, we share some of our stories uncovering the hidden labor, exploitation, struggles & lives of the #workers shaping our world from Brazil to Myanmar, Bangladesh to Syria & elsewhere
https://untoldmag.org/category/dossiers/hidden-labor/ 

#workersday #mayday #laborday
Hidden Labor Archives - Untold
<h1 style="text-align: center"><strong>Hidden Labor</strong></h1> <p>Uncovering the exploitation, struggles, and lives of the workers shaping our world</p>
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May 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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The bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics were found in Gaza, executed with their hands tied — a chilling symbol of Israel’s systematic attacks on healthcare workers during its war on Gaza.
My latest on @untoldmag.org
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Across War Zones, Targeting Healthcare has Become a Strategy, not an Accident - Untold
Deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law
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April 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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My latest on @globalvoices.org

On world health day, remember that deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of Itl law. Nowhere has this been more devastating than in Israel's systematic targeting of Gaza's healthcare

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Across war zones, targeting healthcare has become a strategy, not an accident
Attacks on healthcare are escalating. From bombed hospitals, targeted ambulances, to abducted doctors, a global pattern of impunity is threatening the lives of millions.
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April 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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My latest on @globalvoices.org: The Sudan case comes amid growing global scrutiny of UAE military alliances, including its deepening ties with Israel despite accusations of genocide in Gaza
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Another test for international justice: Sudan takes the UAE to the ICJ over its complicity in genocide
Sudan’s case against the UAE at the ICJ challenges state complicity in war crimes, raising questions about the limits of international law in an era of growing impunity
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March 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Had the pleasure of interviewing Joseph Daher on what his case of repression and dismissal means for academic freedom and how we can resist the global trend of suppressing scholars, journalists, and activists who speak out on Palestine
untoldmag.org UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · Mar 8
“We are witnessing neoliberal authoritarianism,” Joseph Daher explains, as institutions prioritize political expediency over fundamental rights. “Academia is a battleground, and repression is growing.”
Read this ITV conducted by @walidhouri.bsky.social
The Crackdown on Academic Freedom in Europe: A Conversation with Joseph Daher - Untold
As Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity, universities are increasingly complicit in suppressing critical voices—Joseph Daher’s case is just the latest in a broader pattern of repress...
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March 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Highly recommended story
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Read this story by @nadiaddezio.bsky.social on Tunisian farmers' struggle to reclaim land, water & sovereignty in the face of an escalating climate crisis & agribusiness giants dominating markets and exploiting resources, often under the guise of “green” solutions

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The battle for Tunisia’s water, soil and forests: Local solutions for climate resilience - Untold
Small farmers in Tunisia are reclaiming the land and —using agroforestry as a tool of resistance against climate change and exploitation.
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March 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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My latest on @globalvoices.org
From Syria to Gaza, and Lebanon, Israel's military aggression is breaching itl agreements, laws, and limits with no repercussions
Normalized by western allies and Arab complicity, they are threatening the relevance of itl law worldwide
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Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion
As Syria rebuilds post-Assad, Israel launches more attacks, disrupting the national dialogue and asserting control over southern Syria as part of a regional escalation.
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February 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Many of the things that were obvious to many long before Trump, are now out in the open: The lack of freedom of expression in US media, the US destructive role in the world and support for brutal regimes, or the US' complete subservience to big corporations, and many more to go
February 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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On his 1st day as likely future chancellor of Germany, Merz calls Netanyahu, wanted for war crimes by the ICC to tell him that he will continue to trample on International Law while posturing about how law abiding German society is (except for trivial things like international law and genocide)
February 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Summary of the German election results: the parties that celebrated, supported, armed, and defended the genocide and terrorized immigrants, lost to the parties that want to be even more involved in the genocide while also mass deporting immigrants.
And FYI, there is nothing left in the 'Left' party
February 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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My latest on @globalvoices.org
Not only is Morocco arresting those who stand in solidarity with Palestinians, and allowing Israeli weapons to pass by its ports, it is also buying and perhaps manufacturing Israeli weapons tested on Gazans during a genocide
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Morocco deepens ties with Israel’s arms industry amid genocide allegations
Elbit Systems’ ‘battle-tested’ weapons, now sold to Morocco, have been used in Gaza, where leading experts describe Israel’s actions as war crimes and potential genocide.
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February 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM