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Alex Milan Durie
@amkdurie.bsky.social
Multimedia journalist, writer & photographer

Work featured in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, TIME Magazine, The Financial Times, The Economist, Reuters, Rolling Stone & more

👁 on MENA, Mediterranean, culture, migration, and human rights 🌐
www.alexdurie.com
"I have had messages of solidarity from mothers in Gaza, from mothers in Syria, from people in a far worse predicament than mine."

Egyptian-British professor Laila Soueif, on Day 158 of her hunger strike (which has now gone partial), urging the UK and Egypt govts to #FreeAlaa, her son, from prison.
March 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Palestinian-Israeli documentary film NO OTHER LAND, about Israel's ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank 🇵🇸, now has more Oscar wins than US distribution offers

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...
March 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Another evidence that so little has changed over time: here is an excerpt of Edward Said talking about Benjamin Netanyahu back in 1986.

Then Israeli ambassador to the UN, Netanyahu had refused to sit in the same room as Said just because of his Palestinian identity.
November 26, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Edward Said's daughter Najla Said, an NYC-based actress, writer, and activist, told me: "I’ve been outspoken for a while, but particularly this past year, I think it’s meant a lot to people in a way that I didn’t quite understand."
November 26, 2024 at 5:40 PM