Interesting piece on Megaphone: Lebanon’s relationship with Syria has always been complicated. The fall of Assad highlights a major paradox: while many Lebanese supported the Syrian revolution, they also perpetuated systemic racism against Syrians. 🧵 1/8

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Heartbroken that the body of Mazen al-Hamada has been discovered following his disappearance in Syria. Mazen had told his harrowing story of torture in cities around the world in the hopes of changing policy.

I'll never forget meeting him. I pray we'll continue his journey.

Malik Oussekine assassiné dans la nuit du 6-7 décembre 1986 par deux policiers

I'm gonna start a thread about Lebanese film and documentaries. Every day, I'll post a link to a film and provide a small description about it and why its important to understand the country, the history, and the current moment. First up 'Souha: Surviving Hell' (2001) youtu.be/5cK5uXrrRYo?...

Housing & Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf visited Gaza, accompanied by Daniella Weiss, godmother of the Zionist settler movement. “Today I toured the Gaza Strip settlements,” he tweeted, framing the expedition as retaliation for the ICC arrest warrants.

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C'est absolument la catastrophe dans les universités
je vous explique (rapidement)
la loi de programmation budgétaire mise au vote la semaine prochaine prévoit un transfert de charges de l'Etat vers les universités

Beirut has always been such a noisy city. But it feels so quiet now that the drones are gone.

Bourdieu’s The Force of Law.

My #cat #Gramsci, fully embodying his namesake, gazes into the chiaroscuro and nods in agreement: "The old world is dying, the new one is slow to appear..."

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health releases latest casualty figures of the war: Almost 4,000 people killed, more than 16,500 wounded. On Tuesday, the day before the fragile ceasefire came into effect, 78 people were killed. #lebanon

Day 1 of the ceasefire and Israeli forces occupying south Lebanon have already shot towards journalists and continue to destroy public infrastructure

Because that’s what the Israelis do

After the 1967 war, Israel excluded the possibility that the Palestinians, the Arabs would dare challenge its military power again, Elias Shoufani writes after the 1973 war. And today, 'Thanksgiving,' marks indigenous resistance to settler colonies, we remember: