Rena Netjes
@renanetjes.bsky.social
Arabist. Journalist. Entrepreneur.
With 17 field trips to Syria since 2019, I bring perspectives grounded in firsthand experience and authentic local engagement.
@RenaLingua.
renanetjes@protonmail.com
With 17 field trips to Syria since 2019, I bring perspectives grounded in firsthand experience and authentic local engagement.
@RenaLingua.
renanetjes@protonmail.com
Family of missing American journalist Austin Tice:
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Family of missing American journalist Austin Tice:
These families live in a cave in the countryside of Hama. "We came back from the camps in the north, but there were no houses left."
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
These families live in a cave in the countryside of Hama. "We came back from the camps in the north, but there were no houses left."
Google Translate keeps calling Syria's interim president "law."
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Google Translate keeps calling Syria's interim president "law."
Muwahhideen-Drusen Autor Adham al-Qaq: "Die Regierung hat Panik geschürt, um eingreifen einmarschieren zu können. Das Ganze ist die Inszenierung einer Lüge."
#Deutschlandfunk
#Deutschlandfunk
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Muwahhideen-Drusen Autor Adham al-Qaq: "Die Regierung hat Panik geschürt, um eingreifen einmarschieren zu können. Das Ganze ist die Inszenierung einer Lüge."
#Deutschlandfunk
#Deutschlandfunk
The big question here is: WHY only now? In December, almost a year ago, IS members moved from Deir Ezzor to the major cities. Various Syrian civil society networks are monitoring these movements in Deir Ezzor/Eastern Homs (I've seen videos of it) to Damascus, Homs, Aleppo (and Afrin.)
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The big question here is: WHY only now? In December, almost a year ago, IS members moved from Deir Ezzor to the major cities. Various Syrian civil society networks are monitoring these movements in Deir Ezzor/Eastern Homs (I've seen videos of it) to Damascus, Homs, Aleppo (and Afrin.)
Solidarity with Sudan demonstrations in Damascus and Aleppo today.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Solidarity with Sudan demonstrations in Damascus and Aleppo today.
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
SDF leader Hammo: We are preparing for the possibility of war.
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
SDF leader Hammo: We are preparing for the possibility of war.
Statement by the 7 Church denominations in Northeast Syria.
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Statement by the 7 Church denominations in Northeast Syria.
#Hasaka, my sources there with direct knowledge of the matter, informed me that the negotiations with SDF have been successful and that Christian schools will be allowed to reopen starting tomorrow, Monday.
Zalge TV:
Zalge TV:
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#Hasaka, my sources there with direct knowledge of the matter, informed me that the negotiations with SDF have been successful and that Christian schools will be allowed to reopen starting tomorrow, Monday.
Zalge TV:
Zalge TV:
#Jaramana "Nach außen gebe es viele Missverständnisses, sagt der Scheich. Das gehe schon beim Namen los."
Scheich Abu Fahed Al Wahab Dabous:
"Wir sind die Muwahhideen, die Verkünder der Einheit. Den Namen Druse lehnen wir ab. Für uns ist dieser Begriff eine Anschuldigung"
Scheich Abu Fahed Al Wahab Dabous:
"Wir sind die Muwahhideen, die Verkünder der Einheit. Den Namen Druse lehnen wir ab. Für uns ist dieser Begriff eine Anschuldigung"
November 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#Jaramana "Nach außen gebe es viele Missverständnisses, sagt der Scheich. Das gehe schon beim Namen los."
Scheich Abu Fahed Al Wahab Dabous:
"Wir sind die Muwahhideen, die Verkünder der Einheit. Den Namen Druse lehnen wir ab. Für uns ist dieser Begriff eine Anschuldigung"
Scheich Abu Fahed Al Wahab Dabous:
"Wir sind die Muwahhideen, die Verkünder der Einheit. Den Namen Druse lehnen wir ab. Für uns ist dieser Begriff eine Anschuldigung"
Since April, @_MarionSendker and yours truly have conducted dozens of indepth interviews in Jaramana Ashrafiyyat Sahnaya, East Daraa, West Suwayda, and Tel Aviv.
This is our 20-minute report, 'The Druze in Syria' featuring many of the interviewees:
For @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy
This is our 20-minute report, 'The Druze in Syria' featuring many of the interviewees:
For @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Since April, @_MarionSendker and yours truly have conducted dozens of indepth interviews in Jaramana Ashrafiyyat Sahnaya, East Daraa, West Suwayda, and Tel Aviv.
This is our 20-minute report, 'The Druze in Syria' featuring many of the interviewees:
For @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy
This is our 20-minute report, 'The Druze in Syria' featuring many of the interviewees:
For @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy
If these reports are true,
I won't say much about it, but I do want to ask a few questions:
Is it logical that a perpetrator of the execution of an American journalist
1/ Let CNN in just like that?
2/ Admit to the whole world that he executed Tice?
3/ And then stay in Lebanon?
I won't say much about it, but I do want to ask a few questions:
Is it logical that a perpetrator of the execution of an American journalist
1/ Let CNN in just like that?
2/ Admit to the whole world that he executed Tice?
3/ And then stay in Lebanon?
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
If these reports are true,
I won't say much about it, but I do want to ask a few questions:
Is it logical that a perpetrator of the execution of an American journalist
1/ Let CNN in just like that?
2/ Admit to the whole world that he executed Tice?
3/ And then stay in Lebanon?
I won't say much about it, but I do want to ask a few questions:
Is it logical that a perpetrator of the execution of an American journalist
1/ Let CNN in just like that?
2/ Admit to the whole world that he executed Tice?
3/ And then stay in Lebanon?
#Netherlands Lib Dems (D66) are at the top. A new exit poll will be released in a few minutes.
#verkiezingen2025
#verkiezingen2025
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#Netherlands Lib Dems (D66) are at the top. A new exit poll will be released in a few minutes.
#verkiezingen2025
#verkiezingen2025
It's going to be a very exciting evening for the Dutch! #verkiezingen2025
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's going to be a very exciting evening for the Dutch! #verkiezingen2025
Can't make this up Lebanon...
#FadelShaker
#FadelShaker
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Can't make this up Lebanon...
#FadelShaker
#FadelShaker
- for example, when an operation was planned at a Captagon location, some members of the general security alerted them. When the general security arrived, the place was already empty. They had already removed everything.
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
- for example, when an operation was planned at a Captagon location, some members of the general security alerted them. When the general security arrived, the place was already empty. They had already removed everything.
Arabs expelled from their areas by the SDF want to return. This is Ras al-Ayn, still isolated from the rest of Syria.
There are 100,000s of them in Turkey; mostly in Şanlıurfa, Akçakale, SE Turkey - adjacent to NE Syria. They cannot return.
There are 100,000s of them in Turkey; mostly in Şanlıurfa, Akçakale, SE Turkey - adjacent to NE Syria. They cannot return.
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Arabs expelled from their areas by the SDF want to return. This is Ras al-Ayn, still isolated from the rest of Syria.
There are 100,000s of them in Turkey; mostly in Şanlıurfa, Akçakale, SE Turkey - adjacent to NE Syria. They cannot return.
There are 100,000s of them in Turkey; mostly in Şanlıurfa, Akçakale, SE Turkey - adjacent to NE Syria. They cannot return.