Sakhr Al-Makhadhi
@sakhr.co.uk
🎥Executive Producer @ajplus.net
🇸🇾 Damascus resident until 2011
🇬🇧🇾🇪British-Yemeni
✍️ Social justice | Arab World
🇸🇾 Damascus resident until 2011
🇬🇧🇾🇪British-Yemeni
✍️ Social justice | Arab World
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi
@sakhr.co.uk
· Nov 29
Hello hello, my name is Sakhr, I tell stories for @ajplus.net, often on the Arab world + social justice. I try to look at the world from a Global South perspective, because we are the Global Majority, and our voices have been overwritten for so long.
That stuff + transport, cycling and coffee
That stuff + transport, cycling and coffee
This took me back to the streets of Damascus. I couldn’t press pause. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking. By Dima Khatib:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Return to Damascus - ABC listen
After more than a decade in exile, Syrian-Palestinian journalist Dima Khatib returns home to Damascus, where she says it would take a year to document the horrors of just one street. Dima revisits the...
www.abc.net.au
January 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This took me back to the streets of Damascus. I couldn’t press pause. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking. By Dima Khatib:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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I want rights for everyone in Syria, but Germany and France should learn to treat their own minorities well before staging meetings with Syrian minorities as if it were 1860. The Germans should stop participating in the slaughter of Palestinian women before worrying about Syrian women.
January 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I want rights for everyone in Syria, but Germany and France should learn to treat their own minorities well before staging meetings with Syrian minorities as if it were 1860. The Germans should stop participating in the slaughter of Palestinian women before worrying about Syrian women.
Life at SANA, Syria’s state news agency, where fiction became reality:
Control, censorship and ‘penalties’: inside the Assad regime’s propaganda arm
For years reporters at Syria’s state news agency had to toe the line. As life in Syria grew harder, so did the their work
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Life at SANA, Syria’s state news agency, where fiction became reality:
This is excellent by Sami Moubayed for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
A Firsthand Account of the Liberation of Damascus
Bashar al-Assad might have wanted his fall to precipitate chaos, but in Syria’s capital, order prevails and life is improving
newlinesmag.com
December 28, 2024 at 7:12 PM
This is excellent by Sami Moubayed for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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So disgusting. The absolute moral and political depravity of these people ...
US protestors marched in New York City against genocide in Gaza but also in support of genocide in Syria as they allowed pro-Assad regime flags to be flown amid news of mass graves containing up to 100,000 bodies in one site alone.
The axis of brain rot.
The axis of brain rot.
December 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM
So disgusting. The absolute moral and political depravity of these people ...
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Get your pith helmets ready, boys! It’s colonizer time.
December 16, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Get your pith helmets ready, boys! It’s colonizer time.
The view from Latakia:
The Fall of ‘Mr. President’s Province’
Latakia, long Assad’s heartland, is grappling with the prospect of a new era
newlinesmag.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The view from Latakia:
This is how colonisation works, in three photos.
December 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM
This is how colonisation works, in three photos.
Another story of how Assad abandoned the people around him in his last minutes:
A palace in shock: Bashar al-Assad's final moments in Syria
Hours before rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was already out of the country, telling hardly anyone, five former officials told AFP.
www.france24.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Another story of how Assad abandoned the people around him in his last minutes:
One of the most horrific things I’ve read since the liberation:
“We ask families for old photos where their loved ones are smiling because, as a body rots, the face starts to smile.”
By @newlinesmag.bsky.social
“We ask families for old photos where their loved ones are smiling because, as a body rots, the face starts to smile.”
By @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Families Seek Closure at a Damascus Morgue
Syrians are combing through bodies to identify loved ones executed in Assad regime prisons
newlinesmag.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:46 PM
One of the most horrific things I’ve read since the liberation:
“We ask families for old photos where their loved ones are smiling because, as a body rots, the face starts to smile.”
By @newlinesmag.bsky.social
“We ask families for old photos where their loved ones are smiling because, as a body rots, the face starts to smile.”
By @newlinesmag.bsky.social
The decades of crimes and theft of this family.
Rifaat’s theft has been known for many, many years. But European authorities have sat on their hands.
Rifaat’s theft has been known for many, many years. But European authorities have sat on their hands.
Assad uncle used Guernsey adviser to secretly manage vast wealth
Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘Butcher of Hama’, identified as client of consultant who received ban and fine this year
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:17 PM
The decades of crimes and theft of this family.
Rifaat’s theft has been known for many, many years. But European authorities have sat on their hands.
Rifaat’s theft has been known for many, many years. But European authorities have sat on their hands.
December 13, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Now, from inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus…
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December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Now, from inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus…
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Assad’s final moments in Syria: begging for help, and then betraying those he was closest to.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Assad’s final moments in Syria: begging for help, and then betraying those he was closest to.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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IMPORTANT: Kurdish Admin in North East Syria has ordered all government buildings in SDF controlled areas to raise the Syrian revolution flag.
“The flag embodies the hopes of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and national unity” - statement
“The flag embodies the hopes of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and national unity” - statement
December 12, 2024 at 12:08 PM
IMPORTANT: Kurdish Admin in North East Syria has ordered all government buildings in SDF controlled areas to raise the Syrian revolution flag.
“The flag embodies the hopes of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and national unity” - statement
“The flag embodies the hopes of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and national unity” - statement
This is a really interesting thread, for anyone thinking about Syria’s future:
December 12, 2024 at 5:47 PM
This is a really interesting thread, for anyone thinking about Syria’s future:
Western journalists should not be liberating Syrian prisoners.
Syrians deserve dignity. Going in to a prison cell and mumbling English words at a prisoner whose response is to think you’re coming to harm him is…
NOT journalism.
There are Syrians with you. Let them do it. Step back. Give space.
Syrians deserve dignity. Going in to a prison cell and mumbling English words at a prisoner whose response is to think you’re coming to harm him is…
NOT journalism.
There are Syrians with you. Let them do it. Step back. Give space.
December 12, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Western journalists should not be liberating Syrian prisoners.
Syrians deserve dignity. Going in to a prison cell and mumbling English words at a prisoner whose response is to think you’re coming to harm him is…
NOT journalism.
There are Syrians with you. Let them do it. Step back. Give space.
Syrians deserve dignity. Going in to a prison cell and mumbling English words at a prisoner whose response is to think you’re coming to harm him is…
NOT journalism.
There are Syrians with you. Let them do it. Step back. Give space.
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It's never been about evidence for Aaron Mate and his ilk, it's just about ideology, and finding anything that fits their narrative and boosting it as much as possible to their audience until it bounces around their echochamber enough to convince everyone in it that it's the truth.
Aaron Mate admitting that even testimony from 10,000 Douma survivors in Syria wouldn't be enough to convince him his elaborately constructed, pro-Assad conspiracy theory isn't true.
Absolutely vile.
Absolutely vile.
December 12, 2024 at 7:22 AM
It's never been about evidence for Aaron Mate and his ilk, it's just about ideology, and finding anything that fits their narrative and boosting it as much as possible to their audience until it bounces around their echochamber enough to convince everyone in it that it's the truth.
Can we please stop humoring the tankies.
If they claim to support Palestine while also being Assad apologists, they don’t really care about Arab lives.
Palestine won’t be liberated over the dead bodies of Syrians. No one is free until we’re all free.
If they claim to support Palestine while also being Assad apologists, they don’t really care about Arab lives.
Palestine won’t be liberated over the dead bodies of Syrians. No one is free until we’re all free.
December 10, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Can we please stop humoring the tankies.
If they claim to support Palestine while also being Assad apologists, they don’t really care about Arab lives.
Palestine won’t be liberated over the dead bodies of Syrians. No one is free until we’re all free.
If they claim to support Palestine while also being Assad apologists, they don’t really care about Arab lives.
Palestine won’t be liberated over the dead bodies of Syrians. No one is free until we’re all free.
This was a few days before Bashar fell.
That country is consistently on the wrong side of history: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Palestine…
That country is consistently on the wrong side of history: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Palestine…
December 10, 2024 at 9:23 PM
This was a few days before Bashar fell.
That country is consistently on the wrong side of history: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Palestine…
That country is consistently on the wrong side of history: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Palestine…
December 10, 2024 at 9:03 PM
A short history of Israel’s occupation of Syria:
December 9, 2024 at 6:53 PM
A short history of Israel’s occupation of Syria:
Dawn in Damascus by @kshaheen.bsky.social will make you cry
Dawn in Damascus
In the end, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to say to the country he bludgeoned and bled, but what matters now is that his ‘forever’ rule is over
newlinesmag.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Dawn in Damascus by @kshaheen.bsky.social will make you cry