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Jeg har gjestet 198 land med Einar Tørnquist og snakket om Egypts moderne historie, militærkupp, kriger, forholdet til Israel, den arabiske våren, dagens regime og annet som jeg har skrevet om i boka mi "Egypt: Drømmer om en revolusjon". 🇪🇬 Podkast på Podimo 👇
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What is lost in the headlines of Trump’s comments re: Gaza, is the number. He cited 1.5million for “removal” - to empty the Strip.

Implies that US intelligence both agrees with the Lancet’s projections on the number killed, but also UN projected numbers on those who have left since 7 October.

Jeg har nettopp lest Egypt: drømmer om en revolusjon av @toriaar.bsky.social. Anbefales sterkt!

God, og overraskende personlig, skildring av hendelsene på Tahrir-plassen, og etterspillet.

If you haven’t been forced from your home, lived under a bloodthirsty regime, or endured some of the worst atrocities in modern history at the hands of your own, don’t presume to lecture those who have lived it on how to view their reality.

As we all watch some of #Syria’s horrific prisons being opened up, let's remember the systematic torture inside them under Assad’s rule: www.hrw.org/report/2015/...

Survivors & families have been bravely seeking justice for years: www.hrw.org/feature/2024...

Most of the world may have forgotten the arab spring, but those of us who were there when it happened never did.

This made me cry, it’s all so familiar.

The announcement of the fall of the regime on Syrian state TV

One of the most brutal regimes in the Middle East is about to fall. The title of the most oppressive regime would now move to Egypt and Sisi. The horror stories that we are about to hear from released Syrian prisoners will find their echo in Egypt and its prisons.

There are over 130,000 Syrians who are forcibly disappeared or missing--the vast majority by the Assad regime.

The videos of detainees being let free when a new city has been taken over by rebel groups or freed from Assad control are not subplots...they're central to the story.

Twitter
Eng: to tweet
Nor: å tvitre

Mastodon
Eng: to toot
Nor: å tute

Bluesky
Eng: to skeet
Nor: å skite

Så det så.

Kjære tabloidpressen. Jeg skjønner at ordet "raser" begynner å bli forslitt, men "freser" som erstatning er faktisk bare kleint. Plis pensjoner det ordet asap, politikere er ikke katter.