“This was Trump unfiltered and unleashed – as he has been since the start of his second term, with no domestic or international restraint on his power and no need for even the mildest diplomatic niceties” — my latest for @theguardian.com on Trump's unhinged UN speech

Very proud of the new issue that’s up today. If you’ve been struggling with genocide-worklife balance, this one’s for you

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This months’ q is from a man who wants to know why he’s still bothered that he can’t get through to his liberal Zionist friend

“The US is deeply complicit in the starvation and unspeakable suffering that Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza. Thanks to an unlimited supply of US weapons and diplomatic cover, Netanyahu has been able to continue Israel’s genocide with impunity” — my comments to @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social

I keep forgetting BlueSky exists 🙄

Very proud to have been editor on this piece. Please read:

Tell me this isn’t the earth fighting back

In three days of bombing, Israel has murdered nearly 1,000 Iranians. That is over 300 people per day. While continuing to carry out massacres in Gaza, dropping bombs & also directly gunning starving people down. Get this malignant cancer out of our region for the love of humanity

For this month’s Dear Souseh column, I answer a question from a Lebanese mother in France concerned about how and how much to tell her kids about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Do you have a question for Souseh? Pls write to dearsouseh@themarkaz.org

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Badar’s fellowship is partially subsidized by the Scholars at Risk program, which works with U.S. universities to host international scholars facing threats in their countries. He never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars.

A powerful essay ⤵️

"In our special brotherhood of that summer of ’72 in London, the absence of words – in Arabic, in Persian, in distant English – did not require our names."

Salar Abdoh for @codastory.bsky.social and @strangersguide.bsky.social:

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Please help Dr. Hussam Farhat and his family! He can no longer practice and requires help to be able to support his children 🙏🏽

Please help Lubna and her husband Muhammad; Lubna miscarried her first born at 9 months due to the immense stress and fear of trying to survive a genocide. Donate, boost, help them escape and survive 🙏🏽 ❤️

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What do you do with your bf if

"after watching eighteen straight months of savagery & genocide by slaughter, torture, forced exile & famine...

jailing, disappearing, deporting people...

if, after all that & doubtless worse yet to come,

he’s still calling what’s happening “politics”?

🚨 🚨 The Markaz Review is debuting a new monthly feature this week!
Dear Souseh: An Existential Advice Column for Third World Problems. Read & share AND if you have your own question for Souseh write her at dearsouseh@themarkaz.org & look for it in an upcoming column!
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