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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

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Prince Andrew's Arrest

Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I went to a rave in Damascus and wrote about the intersection of underground music, politics, and power in modern-day Syria, as Syrian producers and DJs told me what's most required for the music scene in Syria to properly grow again, for @gqmagazine.bsky.social www.gqmiddleeast.com/article/syri...

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A Rebirth Is Happening on the Dance Floors of Damascus

Inside an underground rave in a deserted shopping mall on the outskirts of the capital city, and the reemergence of Syrian nightlife

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

What does it mean to return home to a country that was destroyed by 14 years of war, and disconnected from many global tech developments? For @wired.com I wrote about the logistics of return for Syrian entrepreneurs and their mission to make Syria feel like home again 🇸🇾 www.wired.me/story/syrias...

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Syria’s Tech Recovery Starts With the Idea of Home

Syrian founders are racing to build a Syria-ready Airbnb — but in a country still cut off from payments and platforms, “home” is the hardest product to ship.

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

All the footage included in this video has been taken by RSF forces themselves. I am raising funds on behalf of Ghaima Initiative to support the relief effort. All links in my bio. #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

To be clear: no one should bomb a hospital, for any reason, ever. But for Israel to label Iran “terrorist tyrants” after missiles hit a hospital in southern Israel is shameless hypocrisy from the demented regime Israel has attacked 600 hospitals since Oct 7 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Israel-Iran conflict live: hospital in southern Israel ‘extensively damaged’ by Iran missile strike

Netanyahu says ‘terrorist tyrants’ carried out attack on Soroka hospital; Israel attacks Arak heavy water reactor, Iranian state media reports

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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

On Day 250 of Laila Soueif’s hunger strike to free her son, read this powerful reflection by her sister – and Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s aunt – the writer Ahdaf Soueif. #FreeAlaa www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

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Ahdaf Soueif | Day 250

In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs us not to...

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The EU & Greece are pushing to open a massive migrant camp in the middle of a highly flammable pine forest in Lesvos. My latest story examines the environmental harm of this move and of the EU's border policies. For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social with Goldy Levy www.context.news/socioeconomi...

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On Greece's Lesbos, new migrant camp sparks wildfire fears | Context by TRF

An EU-funded centre for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos has angered locals, who fear wildfires in a protected area

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Alaa Abd el-Fattah's "incarceration has become a test case for British diplomacy in Egypt—a test that Britain has largely failed." @samknightwrites.bsky.social Laila Soueif is now dying in hospital in London after 245 days on hunger strike. It's time to #FreeAlaa www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations

Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest.

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Hyphen @hyphenonline.com · 25/05/2025

Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d’Or at #Cannes2025 for It Was Just an Accident. @amkdurie.bsky.social featured the film in our guide to the best titles from the Middle East and north Africa. Read it here→https://hyphenonline.com/2025/05/23/cannes-best-film-mena-region-palme-dor/

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Hyphen @hyphenonline.com · 23/05/2025

The #Cannes2025 film festival’s 78th edition closes this weekend with standout films from Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Jafar Panahi and others. Read Alexander Durie’s roundup of the best Arab and north African titles. hyphenonline.com/2025/05/23/c...

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

For WeTransfer / @wepresent.bsky.social, I wrote about the photography of Myriam Meloni and the political, social, and environmental role of Morocco's "grands taxis," specifically the Mercedes 240D 🇲🇦 wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/myri...

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WePresent | Myriam Meloni celebrates the lasting life of Morocco’s “grands taxis”

Photographer Myriam Meloni celebrates the vital role of the Mercedes 240D in rural Moroccan life

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

When Reform and the Tories form a coalition and get outstanding results at the next General Election, let's not act surprised, when there's front pages like this by @observeruk.bsky.social & @tortoisemedia.bsky.social -- marking a clear attempt by media to push the far-right into the mainstream.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

an entire people is being deliberately starved to death

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/04/2025

"the Israeli government instead chose to break the ceasefire... Israel’s soul is being ripped out and we, members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, fear for the future of the Israel we love" A brave letter: www.ft.com/content/6a50...

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Letter: As British Jews we can no longer stay silent on the war in Gaza

From Harriett Goldenberg, Baron Frankal, Sophie Hasenson, Robert Stone and others

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

4 people are to be deported by Germany for participating in pro-Palestine protests as part of 🇩🇪's crackdown on 🇵🇸 solidarity. They are citizens of the US, Poland & Ireland and have not been convicted of a crime. 2 of these 4 are trans. By @hahauenstein.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

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Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters

Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For @theguardian.com, I went to Alexandria in Egypt, which is 1 of 7 sinking cities in the world due to rising sea levels. Heba Khamis and I spoke with fishermen to understand the city's bond with the Mediterranean Sea and the threat of climate change in Egypt 🇪🇬 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘I trust my eyes, not the forecast’: Alexandria is sinking. Why don’t local fishers believe it?

The ancient Mediterranean city is at risk as sea levels rise. But most people in the vulnerable fishing village of El Max believe it will always weather the storms of time

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safe-climate @safe-climate.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Alexandria, Egypt is one of the world’s sinking cities, so are Venice, Miami, Lagos, Jakarta. The IPCC predicts that with global sea levels rising at the current rate, thousands of km of the Nile delta could be fully submerged by 2100. @amkdurie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘I trust my eyes, not the forecast’: Alexandria is sinking. Why don’t local fishers believe it?

The ancient Mediterranean city is at risk as sea levels rise. But most people in the vulnerable fishing village of El Max believe it will always weather the storms of time

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a story that was set to reveal this week one of the biggest bottlenecks to our clean, electrified future. Then on Thursday night, it blew up. Not my story, but the very thing—transformers—I was reporting on. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Heathrow Shutdown Shows How Electrified World Depends on One Device

A shortage of transformers is causing delays to power projects everywhere, holding trillion-dollar industries hostage—and that was before tariffs.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/03/2025

NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun. Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

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Hossam Shabat’s Last Article

Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.

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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 19/03/2025

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »

Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In his first official statement, one that had to be dictated over the phone because he continues to be held in ICE custody, US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil pens a MUST-READ letter. "Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Let this sink in. The lawyers of US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil have not been able to have A SINGLE PHONE CALL with their client since he was arrested on Saturday night. Today, the court had to order that Khalil be allowed calls. This is not normal. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/u...

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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in ICE detention in Louisiana after first court hearing | CNN

Prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York, days after he was arrested by federal officials ...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The details are disturbing. It basically looks like a kidnapping. They even got his legal status wrong but proceeded to detain him anyway. The agents didn’t even identify themselves at first and refused to show a warrant. His wife is 8 months pregnant

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"I have had messages of solidarity from mothers in Gaza, from mothers in Syria, from people in a far worse predicament than mine." Egyptian-British professor Laila Soueif, on Day 158 of her hunger strike (which has now gone partial), urging the UK and Egypt govts to #FreeAlaa, her son, from prison.

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Palestinian-Israeli documentary film NO OTHER LAND, about Israel's ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank 🇵🇸, now has more Oscar wins than US distribution offers www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

As Starmer and Trump sit down today, British citizen Alaa Abdel Fattah has been held in Egyptian custody beyond his completed sentence for 151 days. His mother, Dr. Laila, is at risk of losing her life while she hunger strikes in protest of this illegal detention. The time to #FreeAlaa is now.

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Professor Laila Soueif is in hospital in London and slowly dying, after a months-long hunger strike in protest against her British-Egyptian son's unlawful detainment in Egypt. It is up to the British govt and Keir Starmer to confront Egypt, call Sisi, and #FreeAlaa www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'High death risk' for UK-Egyptian mother on hunger strike over jailed son

The warning comes from a London hospital treating Laila Soueif, mother of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)

Photo of my article on the German elections in today’s Observer, “Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’”. The title and the article refer to an outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist Emily Gorcenski.

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Two-page spread in the latest issue of TIME Magazine 🌟 I wrote about the true story behind Oscar-nominated Brazilian film I'M STILL HERE (Ainda Estou Aqui) -- how it's pushing people in Brazil to reckon with the horrors committed during the dictatorship and view parallels with the far-right today 🇧🇷

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If the enemy wants you to despair it is actually politically useful to explore hope as a discipline, as a practice, something to do, a verb. Want some help? Spend some time listening to and reading James Baldwin.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

What he's actually calling for is violent ethnic cleansing, not just permanent displacement. I mean, he can try. Palestinians won't leave.

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Brazilian film I'M STILL HERE has been nominated for 3 #Oscars (Best Film, Best Actress & Best International Film). Good time to re-share this story I wrote for TIME Magazine on the political and historical context behind the film 🇧🇷 The story is out next week in print! time.com/7204864/im-s...

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The True Story Behind 'I’m Still Here,' the Oscar Contender Pushing Brazil to Confront Its Dark Past

Walter Salles' film about a real family in the midst of Brazil's military dictatorship is pushing many to confront the country's dark past.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"we can already describe this moment as the most self-confident the far right has been in the West since the peak of the Third Reich."

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Not the main thing he is known for, but I was just rereading David Lynch's "Catching the Big Fish" the other night. It's a beautiful book — maybe the best book — about meditation and creativity. A lovely way to live in his mind for a little bit longer.

The front cover of David Lynch's book - "Catching the Big Fish"

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

David Lynch in a 2023 BBC interview on why he continued referring to Angelo Badalamenti in the present tense after he had passed on. One of the greatest filmmakers of the last half century. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

As a writer/journalist often covering "foreign" affairs/culture, nothing is more important than when people from said place appreciate your work and say it could've been written by a local. Proud my story for TIME on "I'M STILL HERE" is resonating with people from Brazil ❤️🇧🇷 time.com/7204864/im-s...

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The True Story Behind 'I’m Still Here,' the Oscar Contender Pushing Brazil to Confront Its Dark Past

Walter Salles' film about a real family in the midst of Brazil's military dictatorship is pushing many to confront the country's dark past.

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Can cinema and art help a country reckon with its dark history? For @time-magazine.bsky.social I explored this with Walter Salles' I'M STILL HERE, a Brazilian film on its way to the Oscars that's become a national sensation & is pushing 🇧🇷 to confront its dictatorship past. time.com/7204864/im-s...

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The True Story Behind 'I’m Still Here,' the Oscar Contender Pushing Brazil to Confront Its Dark Past

Walter Salles' film about a real family in the midst of Brazil's military dictatorship is pushing many to confront the country's dark past.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

In case they skip over it in the obituaries, Jimmy Carter was the first and so far only US president to name the oppression of Palestinians as apartheid. He even wrote a whole book about it. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...

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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid a book by Jimmy Carter

Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel w...

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Ending the year on a light note: for @hyphenonline.com, I spoke with Oscar-winning filmmaker @asifkapadia.bsky.social about his new film, 2073, and his dystopian vision of the future, where fascism and tech oligarchs have taken over. Hint: we're not far from it. hyphenonline.com/2024/12/30/a...

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‘If we do nothing, this is where we're heading’: Asif Kapadia on his dystopian vision of the future

The Senna and Amy film-maker's new sci-fi documentary is a sombre warning of a world controlled by authoritarianism and tech moguls

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I had a long chat with Palestinian poet from #Gaza, @mosababutoha.bsky.social, about witness poetry as a tool for cultural resistance, how his documentation of the genocide weighs on his mental health, and why he intends to keep going. For @thenewarab.bsky.social: www.newarab.com/features/mos...

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Mosab Abu Toha: The witness poet narrating the genocide in Gaza

The New Arab speaks with award-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha who has been calling out Israeli crimes through his poems while magnifying Gaza's stories

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My brilliant friend Asser Khattab on what the fall of the house of Assad means to him and so many other Syrians. www.ft.com/content/455a...

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Assad’s fall brings joy and the call of home

Exiled journalist Asser Khattab on what the news from Syria means to its diaspora

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Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For WePresent, I wrote about #Beirut, the photography of Tanya Traboulsi, and the Mediterranean Sea. Traboulsi’s photos resonate so much with people because they focus not on the devastation Beirut endures, but on the everyday life that continues despite it. wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/tany...

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WePresent | Tanya Traboulsi’s photos celebrate the city of Beirut

Photographer Tanya Traboulsi’s book “A Sea Apart” embodies the dreams of a Beirut without war

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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Israel has carried out multiple strikes aimed at dismantling Syria's military capacities. Airstrikes have hit locations in Damascus, Quneitra, Homs & Raqqa. Israel's telling the world what we already knew, that it sees a free Syria as more of a threat than Assad's Syria

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