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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Today, Israel put French member of the EU parliament Rima Hassan in solitary confinement and bombed the Gaza office of the French NGO Médecins du Monde France maintains normal diplomatic relations with Israel

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'm spending all my time reading (pre-Asad) back issues of Al Baath lately, and going from spending all day immersed in a loudly socialist party newspaper to contemporary current events is giving me crazy whiplash

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

74 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the northern, central, and southern parts of the Gaza Strip since pre- dawn on Sunday , in a matter of hours www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...

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Israel kills 74 in pre-dawn attacks on Gaza, resumes truce talks with Hamas

Israel mobilises for a new ground assault on Gaza, even as it resumes ceasefire talks with Hamas in Qatar.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

That's why the operative word is building.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

As a New Englander I cannot condone this

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Ahli Baptist Hospital which had been providing critical care to civilians in Gaza City has been attacked, it has been completely knocked out of service. The only operational hospital left in Northern Gaza.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/04/2025

👇👇👇

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.

Et voilà: our NEH grant with Harriet Murav for “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” has been terminated. This project does not, the letter notes, support “the furtherance of the President’s agenda.” I guess work on Jews surviving genocide is out of step with the agenda of this presidential administration whose only use for Jews is the weaponization of Jewish safety to destroy higher education.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

...much like that 49% number in Tartus. But these findings potentially raise some interesting questions.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

To what degree that reflects the "partial" aspect of the 90% figure, hidden divergences in what "equal rights" and "Islamic law" mean to respondents, and/or an element of telling pollsters what they think they want to hear is impossible to tease out from the article...

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

90% of Sunnis favor partial or full Islamic law, 86% of Druze and Christians favor secular law, 73% of Kurds favor secular law, while over 75% of everyone want equal rights for women. Clearly there has to be significant overlap between pro-Islamic law and pro-women's rights.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"Large numbers say they feel [al-Sharaa's] new order is safer, freer, and less sectarian than Mr. Assad's regime." Not clear what "large numbers" means or how that breaks down along community lines.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

But sometimes in a moment like this people become eager and excited to say what they actually want to say - I experienced that in Egypt. Impossible to gauge exactly how much stock to put in any of these numbers, but worth thinking about regardless.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Needless to say, the typical problem in polling where respondents often say what they think they ought to rather than what they believe is something to think hard about in Syria, where people have long experience with doing just that (for very good reason).

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The limitations of this poll are obvious, but interesting numbers nonetheless. Even in Tartus, 49% said they were optimistic about the direction of the country. The massacres were only a couple of weeks ago. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

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Syrians are still surprisingly upbeat

Our pioneering poll reveals much optimism, but also big sectarian divisions

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Nova999999 @nova999999.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Chicago is the greatest city in the world

A shop window displaying piñatas in the shape of ICE agents

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Rafah, an hour ago. Photo: Abdallah alAttar (X). The city's population ordered by the IDF once more to leave. Unending ethnic cleansing

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Over 1000 Palestinians killed and many more injured since Israel violated ceasefire and resumed major airstrikes in Gaza on March 18 www.newarab.com/news/israel-...

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Israel kills over 1,000 Palestinians in resumption of Gaza war

The Israeli army said it would ’resume intense combat operations’ in Rafah following the largets displacement order since its breaking of the ceasefire.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge

“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

‘Maybe we need to kill more civilians,’ speaker told gathering hosted by pro-Israel nonprofit in NY At an Israel Heritage Foundation event in May 2024, Martin Oliner called for Israel to “take the lessons” from the atrocity of the U.S. atomic bombings in Japan. prismreports.org/2025/03/27/i...

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‘Maybe we need to kill more civilians’: speaker at pro-Israel event

At an Israel Heritage Foundation event in May 2024, Martin Oliner called for Israel to “take the lessons” from the atomic bombing of Japan

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Obviously Syria has not been in any position to act out irredentist ambitions toward Lebanon in many years, but it's still significant for al-Sharaa to (implicitly) acknowledge that reality

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

this feels like a very big deal even though the day-to-day probably won't change much for a good while. Syria has always been the one to refuse Lebanon's demands; it's been an implicit continuation of the Greater Syria idea and the paternalistic attitude toward Lebanon that that entails

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/03/2025

🧵 on the damage being visited on children’s healthcare in this country. (h/t @gregggonsalves.bsky.social)

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Extra wild because Druze in Syria are busy protesting Israel’s invasion and occupation of southern Syria, with signs saying they “will not be your poisoned dagger in Syria’s back”, so Israel is justifying its invasion with claims to be protecting a group who don’t want their protection.

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Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"The fate of Assad and associates who fled to Moscow is a delicate matter. Russia remains resistant to surrendering Assad, insisting on continuity in its alliances, the Russian and diplomatic sources said." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/russia...

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Insight: Russia gambles to keep military bases in post-Assad Syria

For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the complex to bombard Islamist rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad's repressive regime.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

As someone mentioned it looks more like a Sudan/Palestine combo flag upon closer inspection

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Looking forward to reading this!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Some states began to align their asylums with penal systems... This is a defining turn in American history, in how we understand our obligations to one another, and how we formalize those social bonds through built works. We are indeed haunted by it."

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A stark illustration of this last point: In the lead-up to Sisi taking power, a chant going around Cairo was "We want democracy, not elections!" after decades of sham votes.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

the long 19th century: i'm back and longer than ever

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Riyadh allowed headlines in Arabic that say “Syria celebrates the fall of Assad,” using language that could easily conjure the Arab Spring. This highlights an untrendy reality re: the feel-good notion that autocrats in the MENA region will necessarily feel intimidated by Assad’s ouster: 🧵

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

the long 19th century: i'm back and longer than ever

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Last night I was like “we are reliving the nineteenth century” and wow I did NOT know how accurate that statement was going to be

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em dash dual wielder @juicyb3rry.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

my neck my back my CEO attack

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Sednaya was once so hidden that the only reconstruction of what it looked like used acoustic mapping from survivor testimonies. We spent 4 years trying to shed light on contemporaneous conditions, and it haunted me we couldn't do more. To see it open & inmates walking free... my god.

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MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

"The Assad family was one of the most cynical actors in the modern Middle East, having dealt with and backstabbed almost every major played in the region. And many of those double games came back to bite Assad at the last moment." From @matthewpetti.bsky.social, www.pettimatthew.com/p/blowback

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Blowback

Bashar al-Assad's history of double-dealing has finally come around.

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Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Thirteen years after the revolution started and in a matter of days, Syria is free from the Assad regime. May all prisoners be free, may all authoritarian regimes topple.

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