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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Syria's president and the country's foremost Kurdish militia commander have defied expectations of a major military clash, overcoming years of discord to make peace against the odds, writes @qunfuz.bsky.social

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The Syrian War Many Wanted but Two Men Refused To Fight

President Ahmad al-Sharaa and the Kurdish militia commander Mazloum Abdi have accomplished peace against the odds in Syria

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One reminder not to lose all hope against fascism is remembering how many people had written off the Syrian opposition and were normalising with Assad in November 2024

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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Long-term Idlib microstate" was basically the optimistic consensus scenario until Aleppo fell a few days later

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adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The death of Ratko Mladić means nothing to me. He won. The West rewarded the genocide and handed almost half of Bosnia's territory to his political project. As long as the genocidal entity exists, no justice is possible. The monument to his crimes outlives him.

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Grannies4Equality @grannies4equal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"As migrants & refugees in exile from Iran, who have loved ones suffering in Iranian state’s prisons & facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’". overland.org.au/2026/08/our-...

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Our support for the open letter: To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ - Overland literary journal

As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter To Ir...

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was a great event. Writers Raja Shehadeh and Alex Rowell were in the small but engaged audience. And Lighthouse is a great bookshop, very well worth visiting if you're in Edinburgh (very close to the central mosque, and the Mosque Kitchen).

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you're anywhere near Edinburgh, remember to bunk off work at noon tomorrow so you can hear me talking about post-Assad Syria and my new book at the Lighthouse Bookshop.

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Borzou Daragahi @borzou.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Author and intellectual Robin Yassin-Kassab aka @qunfuz.bsky.social tells badlands the story behind the not-so-clandestine effort by the CIA and regional powers to arm the Syrian rebel groups which ultimately toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

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The Real Story Of The CIA’s Regime Change Plot In Syria

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Talking to @borzou.bsky.social about "The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad"

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I cannot help but do it and have to edit myself to stop it sounding too obvious

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Elamite sculpture silver, gold c. 1500 BCE Elamite culture present day Iran An Elamite warrior attacking a Sumerian goddess, probably Ishtar. #art #ancientart #elamiteart #sculpture #silver #gold #conflict #war #warrior #propaganda #sumer #mesopotamia #ishtar #iran #iraq

This silver and gold composition is an Elamite masterpiece from southeastern Mesopotamia, dating to approximately 1500 BCE.
It is currently part of the Al Thani Collection.
The artifact is featured in the Animalia: Bestiary from The Al Thani Collection exhibition.
The Elamites were a rival civilization to the Mesopotamian confederation, and fought many wars over a nearly 2000 year period. I believe that this Elamite sculpture shows an Elamite warrior (king?) about to kill the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar. Sort of war-time propaganda circa 1500 BCE!
A fierce and long-lasting rivalry existed between Elam and the city-states and empires of Mesopotamia for more than two millennia. This relationship swung between intense warfare, plundering, and trade.
Around 2700 BCE, one of the earliest recorded conflicts in human history took place between the Sumerians and the Elamites.
Ishtar also known as Inanna, was a mythological deity woman with horns and wings.
Ishtar, Queen of the night also known as Inanna was the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, sexual desire, conflict, war, justice, and power.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's just astounding how we keep making the wrong choice, with no doubt catastrophic consequences, despite all our science, because of capitalism, or inertia, or greed, or whatever we want to call our flaw.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Talking to @borzou.bsky.social about "The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad"

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

not sure if I posted this before, but I mostly self funded my book tour (much gratitude to the friends who DID bring me to thier cities). I also had to take two months off of work to do it If you want to help me bounce back, the best way is to buy my art www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/subwa...

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'Subway Self-portrait' Intaglio Print by Molly Crabapple — Molly Crabapple

For these intaglio prints, Molly drew herself in the beloved and monstrous New York subway, then printed them by hand on Hahnemuhle copperplate paper. Molly is obsessed with Goya’s intaglios and rece...

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Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🇸🇾 How is the legacy of the revolution, conflict violence, and 50+ years of regime-sponsored manipulation of communal divides shaping today’s Syria? 👇a really great episode of the Tahrir Podcast introducing Robin Yassin-Kassab’s new book on #Syria after the fall on the regime!

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“Here again, that contradiction arises between the needs of the people to heal and rebuild and the needs of those in power to consolidate power.” @qunfuz.bsky.social in @hidden-cities.com on Syria’s reconstruction under Ahmed al-Sharaa: www.hidden-cities.com/p/returning-...

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Returning to Syria's Sea of Rubble

The ruins stretched for mile after mile. We drove on over dust to what had once been the suburbs of Damascus.

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's been almost two years since the rebel offensive that brought down one of the world’s most entrenched regimes, ending the sixty-year Baathist dictatorship and the Assad family’s grip on Syria. We're honoured to be welcoming @qunfuz.bsky.social on 26th August at noon to hear all about it!

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New in @hidden-cities.com: @qunfuz.bsky.social on returning to a Syria in ruins and what the rubble reveals — from his new book just published by @saqibooks.bsky.social “Someone had painted on an intact bit of wall the words Eid bil-eid n’amara min jadeed, or Hand in Hand We’ll Build It Anew.”

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

More than a quote.... Amer's story is told in Chapter four, the chapter about prisons

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Do you want to be published in a good-looking book? The Critical Muslim is looking for well-written, engaging essays for its Universities issue. Could be a personal account or a polemic. About universities of any time or place. 3000 to 6000 words, but not in an academic style! Get in touch...

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Faisal Al Yafai @faisalalyafai.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"The biggest social problem in Syria is that there is blood between us." @qunfuz.bsky.social, one of the most astute writers on modern Syria, joins me on The Lede to talk revolution, justice and anger. Listen @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/podcast/when...

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If you missed it at New Lines, please read it here. My essay reviewing five books on Syria by @rallaf.bsky.social, Loubna Mrie, Noor Ghazal Aswad, Anand Gopal, and Jerome Drevon and Patrick Haenni. qunfuz.com/2026/05/15/s...

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Syrian Solidarities

This essay was first published at New Lines Magazine. It reviews five recent books on Syria: Rime Allaf’s It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World; Nour Ghaza…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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Syrian Solidarities

This essay was first published at New Lines Magazine. It reviews five recent books on Syria: Rime Allaf’s It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World; Nour Ghaza…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The weaponisation of anti-'anti-semitism' for the purposes of genocide is a huge belated victory for Hitler, who must be laughing in his grave. Globalise the intifada against Zionism and all forms of genocidal fascism.

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Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca · 27/04/2026

I very much appreciated reading these book reviews by @qunfuz.bsky.social People seem drawn to simple narratives, painfully simple ones, especially when discussing Syria. Even the reviews of these books reveals importance nuance. The attraction to simplicity is a hazard.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

What narratives can unite Syrians after years of sectarian violence and displacement? @qunfuz.bsky.social considers the challenge of overcoming divisions that have become entrenched in the stories people tell.

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In Search of a Story for Syria

Since the fall of the Assad regime, violence in coastal communities has been fueled by narratives that reinforce sectarian division and work against forging national unity

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Lola @lolat42.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A month old comment…

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The worst western takes are variations on 'Iran never hurt anyone in 50,000 years', which is absolutely true if Syrians are not considered people. The reason some Iranians and Syrians are dancing is because Iran committed so many crimes. Anyway, fuck US-Zionist aggression.

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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

My sister is reporting very loud bangs in Doha, Qatar. Everybody has been told to stay at home. Iran has hit US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, Iraq, and perhaps Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Now that the regime is fighting for survival rather than for rhetorical purposes, the gloves may be off.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This is yet another illegal, unjustified and unprovoked attack by the genocidal settler state and its Crusader backers against a Middle Eastern nation. May the aggressors pay very dearly indeed. So long as fascists get away with their violence they will escalate.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Critical Muslim is looking for well-written, interesting essays (for publication in book form) for its West issue... Get in touch if you can write about Western converts to Islam, Christian Zionism, Israel as a Western outpost, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, etc etc

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The fact that many Muslims chose to vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jew, thus robbing the fascist and pro-genocide parties of victory, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that their backward values clash with British standards of tolerance and openness.

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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Great victory for the Greens in Gorton and Denton. A kick in the teeth for Starmer's pro-genocide Labour Party and for the fascists of Reform. Hope &decency return to UK politics. (Reform is blaming the victory on those backward Muslims choosing to vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jew.)

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