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arab woman, us citizen, europa resident, poli sci phd. xenophobes, racists, misogynists, fascists, & associated haters are strongly encouraged to move along.

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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org · 08/10/2026
Our piece from last week notes the possibility that Iran may escalate over the increased traffic through Hormuz’s southern corridor. Emerging signs that the pace of Iranian attacks is increasing. Unclear whether an increase in tempo is enough to deter the runs. www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/united-s...
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Five Energy Market Factors That Could Tip the Scales in the Middle East War | International Crisis Group
Oil, gas and fuel prices are central to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with Washington striving to lower them and Tehran to keep them high. With both sides determined to prevail, five market-shaping ...
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 19h
Place de la Bastille, you don't say.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 22h
ETANA on Syrians' experiences of the country's economic transition, based on focus groups nationwide: etanasyria.org/analysis-exp...
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ANALYSIS: Experiences of Economic Transition in Post-Assad Syria – Etana Syria
Following the fall of the Assad regime, considerable attention has focused on sanctions relief, attracting international investment and reintegrating Syria into the global financial system after decades of isolation. While these steps are vital to rebuilding Syria’s economy, their anticipated effects have so far been slow to materialise and have not necessarily translated into meaningful
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you should!! it is also very easy to make and you can learn in no time...i make it often and even my father makes it for himself, it's always tasty. But making truly *excellent* mlukhiyya? That's a real and rare skill usually honed over many years.
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if i'm raving about food, it would be a major oversight to ignore this fantastic irman i had in halab several days ago (a.k.a. shakriyya in sham). A very simple dish, but there is simply no other yogurt and no other meat in this world on the same level as in halab. 🤷🏻‍♀️😍😍
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredibly delicious mlukhiyya made by my dad's cousin, honestly this picture does not do justice to how perfect it was. 😍🙏
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sedat Pakay James Baldwin, 1964-65
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
oh noooo ugh 🤮 I cannot imagine how you still have the patience or stomach for such things, mashallah, very impressive stamina! my sincere sympathies.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An incredible archive of Syrian social and political documentation from the Assad years and now, via Farrah H. syrianmemory.org?fbclid=IwY2x...
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أرشيف الثورة السورية
مشـروع الذاكـرةً السـورية هـو مشـروع علمـي بحثـي أنشـأه المركـز العربي للأبحـاث ودراسـة السياسـات في نهاية عـام 2018، بهـدفِ بناءِ أرشـيف موثّوق وشـامل للأحـداث منـذ انـدلاع الثـورةً السـورية في آذار/...
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ate this ENTIRE bowl of fattat hummus bilsamna for breakfast with a bunch of fresh and pickled chili peppers, and now I can't move. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️ an amateur error lol
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/10/2026
'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose 20% of mass in five years. Swiss glaciers saw 5.5% of their volume melt away just this year, the second-biggest melt on record, Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) network reports u.afp.com/S9B2
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Arab Center is doing excellent work over here, guys. I suppose Qatar must have paid a small fortune over the years to make this happen, and they continue to foot the bill as work is still ongoing of course. Truly a valuable public resource. Really good stuff!
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Does everyone already know about the impressive public database on national memories of the Syrian civil war?? This is an amazingly rich resource for researchers and students and anyone who is curious. There are 10,000 dissertation topics hiding in there!! Tell everyone! syrianmemory.org
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أرشيف الثورة السورية
مشـروع الذاكـرةً السـورية هـو مشـروع علمـي بحثـي أنشـأه المركـز العربي للأبحـاث ودراسـة السياسـات في نهاية عـام 2018، بهـدفِ بناءِ أرشـيف موثّوق وشـامل للأحـداث منـذ انـدلاع الثـورةً السـورية في آذار/...
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 30/09/2026
Haddon Barth for @syriatransition.bsky.social on how depictions of Syria as "rubble" – that is, a blank slate – make it easier to ignore the real politics of how Syria now rebuilds and resources are redistributed: www.syriaintransition.com/en/home/opin...
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Syria in Transition – Rubble as an 'Anti-Politics Machine'
Long a fixture of Syria policy writing, the metaphor has found a new political use under the Syrian authorities.
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 30/09/2026
In another case of press repression, Egyptian police arrested two editors from the Matsda2sh platform, Mohamed Ashraf and Abdullah Qadri, on September 28 after raiding their homes and confiscating their phones and laptops. 🧵
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pioneering Palestinian rapper, Antar has died. 💔 The story of a Gazan rapper in Cairo Mohammad Antar, a rapper from Gaza, on why he no longer has the words to describe the oppression he faced in Palestine and Egypt www.newarab.com/analysis/sto...
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The story of a Gazan rapper in Cairo
Mohammad Antar, a rapper from Gaza, on why he no longer has the words to describe the oppression he faced in Palestine and Egypt.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Paul Klee - Growth of Plants, 1921 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 22/09/2026
And also: Palestine had a cinema industry. My Jiddo Awad Mahli bought shares in it.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Repost: Things you should know but didn't know you needed to know before knowing: A nasothek is a collection of the broken noses of statues and busts. Now you know.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A deeply reported piece on how Lebanon's sovereignty is increasingly divided at the military level. nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/le...
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Lebanon and Hezbollah: Who Defends the Country?
As Hezbollah faces unprecedented pressure to disarm, Rania Abouzeid reports on the human and political implications of a longstanding question: Can the Lebanese state protect its people?
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
despite the fact that she cattily insulted me at a party in cairo over 20 years ago, I am still really happy that Assala is back to performing in damascus. 😂That little video of her receiving her father's oud after 15 yrs away was very touching. 🙏
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy birthday!🥳
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Folks asking for more details here ya go bsky.app/profile/five...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Police arrested human rights lawyer Noura Erakat during a Palm Beach County budget hearing. Over 100 residents were giving comments against the county’s $1 billion investment in Israel bonds. One commissioner insulted a protesting veteran, saying he was an embarrassment to his uniform.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is really shocking the degree to which Palestinians are spoken about as subjects to be managed rather than full human beings with agency. Even by people in supposedly supportive organizations. We have completely accepted the idea that Palestinians don't have a right to decide what they want.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 14/09/2026
Syrian deputy economy minister said yesterday increased fuel prices wouldn't affect bread bundle price or weight; ministry has lowered price of flour to compensate for additional production cost, effectively raising bread subsidies: sana.sy/economy/syri...
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نائب وزير الاقتصاد يؤكد ثبات سعر ووزن ربطة الخبز رغم ارتفاع أسعار المحروقات
أكد نائب وزير الاقتصاد والصناعة المهندس ماهر الحسن عدم وجود أي تغيير على سعر ربطة الخبز ولا على وزنها، بشكل قاطع ونهائي، رغم ارتفاع أسعار المحروقات على إثر الارتفاع الأخير في أسعار النفط عالمياً.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 11/09/2026
Outside of more actual organizing, the best thing the left could do tactically would be to develop propaganda literacy instead of collectively and constantly letting ourselves get walked around like a dog.
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
10.30am, watching a group of amiable middle-aged swiss dudes swiftly down pints of beer: inspiring! 😂 age ain't nothing but a number, for real lol
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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yet another staring ass Indian
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Daniel S Helman, PhD @helmandaniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
YES. 😍😍 why can't everyone be like you!!
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/09/2026
Not exactly what you want to read about your emergency nuclear comms links bylinetimes.com/2026/09/08/k...
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Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire
The Ministry of Defence has refused to clarify whether the catastrophic mid-air failure of the Trident relay system was a weather accident or sabotage
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Someone is doing 4-6 hours of this a day at a minimum. If you aren't doing it at all, someone is doing it FOR you.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every year when this comes up, on Labor Day, I want to remind people to read one of two books: 1) Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner (Katrine Marcal) 2) Finding Time (Heather Boushey) ....cos all you dudes do NOT factor in domestic labor, ever.
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
...was everyone else already aware that a fresh passionfruit goes wonderfully in a marinade? an accidental discovery while marinating chicken in lime, coriander, and habenero. 👍🏽
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good read on the practicalities of being stripped of the citizenship your family has taken for granted for generations overnight
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You go to bed Kuwaiti, you wake up stateless
Over the past two years, more than 70,000 people in Kuwait have been stripped of their nationality, according to the UN - that’s 4.5% of the population.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Lebanese Health Ministry says the Israeli attacks on the country since March 2 have resulted in 4,358 dead and 12,359 wounded, bringing the total toll since October 8, 2023 to 8,925 dead and 30,595 wounded.
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“This time it’s much different,” confirmed Jihad Samhat, a US army veteran who fled Aynata, a village on the wrong side of the yellow line. (...) “But then a week after, I get another satellite image of the village and the house is not there anymore. It’s dust.” edition.cnn.com/2026/08/06/m...
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The Americans losing homes to Israel’s war in Lebanon | CNN
Israel’s war in Lebanon has destroyed the homes of scores of American-Lebanese families. A group is preparing to file a civil lawsuit against the US on their behalf.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Hey kids, want to learn about joining a profession where you're paid too little to educate the youth all while getting attacked by illiberal state and nonstate actors and the institutions supposedly tasked with maintaining academic freedom do nothing???"
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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 31/08/2026
“In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment.” 😂😂😂 Oh man. Someone needs to pie Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg, and…
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
L'entarteur got BHL seven times! 😂 What a legend. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
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Noël Godin, Belgian anarchist known to his fans as L’Entarteur who deflated egos with custard pies
Noël Godin, who has died aged 80, was a Belgian anarchist who took the old English music-hall tradition of custard pie-throwing (entartement in French) and turned it into a political art form.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.inc.com/daniela-pier...
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Women Absorbed All of July's Job Losses. Here's What the Number Doesn't Tell You
Women bore all of July's job losses, and 845,000 have left the labor force since January. The numbers are a signal about what's driving women out and where they're headed.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
two words: Butlerian Jihad
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/08/2026
A little disappointed how much assessment of technofascism is based mainly on “Worst People analysis” and not social, structural, material, informatic or similar drivers and triggers.
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ف @rrahfa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My historically excellent luck encountering only kind and flexible CFF train conductors in Switzerland continues! 😍 ppl often complain about swiss rigidity but forget how absolutely tiny this country is, so if you ask nicely there's a high chance they will make an exception if they can. 🙏
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Tim Curry, the iconic character actor who starred as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," has died at 80.
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Tim Curry, iconic character actor and 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' star, dies at 80
Tim Curry has died at 80. The beloved character actor created a gallery of delicious, loony villains for stage and screen. Curry gained fame as Dr.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
An icon, a pillar, a legend, a bodhisattva, a living saint, a kind and decent person who tried to do right by what she was given. Good night, Dolly Parton. May your memory inspire many emulators. www.cbsnews.com/news/dolly-p...
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Dolly Parton, country music legend, dies at age 80
Dolly Parton became an icon over her six-decade career as a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, movie and TV star and theme park owner who donated millions to help others.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The idea that taking shortcuts, outsourcing your judgement, grifting etc makes you smart, not unethical, is what really grates. In fields that depend on self-regulation and ethics, it creates a race to the bottom.
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