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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi

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🎥Executive Producer @ajplus.net 🇸🇾 Damascus resident until 2011 🇬🇧🇾🇪British-Yemeni ✍️ Social justice | Arab World

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 23/01/2025
This took me back to the streets of Damascus. I couldn’t press pause. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking. By Dima Khatib: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
abc.net.au
Return to Damascus - ABC listen
After more than a decade in exile, Syrian-Palestinian journalist Dima Khatib returns home to Damascus, where she says it would take a year to document the horrors of just one street. Dima revisits the...
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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I want rights for everyone in Syria, but Germany and France should learn to treat their own minorities well before staging meetings with Syrian minorities as if it were 1860. The Germans should stop participating in the slaughter of Palestinian women before worrying about Syrian women.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 31/12/2024
Life at SANA, Syria’s state news agency, where fiction became reality:
theguardian.com
Control, censorship and ‘penalties’: inside the Assad regime’s propaganda arm
For years reporters at Syria’s state news agency had to toe the line. As life in Syria grew harder, so did the their work
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 28/12/2024
This is excellent by Sami Moubayed for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com
A Firsthand Account of the Liberation of Damascus
Bashar al-Assad might have wanted his fall to precipitate chaos, but in Syria’s capital, order prevails and life is improving
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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So disgusting. The absolute moral and political depravity of these people ...
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Get your pith helmets ready, boys! It’s colonizer time.
WSJ Opinion: The Middle East is Up for Grabs
Dec 15. 2024
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 18/12/2024
The view from Latakia:
newlinesmag.com
The Fall of ‘Mr. President’s Province’
Latakia, long Assad’s heartland, is grappling with the prospect of a new era
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 17/12/2024
This is how colonisation works, in three photos.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 17/12/2024
Another story of how Assad abandoned the people around him in his last minutes:
france24.com
A palace in shock: Bashar al-Assad's final moments in Syria
Hours before rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was already out of the country, telling hardly anyone, five former officials told AFP.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 16/12/2024
One of the most horrific things I’ve read since the liberation: “We ask families for old photos where their loved ones are smiling because, as a body rots, the face starts to smile.” By @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com
Families Seek Closure at a Damascus Morgue
Syrians are combing through bodies to identify loved ones executed in Assad regime prisons
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 16/12/2024
The decades of crimes and theft of this family. Rifaat’s theft has been known for many, many years. But European authorities have sat on their hands.
theguardian.com
Assad uncle used Guernsey adviser to secretly manage vast wealth
Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘Butcher of Hama’, identified as client of consultant who received ban and fine this year
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 13/12/2024
👋🏽
washingtonpost.com
Live Briefing: Russia packing up military equipment in Syria, satellite imagery shows
Images released by Maxar on Friday show cargo planes at a Russian airfield in Syria with their nose cones opened to receive heavy equipment.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 13/12/2024
Is Assad’s fall a loss for Palestine? x.com/ajplus/statu...
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Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Now, from inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus… 💚✌️✌️
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 13/12/2024
Assad’s final moments in Syria: begging for help, and then betraying those he was closest to. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
reuters.com
Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Instead, aides, officials and even relatives were deceived or kept in the dark, more than a dozen people with knowledge of the events told Reuters.
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Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com · 12/12/2024
IMPORTANT: Kurdish Admin in North East Syria has ordered all government buildings in SDF controlled areas to raise the Syrian revolution flag. “The flag embodies the hopes of the Syrian people for freedom, dignity and national unity” - statement
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 12/12/2024
As is this: syria-report.com/editorial-wi...
syria-report.com
Editorial: With Bashar Al-Assad Gone, Syrians Now Have a Say in their Future (Open Access)
The unimaginable has happened. Bashar Al-Assad, one of the bloodiest criminals of the past decades, is finally gone. After 12 days of fighting, the whole edifice that Hafez Al-Assad and his son had bu...
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 12/12/2024
This is a really interesting thread, for anyone thinking about Syria’s future:
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 12/12/2024
Western journalists should not be liberating Syrian prisoners. Syrians deserve dignity. Going in to a prison cell and mumbling English words at a prisoner whose response is to think you’re coming to harm him is… NOT journalism. There are Syrians with you. Let them do it. Step back. Give space.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It's never been about evidence for Aaron Mate and his ilk, it's just about ideology, and finding anything that fits their narrative and boosting it as much as possible to their audience until it bounces around their echochamber enough to convince everyone in it that it's the truth.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 10/12/2024
Can we please stop humoring the tankies. If they claim to support Palestine while also being Assad apologists, they don’t really care about Arab lives. Palestine won’t be liberated over the dead bodies of Syrians. No one is free until we’re all free.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 10/12/2024
This was a few days before Bashar fell. That country is consistently on the wrong side of history: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Palestine…
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 10/12/2024
This is heartbreaking. This is just the tip of the iceberg of pain x.com/ajplus/statu...
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 09/12/2024
A short history of Israel’s occupation of Syria:
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 09/12/2024
Dawn in Damascus by @kshaheen.bsky.social will make you cry
newlinesmag.com
Dawn in Damascus
In the end, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to say to the country he bludgeoned and bled, but what matters now is that his ‘forever’ rule is over
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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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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 09/12/2024
Israel has expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights. Some background: When I went to Quneitra, the capital of the Golan, I expected to see people living there. But it has been a ghost city for generations, here’s why 🧵
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024
This isn’t a bunker, it’s an entire underground city. This is how scared the Assad family was of the Syrian people. Didn’t save them, though, did it?
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024
Bashar has been granted asylum by Russia. Just think about how Syrians had to plead and wait and plead and wait for asylum in Europe and … in many cases, were forced to return to Syria. But kill 600,000 people and we’ll give you asylum the same day.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024
Anyone else not want to clear notifications because keeping hold of this feels… right
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024
Stfu NYT
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024
The Syrian people are free. The Palestinians will be next.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024
Never forget Hama. This is the Assad family’s legacy:
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024
4 February 2011. The Syrian uprising was about to begin. I knew this would be the last time I would see this monstrosity of a statue in Damascus. I just never imagined I would see a free Syria in my lifetime.
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Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com · 07/12/2024
BREAKING: An uprising is now taking place in Arbin of Damascus, where residents are tearing down pictures of Assad.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 07/12/2024
The gift of liberation: freeing political prisoners who have spent a lifetime behind bars. The Assad regime had a strategy of mass detentions, torture and killing. Its prisons are industrial level torture factories. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
theguardian.com
‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
Family members describe renewed hopes after decades-long searches for political detainees in ‘Kingdom of Silence’
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The Syria Campaign @thesyriacampaign.org · 05/12/2024
After decades of brutal and oppressive rule, Hama city is free from the Assad regime. The Syrian regime just announced withdrawal from the city as armed opposition armed groups have advanced to take control. Support the people of Syria ✌🏽 #EyesOnSyria
Hama is free from Assad regime after decades of oppression
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 06/12/2024
Syria still matters: • 2/3 of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes • 7 million are refugees, another 7 million are displaced within Syria • Syria has the world’s largest refugee crisis So let’s not be surprised that Syrians rose up again to reclaim their homes A history 🧵
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 06/12/2024
Yes Bisan! 💪🏽 www.ft.com/womenof2024 via @jonlaurence.bsky.social
ft.com
The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2024
This year we celebrate the women remaking the world we live in today
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 03/12/2024
Rasha Elass from Damascus for @newlinesmag.bsky.social: Assad’s long breakup with Iran continues… but what happens next? newlinesmag.com/argument/ass...
newlinesmag.com
Assad Was Disengaging From Iran, but His Next Steps Are Unclear
In Damascus, it has recently felt like change was afoot, and after the fall of Aleppo anything could happen
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Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#Syria MAP UPDATE: the situation in Syria as of 01/12/2024. After almost five years of frozen frontlines the #Assad regime has collapsed all over the northwest. Rebel forces captured #Aleppo city and advanced as far south as N Hama Download larger file: mediafire.com/file/oqaq78v1e…
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 01/12/2024
Happy new metro day, Riyadh www.traffictechnologytoday.com/news/public-...
traffictechnologytoday.com
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, opens new six-line metro system | Traffic Technology Today
His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has inaugurated the Riyadh Metro – a brand new mass transiet system that will carry up to 3.6 million
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 30/11/2024
People on Bluesky posting about Arab culture, music, arts… who should I follow?
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“We have posts that are exactly the same on Twitter and on Bluesky, and with those identical posts, Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter” www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
nbcnews.com
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 30/11/2024
It’s an amazing feeling not being able to find a parking space. The more cyclists the better ❤️🚲 The Amsterdamisation continues
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 30/11/2024
What the Lebanon ceasefire means to Israel: • Israel tanks opening fire in at least 4 areas • Israel continuing its illegal occupation of Lebanon Colonialism doesn’t understand peace.
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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 30/11/2024
David should watch our output. Every day, Al Jazeera journalists and many others risk their lives to tell the stories of genocide. And they’re deliberately targeted by Israel because of it.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The more I think about this, the more horrific this is from David Lammy. Minimising, dehumanising and dangerous stuff from the Foreign Secretary that disregards Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Already being targeted by Israel, this puts them in further danger and jeopardy.
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