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Sarra Ahmed

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Paediatrician. Wife. Mother. Other. Trying to make sense of this world. Free Sudan 🇸🇩. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Free Congo 🇨🇩 ✊🏾

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 23/11/2025
The new evidence is grim: Brexit has made Britain is smaller, poorer and less productive. No wonder Reeves found a black hole in the budget. It’s been carved out by a decade of lost growth of 6-8% - a hit of £180-£240bn - that’s far worse than was predicted.
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New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
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Tom Gaisford @tomgaisfordwriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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The Adventure of a Lifetime:
when I unwittingly became Chris Martin
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Sarra Ahmed @sazzler.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My talented husband ❤️❤️❤️
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Tom Gaisford @tomgaisfordwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A bit more about me and the book… @cintopress.bsky.social @bathpublishing.bsky.social
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Tom Gaisford @tomgaisfordwriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
'Sanctuary was conceived in the arrivals queue at Stansted airport. It was my first time and the whole thing was over in a matter of seconds.' Little piece I wrote on the highs and lows of writing my debut novel, #Sanctuary. open.substack.com/pub/tomgaisf...
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Beware the Muse...
On writing my debut novel, Sanctuary
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Lucy Popescu @lucyjpop.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Two books for #RefugeeWeek: Determination by #TawseefKhan and Sanctuary by #TomGaisford camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/i-wo... @counterpoints.org.uk #refugeeswelcome @refugeeaction.bsky.social @newjournal.bsky.social
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‘I would finish a scene, only to witness it play out in real life a short while later’
In Refugee Week, Lucy Popescu talks to two debut authors about the UK asylum system
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Tom Gaisford @tomgaisfordwriter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Forty Years of Avoidable Deaths at Sea
My interview with Rafael Quirós - June 2025, Zahara de los Atunes, Cádiz
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/06/2025
‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation
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‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation
The Irish rap trio have recently faced censure and a court case, but have also had support for their pro-Palestine stance. Ahead of a Glastonbury appearance deemed ‘inappropriate’ by Keir Starmer, they argue the backlash against them is a deliberate distraction
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/06/2025
A group of Israeli soldiers held a birthday party in a Palestinian home in the town of Jaba, in the occupied West Bank, after raiding and forcibly evicting the residents.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
By forcibly confining the Palestinians of Gaza within impassable bounds, while at the same time slaughtering and starving them within this confined space, the State of Israel has made a mockery of the slogan, “Never Again.”
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This war is the dark stain of our era, the final nail in the coffin of the liberal international order, and a testing ground for our collective abandonment of the utopia of a different world. This is the blind spot that, since left unaddressed, has consumed everything else #gaza #israel #palestine
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Treat Israel as a pariah state
Jean-Pierre Filiu’s words must be read closely — how, with surgical precision and without ever giving in to rhetorical excess, as he lays bare what Israel is doing in Gaza.His book, “Un Historien à...
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The Progressive International is standing, along with DiEM25, behind the March to Gaza. progressive.international/observatory/...
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We are mobilizing to Cairo. Here's why.
Members of the Progressive International prepare for the March to Gaza.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/06/2025
Videos show Israeli air attacks levelling residential buildings in Gaza, reducing them to rubble amid Israel's ongoing war on the besieged enclave.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/06/2025
Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters part of deliberate strategy, say sources
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Israeli strikes on Gaza schools used as civilian shelters part of deliberate strategy, say sources
Exclusive: More schools identified as targets after controls on IDF action against Hamas operatives at civilian sites loosened A series of recent deadly airstrikes on school buildings sheltering displaced people in Gaza were part of a deliberate Israeli military bombing strategy, with further schools identified as targets, the Guardian has learned. At least six school buildings have been struck, reportedly killing more than 120 people, in recent months as part of a targeting effort by the Israeli military. Continue reading...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
50,000 children in Gaza have been killed or severely wounded. Thats one in 20 children Starvation now.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Bono and Thom Yorke in an open top car, driving through Gaza to give their opinions
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/06/2025
Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says
Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation More than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies. Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/05/2025
Man. I just got an email saying that Gaza is biggest spiritual crisis for Jews since the Holocaust and like ... the problem in Gaza isn't a Jewish spiritual crisis you guys, it's a fucking colonial genocide.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Is the war in Gaza different now or are you just recognizing it for what it's been all along?
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 28/05/2025
La Nobel Annie Ernaux y otros 700 escritores denuncian el genocidio de Israel en Gaza: "Es injustificable" www.eldiario.es/cultura/700-...
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Jason @jasonfest.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Israel's land grab campaign continues. Gaza, West Bank, and Syria.
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Democracia real YA! #7292 @democraciarealya.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#Gaza por Carlos Latuff
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NPR @npr.org · 29/05/2025
More than 300 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed a letter calling for immediate aid and a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Hundreds of writers call for Gaza ceasefire and aid
More than 300 writers from the UK and Ireland have signed a letter calling for immediate aid and a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?” The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War, writes @jehadabusalim.bsky.social for Zeteo, but a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire. Read/share/subscribe:
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Why Did Burning Girls Matter in Vietnam but Not in Gaza?
The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War – but a viral video of a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2025
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/05/2025
Palestinians in Gaza recount journeys to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites, as starvation looms.
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‘Not aid, but humiliation’: A desperate search for food in Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza recount journeys to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites, as starvation looms.
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Hannibal Lecter 🦋 @hannibal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Israelíes destruyendo la ayuda humanitaria para Gaza. Sin comentarios.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/05/2025
It’s time for Israel to halt its war of devastation in Gaza | Ehud Olmert
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It’s time for Israel to halt its war of devastation in Gaza | Ehud Olmert
The indiscriminate, cruel and criminal killing of civilians may see us be banished from the family of nations and summoned to the ICC, with no good defense
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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LIVE BLOG: Gaza Aid Distribution Collapse amid Continued Israeli Violence | UK Lawyers Demand Sanctions - Day 598
A video circulating on social media shows a Yemeni missile flying over occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” he said. Not an antisemite. www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The unprecedented shattering of taboos shielding Israel from accountability.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/05/2025
Former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’ www.timesofisrael.com/former-pm-ol...
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Former PM Olmert tells BBC Israeli actions in Gaza ‘close to a war crime’
Comments criticizing war spark immediate backlash from right-wing politicians, who accuse him of 'stabbing soldiers in the back'
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Stop selling Israel weapons. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israeli strike kills nine of Gaza doctor's children, hospital says
A British surgeon working in Nasser Hospital said he had operated on the doctor's surviving 11-year-old.
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
watching people still deny that israel is conducting a genocide even while israel drops all pretext that their motivation in gaza is not genocide
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/05/2025
Israel investigates use of Palestinians as human shields by its forces in Gaza
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Israel investigates use of Palestinians as human shields by its forces in Gaza
IDF says practice ‘strictly prohibited’ after report of incidents quoting both Palestinians and Israeli troops Israel is investigating “several cases” involving soldiers who have forced Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen. “The use of Palestinians as human shields, or otherwise coercing them to participate in military operations, is strictly prohibited in IDF [Israel Defense Forces] orders,” the Israeli army said in a statement. Continue reading...
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A girl in Gaza AFTER and BEFORE the starvation imposed on Palestinians by the world's ..."most moral army"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/05/2025
What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
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What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi
When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/05/2025
UN chief Antonio Guterres says Palestinians in Gaza are enduring “the cruelest phase” of Israel's war. He denounced Israel’s blockade, calling the 400 trucks cleared to enter Gaza so far “a teaspoon of aid” when “a flood of assistance is required.”
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Unicef estimates that between 3000 and 4000 children in Gaza have had their limbs amputated- the most in recorded history.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Free Palestine. Don't stop talking about Gaza.
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Comentadora Tortuga @comentadortortuga.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“Gaza es el colapso moral absoluto. El mundo que había antes de Gaza pertenece a otra era” Pankaj Mishra
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Well put together summary of the experts (incl yours truly!) who say #Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza #Palestine. #intLaw
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