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Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Thread. The Reuters' investigation into the massive wealth accumulation of al-Sharaa and his inner circle is important, but this take on a sovereign wealth fund is off. A country with Syria's urgent needs requires a reconstruction fund, not an SWF. syrianobserver.com/syrian-actor...
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A Scandal Shakes the Throne of Damascus’ New Ruler: “Give Them a Chance”? - The Syrian Observer
An investigation exposes how Sharaa’s inner trio—Hazem, the Australian, and Zurba—took control of 80% of the financial empire once owned by Mohammad Hamsho and Yasar Ibrahim in exchange for legal immu...
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AOC, un quotidien d'idées @aoc-media.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
À la notable exception de la matinale de France Inter – avec les 80 secondes de Nicolas Demorand – aucun média ne s’est fait l’écho du nouveau numéro du magazine papier d’AOC consacré au « Fascisme 2.0 ». Nous comptons sur vous pour le faire connaître. C’est décisif. aoc.media/produit/maga...
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Magazine #2 - Fascisme 2.0Été 2025 - AOC media - Analyse Opinion Critique
Magazine #2 - Fascisme 2.0Été 2025 sur AOC.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Mon entretien avec The Conversation concernant les violences à Suwayda theconversation.com/au-sud-de-la...
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Au sud de la Syrie, les affrontements entre les Druzes et les Bédouins ravivent le spectre des divisions communautaires
Des combats font rage entre la communauté druze et bédouine au sud de la Syrie, ravivant les pires traumatises de la guerre civile.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Very interesting report by Gregory Waters with a wealth of first-and information carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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Local Governance in Post-Assad Syria: A Hybrid State Model for the Future?
Damascus is increasingly adopting a system of rule that combines centralized and localized forms of administration and security maintenance, an approach that seems suited to the needs of a country fra...
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
In Syria, it's Trump vs. Trump: Will he be remembered as the man who gave Syria “a chance at greatness” or as the man who thwarted its post-Assad transition? 👉 Read my latest for @foreignpolicy.com! foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/16/t...
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QalaatAlMudiq @qalaatalmudiq.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
S. #Syria: mosques in Lajat (important tribal area in #Daraa province) called for mobilization following the retaliations against the Bedouins in #Suwayda. Tribes from other parts of Syria are also mobilizing. Clashes between tribal & Druze fighters also reported in different areas in Suwayda.
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QalaatAlMudiq @qalaatalmudiq.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
S. #Syria: an example of the current situation unfolding in #Suwayda province and the settling of scores: a fighter, reportedly affiliated with Hijri, broke the tomb of Wahid al-Balous, the founder of the "Men of Dignity Movement" and father of pro-government figure Laith al-Balous.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
When Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah last year, Palestinian Islamist Hudhayfa 'Azzam warned the Syrian rebels: instead of celebrating, you should start digging tunnels now, he told them, because you're next. I didn't think it would take less than a year for this forecast to prove correct.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Al-Shara probably made his first major error by launching a full-scale attack on Suwayda. He did so because he apparently overestimated US ability to rein in Israel. He thought he could make yet another successful poker move when in fact he should have continued to play chess with al-Hijri.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Mes commentaires sur la situation à Soueïda pour RFI www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
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Invité international - Frappes israéliennes à Soueïda: «On serait peut-être au début d'une bataille de longue haleine»
Violences meurtrières entre combattants druzes et bédouins depuis deux jours à Soueïda. L'aviation israélienne a bombardé ce mardi 15 juillet les forces gouvernementales syriennes après leur entrée da...
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
But would that fundamentally change Syria's position on the Golan? Damascus would simply claim that Shebaa is part of the occupied Golan, that's it. More difficult in Lebanon, as you explain.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Would that work as well if the Syrian government formally claimed sovereignty over Shebaa farms (which to my knowledge it has never done)? If the Lebanese government agrees then officially, there are no occupied Lebanese territories any more.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Televangelism as a phenomenon/ genre is often thought of as exclusively Christian (Prot, oft Pentecostal). Cf. the reporting on the recent passing of Jimmy Swaggart - crazy coincidence that my post came out the same day. But it’s been a growing trend across religions, including Islam, for decades.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
One more thought: given how much power is personalized in the new Syrian regime, the president's own class background probably matters a lot as well.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Even after Dec 2024, dependence on the global capitalist system is not the whole picture: alliance with the urban bourgeoisie for purpose of regime stabilization should also be factored in.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This is an interesting piece, but I think the authors underestimate the depth of the new Syrian leaders' adhesion to neoliberal economics, which was already patent when they were ruling over Idlib.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Thanks a lot!
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 27/06/2025
Haaretz team interviews Israeli soldiers and officers who describe Israeli army's live-fire crowd control methods – including with grenades, mortars, and artillery fire – regularly killing and wounding desperate Gazans approaching food distribution points: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I'm not saying they want. My point is that when things go south in the region (and the often do), guns are more important than money.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Saudi-Syrian dynamics in post-civil war Lebanon are a good illustration of the limits of a regional strategy based on money alone
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I think the latter take overestimates the "leadership" of Gulf states. They've never been able to project military power in the part of the Middle East that matters most to Turkey (Syria/Iraq).
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Je suis d'accord. Je pense juste que "prêcher les convaincus" n'est pas une perte de temps et que ça doit sans doute même être une priorité.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Je n'ai jamais dit l'inverse. Mon propos est que ce n'est pas à eux que sont destinés les écrits théoriques sur les différentes formes de domination.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Évidemment mais il ne faut pas trop compter sur la force des arguments rationnels pour empêcher ça.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
On n'écrit pas pour convaincre le gens d'en face (sauf si on a du temps à perdre)
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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Erdogan announced plans this week to step up Turkey’s missile production. Some see it as a sign that the Israel-Iran war could trigger an arms race in the region, with countries aiming to build deterrence and preempt future conflicts Via @suzanfraser.bsky.social apnews.com/article/turk...
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Erdogan vows to boost Turkey's missile production as Israel-Iran war escalates
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will strengthen its deterrence capabilities so that no country would dare attack it.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
J'avais bien compris que ce n'est pas votre premier colloque 🙂
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Si ça peut vous remonter le moral : c'était exactement ma première expérience de colloque quand j'étais doctorant, si ce n'est qu'en plus, il y avait Mathieu Bock-Côté dans mon panel ...
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I'm old enough to remember a time when covering up the murder of a single child (Muhammad al-Durra) required elaborate conspiracy theories. Golden days in retrospect.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sorry, answer is in the piece. So they do, but who cares anyway?
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Another day, another shooting at a GHF-controlled handout center in Gaza. @jasonburke2.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Genuine question: do the Israelis even try to "justify" these daily massacres? It seems hasbara has become unnecessary.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/06/2025
Palestinian photojournalist Abdel Rahim Khudr breaks down after discovering the loss of 48 family members in an Israeli air attack that hit his home in northern Gaza on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
C'est un mythe. Les USA ont armé les rebelles afghans mais vraisemblablement pas les volontaires étrangers comme Ben Laden, qui étaient militairement insignifiants dans la lutte contre les Soviétiques (je ne dis évidemment pas ça pour défendre la politique israélienne ...)
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Custom is that the Eid prayer isn't led by the most senior scholar in the place (in this case Grand Mufti Usama al-Rifa'i) but by the preacher of the mosque where the president attends (meaning, 'Atun is the presidential palace's chaplain).
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A modern equivalent to Jordanian monarchy's Caucasian guards
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Important eyewitness accounts of the March massacres www.syriarevisited.com/p/baniyas-ma...
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Baniyas Massacre Through the Eyes of Survivors
An Alawite and a Christian activist recount March 6 and its impact on their city.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
France’s Muslim Brotherhood report is manufacturing a threat url:https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/france-muslim-brotherhood-report-securing-2026-elections-manufacturing-threat
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Vilain Syndicaliste @vilainsyndicaliste.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"Dans leurs réponses, Autain et Ruffin valident le diagnostic posé par le rapport, et vont même jusqu’à reprendre à leur compte certaines de ses recommandations." On comprend mieux pourquoi il et elle ont rompu avec LFI. tsedek.fr/2025/05/28/r...
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« Entrisme islamiste » : le conspirationnisme islamophobe déchaîné de la bourgeoisie
La diffusion du rapport parlementaire sur « l’entrisme islamiste » en France et l’influence supposée des Frères musulmans marque une étape supplémentaire dans le développement de discours et d’acte…
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Israel working hard to repair Syrian-Iranian ties
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Join our online book launch on Friday, May 30 · 7:30 - 9pm EEST. Hosted by the Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies at Royal Holloway University of London www.eventbrite.com/e/utopianism...
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Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa | Online Book Launch
Ever thought about futuristic cities, atomic dreams, or prison-built utopias in the Middle East? Join our book launch to explore more!
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
C'est le principe des théorie du complot dirigées contre les minorités, juive hier, musulmane aujourd'hui. Coût politique nul, puisque la cible est faible, et revenu maximal. Et c'est la Cour elle-même qui donne le mauvais exemple en la matière depuis 6 ans.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Benjamin Fève on drought in Syria
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Ringing the Alarm Bells Syria May Be Facing Its Worst Drought in Decades
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Le traitement médiatique du rapport sur les Frères Musulmans est consternant. Et on ne parle pas que des médias divers-droites-extrêmes. Aucun recul critique, une simple chambre d'écho de la com gouvernementale.
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Islamophobie. La fabrique d'un soupçon
L’ouvrage de Hamza Esmili, érudit et percutant, offre une réponse rare et salutaire à la stigmatisation des musulmans en France. Face à l’actualité marquée (…)
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...
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Islamophobie. La fabrique d'un soupçon
L’ouvrage de Hamza Esmili, érudit et percutant, offre une réponse rare et salutaire à la stigmatisation des musulmans en France. Face à l’actualité marquée (…)
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thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Les propos de Kelly montrent que dans la logique complotiste et islamophobe qui sous-tend l'usage actuel de la notion d'entrisme, l'appartenance réelle ou supposée aux Frères Musulmans n'a aucune importance. La chasse aux musulmans (tous les musulmans) est ouverte.
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