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Walid El Houri

@walidhouri.bsky.social
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Editor in Chief @untoldmag.org | West Asia & North Africa Editor @globalvoices.org | Senior Communications Specialist Centre for Lebanese Studies

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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
What happens when billionaires treat dystopian science fiction as blueprint? @alirizataskale.bsky.social explores how sci-fi is being weaponized by Silicon Valley to centralize power and how we can reclaim the genre’s radical roots. Read on @untoldmag.org untoldmag.org/silicon-vall...
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How Silicon Valley Billionaires Use Sci-Fi to Rule – and How We Can Resist - Untold
Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Read this powerful and shilling investigation by Zina Qabbani for @untoldmag.org about yet another sadistic genocidal practice in Gaza, this time on Google Earth and its latest update. untoldmag.org/the-cartogra...
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The Cartographic War: How Google Earth Turned Gaza’s Ruins Into a Digital Battlefield - Untold
Google Earth’s latest images of Gaza reveal 'Haunted house' pins marking destroyed homes, exposing a chilling layer of digital mockery and psychological warfare.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Read Samanth Subramanian's powerful words on @globalvoices.org about Israel's latest journalist massacre & the murder of Anas al-Sharif, one more war crime to be added to an endless list of depraved genocidal violence, and the complicity of Western journalism: globalvoices.org/2025/08/12/t...
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The killing of Anas al-Sharif and Western journalism’s moral collapse
The West defends press freedom — unless the journalist is brown, Palestinian, and reports for an Arab outlet.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
My latest for @globalvoices.org : Israel’s recent demolition of Palestine’s last seed bank in Hebron is not just destruction, it’s a colonial act of erasure.
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Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
If you haven't yet, do read @reemalma.bsky.social 's brilliant and meticulous investigation into the complicity of Silicon Valley in the Israel's ongoing genocide and apartheid in Palestine on @untoldmag.org untoldmag.org/beyond-proje... This article was originally published in Ar by 7iber.com
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Beyond Project Nimbus: How Silicon Valley Fuels Israel’s War Machine - Untold
As Israel wages its genocidal war on Gaza, Big Tech’s investments in Israel show how Silicon Valley underwrites apartheid—by recruiting Unit 8200 veterans and embedding occupation tech into Google Clo...
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
What is the Kill Cloud and how is it changing war as we know it? What happens when your phone, data & mvt are part of a military target profile? What oversight exists, if any, when AI flags a person for a strike? Read my itv with whistleblower Lisa Ling @untoldmag.org untoldmag.org/invisible-sy...
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Invisible Systems, Endless Wars, and Hypermanned Killing Machines: Lisa Ling on AI, Surveillance, and the Future of Conflict - Untold
War is no longer confined to battlefields, it’s embedded in everyday tech with global data networks being weaponized with little oversight or accountability.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
My latest for @globalvoices.org When did genocide stop shocking us? globalvoices.org/2025/07/07/h...
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How two shocking stories from Gaza barely made global headlines
What happens when the siege itself becomes a tool of extermination? In Gaza, hunger, contaminated aid, and targeted killings expose a brutality that the world seems willing to accept.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My latest on @globalvoices.org Egypt’s strategy continues to attract scrutiny. Activists, aid organizations, and legal experts are urging accountability, not just of Israel’s blockade, but of regional enablers like Egypt. globalvoices.org/2025/06/13/s...
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Solidarity under siege: Egypt cracks down on Palestine support movement
Under the pretext of national security and diplomatic stability, the regime is actively preventing humanitarian engagements and criminalizing solidarity.
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 26/05/2025
Until the siege is lifted and the bombs stop falling, Gaza will remain a place where people grieve without bodies, bury without names, because even sorrow is under occupation. 📎 Read Husam Maarouf’s report on @untoldmag.org 2u.pw/vjn42 #Gaza #Palestine #RightToMourn #HumanRights #UntoldMag
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“I Carry Their Grave Wherever I Go": Gaza’s Endless Grief and Unknown Bodies - Untold
With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My latest on @globalvoices.org On May 2 one @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ship, was struck by drones in international waters near #Malta, en route to deliver food and medical supplies and 30 global peace activists including climate activist Greta Thunberg to #Gaza globalvoices.org/2025/05/06/t...
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The Conscience under attack: A story of aid, silence, and starvation
As Gaza faces mass starvation, a humanitarian flotilla carrying aid was bombed — while governments looked away.
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
GLOBAL VOICES: Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates globalvoices.org/2025/05/02/s... @globalvoices.org @walidhouri.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime
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Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates
As the toll mounts, so too does the sense of abandonment felt by Gaza’s journalists who continue to witness and report in the most difficult conditions.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
For World Press Freedom Day, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mohammed Al-Fazari, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Muwatin, about the outlet’s vital coverage of the Gulf region & the challenges of practicing journalism in exile. Read on @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/05/03/j...
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Journalism in exile: Muwatin’s fight for independent media in the Gulf
Exiled in London, Mohammed Al-Fazari leads Muwatin, a London-based independent media outlet reporting on Gulf issues, facing state censorship, funding challenges, and the risks of exile journalism.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In the wake of #WorkersDay & with #PressFreedomDay around the corner, we must recognize those whose labor brings us the truth about the ongoing Israeli genocide in Palestine as well as its war crimes in Lebanon and beyond. My latest article on @globalvoices.org: globalvoices.org/2025/05/02/s...
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Silenced witnesses: Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at historic rates
As the toll mounts, so too does the sense of abandonment felt by Gaza’s journalists who continue to witness and report in the most difficult conditions.
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 01/05/2025
On #internationalworkersday, we share some of our stories uncovering the hidden labor, exploitation, struggles & lives of the #workers shaping our world from Brazil to Myanmar, Bangladesh to Syria & elsewhere untoldmag.org/category/dossiers/hid…  #workersday #mayday #laborday
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Hidden Labor Archives - Untold
<h1 style="text-align: center"><strong>Hidden Labor</strong></h1> <p>Uncovering the exploitation, struggles, and lives of the workers shaping our world</p>
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics were found in Gaza, executed with their hands tied — a chilling symbol of Israel’s systematic attacks on healthcare workers during its war on Gaza. My latest on @untoldmag.org untoldmag.org/across-war-z... 1/6
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Across War Zones, Targeting Healthcare has Become a Strategy, not an Accident - Untold
Deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My latest on @globalvoices.org On world health day, remember that deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of Itl law. Nowhere has this been more devastating than in Israel's systematic targeting of Gaza's healthcare globalvoices.org/2025/04/07/a...
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Across war zones, targeting healthcare has become a strategy, not an accident
Attacks on healthcare are escalating. From bombed hospitals, targeted ambulances, to abducted doctors, a global pattern of impunity is threatening the lives of millions.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My latest on @globalvoices.org: The Sudan case comes amid growing global scrutiny of UAE military alliances, including its deepening ties with Israel despite accusations of genocide in Gaza globalvoices.org/2025/03/15/a...
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Another test for international justice: Sudan takes the UAE to the ICJ over its complicity in genocide
Sudan’s case against the UAE at the ICJ challenges state complicity in war crimes, raising questions about the limits of international law in an era of growing impunity
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Had the pleasure of interviewing Joseph Daher on what his case of repression and dismissal means for academic freedom and how we can resist the global trend of suppressing scholars, journalists, and activists who speak out on Palestine
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Highly recommended story
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My latest on @globalvoices.org From Syria to Gaza, and Lebanon, Israel's military aggression is breaching itl agreements, laws, and limits with no repercussions Normalized by western allies and Arab complicity, they are threatening the relevance of itl law worldwide globalvoices.org/2025/02/27/i...
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Israel escalates strikes in Syria amid post-Assad transition: A pattern of regional expansion
As Syria rebuilds post-Assad, Israel launches more attacks, disrupting the national dialogue and asserting control over southern Syria as part of a regional escalation.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Many of the things that were obvious to many long before Trump, are now out in the open: The lack of freedom of expression in US media, the US destructive role in the world and support for brutal regimes, or the US' complete subservience to big corporations, and many more to go
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
On his 1st day as likely future chancellor of Germany, Merz calls Netanyahu, wanted for war crimes by the ICC to tell him that he will continue to trample on International Law while posturing about how law abiding German society is (except for trivial things like international law and genocide)
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Summary of the German election results: the parties that celebrated, supported, armed, and defended the genocide and terrorized immigrants, lost to the parties that want to be even more involved in the genocide while also mass deporting immigrants. And FYI, there is nothing left in the 'Left' party
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
My latest on @globalvoices.org Not only is Morocco arresting those who stand in solidarity with Palestinians, and allowing Israeli weapons to pass by its ports, it is also buying and perhaps manufacturing Israeli weapons tested on Gazans during a genocide globalvoices.org/2025/02/19/m...
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Morocco deepens ties with Israel’s arms industry amid genocide allegations
Elbit Systems’ ‘battle-tested’ weapons, now sold to Morocco, have been used in Gaza, where leading experts describe Israel’s actions as war crimes and potential genocide.
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 17/02/2025
Read our latest investigation in collaboration with The New Arab and Statewatch on how the EU-backed deportation machine operates—and what it means for refugees’ futures untoldmag.org/trapped-deta...
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
WANA trade relations shifted in 25 years with China becoming the dominant trade partner, while US influence is increasingly backed by military force. With Trump's latest threats, which countries are still dependent on the US? My latest for @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/02/14/t...
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Trade wars and military threats: The battle for economic influence in WANA
As China cements its role as WANA’s top trading partner, US military dominance — unchecked by international law — poses a counterbalance, threatening the region’s future.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Must-read investigation about one of the most influential entities in the region
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 13/02/2025
Read our latest investigation: What’s the true cost of Saudi Arabia’s trillion-dollar ambitions? untoldmag.org/a-man-with-a...
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A man with a crown and unchecked power: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund - Untold
The PIF’s rapid expansion cements Saudi Arabia’s global position but exposes human rights abuses, financial secrecy, and its role in whitewashing authoritarian rule through sports, AI, and mega-projec...
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We are at a moment in history - once again - where a head of state can declare his intention of taking the land and homes of an indigenous population, ethnically cleanse it, mass murder them or send them into reservations or whatever, and turn it into a resort for another people.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
For a year and a half of live-streamed genocide, the Western worldview, built on a long racist colonial history, would look at these two pictures and tell us that one is a threat to the world and other is its savior. The only difference today is that one of the two white men has orange hair
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
So at which point can we start calling the US and Israel, rogue states?
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Great to see all these images of Germans demonstrating against fascism. This means that indeed they do have the ability to both recognize fascism and to demonstrate and mobilize against it. However, too bad that for over 15 months we did not see these crowds take to the streets in such fervour. 1/5
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Snippets from the first Trump day: White South African billionaire Elon Musk performs, not one, but two, nazi salutes, proudly and happily, on stage while celebrating the win of conservative fascism against liberal fascism. 1/5
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Happy to announce that @untoldmag.org is now on Bluesky! Follow us, and let us know what you think of the content we are publishing. And if you want to contribute to the magazine, please get in touch! untoldmag.org
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Transnational editorial room hosting critical debates and coverage of the interconnected local, regional, and global issues that characterize our world.
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 19/01/2025
With its false narratives, Zionist propaganda bluntly weaponises queer Palestinians, in service of a genocide.
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No pride in genocide: A comic strip - Untold
With its false narratives, Zionist propaganda bluntly weaponises queer Palestinians, in service of a genocide.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
A perfect reflection of #Germany, where Islamophobia & racism are systemic, institutional and widely public: This is DW, which for over a year, justified Israel's genocide in Gaza with racist double standards & shameful reporting Read this investigation on @thenewarab.bsky.social
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Islamophobia vs. antisemitism: Deutsche Welle’s double standard
While DW fires journalists over antisemitism allegations, a leaked internal complaint shows it fails to apply the same standards in instances of Islamophobia.
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Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
My latest for @globalvoices.org on a #ceasefire in #Gaza that came 466 harrowing days and countless innocent deaths too late. globalvoices.org/2025/01/18/a... 1/4
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After 466 days of war, a ceasefire is declared in Gaza, to begin on Biden’s last day in office
Gaza’s ceasefire brings temporary relief after wide accusations of genocide against Israel, raising urgent questions of justice, rebuilding, and future peace prospects.
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