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The personal account of Issandr El Amrani, author of The Arabist blog. Mostly MENA politics and culture. Usual caveats apply. Also at @[email protected]
Very proud to see my friend, the fantastic Magnum photographer Moises Saman, win a Pulitzer for his work for The New Yorker. The magazine got two more Pulitzers, including for the work of the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha on Gaza. https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-new-yorker-wins-three-2025-pulitzer-prizes
The New Yorker Wins Three 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

The awards honor Mosab Abu Toha’s commentary on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza; Moises Saman’s photographs of Syria after Assad, and the third season of the In the Dark podcast.

The New Yorker
This is funny from Nadim Shehadi https://www.arabnews.com/node/1914966
America: How can smart people be so dumb?

We are again in a bipolar world — not that of the Cold War, but a psychological one. At one pole are the triumphalism, ecstasy and jubilation of America’s enemies; at the other are denial, disbelief, humiliation, anxiety and fear as its friends and allies lament another sign of the end of Pax Americana. Although I swore allegiance to Queen Elizabeth when I became a citizen of the UK, I never felt other than Lebanese in my 38 years in cosmopolitan London. The culture shock when I moved to the US made me feel British for the first time.

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🟡 Semafor Flagship: Leaks and launches | Semafor

Intelligence leak reveals depleted Ukraine air defenses, China encircles Taiwan in military drill, and the hunt for alien life enters a new phase.

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In short, a regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HagaiElAd/status/1608122561581273089

A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

More than 14 million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other half Palestinians, live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea under a single rule. The common perception in public, political, legal and media discourse is that two separate regimes operate side by side in this area, separated by the Green Line. One regime, inside the borders of the sovereign State of Israel, is a permanent democracy with a population of about nine million, all Israeli citizens.

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On 19 December, we will release new research on crimes committed in Libya by the Tariq Ben Zeyad group, under the leadership of Saddam Haftar, son of General Commander of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces Khalifa Haftar, and nominal commander Omar Imraj’. Stay tuned!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AmnestyMENA/status/1604411015902396419

Amnesty MENA on Twitter

“On 19 December, we will release new research on crimes committed in Libya by the Tariq Ben Zeyad group, under the leadership of Saddam Haftar, son of General Commander of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces Khalifa Haftar, and nominal commander Omar Imraj’. Stay tuned!”

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The New York Times casually turning what is arguably the most famous Christian Palestinian after Jesus into a Muslim just to garner sympathy for this “victim of criticism” is peak Orientalism https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1604322572950245376

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/farahkanaan/status/1604422336224051200

New York Times World on Twitter

“For decades, Milton Viorst synthesized shoe-leather reporting with scholarly insights into the Middle East. He has died at 92 https://t.co/bzzLzv9NGO”

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Joie de retrouver @[email protected] libéré début Janv et sa courageuse femme @[email protected] Ils ont profité du sommet Afrique à Washington pour annoncer porter plainte contre gouvernement égyptien devant Commission Africaine Droits Humains suite aux violations dont ils ont été victimes

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Sonia_Dridi/status/1603855314696404992

Sonia Dridi on Twitter

“Joie de retrouver @FreeRamyShaath libéré début Janv et sa courageuse femme @CelineLST Ils ont profité du sommet Afrique à Washington pour annoncer porter plainte contre gouvernement égyptien devant Commission Africaine Droits Humains suite aux violations dont ils ont été victimes”

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This is BS - the same BS that Kerry got from a Sisi in Egypt in 2013.

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Days before #Tunisia's elections, Blinken meets with Kais Saied on the margins of the US-Africa Leaders Summit.

Saied says his country was "on the brink of civil war" before his July 2021 parliament freeze ...Had "no other alternative but to save the Tunisian nation."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ElizHagedorn/status/1603065076906434567

Elizabeth Hagedorn on Twitter

“Days before #Tunisia's elections, Blinken meets with Kais Saied on the margins of the US-Africa Leaders Summit. Saied says his country was "on the brink of civil war" before his July 2021 parliament freeze ...Had "no other alternative but to save the Tunisian nation."”

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