zeead yaghi | زياد ياغي
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PhD in history, lecturer @AUB_Lebanon , fellow @TimepDC & @ArabReform_ARI , editor @UrbanHistoryA , writer.
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I know Israelis are fine desecrating anything, but I can't emphasize how jarring it is that their bombing on Beirut yesterday damaged one of the oldest sacred cemeteries in the city. It's the final resting place of many old Beirut Sunni families, of Ottoman Pashas and governors.
مشاهد صباحية من مقبرة الباشورة في بيروت والاضرار التي حدث بسبب الغارة
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been in Paris for 9 months and it is the most racist western city I’ve ever lived in:
1. I have been pursued twice at stores and had my pockets checked bcz a white patron told the manager in both cases that I had stolen something
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This is from the Israeli-Lebanese border, what’s with the Israeli obsession of throwing a techno rave in the vicinity of an active military hot zone? what’s wrong with these people?
عربدة على الحدود اللبنانيّة من نوع آخر...
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2. every time a white person asks me where I’m from they follow it with “ah well you speak good French”
3. white patrons confuse me for somebody working at a bar or store all the time
all of this is nothing compared to the lived experiences of young North African or black men.
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I’ve lived in London, NYC, LA, & SD and in none of those places I was always acutely reminded that I did not belong there.
So yh, if you’re going to execute a 17 yr old at point blank for driving w/out a license, expect consequences
(pic is from the st down from my apartment)
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“but you see we are a colorblind society! our institutions, our school, they don’t see race or color, it’s you who are obsessed with this stuff, it’s you who cannot get over the past or behave properly”
meanwhile, legal fund for the cop who killed Naël is almost at €1 million
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when I was staying in Barbès, a predominantly black/North African neighborhood in the 18e, every night the police had a bunch of brown/black kids up a wall being frisked, every night. If you ever see police stop a car in the city it’s never a white person driving.
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a police union representing some of the 40,000 cops Macron unleashed on the country yesterday comparing protesters to “wild hordes” of “violent minorities”, but please keep pretending you’re least racist country in Europe.
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the decent Arab left, have been saying this for years, some were even killed for it. Samir Kassir tied Lebanon’s independence, with democracy in Syria, and liberation of Palestine. The Arab spring was among many things, an answer to the Palestinian question.
I asked Vincent about this in an interview but given that it won't be published for a while, hopefully the outlet won't mind my sharing his answer. think it's helpful for understanding the massive protests we're seeing now
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"We have become subjects in a morbid experiment. New weapons are being tested, studied, and perfected on lives deemed expendable, with the approval of the most powerful democracies in the West."
@jabirached_
writes from a besieged Beirut
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100,000s of Lebanese have installed solar power energy systems in the past few years to provide power for their homes because of the complete failure of the state public electric infrastructure and unaffordability of the private generator networks.
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut.
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live from Beirut: a march against sexual and gender violence, against homophobia, against the religious courts that steal children and protect rapists, against xenophobia towards refugees
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I wrote an essay for
@the_point_mag
about being in Beirut the past year, surveying the archival landscape while trying to do history in a place that’s slowly falling apart at the seams
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cool news: starting fall I will be a lecturer in the History Department
@AUB_Lebanon
where I will be giving a class on Arab Urbanism! The course presents a historical overview of urban and planning practices across the Middle East and North Africa broadly defined, syllabus here:
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@tressiemcphd
i wanted to quit right then and there, they had suggested I reconsider my career options; then I was told they had a history of saying that newly incoming non english native speakers; thankfully my advisors had my back
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Lebanon could stand in “solidarity with Palestine” by ending the state sanctioned discrimination against Palestinians in the country
Lebanon stands in solidarity with Palestine and the Gaza Strip.
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Earlier today we learned that Blinken asked Qatar to pressure Al Jazeera to done down it’s Gaza coverage, then IDF strike kills family members of Al Jazeera’s journalist in the Gaza Strip, on the most important voices covering the war
#عاجل | استشهاد عدد من أفراد عائلة الزميل وائل الدحدوح بمن فيهم زوجته وابنه وابنته في قصف إسرائيلي استهدف منزله
#حرب_غزة
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just passed my qualifying exam, officially PhD Candidate™ in Modern Middle East History
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okay need France to beat England for the chaos of a Morocco vs France semifinal
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one of the more surreal experiences while spending time in a Lebanese archive today is coming across these glorious advertisements for Lebanese banks in newspaper clips from the 60s urging ppl to invest and save their money in Lebanon
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@tressiemcphd
during my second (or third) week of year 1 of PhD school, I had a professor tell me I had an English as a second language problem and that they could at most give me a B+ in the seminar after reading just one page I had submitted, 1 page, during the 3rd class I had ever attended
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This is good: UC to ease admission requirements: No SAT, no minimum grades due to coronavirus
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live from the basement of the Centre des Archives Nationales in Hamra
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some personal news now that the paperwork is done: I've received the
@FulbrightPrgrm
-Hays DDRA Fellowship for the coming academic year. This means i get to stay 10 months in France starting Jan 2023 to continue conducting research and writing my PhD dissertation.
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time and time again we are reminded that among many things, the Arab spring was an answer to the question of Palestine; we are condemned to hope, our destiny is not occupation and dictatorships
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@tressiemcphd
confederate statues “attacked”, George Floyd “dies” from asphyxiation after officer “places” knee on his neck
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dissertation submitted my committee, exam in 2 weeks, looking forward for the first good night's sleep in forever (that is until a couple of days before the exam when the panic kicks in again), gonna go get me a piece of cake in the meantime
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a ground invasion by any accounts will be terrifying and terrible, thousands will die, many might be kidnapped and sent into detention in Israel, land will be reoccupied (maybe for decades), it will be a calamity for Lebanon
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so the archivist gave me a copy of the 1932 census the French made for Lebanon, guess that’s the afternoon gone (he has an original copy of the census reportlocked in a vault)
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can anyone tell me what PLM stands for at the top left corner; this is a pretty popular tourism poster originally designed and painted by Julien Lacaze (1886-1971) for the office of national tourism in Beirut in 1925, printed in Paris by Cornille & Serre
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it’s morally repugnant that
@4Bassam
hosts a man who made his career and fame propagating that the Bashar el Assad chemical attack on Ghouta was an inside job, how are we supposed to take what
@jadaliyya
produces on Palestine seriously if they platform Max Blumenthal
Join us this Sunday for a sit-down conversation with Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal
on Israel’s October 7th Narratives that adorned mainstream U.S. media absent the application of any journalistic standards. Retractions often took place (e.g., “beheaded babies), but only when
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The liberation of Palestine would also liberate many of us from our despots, be they monarchs, generals, or sectarian militias, masquerading as anti imperialists or outwardly allied with the U.S. empire; nothing terrifies Arab leaders more than a liberated Palestine.
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@SheaSerrano
my theory on the feds is they’re like mushrooms, feed em shit and keep’ em in the daahrk
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a bit of news now that it's finally official: i have been granted a
@ChateaubriandUS
humanities fellowship; in early Sep I'll be moving to Paris to do archival dissertation research; i will be spending 4 months in France, if you're around or passing by let me know!
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Arab regimes, whether America aligned or not, weaponized the Palestinian cause to subjugate and oppress their peoples, from Morocco to Syria, in order to extend their rule, pillage their people, and enrich their families.
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.
@UofCalifornia
lost BOTH its cases at the labor court failing to stop our strike
@uaw_4811
, so it shopped around the state for the most reactionary judge willing to grant it a restraining order, threatening a century of labor law/precedent all in the name of funding genocide
BREAKING Court orders UAW strike to end across UC campuses: A Superior Court granted a temporary restraining order to UC, temporarily halting the illegal systemwide strike by UAW-represented employees across campuses. Full press release below.
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my class on the history of Arab Urbanism
@AUB_Lebanon
has officially been added to the list of courses for Fall 2024. There's something for students across the social sciences, humanities, and urban studies, in the course material, please share it among students you know.
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Israel just dropped a bomb that by all accounts so far has at least EVAPORATED 300 people into thin air thanks very much to these three right here, genocide enablers in chief.
Mr. President – when you came into office, you told the world that diplomacy would once again be at the center of our foreign policy.
And you charged us with taking up the leadership mantle at the UN.
I am so proud that we have done just that.
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this sense of entitlement is really really disgusting: we’ve been watching Palestinian being butchered on the daily for 6 months, now that there’s the faintest hint that Biden maybe MAYBE pretend to slow the slaughter, and Israel’s supporters throw a massive rabid fit over it
Not a single american Jew that cares about Israel is going to have a restful night tonight. What a shitty shitty day.
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Thrilled and humbled to have an essay out in
@commonwealmag
, a magazine I’ve long read and admired.
In this piece I write about Lebanon’s current crises and zoom in on the roles the Maronite Church and Patriarch el-Rahi play in perpetuating them
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i repeat, do people who tweet like this think they sound smart? why do they think Palestinians are not aware of what’s coming to them, that they’re not aware of their own reality? do they think that what’s coming to Palestinians today and tomorrow is somehow worse than yesterday?
Supporting Palestinian liberation doesn’t mean you have to cheer on desperate, tragic attacks that will lead to the deaths of thousands in Gaza.
Anyway, by launching this assault, Hamas have, in real terms, harmed Palestinian self-determination as much as Fatah and the PLO.
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Got “hooded” by a couple of Middle East scholars today
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Really humbled to be a
@TimepDC
nonresident fellow for the upcoming year. I'll be writing on the Lebanese political economy, the policy decisions of our elites that ravage the countryside, its people, and on the regime's crackdown on civil liberties, sexual freedoms, and refugees
TIMEP is thrilled to announce the members of its 2024-2025 Nonresident Fellowship cohort:
@salma_daoudi1
,
@MohElbaker
,
@MohanedLawyer
,
@ibrahim3ezz
,
@jaibi_ines
,
@BaraaKhurfan
,
@Jawharak_
,
@AMdawkhi
,
@DrDrewMikhael
, Kassem Mnejja, and
@7_eead
:
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have very much missed my house & room in Beirut after being trapped in a Paris studio for 3 months
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@tressiemcphd
Yup, also it’s like disingenuous posturing, I dunno wth he was talking about today, the Obama DOJ literally “defunded” the Ferguson Police Department, like he needs to back off
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what a shit show the Lebanese government and agencies have been in the midst of all of this, no contingency plans, no plan to house the displaced, no road management to clear up traffic, 1000s of people stuck for 10hrs on the highway, complete and utter failure from Mikati and co
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imagine how embarrassing it must be to be associated with this man who masquerades as a justice activist/scholar in the US; here he is performing apologia for the criminal Lebanese government
You are a journalist and you should be more responsible, professional, and truthful. No, he was not arrested because he demanded justice for his brother. He was arrested because he threatened to bomb the House of Justice. The threat to bomb is a crime in any country.
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people are marching for domestic workers rights, for the rights of refugees and queer people and everyone terrorized and disenfranchised by the patriarchal sectarian system in Lebanon
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Will be talking about Shehabism, Lebret, and state planning in Lebanon at the inaugural session of "Thamarat al Funun - A Colloquium in Middle Eastern Studies" at AUB on Sep 13th at noon.
Grateful for
@VKetsemanian
for organizing and for
@mona_fawaz
for being our discussant.
Join us
@AUB_Lebanon
@fas_aub
for our inaugural session of "Thamarat al Funun- A Colloquium in Middle Eastern Studies", co-organized by Depts Hist/Arch, Arabic/Near Eastern Languages and CAMES.
Subscribe to "funun
@aub
.edu.lb" to have access to the paper.
@7_eead
@mona_fawaz
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Jordan expelled the PLO in 1973, Hafez El Assad intervened in the Lebanese civil war to help defeat Palestinian factions, Hezbollah eradicated the Lebanese national left and decimated Palestinian camps during the same war, Sadat signed a capitulating peace deal.
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The attack was of such magnitude that the country’s largest hospital is effectively full treating blast victims and asking emergency services to reroute casualties to other hospitals
AUBMC has received over 190 patients and is operating at full capacity.
As such, it is unable to receive additional casualties. For patients safety, transfers cannot be accommodated until further notice.
استقبل المركز الطبي في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت أكثر من 190 جريحاً وهو
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There’s infinite tragic Palestinian tales in Israeli prisons, yet every time Ahmed Almanasra is brought up I die a little bit more inside; Israel is an awful place, its enablers are awful people, and I just want this boy released instead of spending another day tortured in a cell
This Ahmed Almanasra was abducted by Israel when he was 12 yrs old and has been in solitary confinement despite his serious health condition! Hundreds of Palestinian kids are in Israeli jails!
#ApartheidIsrael
#IsraeliWarCrimes
#FreePalestine
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scariest day of my life, and I’ve seen plenty of bad ones before.
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the bodies of palestinians uncovered at the Nasser hospital mass grave yesterday were bound, cuffed, and shot in the back, but please keep tell us it's actually courageous and moral to be "nuanced" about what's happening in Gaza
Seeing so many writers - whose job + responsibility centers on language and its nuances - use the word “genocide” not as a means of clarity for what’s happening in Gaza but to prove they belong to an ideological club has been a very small thing in all this. But it does depress.
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This worry among Arab regimes, in the wake of their defeats in 1967 and 1973, coupled with the emergence of the PLO, led them to actually wage war against the Palestinian liberation movement.
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the majority of causalities are civilians, people in markets, grocery stores, on streets, kids around family members etc. There’s nothing “targeted” about this attack, your jingoistic rhetoric here is simply praise for a terrorist attack
From a law of war standpoint, Israel's pager bombs represent one of the most precisely targeted strikes in the history of warfare. I can't think of a single widespread strike on an armed force that's embedded in a civilian population that's been more precise. It's remarkable.
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i just wrote about the precarity of Lebanon’s food security system in case of a broader war with Israel for
@TimepDC
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like how absurd is it going to get? the literal state department put out a “thoughts and prayers” video to Palestinians while simultaneously financing and arming the government that kills them, I’m losing my mind
Our message to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and all around the world is clear: we see you, we grieve with you, and we mourn every loss of innocent life. Civilians are not to blame and should not suffer for Hamas’s horrific terrorism.
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excited to reveal that I have an essay coming out in the new print issue of
@the_point_mag
where I write about trying to do history in a place that’s slowly falling apart; incredibly grateful for
@rachelcwiseman
careful editorship without whom the piece wouldn’t exist
In issue 28: essays on the literature of mass shootings, being stuck in the end of history, living through collapse in Lebanon, and more. Subscribe so you can read it all as soon as it’s out:
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you're all real cowards, it's not about you, sit this one out.
For
@DissentMag
, I wrote about why the left must be humane, or it is not a left at all.
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some sections of the census, you’ll notice Lebanese Jews designated as موسوي and Israélites, in 1932 there’s a total of 3588
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fighting the urge to rage tweet about all the Assad apologists using the earthquake to try to rehabilitate the regime and delegitimize Syrian civil society groups in the north asking for help and aid; none of it is in good faith, they know exactly what they’re doing
The Assad regime is making noise that all earthquake relief aid must pass through it. This should absolutely not happen. The Assad regime is a cesspool of corruption and will abuse the aid to kill more Syrians.
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couldn’t have done it without my amazing advisors Michael Provence, Hasan Kayali, &
@nancyhk
, and wonderful committee members/professors Gary Fields, Fadi Bardawil, Andrew Devereux, and Pamela Radcliff, the defense was intense, their questions probing and incisive.
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the last picture you notice 3 General Electric dehumidifiers brought in to help preserve archival material, they are currently not functional and need maintenance
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heads up fellow scholars working on Lebanon: if you need a certain decree from the Official Gazette (al-Jaridah al-Rasmiyah) and you're like me currently not in Beirut, just email the lovely folks
@ElGherbalOrg
, and they'll send it to you right away! They're a tremendous resource
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latest “notice to evacuate” before the airstrikes by IDF spokesperson, this time half the area shown includes my town, where my parents were born and raised, the spots highlighted are engraved in my mind, the church i grew up attending, I know every street shown here it’s surreal
#عاجل ‼️ انذار عاجل إلى سكان الضاحية الجنوبية وتحديدًا المتواجدين في المبنى المحدد في الخارطة والواقع في حي حدث بيروت والمباني المجاورة له
🔴أنتم متواجدون بالقرب من منشآت ومصالح تابعة لحزب الله حيث سيعمل ضدها جيش الدفاع على مدى الزمني القريب
🔴من أجل سلامتكم وسلامة أبناء
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just 15 minutes ago a barrage of Israeli strikes across Lebanon, Dahye hit twice, Kayfoun in Aley in Mount Lebanon, Ma'asira in Keserwan Mount Lebanon, Bint Jbeil and Nabatieh in the south, just sporadic bombing across the country
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A couple of post defense celebration dinner photos with friends, family, and committee members. First is with my mentor Michael Provence who accepted me into the program despite having a stem background and barely anything written to my name back in 2018.
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Lebanese anti-Syrian refugee xenophobia is at such dangerous levels that rabid anti refugees campaigns are now targeting anyone for merely standing up for the dignity of refugees, in this case the heads of lebanon’s independent media orgs receive death threats
حملة تحريض وتخوين ضدّ صحافيَّين وناشط بسبب مواقفهم من قضية النازحين السوريين
@dianamoukalled
@walasmar
@JeanKassir
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sad news, economist, historian, and former minister George Corm has passed away. Corm wrote prolifically, publishing several books in French, Arabic, and English, on the social and political history of the Middle East.
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looks like we're all in for a sleepless night in Beirut
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If Israel somehow tampered with the supply chain of solar panels/batteries -that sit on rooftops of buildings from north to south- turning them into potential time bombs, the potential destruction to civilians and civilian infrastructure would be unprecedented on a national scale
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what a fucking terrible day that was 4 years ago, a sea of broken glass and bloodied bandaged people everywhere you looked, I’m tired of mourning and grieving and hoping for the better when the future promises us the past but worse
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working the
@RustedRadishes
stand at Souk El Kotob tonight in Mar Mkhayel, If you’re around pass by and purchase an issue, we publish eloquent prose, art pieces, and critical essays
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Israeli constant bombing of white phosphorus on southern Lebanese villages in Sour has burned hundreds of acres of oak and pine trees, besides everything, Israel is an ecological disaster
آثار الحرائق التي تسبب بها القصف الاسرائيلي بالقنابل الفسفورية والحارقة على المنطقة الحرجية بين #علما_الشعب و #الناقورة في قضاء صور والذي أتى على مساحات واسعة من اشجار السنديان والصنوبر والبطم والكثير منها معمر
#لبنان #جنوب_لبنان #صور
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This Wednesday
@nmuradwij
and I are giving a talk as part of the
@aubsecularclub
’s Civil War Remembrance week. We will be talking about the historical and psychological legacies of violence in Lebanon since 1975. If you want to attend please register here:
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is it too much to ask for the Lebanese state security agencies to actually do their jobs? to deploy and help clear out the roads and help people evacuate? the Leb Army and General Security own a lot of real estate in Beirut, open them up for the 100,000s displaced from Dahye
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Grassroots funding campaign just launched to fund civil defense efforts in south Lebanon and other areas targeted by Israel. Money will go towards purchase of new 4x4 that can travel over rubble, safety equipments and much more, please help if you can
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paralyzed in bed, numb af, i wish i can just melt into my mattress and disappear, this is insane
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If anyone wants a copy of the census I’m going to personally digitize and turn it into a PDF, just DM me if you want a copy
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the dumbest country with the dumbest people
Pain d'or عم بيروج لعلم المثلية
انا رح قاطعوا من هللق ورايح مين معي ؟
انا مع حرية الشخص الفردية يصطفل بس ما فيك تجي تفرضها على مجتمعنا ،رح نحاربك ونقاطعك لنحافظ على مسيحيتنا وتقاليدنا وعاداتنا ومجتمعنا
#boycottpaindor
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to echo what Karim is saying, I was always struck by how humble, thoughtful, and generous Elias Khoury was in person. He loved talking to people, he always wanted to tell stories, but most importantly he wanted to hear back from you, to listen, he gave you space to think with him
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"عمو" الياس خوري
- مقاوم تمسّك بفلسطين، وقاوم "الهزيمة" المستمرة من أجل المستقبل والحلم.
- ناقد شدد انو تحريرنا بيستوجب "نهضة ثالثة"، لنستوعب الهزيمة ونطور مجتمعنا، نحو الديمقراطية.
- ثائر يساري دعم الثورة السورية كواجب نضالي، بوجه كل يساري أصر يوقف مع نظام الموت والتعذيب.
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For
@UrbanHistoryA
I argue how commercial capitalism, shared governance and travel undergird a modern interlinked Eastern Mediterranean cultural tapestry. This is the first in our theme for the month of May: Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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