Jordan’s environmental crisis is often framed as a simple case of scarcity: too many people, too little water. It is that, but it’s also more: It’s privatization, profit, state decay. My latest tells this story, and asks what we all can learn from it

RT @Linaagho: Yesterday’s speech by Sharaa was welcomed by many Syrians around me. While we wait to see actions, not just words, this speec…

RT @SyriaDirect: 🧵 Since the Assad regime fell, local and international calls for the new government in Damascus to provide guarantees for…

5️⃣ The current lack of options for refugees to go and visit Syria without losing their asylum status. Apart from Turkey, few if any host countries have provided this essential avenue for Syrians to gauge the possibility of voluntary and dignified return.

Truly a must read, on the mix of hope and fatigue in today's Damascus—a deep ambiguity that gets washed out of much we see online 👇

I'd love to see a crossover season on @HBO where Veep meets Silicon Valley, and all these sniveling nerds accidentally become oligarchs

The upshot is that there is nothing to be expected from the center or center-left wing of our political or media establishments. The task, then, is to support and build bridges to those who are fighting on the right side of these issues across diverse contexts.

@AyaFatimaC @MohsenAlamine 👍🏼

@DukhanHaian @DukhanHaian totally agree. these states have now gotten the outcome they demanded, despite having no strategy to bring it about. And now they risk missing the opportunity to support the transition, by being as confused and self-contradicting as ever