Edmund Bower
@Edmund_Bower
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Saudi Arabia editor for @AGBInsight Based in Dubai. Formerly in Beirut and Cairo. @edmundbower.bsky.social
Beirut
Joined December 2013
RT @TheBigPharaoh: Two record numbers Egypt reached in 2024: Exports: $40 billion. A record number that surpasses respective revenues from…
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RT @safieddine00: Basically, the Lebanese government, headed by Najib Mikati, approved sending an Arab citizen (Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qarad…
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RT @NadaOHomsi: This didn't really makes waves but Syria's National Dialogue Conference, previously reported to be taking place Jan 4- 5, w…
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RT @jsrailton: BREAKING: NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of @WhatsApp users. Big win for spyware victims. Big loss for NSO. Bad ti…
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RT @sallyhayd: So stunned that my pic of this burning of Assad has made @thetimes "defining photos of the year". Thanks to @Edmund_Bower fo…
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Jolani affirms rights for minorities, rails against HTS’s terrorism designation, and promises that the country will not be used as a launchpad for attacks against Israeli in his first interview since taking control with @SameralAtrush
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RT @timourazhari: SCOOP — Syria’s central bank has nearly 26 tons of gold in its vault, worth about $2.2 billion at the current price, four…
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RT @kshaheen: Editing a dispatch from Latakia on the hours leading up to Assad's fall, this is a quote from a 1st lieutenant in the SAA: “O…
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I spoke to some of the first Syrian exiles who returned following the fall of the Assad regime. Many prefer to wait and see how things pan out, but a few came back at the first opportunity to help support the country through its transition.
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RT @ibrahimhamidi: Douma city in the Damascus countryside after the fall of Assad, December 14 2024
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The Syrian pound has strengthened massively against the dollar in the last week. A dollar got you SYP 15,000 when I arrived last Sunday. Today it gets you around SYP 11,000 in Damascus.
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RT @louiseelisabet: People will be writing about the crimes committed in Assad's prisons for generations, and still they will never be able…
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Driving around Damascus today things feel much more normal. Rush hour traffic in the morning, businesses open, cars stopping at red lights (which they weren’t last week).
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RT @timourazhari: NEW — UN envoy Geir Pederson in Damascus says we will hopefully see a quick end to sanctions. First trip here since Assa…
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‘A group of five or six men who had been brought there from Sednaya prison, all had serious physical and psychological trauma, and three didn’t know who they were. One, a young man with thick, dark hair, said only his number: 27. “He can’t remember his name.”’ @louiseelisabet
As desperate relatives crowd hospital corridors seeking their loved ones, some prisoners released from Assad’s notorious jails are so physically and psychologically traumatised they no longer know who they are
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RT @leloveluck: There were buildings like this in every Syrian city: pillars of a security state so pervasive people said even the walls ha…
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RT @OliverGMarsden: “The trucks came at night,” said Abed Bou Jihad, 42, a gravedigger near the town of Aqraba, southeast of Damascus. “B…
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RT @SameralAtrush: At the entrance of the Russian naval base in Tartus, soldiers yell at us to leave. Some Syrian sailors told me they kill…
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@OliverGMarsden and I visited suspected mass grave sites around Damascus, verified by @venetiamenzies. Witnesses told us how refrigerated trucks would arrive at night and unload bodies from Assad’s jails. More than 105,000 prisoners are still missing.
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