Faisal Al Yafai
@FaisalAlYafai
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International Editor @newlinesmag | "A fresh voice from the Middle East" @risj_oxford | https://t.co/yXl9PobI6v | A 🇬🇧 in the 🇺🇸 media | https://t.co/3b20gkxsaL
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Joined April 2009
Season 7 of @newlinesmag The Lede has now started. Across 2024, we welcomed 57 guests on 52 episodes from 5 continents. (Sorry Oceania, we'll do better this year.) Subscribe on your favourite podcast app🎧
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Tonight in London! Come see us @frontlineclub in conversation with @StephaniBaker @michelawrong. (Also kindly admire this excellent poster the Frontline design team created! đź‘Ź) See you later. Tickets here:
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These are such extraordinary images by Fouad Elkoury - here is Arafat sailing from Beirut in 1982. Read @oliviasnaije's profile of the photographer for @newlinesmag, complete with more images:
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Always good to see Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz2 in @newlinesmag's pages. Read his take on the criterion by which Syria's new government should be judged 👇
The world is worried about the jihadism of Syria’s new leaders, but the world may be missing the point. Whether the state is religious or secular, Syria needs a strong society, not a strongman, argues @qunfuz2 for @newlinesmag.
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"Frenemies with benefits" - For a decade after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Israel’s relationship with Iran remained mutually beneficial despite public animosity, @rananejad writes for @newlinesmag
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RT @newlinesmag: “People are happy, of course, but there is nothing left.” Albu Kamal in eastern Syria, once a stronghold for Iranian mili…
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RT @newlinesmag: 1. 🧵“Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8,” Aubin Eymard writes, “the onstage fear has vanished. Censorship has loo…
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Writing questions for tomorrow night's @newlinesmag event @frontlineclub with @StephaniBaker and @michelawrong. Sanctions against Putin, Rwanda's role in the Congo conflict, how might the Ukraine war end. What have I missed? Tickets here:
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This Friday @frontlineclub, we'll be starting our 2025 @newlinesmag events off with a fantastic duet: @StephaniBaker and @michelawrong, two journalists I greatly admire. We'll be talking Russia, Ukraine, Congo, Rwanda and much more. Everything unTrump.
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This Friday! With so much going on in the world, for our first @newlinesmag event of the year, we're exploring the news, events and conflicts that will shape 2025. Join us @frontlineclub as we talk Russia, Syria, the Congo and much more:
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RT @kshaheen: The monumental task of tallying the dead across 14 years of war in Syria is essential for accountability and justice, argues…
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RT @newlinesmag: A “Stop Terror-Financing” bill could mimic Russia’s and Hungary’s “foreign agent” laws — putting American nonprofits, medi…
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NEW: Extrajudicial executions, police raids and court-mandated rehab at army-run centers have raised concerns about the criminalization of substance abuse in Sri Lanka, write @alphonsus_mimi and @d_wijes for @newlinesmag
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RT @newlinesmag: NEW: The Scottish islands of Orkney were the beating heart of Stone Age Britain. @lsmwilson writes for @newlinesmag on the…
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RT @newlinesmag: NEW: Acclaimed author Robert Kaplan joins @FaisalAlYafai on The Lede podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on Donald Trump…
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RT @lsmwilson: A mind-blowing detail: around 4400 years ago, thousands of people feasted at the centre of this tiny island, then piled up t…
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What will be the biggest stories of 2025? A @newlinesmag panel argues about what might happen in the US, Ukraine, Gaza, Syria and elsewhere. With @kshaheen, @lisang and @DannyPostel.
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I love how many flag references there are in this Joanna Andreasson illo. I count six (and maybe, if you squint, the shortlived 1960s flag with three stars, one representing Iraq). | @newlinesmag
NEW: As Syria enters a post-Assad future, what will its new constitution enshrine? A look back at the precedents since World War I reveals useful lessons, writes @RashaElass in @newlinesmag.
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NEW: As Syria enters a post-Assad future, what will its new constitution enshrine? A look back at the precedents since World War I reveals useful lessons, writes @RashaElass in @newlinesmag
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RT @newlinesmag: “They’ve got a twisted kind of intelligence, and they know exactly how to destroy it all.” Embedded in Omid J.’s quest is…
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