Laura Albast
@Lau_Bast
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Sr. Editor of Digital, Fellow @PalStudies | Work in @WashingtonPost, @The_NewArab, @middleeasteye, @TheNation | @USCPR_ | prev @palestinewrites. Views my own!
Washington, DC
Joined December 2010
A few weeks ago, at the persistence of some journalists I work with, I sat down and finally wrote something - what it’s like, a year into the genocide and counting, working with writers in Gaza on their testimonies while contending with loss myself.🧵
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RT @samah_fadil: Shaden Qous was 2 weeks away from graduating & already on house arrest when she was taken by the state of israel. she's be…
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Oh my god…
Just to update: Shaden’s father died tragically this evening in Jerusalem. She’s still in prison.
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RT @Amy_Fallas: I wrote about how AHA leadership vetoed a resolution with overwhelming support and democratic participation from its member…
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RT @FadyJoudah: You, too, signed off on muzzling my words: return, resistance, revolution, liberation. You had more progressive plans for m…
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RT @PalStudies: The largest & oldest professional org of historians in the U.S. had the opportunity to make a statement on Israel's relentl…
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RT @PalStudies: Plainclothes officers in Zurich violently detained Palestinian journalist @AliAbunimah on Jan. 25. Authorities plan to depo…
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RT @MaxBlumenthal: Electronic Intifada's @AliAbunimah was arrested by Swiss cops before a speaking event in Zurich today, and is now detain…
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RT @harryhagopian: A sharp Opinion piece that "says it as it sees it" of American politics re Israel-Palestine. It's frightening when one c…
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