Nafeesa Syeed
@NafeesaSyeed
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Writer/Editor. Lecturer/research scholar @Yale. Past: @latimes @business @ap @ajfaultlines in MENA/South Asia/DC - Fellow @the_IAS @ucla. Views are my own.
LA - DC
Joined August 2009
"As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.".
Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus
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Some personal news: I'll be joining the LA Times as Assistant Op-Ed Editor next week. Thrilled to work on this team and with writers, in the city of my birth! @latimes .
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Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to president, walks out of panel on fake news after students' questions @Georgetown.
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I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation - by Irfan Galaria in @latimesopinion .
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I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. I fear a media blackout of the war - by Yara Eid in @latimesopinion . "My journalist colleagues who are still alive in Gaza are not only grieving their slain peers, but feel under severe threat themselves.".
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Trump signs order on "new vetting measures" to keep out "radical Islamic terrorists," only want to admit those who love/support "our people".
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RBG in a Kashmiri coat. My mom went up to her at this event and said: I like your coat. RBG said: Oh yes, it’s from Cashmere.
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Op-Ed: Democrats need to stop behaving as if there's a prize for showing restraint - by @kurtbardella.
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Op-Ed: Democrats should use their Senate majority to expose Republican corruption - @kurtbardella in @latimesopinion .
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First day @latimesopinion. Op-eds, personal essays, narrative writing, graphics, visual art. We do it all. Tell me your favorite writers--established and emerging--and send me folks with great stories.
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I'm an American doctor stuck in Gaza. As Israel moves into Rafah, where will physicians and our patients go? .- by Dr. Mahmoud Sabha in @latimesopinion .
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Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid are expected to ask Trump and Pence to voluntarily testify in an NFL blacklist case. Should the White House refuse, the players' attorneys plan to subpoena the president and vice president, a source says via @bpolitics.
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How Palestinians are saying goodbye - the last words of Gaza residents who think they are about to die - in @latimes .
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Me: Can't get any work done today. Friend in UK: Trying to work during a coup is the most American thing ever.
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Second-ranking Senate Democrat says intelligence panel probe into Russian interference isn’t enough via @bpolitics.
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Incredible student journalists @WKCRFM - saying there will be no more reporters outside of Hamilton Hall as NYPD escorted away, and who will be left to document what happens.
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Gaza's health system has collapsed, multiplying the war's toll on children - @Stevesosebee in @latimesopinion .
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Trump's candidacy complicates a potential criminal case against him, but it can't protect him - @harrylitman in @latimesopinion .
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Op-Ed: It's Groundhog Day for the GOP. Failure after defeat is becoming a hallmark - @kurtbardella . "Racism, misogyny and conspiracy theories are accepted as part of the agenda. You can see it in virtually every soundbite, every tweet, every policy.".
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I’ve covered dozens of protests in DC over two decades and have never seen anything like the images I’m seeing today #dcprotesters.
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With nearly 70 journalists killed, who will be left to cover the Gaza war? by Youssef Jajili in @latimesopinion. "The killing of journalists in Gaza is being normalized with no one taking responsibility.".
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“His girlfriend is Persian. Or Indian. I don’t know. Some kind of brown.” - two dudes at LAX about their friend. Now I know the title of my memoir - SOME KIND OF BROWN.
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Op-Ed: What will it take for Germany, Europe's heavyweight, to stand up to Russia? - by @AnnaGBusse .
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Senate confirms Nikki Haley as UN ambassador - Bernie Sanders, Tom Udall, Chris Coons, Martin Heinrich voted against.
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Op-Ed: Heartbreak hurts, in part because our cells 'listen for loneliness'
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I know 'print is dead'. but writers are consistently stoked when I tell them their piece will be in print, in the paper.
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This year, more than 1,600 migrants and refugees have been lost at sea. Some finally reached the continent that had consumed their dreams. But Europe was not welcoming.
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Op-Ed: How do we keep L.A.'s housing costs affordable? Build more homes - by @mc_lens in @latimesopinion .
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Your 'superbloom' selfie isn't worth destroying California's ecosystems - by botanist @naomibot in @latimesopinion .
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Op-Ed: As a Muslim filmmaker, I want to tell my own story - by @assuss ."Gatekeepers must consider how they perpetuate harm by ignoring their biases.".
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Large stream of protestors march down 7th St NW thru DC's Chinatown chanting anti-Trump slogans - by folks in gowns, tuxedos headed to balls.
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Excited to be named the 2021-22 Writing in Color Fellow @lighthousewrite and join this wonderful literary community!.
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Their families fled Vietnam. Now they're helping Afghan refugees
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On #Sudan, by @SherineT in @latimesopinion -.Those escaping Ukraine were flown out and welcomed in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. This is not what is happening to civilians in Sudan.
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AUB establishes the Shireen Abu Akleh Endowed Memorial Scholarship. "The endowment will fund scholarships for women from Palestine to obtain master’s degrees in media studies."
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Russia-Linked Bots Hone Online Attack Plans for 2018 US Vote via @business w/ @benimmo @agarwalnitin @rosenbergerlm.
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My whole family is in Gaza and they have nowhere to run. Will it be at their graves that we meet again? - by @emadmoussa in @latimesopinion . "Now I feel sick to my stomach just thinking that my people could be ethnically cleansed again, or worse.".
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Palestinians rebuild in West Bank's Jenin — only to watch Israel destroy it again and again - @nabihbulos in @latimes .
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Why Palestinian Americans believe Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke the truth - @sareemakdisi in @latimesopinion . "Tlaib powerfully captured the extent to which Palestinians have been silenced and dehumanized in institutions across the United States.".
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Ankara. Sinai. Beirut and now Paris. Growing list of attacks in past 5 weeks, whose combined toll may exceed 500
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Twitter says Obama had 3 of the 10 most retweeted posts of the year while Trump had none via @bpolitics.
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Farewell @lighthousewrite Lit Fest! Thanks for carving space for new voices. Found Toni in a quiet corner, recalling her words: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
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Such a powerful piece by @TeresaWatanabe as the LA Times today drops the word 'internment' and instead use 'incarceration' : ."The decision comes eight decades after The Times viciously campaigned to incarcerate Japanese Americans during the war.".
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People think drug use causes homelessness. It’s usually the other way around - @RyanDAssaf in @latimesopinion .
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Opinion: Biden is ending COVID emergency declarations. But the healthcare worker crisis continues - @latimesopinion .
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Ooof. This image of little @minjinlee11 made my heart fall. How many other kids still do the same?."That year, we moved into a two-bedroom rental in the back of the same building, overlooking the parking garage, and in the evenings, I’d wait by the window for their safe return.".
For a long time, I have been afraid. “Behind my small eyes, there comes a light, which I use to see you, and in its flicker, I hold the hope that you will see me, too.”
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All writing is a struggle against erasure - @LailaLalami says she didn’t see ppl like her in books, so it became a “matter of survival” to write her stories, and make care the world care about them @latimesfob.
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Outside the NYC literary bubble!.New Yorkers scoffed. 10 years later, @LAReviewofBooks is a cultural force
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On the assumption that women’s bodies are broken, and the need to tell our stories of pain - moving essay by novelist @tiphanieyanique in @latimesopinion .
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In today’s Opinion, meet 4 formerly incarcerated ‘lifers’ as they reintegrate into a vastly changed world - in this incredible multimedia project by @OGpenn and @BE_DIZZLE .
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I wrote a novel. Here's an excerpt. In CM:45, print/online from @HurstPublishers.
Short Story: Valley Within the Valley #CriticalMuslim
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On apartheid: @lamamfakih @OmarSShakir of Human Rights Watch in @latimesopinion."Israeli authorities maintain a two-tiered legal system: methodically privileging Israelis. while repressing Palestinians to varying degrees wherever they live.".
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So much resonated in @olivasdan's Op-Ed, from the personal to the system:."Too many historically marginalized writers still battle ingrained bias to obtain acceptance by agents and publishers that authors from more entitled backgrounds take for granted.".
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Today, I am walking out with my @latguild colleagues. There’s no such thing as journalism without journalists.
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Thinking of journalist colleagues on the scene. I covered way too many mass shootings in my own day. You don't forget seeing the blood on the ground, the body bags. Can't imagine this one. .
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Massive police operation dismantles UCLA pro-Palestinian camp, makes numerous arrests - @latimes .
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Don't we see this headline every couple months? Keyword: STILL.Tech companies still aren’t hiring black workers via @technology.
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As a Gaza teen, I used to dream of college. Now I feel sentenced to death by Israel's bombings -by Salma Hamad in @latimesopinion . "Biden’s own life has been marked by profound loss — a deep, aching grief that I feel, too. So I wonder: Will he save us?".
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Op-Ed essay by novelist @thesailorsgirl in @latimesopinion #QueenElizabeth . "Something that has not happened or maybe could not happen under the queen’s reign is a genuine accounting of what the British Empire meant and its continuing impact." .
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Look what I (finally) found at the Princeton bookstore! Big mabrook @ZahraHankir @DonnaAN1 .Excited to read these women’s stories with no filter, no gaze but their own.
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His agency statement minutes ago: ."There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.".
Exclusive: Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs has told associates he expects to be fired by the White House. Krebs has drawn the ire of the Trump administration over a website debunking misinformation about the election
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Read a submission advocating Jeff Bezos runs for president in 2024, and then shivered because I'm reading @vauhinivara's terrific novel, "The Immortal King Rao," where a Bezos-like, tech CEO character becomes leader of the whole world!.
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For Iraqis like me, the U.S. invasion 20 years ago isn’t a distant memory — it’s our daily devastation - powerful essay by Iraqi novelist @GzarMortada in @latimesopinion .
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On the Morocco earthquake, novelist @LailaLalami in a powerful essay in @latimesopinion: . "When disaster strikes, the question we must ask ourselves is: What can I, in my own limited ways, do to help?".
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For all the mixed kids, and those of us navigating multiracial families:. My Chicana-South Asian daughter, finding her roots in Karachi and South Texas - by @sehbasarwar .
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Angela Merkel vows to challenge Trump's “America First” doctrine on trade and climate at this week’s G-7 summit via @bpolitics.
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#Iran has cyber-attacked Saudi Arabia `several times' in last three months - Gen Keith Alexander @IronNetCyber tells @HouseHomeland.
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My Black ancestors were erased from my family’s memory. But I found them - @jeanguerre in @latimesopinion .
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As a young reporter, I covered law enforcement in the DC region. I mapped out dozens of local, state and federal agencies. Just noting my spreadsheet had dozens of agencies, it was dizzying to cover. Where were they?.
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Egyptian TV shows are a staple for those who observe Ramadan, @SalmaLoum gives her musalsalat recs.
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