Mohamed Hassan
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Journalist and screenwriter. Host of The Big Picture Podcast on @middleeasteye Creator of Miles From Nowhere on @skynz How to be a Bad Muslim @PenguinBooks_NZ
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Please stop referring to the Muslim community as immigrants. We are New Zealanders. There are Maori and European muslims. Those born here.
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I’ve been “randomly selected” at every airport I’ve landed in. So I decided to write them a letter. A love letter.
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Interesting that people have been sharing the Palestine part of his speech, without the Western Sahara part
🇿🇦 Mandla Mandela (grandson of Nelson Mandela): “Let us not forget the last colony of Africa: Western Sahara. Let us fight to free Western Sahara from oppression. Let us also remember Mothiba said our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestine .. Free, Free Palestine”
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The front page of the local newspaper in Christchurch today
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The fact that absolute destruction is being unleashed in Gaza but you can't feel it 70 kilometres away should tell you all you need to know about apartheid
Beautiful afternoon in Tel Aviv. Can’t find any apartheid but just had some jalapeño hummus that was 🤌.
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"Hey guys, the police are coming to arrest me. They're standing at the bottom of my building, and they're coming. I haven't done anything except film. Goodbye."
This is the final video. Mohamed Saied posted this 55 minutes ago. #السويس
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I don't wanna point figures but this Egyptian auntie is responsible for 2020
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Today we stand with the survivors and families of the
#March15
attacks.
Three years ago, 51 of our most beautiful souls were ripped away cruelly. Those wounds are still fresh. The pain is still real.
This is a part of New Zealand’s story. We must never let it be forgotten.
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Please stop sharing that Australian comedian's joke. It's exactly what he wants you to do.
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Woke up to Ramy Youssef saying Allahu Akbar on the Golden Globe stage so I think it's gonna be a good day.
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Imagine being so oblivious to the suffering and chaos this virus has caused around the world - that you feel like being in one of the few safe countries is oppressive
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New Zealand feels like this strange reality TV show that the whole world's watching as a form of escapism
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Choose a job that you love, and you'll work every single minute of your life
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BREAKING: Protests have broken out in Tahrir Square and a number of other places around Egypt, calling for the removal of President Sisi. #ميدان_التحرير
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No matter what you thought of her politics, the sustained personal attacks and hatred levelled at Jacinda was unlike anything I’d seen- from critiques of her motherhood to hysteria and conspiracy theories to threats of violence.
It’s not safe to be a woman in public light
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All of us call this country home. We are part of it. Don’t separate us. That’s what the attackers want. We all have to mourn together.
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LATEST in
#Egypt
, a man called Mohamed Saied living in Suez was filming clashes of police and protesters from his balcony, now says police are coming to detain him. Final video shows him in a stunned state saying goodbye, while a woman offscreen begs him to stop filming. #السويس
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I was horrified to see so many people sharing Hilary Clinton’s interview about Gaza’s history.
So I decided to pull it apart
Are there Hamas tunnels under hospitals? Did Israel give up Gaza in 2005? Did the Palestinians reject their own state?
We debunk six myths from Hillary Clinton's viral interview about Gaza
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Israel’s govt just got exactly what it wanted out of Iran:
- a non-threatening military response
- a chance to rally Western sympathies
- a lifeline for US politicians punished by domestic anger at Gaza
- a renewed sense of fear inside Israel that helps Netanyahu play the hero
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All I was able to do today was mourn out loud. I’m still in shock. I’m grasping for words. Here’s what I have to say
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Here’s a novel idea: if you’re writing a column about the hijab, how about you talk to an actual Muslim woman who wears one?
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It is absolutely chilling that just 5 years after the Christchurch Mosque Attacks, we can still be aruging about gun safety in New Zealand.
Assault rifles should've never been allowed, and now that they're banned, there should never be an excuse to bring them back.
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NZ's new Race Relations Commissioner Melissa Derby:
• A founder of Free Speech Coalition
• Took Auckland Council to court for not hosting far-right anti-Muslim speakers
• Called anti-racism protesters "thugs"
• Doesn't believe in systemic racism
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The footage we received from Idlib last night was devastating. At least 20 people were killed by a government airstrike on a vegetable market in Ariha.
157 bombs were dropped. This is three days after a ceasefire brokered by Russia/Turkey.
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What is your idea of wealth? Mine is having a kitchen island
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I really hope the Christchurch sentencing is front-and-centre on our minds and in the media this week.
It's the very least we owe to the brave victims and families facing this head on.
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You do not get to tell this story.
You do not get to turn this into a White Saviour narrative.
This is not yours.
This pain is still fresh and real.
This is upsetting, obscene and grotesque. I am tired.
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If we keep drawing lines and creating groups then we aren’t learning from what just happened
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How about we stop giving racists free time on national platforms then wonder why their ideas are spreading? 🤔
Time for a rematch against Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux - Patrick Gower
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This image from Sudan will be in the history books
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It is utterly exhausting to have spent 6 years talking about the experience of Muslims in NZ and know nothing has changed.
Every year, people are shocked that islamophobia exists on a social and systemic level.
Every year, people forget.
Every year, people are hurt and killed.
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Who wrote this NZ political quiz and decided this was a smart question to add?
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Over the last three days, the Christchurch High Court heard heartbreaking, angry and profoundly beautiful statements of loss from the survivors and family members of the mosque victims.
They are all heroes, deserving of the highest praise and utmost support and love.
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If you're wondering what on earth is happening in
#Egypt
right now and why, here's some quick background. #ميدان_التحرير
Thread:
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Suzy Cato
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This anger at people returning to New Zealand is so gross and reeks of privilege and self-indulgence
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Four years ago, 51 beautiful souls were taken from us in a cruel act of hate.
The survivors and families of March 15 have since treaded a long and lonely path through grief.
I spoke to
@AyaUmari
about her brother Hussein’s wonderful and heroic life
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Hamimah Tuyan was the last of the Christchurch victims to speak in court this week - on behalf of her husband Zekeriya, who died after fighting for his life in hospital for 48 days.
This is what she read. It is earthshatteringly beautiful.
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How many billionaires donated to the Grenfell Tower victims?
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I wrote this poem to answer the question: '𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮??'
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Several protests have broken out in provincial areas around Egypt. Meanwhile nothing yet in Alexandria and Cairo likely due to heavy police presence and multiple road closures/checkpoints in place.
#جمعه_الخلاص
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Can you imagine a male Prime Minister being told to ask a former PM for help?
Jacinda Ardern confident Sir John Key's help not needed for Govt to work effectively with private sector (Via
@TheAMShowNZ
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Turns out there’s literally no amount of mental acrobatics the media won’t endure to turn a white terrorist into a victim
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Anti-blackness in the huge problem in the Arab world - blackface on TV, racism in the streets, and an long and painful history of slavery we're not taught about.
It's time we addressed it.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Stoked to finally get to share this with the universe:
My new essay collection with
@PenguinBooks_NZ
arrives May 31st, and you can pre-order it now in the link below.
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This war-porn bs is ruining journalism. No one cares about your "brave" journey crossing illegally into another country to cover what better reporters have already covered. This story isn't about you.
Yemen is one of the most dangerous places in the world. So how does
@Levisonwood
plan to sneak in?
#Arabia
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Also the irony of fighting "government tyranny" while a police officer escorts your illegal protest down the middle of the CBD
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إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
Oh Allah, we ask you to bring ease to the souls of the 51 we lost one year ago today, shower them with your blessings, grant strength and serenity to their loved ones.
May we never forget them, and may we grow from this better, kinder and more open.
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Roads around Tahrir Square, and even roads leading up to it, appear to all be closed off. These are usually the routes taken by protesters trying to reach the square.
#جمعه_الخلاص
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This could be what the police didn’t want him to film. Police in Suez firing tear gas and holding battons and sticks and running towards protesters.
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May Allah bless the victims lost from our beautiful Muslim community to this unspeakable terror, the survivors and their loved ones, and grant them the strength, guidance and grace to navigate the journey of healing that now begins.
إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ
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I poured all my feelings into this piece about why this film is yet another Hollywood exploitation of Muslim pain, and why many of us never really felt comfortable with
#TheyAreUs
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Hi Rebecca Kitteridge, you may want to check out my podcast all about how NZSIS was in fact spying on the Muslim community, questioning 17-year-olds without their parents knowledge and trying to recruit informants in mosques.
It might clarify things.
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If you only watch one video today, let it be this one
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If anyone thought the comments sections under New Zealand media stories and interviews changed in anyway a week after the Christchurch attack...I have bad news for you
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BREAKING: Brenton Tarrant, the terrorist responsible for the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
He pled guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder, and one count of carrying out an act of terrorism.
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I spoke to
@MehdiAli98
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@AfraviAmin
and
@BehrouzBoochani
about Australia's offshore detention policies, and the toll on those still trapped in its sadistic system.
Thank you for your generosity in lending your voices and stories to this piece!
Novak Djokovic's detention in Australia recast a light on the country's 'sadistic' refugee laws, which left thousands of asylum seekers trapped for years in offshore camps facing violence, trauma and death.
Watch here:
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A summary of the arrests and clashes last night in
#Egypt
.
- Large protests in Suez
- Police reportedly used tear gas, rubber bullets
- At least 100 detained
- News sites and FB Messenger blocked
- Foreign reporters warned by govt
- Still no official word from govt or Sisi
Mohamed Saied livestreams moments before what he said was police approaching his apartment in order to arrest him for filming clashes in Suez. #السويس_ام_الثوره
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Why is the media digging into the past of the man dragged off
#unitedAIRLINES
? That's got nothing to do with the story. He's still a victim
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Words people use when they really mean “white”:
• Civilised
• European
• Peaceful
• Democratic
• Heroic
• Like us
• Resisting
• Defending their homes
Solidarity with the people of 🇺🇦 Ukraine, but many of us are watching the coverage with great interest 📝
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Easily the highlight of the night was
@emmawehipeihana
going in on Advance NZ 😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Also, throughout the entire night, this was the only time that NZ's leading conspiracy theory party was brought up, and thankfully it was given all the respect it deserved, and precisely none more.
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I’m really blessed to say my new book ‘How to be a Bad Muslim’ launches today in New Zealand and Australia with
@PenguinBooks_NZ
.
You can purchase it wherever you get your books, or order it online through the link in my bio 🌿
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You literally took a horrific act of White supremacy and turned it into a story about White people’s feelings??
Nah this ain’t it.
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Israel broadcasts two very different messages about what’s happening in
#Gaza
- a message of military might to Israelis and Palestinians, and a message of vulnerability to the rest of the world.
My latest report w/
@hossamsarhan87
for
@MiddleEastEye
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All my life I was surrounded by strong Muslim women. This poem is for them.
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Another one from Suez showing a large number of protesters changing "There is no god but Allah. Sisi is the enemy of god" and then "Peaceful. Peaceful". #السويس
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I was starting to feel bad for Todd Muller, then I remembered the MAGA hat
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Thank you to everyone who shared the poem, who shared their story and their names. I’m overwhelmed and overjoyed. Let’s keep talking. 🙏🏽
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As a Muslim in New Zealand I’ve long yearned for a TV show that reflected me and my community.
Now me,
@Ahmed_Osman26
and
@aamer_rahman
are making one inshallah 🎬
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This has really been a mask off moment for Musk.
He rewired Twitter to lift his voice above everyone else while promoting racially-fueled conspiracy theories
He platformed the most unhinged far-right accounts while giving them financial rewards for stoking hatred & trolling
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Protester in Lebanon: "They keep raising taxes on everything, on cigarettes, on WhatsApp. Tomorrow they will stick meters in our asses and raise taxes on our shit."
بكرة يحطولنا عداد على طيازنا ويفرضوا ضريبة على الخرا 😃😃 #لبنان
#لبنان_ينتفض
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Borders open. Food served. Ukrainians fleeing Russia's military are welcomed by Europe as heroes.
So why were Syrians treated as ‘terrorists’?
My latest for
@MiddleEastEye
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Great to see NZ media still blaming immigrants for rental prices and homelessness
as opposed to - you know - decades of bad policy by both parties
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I am the most impeached president! Nobody has more impeachments than me!
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Remember when western governments celebrated Saddam's statue being torn down?
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These desperate attempts for online engagement are undermining what used to be reputable news brands. As an editor, you know exactly the kinds of ugly responses you're eliciting by putting up questions like this. We need to have better standards.
We will have equality when we aren't a poll question
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My series for
@radionz
and
@MiddleEastEye
begins tomorrow inshallah.
It looks at communal grief, anger, belonging and confusion in the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attacks.
Trailer:
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“We are broken-hearted, but are not broken” - Imam of al-noor mosque and survivor of Christchurch terrorist attack gives first Friday sermon
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Now that the trial is finally over, New Zealand has to get back to the conversations we've all been avoiding.
My thoughts on guilt and collective grief.
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Also how did we go from “let’s stop islamophobia” to “The hijab is oppressive” in just two weeks??
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EXCLUSIVE: Muslim girls at Diocesan Girls School were told they can’t wear the hijab as it violates dress code
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These are the heroes of this story. Not Jacinda. Not anyone else
At the outset of the chch terror attacks all my family &I had one common intuition, is that my bro would have tried to confront the terrorist.
I requested formal counts of his last movements to cement this heroic act
Now two years and a bit on, I finally have it & I'm so so
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Merry Christmas everyone. It's so nice to see hijabis on TV
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'As Israeli forces continue to mercilessly rain air strikes on Gaza, journalists are being sent on one futile 'fact-finding mission' after another.'
My column about a week-long hunt for truth that led us nowhere.
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I have no doubt there are people out there who are relieved they can finally joke about Muslims being killed.
What's also true is outrage is profitable, and weaponising anger for promotion will get you attention - then you contort yourself into a victim and claim free speech
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I'm really stoked to share that my upcoming poetry collection "National Anthem" will be published by Dead Bird Books later this year inshallah.
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It's important to reiterate how significant these protests are. Freedom of expression, assembly and media have been cracked down on heavily by the military since 2013. Protests have been outlawed. Citizens routinely arrested for social media posts. Today a fear has been broken.
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All of my conversations in New Zealand are about housing. It's all anybody's thinking about all the time. It's exhausting.
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I've spent the morning watching old footage from Tahrir Square and it's made me so sad. I still remember the joy, the promise, the hope of this moment. I still believe in it. It will return. It's a light that can never go out.
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🤔
Pharrell Williams says he gets annoyed by celebrities speaking on politics:
“I don’t do politics. In fact, I get annoyed sometimes when I see celebrities trying to tell you [who to vote for]… I’m one of them people [who says], ‘What the heck? Shut up. Nobody asked you.’”
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This is the part of NZ we pretend doesn't exist
Warning ⚠️ A triggered Karen and Terry that we met today. Never ever in my 23 years in New Zealand did I think I'd upload one of those Karen videos . ~A THREAD ~
#SayNoToRacism
#Karenstrikesagain
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