Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE now on Blue Sky
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A Tribute to my friend &
#WASL
@whatthewomensay
partner
#EnassMuzamel
who introduced me to
#Sudan
.
A beautiful soul, a courageous heart, a deep intellect, a joyful smile & with a depth of humanity & wisdom that’s humbling.
Heartbroken.
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@UICProfWatch
@MiddleEastEye
@EmoryUniversity
You have to wonder whether these police officers are right white types - how much hate & anger do they have for a woman who dare to defy them & is a university professor ie- “intellectual”.
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@SamanthaJPower
Thx but pls don't revise history: 1st visa debacle imposed on
#Iranians
inc dual citizens w/ EU passports initiated during
#OBAMA
admin in Dec 2015. It laid foundations for Trump ban.
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Yet another example of how "news" in US media is comedy & now verging on the beyond-absurd, while comedy shows like
@TheDailyShow
@LastWeekTonight
@FullFrontalSamB
are best sources of actual news delivered fabulously. I've been tracking this trend for 18 years.
@RazanGhalayini_
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@wmarybeard
@tkingdot
Dr Beard u sound a tad colonialist:as if local pop has no capacity or is not "civilized" enough in war or disaster area & thus needs white saviors.There are many local orgs doing relief work & don't forget among international orgs if more women led, likely far less sex abuse.
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My favorite
#WomaninScience
? My twin 16 yo girls now at practice run
#Science
#Olympiad
& looking forward to
#ScienceMarch
@ScienceMarchDC
Today is International Women and Girls in Science Day. Who's your favorite woman in science?
#ScienceMarch
#WomenInScience
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@spurscad
@AnnaMcMorrin
The Germans were also good at helping with at risk
#Afghans
. Sadly the
#UK
puffed many words, but it was all sound, fury & a smokescreen.
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Iran today - A 26 yo woman voted as mayor in a deeply 'conservative' province.👇 If the world removed sanctions & let the country breathe, the results would be quite extraordinary.
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We are seeing history being unraveled & repackaged ... It's horrific because once it starts unclear where we end up
@deborahamos
Marine Le Pen denies that the French state was responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews
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Huge thank you to all
@RoyalFamily
#investiture
#WindsorCastle
team today! Everyone took amazing care of us. Took my mum but felt my entire
@whatthewomensay
#WASL
@LSE_WPS
was there in spirit 🥰🙏
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There are heroes & super heroes & then there is
@SerajMahbouba
❤️💪🏼
#Afghanistan
#Women
#SheBuildsPeace
@whatthewomensay
@LSE_WPS
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So cool - one of Iran's first female commercial pilots with her child in the cockpit saying "Is it too early to teach him?"
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@strategywoman
@_EmmaGH
Dear
@strategywoman
- My suitcase was ski clothes & school notebooks in 1978. It was meant to be 10 days but turned into 40 years & a new life. Please take a handful of soil in a jar and bring it back when you go home again. You will go home.
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@archer_rs
@OnecoJohn
@FBPERemainer
1. Well many of us ex-pat Brits did not have the right to vote. So it was not one person, one vote. 2. It's been 4 years since the referendum, before pulling the plug on
#EU
, we should have 2nd vote. If
#Brexiteers
are so confident of their majority, they'd welcome a 2nd vote.
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@PaulBrandITV
@Nigel_Farage
The
@BBC
's Freudian typo & labeling of
@Nigel_Farage
has an enduring quality
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If you thought the Iraq war led to failure, think again & be wary of the war whisperers... My latest piece
@NYTimesCohen
@pcdnetwork
@tparsi
@RosyCave
@RozitaRiazati
@Deeyah_Khan
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@TaritaC
@SamanthaJPower
True but remember that the visa rule was one of excuses for including Iran in the Muslim ban. Whatever way you cut it, we ordinary Iranians pay the price.
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Eve of motherhood Jan 31,2001 & 20 years on! Best adventure of a lifetime with the loves of my life since Feb 1,2001❣️🎈🙏🎊
#howitstartedhowitsgoing
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@HNeumannMEP
Yes this is time for all to focus on preventing further executions.All ambassadors in Tehran must press govt abt trials; prevent death sentences; be present in courts.
@GermanyinIran
@UKinIran
@ItalyinIran
@UNDPIran
@amnesty
#زن_زندگی_آزادی
#اعدام_نکنید
#مهسا_امینی
#محسن_شکاری
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@wmarybeard
@tkingdot
@whatthewomensay
I wouldn't say 'civilization' is an exclusionary term or concept per se. What's exclusionary is when it's claimed by one group (e.g. European colonizers) to denote superiority in their pursuit of wealth/resources of others who clearly had their own civilizations.
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@YvetteCooperMP
This speech sounds like a brilliant piece of screenwriting for a great political drama or satire. Every line brilliant. Thank you.
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👇By transformational equality - I mean changing status quo so we make violence & warfare the stuff of history books so neither our boys nor our girls ever experience that trauma.
#MSC2020
TU
@feministfp
@BeaFihn
@AnaKasparian
@FATOU_BENSOUDA
for gr8 conversation. Let's do it💪🏼
"I don't want equality as the notion that my daughters are as much able to go to war as my nephew is. We need transformational equality not equality in the status quo."
@sanambna
#MSC2020
@feministfp
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#Afghan
nationals left behind is indicative of not just incompetence on a tactical level but colonialism, white supremacy, misogyny and much worse. To put it blankly: The U.S. & U.K. evacuate[d] 200 Afghan cats & dogs, but not Afghan people.
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Night of the long swords?! 10 senior Saudis arrested...
@lrozen
Recently crown prince MBS has been appointing his loyalists to high government and ministerial positions. Now it seems he is consolidating on his power by purging his rivals -
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Started day with a great surprise! My 2007 book
#WomenBuildingPeace
analysis of primary indepth field research in 15+ countries now translated/available in Arabic thx to Iraqi AlAmal foundation.
@munaluqman
@RashaJarhum
@MiaMBloom
@LSE_WPS
@Deeyah_Khan
@Run_Rana
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Truly humbled by all the kind messages regarding
@LSE_WPS
appointment &
@whatthewomensay
. I hope I can live up to the expectations. Will try to do best & continue to
#StandWithWomenPeacebuilders
💪🏼
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How awful. For anyone out there who doesn't know: Greencard holders pay taxes, they just don't have the right to vote.
@Alex_Lily
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Imagine your country suddenly emptied of its journalists, artists, lawyers, judges, civil society advocates, police, army, teachers & linguists. Imagine men w/ guns knocking on your door & marking your house b/c you have daughters.
#DontAbandonAfghanistan
2 am at
#KabulAirport
. You can hear the occasional rat-a-tat of small arms fire nearby, the reviving of engines on the airfield as a major evacuation continues .. the exodus of the best and brightest.
#Afghanistan
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@rezahakbari
@NewYorker
Yes -a classic case of “what not to do” -claiming homegrown spontaneous mass action is due to 1 person outside. Since 1979 Iranian women’ve fought the mandatory hejab in individual & collective acts of courage. So many paid high price & many more traumatized by our experiences.
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Kudos to
#Iranian
doctors/reports for being forthright about virulence, nature & mortality rate of
#covid19
- I think they are being way more honest than
#China
. But the World
@WHO
needs to get medical supplies to Iran ASAP. Stop the damn sanctions.
#Iran
coronavirus Sunday:
Health ministry reports 60 % increase in deaths & 54% increase in infected numbers in just past 24 hours.
#کروناویروس
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Today’s message from women in
#Afghanistan
:
Americans’ve banned commercial flights,occupying airport to evacuate staff;handed country to
#Taliban
,dug graves for us & now notallowing us to leave the hell they created for us.
@Deeyah_Khan
@SenJaffer
@bbclysedoucet
@BahmanKalbasi
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In
#Iran
hospital multi-level parking garage being turned into temporary ward
#CoronaVirusIran
#Coronavirus
. Thoughts w/ people there & appalled by cavalier attitude of
#UK
#US
govts.
@NIACouncil
@hmajd
@iPouya
@AliVaez
@RozitaRiazati
@hdagres
@nargesbajoghli
@tparsi
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Awesome & witty & moving
Muhammad Ali on race in the US...and wondering why Tarzan, the “King of the Jungle” in Africa, was white. Guy was a national treasure.
#BlackLivesMatter
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This is courage & resilience. They will win. Too bad the world's most elite diplomats & politicians didn't have the heart, guts or brains to fight for them when they sat around tables in
#Doha
& elsewhere w/ the
#Taliban
.
#Afghanistan
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@realZalmayMK
@mikepompeo
Ghani has his cross to bear.
But you negotiated away lives of Afghan women & girls to the
#Taliban
.
You stonewalled & ignored
#AfghanWomen
’s warning.
You agreed freedom for 5000 Taliban & set no conditions for protection of civilians,women or minorities as Taliban bombed them
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@MelissaFleming
And to think that so many countries showed up at
#UNSC
on Oct 27, waxing lyrical about
#women
#peace
#security
#WPS
.
So many claim
#FeministForeignPolicy
#FFP
& yet these same countries abstained on the vote for a
#ceasefire
& are doing nothing to help these women.
Appalling
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"Mr
@realDonaldTrump
, Mr
@HassanRouhani
this prosthetic for my boy is not available b/c of sanctions. Why?" A mom on TV in
#Iran
speaking truth to power.
@hmajd
@SanamF24
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Here’s an idea: on
#MondaySept27
to marking
#InternationalDaughtersDay
-in solidarity with
#AfghanGirls
w - kids, teenagers (& parents) worldwide don’t go to school. We can’t let the
#Taliban
bully the world. RT & pass it on
#NotwithoutMySister
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These poor guys are dealing with enough pressure & risk. They have signaled clearly where their hearts are.
#TeamMelli
Mehdi Taremi ♥️ regarding protesters and not singing the national anthem
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@markmobility
Every American shld know a)last week as medics scrambled to get protective gear the
#Pentagon
tested a $998M unmanned hypersonic missile for deploying nukes. b) Yesterday they held imaginary war game against
#Iran
. Our taxes spent on war games/toys instead of real human security.
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On
#InternationalWomensDay
joining my team
@whatthewomensay
to celebrate the courage, care, creativity & conviction of all our partners and members of the Women's Alliance for Security Leadership (
#WASL
) & all women
#peacebuilders
.🕊️
#IWD2023
#SheBuildsPeace
#feminismo
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20 yrs of
#Women
#peace
#security
, so many stories, so many wars & so many
#WomenPeacebuilders
. Our journey ends when wars become history.
@WPSNCanada
@ngowgwps
@Nowomennopeace
@pcdnetwork
@SenJaffer
@Deeyah_Khan
@JoelleZahar
@NobelWomen
@whatthewomensay
#WASL
#ICANForum2019
.
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@mehdirhasan
Please read Travelers in the 3rd Reich by Julia Boyd - the outreach, brainwashing & mobilization of youth with promise of masculinity was absolutely critical to nazism and every other form of identity-based extremism we see...
#daesh
#whitesupremacist
included.
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Media pundits comparison of
#Soleimani
death to
#ArchDukeFerdidand
is dangerous & feeds narrative that war is inevitable. It's what war mongers want. Outrageous that it is easier for leaders to send poor soldiers to war than have courage to sit at table, dialogue & compromise.
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Dear Friends,
Wherever you are today, please take a moment & say to yourself
#PeaceisPriceless
. Even a dysfunctional peace, is better than what we all feared last night. But we can no longer take
#peace
for granted. It needs work. 1st step:Simply demand that we talk & not shoot.
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My extraordinary cousin
#EskandarFirouz
passed away-a joy & privilege to have him in my life.He loved that my kids were becoming environmentalists.We spent
#NewYears
together.He told me the tale of
#Iran
's short tailed crocs. His love of Iran surpassed the absurdities of regimes.
#RIP
#EskanderFirouz
1926 - 2020,
#Iran
’s pioneering environmentalist & author. A former Director of the Department of the
#Environment
in Iran & Vice President of the International Union for the Conservation of
#Nature
& Natural Resources.
#RoleModel
@ShirinHakim
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This 👇🏼👇🏼
With Amy Coney Barrett’s conformation, everyone needs to make sure that the presidential election is not close enough for her and the rest of the Supreme Court to get to decide what happens.
Biden needs to win BIG.
#SCOTUS
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Dear Londoners please join me on February 10th
@LSE_WPS
to talk about why how as going is getting tougher, women peacebuilders are mobilizing to save the world & push back against extremist (& machismo) driven leadership that's threatening us all.
#StandWithWomenPeacebuilders
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Chas Freeman is among the very best, most honest analysts, diplomats, strategists in the
#US
.
If there is 1 thing to hear to understand
#Israel
-
#Iran
situation now, this is it.
Pls listen, share and then
Get back to focusing on
#Israel
's
#genocide
in
#Gaza
.
#CEASEFIRE_NOW
This is undoubtedly the best analysis I've heard to date of the Iran strike on Israel. It's long-ish (about 10 minutes) but absolutely worth listening to.
The man speaking is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, very relevant to the topic, former US
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@NKingofDC
@Peggynoonannyc
When America's democratic institutions are reclaimed & revived. Please remember that it's Black Americans who risked being killed & beaten & gassed to warn, mobilize & save this country.
#BlackLivesMatter
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@lawrence_wright
Your take is very skewed.
1. No sympathy or courage to step in & stop the assault on a courageous man who was helping you do your job, but in doing so, was risking himself.
2. Armies, especially occupations dehumanize soldiers.
3. Perhaps time do a story on the Israeli men &
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@jonsnowC4
Dear Jon, There are many anonymous people working 24/7 to get Afghans to safety. Not just judges but Women Peacebuilders, police women, artists, journalists, musicians, doctors & students & so many kids. They all need visas. Few govts stepping up. Pls amplify all. Thank you Sanam
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Next time some American claims they empowered Afghan women or criticizes them for not being organized or being too US dependent or or or... Just send them this piece: Palwasha Hassan speaking truth to entitled privilege & power
@FroghWazhma
@MaryAkrami
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@HalimaKazem
@EbrahimNoroozi1
Heartbreaking and enraging when you think of all the men (Taliban, Americans, Qataris) who bartered
#Afghan
women's lives among themselves.
Perhaps now it's time to teach every girl and woman how to box & karate.
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So a man who doesn't know me or my 40 yrs experience of the
#Iranian
regime but claims to be a lawyer &
@harvard
law alum is making false comments & libelous accusations against me. Mr.
@kshahrooz
the pathetic irony is u mirror the regime's mindset towards Iranians. You are them.
1/ A common lie told by the supporters of the Iranian regime in the West is that they're dissidents and exiles who can't return home. There's no reason, for example, that
@sanambna
has to write so wistfully. She can just get on a plane and go to Iran.
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This👇❤️
Sandra the orangutang started washing her hands because she saw all the zookeepers doing it repeatedly during the COVID-19 crisis.
Wash your hands.
Be more like Sandra.🌎❤️🧼🌎
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If you wander who fans flames of war on Iran in DC -look no further
@mdubowitz
"diplomatic escape hatch"?! Diplomacy & dialogue are ways to avoid the deaths of thousands & destruction of entire nations. But Mark you & your paymasters would prefer war so why not say it outright?
First, the Oman channel. Now, the Feinstein cell phone. The Islamic Republic of Iran again is looking for a diplomatic escape hatch from maximum pressure.
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A great day in
#London
for a walk in
#hydepark
chasing the sun with my recently vaccinated mum - masks off momentarily- & bumping into the man himself
#berniesmittens
@RoxaneFarma
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Proud of my cousin
#SharifNM
head of
#IranSwissChamberofCommerce
for creating coalition to support
#Iran
@CampaignNafas
(breathe campaign) to get equipment for
#Coronavirus
care. Iranians abroad already pledged $1.5m.Pls share
@SanamF24
@RozitaRiazati
@NegarMortazavi
@Lghara93
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@nytimes
Tagging
@jcrew
@benandjerrys
@Target
@WholeFoods
@WalmartInc
in case they missed the piece.
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Good lord- the female equivalent to
#DrStrangelove
#Memarsadeghi
head of
@StateDept
funded NGO
@TavaanaTech
says "peace is boring,war brings human dignity, ppl in Kosovo shouted w/ joy from "ceilings" (meaning rooftops) as bombs rained down".
@hmajd
@NegarMortazavi
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@hdagres
Their grandmoms protested & were beaten.
Their granddads weren't supportive.
Their mothers resisted, pushing back the scarf, raising hems but beaten.
Their fathers watched but didn't step in.
Now it's
#GenZ
& their brothers're joining in.
May they all be safe.
#MahsaAmini
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👇🙂 Oh my... 20 years ago...
#WPSin2020
#WomenPeacePower
...
@SwaneeHunt
@CamilleConaway
@LSE_WPS
@RosyCave
@SenJaffer
@Deeyah_Khan
@MRensvik
@GinaTorry
...
Happy 20th Anniversary of
#UNSCR1325
! To celebrate, we’re throwing it back to our Founder & CEO
@sanambna
's interview w/
@_UNChronicle
in 2000, on strengthening local women’s movements for peace. Proud to be continuing this work:
#SheBuildsPeace
#WPSin2020
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@ranarahimpour
Not the first women led revolution (
#Yemen
#Sudan
even
#Libya
) but the first revolution with a feminist clarion call -demand for rights of women as the unifying call & message. This is what makes the
#IranRevolution2022
really ground breaking historically & globally.
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@NYTimesCohen
@maggieNYT
He didn't know the Queen may have done what others often do...turned off her hearing aid. :)
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This lady can't figure out walking & chewing gum 🙄 so I'll explain it: 1. The regime is awful,yes we all know. 2)
#US
#sanctions
aren't allowing medical supplies in. BOTH factors are devastating lives in
#Iran
. & the kicker::sanctions strengthen the regime's worst elements.
I've received this video from Iran. Listen to this woman.
The Islamic Republic of Iran & its lobbies claim
#Covid19
is killing people due to sanctions. Is that really so?
As the video shows, the regime invests money in religious banners instead of medical masks for people.
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👇👇
#Afghan
women delegation weren't given chance to go to
#Doha
, so they're in
#Kabul
convening 1st national dialogue led by women. No more exclusion, no more muting
@whatthewomensay
#WASL
proud to support them. Join us.
@abigaildisney
@Deeyah_Khan
@FroghWazhma
@RozitaRiazati
First National Peace Dialogue of Women- Kabul
Introduction by: Hasina Qaderi
Panelists: Ms
#HomairaSoqib
, Ms
@FarkhundaNaderi
, Ms
@FawziaKoofi77
, Ms
#AdelaBahram
, Ms
#SamiraRasa
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Huge thank you everyone for kind words. As always grateful to long time Twitter followers & welcome to new ones. So proud of my
@whatthewomensay
team &
#WASL
& all we still plan to achieve in
#WPS2020
& excited to take on challenge of
@LSE_WPS
. With gr8 people everything possible
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And please don't forget the
#Afghan
women who are standing up to the
#Taliban
that
@realZalmayMK
sold them to...
Courageous
#AfghanWomen
, this time from
#Herat
city chanting “Education is our Right”.
And the
#AfghanMen
still think it is something about women, by women and for women!!!
They are still bystanders.
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@omid9
Appreciate the sentiment but ironic that he lobs female sexualized insults at men but when complementing the women on their courage, he says they have more balls than the men. For the record: courageous women don’t need them.
#WomenLifeFreedom
#MahsaAmini
مهساامی
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20 years of Our Story as
#WomenPeacebuilders
- download & zoom in to see where,why and how
#WASL
@whatthewomensay
partners became peacebuilders & what they’ve done. Poster available!
#InternationalPeaceDay
#SheBuildsPeace
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A nonexistent guy wrote for
@Forbes
& other outlets. The extent of the
#Iran
Disinformation campaign: by
@mazmhussain
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@DeplorablOjibwe
@JackSmithIV
Unitd in love/patriotism-inside they'r checkng legal residents'social media & askng politcal views
#unAmerican
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As we see rivers of
#Soleimani
mourners in city after city in
#Iran
, can't help but wonder what the DC peddlers of sanctions/regime change & "imminent collapse" are saying now. As for pentagon idiots who suggested the target, they should be tried for inciting war.
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Eye in the sky on the
#LondonEye
😎 First time back since February. So excited to see my mom, my sister & my girls.
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If you hear the
#Taliban
say they reject the west, do remind them of their love of western technologies. The hypocrisy is unbounded. Those who enable the Taliban are complicit in their horrific abuse of women & minorities.
#Afghanistan
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@benrileysmith
As Brit citizen/Iranian born in US w/ greencard hope UKGov has my back-will it?
@KattyKayBBC
@jonsnowC4
@MGMTrimmer
@mattfrei
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This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
I’ve always respected
@Trevornoah
so much but this closing speech from the White House correspondents’ dinner is particularly spectacular.
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So after twenty years living in the
#US
- working, paying taxes, not getting to vote, today I felt such pride & hope, clearly it’s time to apply for my citizenship
#Inauguration2021
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