My review of @loubnamrie.bsky.social 's Defiance for @thenewarab.bsky.social This is THE Syrian War memoir—not expert analysis, not nostalgic elegy, but a witness. What happens when you're born into Assad's system and choose to defy it? The book Assad's fall demanded. www.newarab.com/features/lou...

GHF aid in Gaza, where bread is rationed in blood, is manned by US contractors wearing leather jackets, crusader crosses, and Infidel tattoos. US empire doesn’t hide — it franchises out. Infidels MC is just Blackwater 2.0 in Gaza. First op-ed in @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2025/09/the-...

Infidels MC, an "anti-Islamic" biker gang turned militia, now mans Gaza’s aid checkpoints. From Blackwater to the Pentagon, Islamophobia is no aberration, but the blueprint. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/the-... #Palestine #Israel

Israel sells bikinis and trance while Gaza starves. In my first Op-ed for @aljazeera.com I write on how Israel weaponises pleasure — its all-inclusive apartheid sells forgetting Palestinians as ‘fun’. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

BBC clutched pearls over Bob Vylan saying “death to the IDF”. Israeli artists have been singing about killing Palestinians for 50+ years, without a whisper of backlash. Read Shahla Omar and my 2023 feature on Israel's military-pop complex. @thenewarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/features/sou...

India and Pakistan are heading toward war in Kashmir, driven by manufactured hatred, collective trauma, and an appetite for bloodlust, @ashrafzeneca.bsky.social writes ⬇

Really excited to chair such an important discussion. Catch Ilan, Katy, Nadine and I at Reference Point on April 4.

For The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social l wrote about Mahmoud Khalil and our collective complicity in genocide www.newarab.com/opinion/ivy-... Thanks to @ashrafzeneca.bsky.social for wonderful editing.

Book Launch: Palestine in a World on Fire Join Ilan Pappé & Katherine Natanel for the launch of their powerful new book w @ashrafzeneca.bsky.social 📅 Fri, April 4 🕢 7:30pm 📍 Reference Point (London, UK) A @haymarketbooks.org & The New Arab event Reservations: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...

"Here was an African American woman treated with compassion, receiving free housing & healthcare in a country Joe Biden once deemed 'one of the most dangerous in the world'." @ashrafzeneca.bsky.social on how Onijah Robinson's TikTok saga flipped the script on decades of anti-Pakistan sentiment 👇

the headline lmao

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

Mouin Rabbani in The New Arab: "The challenge now is to impress upon Washington that its interests are better served by compelling Israel to fulfil its commitments under the ceasefire agreements it was forced to accept, rather than indulge its genocidal fantasies" www.newarab.com/opinion/trum...

If you haven't already, please read my opinion on the secular/Islamist binary (with regard to Syria in particular) and what should replace it.

The New Arab’s 2024 retrospectives begin, as they should, with my dear friend Abubaker Abed’s reflections of one year of genocide in Gaza. An intensely emotive piece, let this be another reminder of our apocalyptic failings. www.newarab.com/opinion/im-b...

The red ropes seen in the video were used for daily executions in Sednaya Prison. They should stand as one of the symbols of the dark era Syria endured under the rule of the Assad family and their prisons.

"My eyes are on you, O Damascus, for it is from you that the morning flows" A brilliant piece of writing from @kshaheen.bsky.social — Stand tall! newlinesmag.com/spotlight/da...

I wrote this quickly on Syria's national liberation from fascism and imperialism.

These four men were going to be executed today by the Assad regime. “Our executions were going to be half an hour ago.”

Moammar has been searching for his brother for 39 years, arrested by Syrian soldiers in Lebanon when he was 18. He hadn’t heard anything from him since. Until Thursday, when his brother emerged from Hama prison as an old man, 39 years later. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Mouin Rabbani makes his debut for The New Arab! By refusing to enforce ICC warrants, the West has hardened its support for Israel's genocide, relying on absurd justifications to do so, he writes. Israel and the ICC: A Catch-22 for the West's rules-based order. www.newarab.com/opinion/isra...

Facsinating detail from Adam Hanieh’s new banger of a book on Lenin’s use of oil concessions as a ‘weapon’

Published two great pieces in @thenewarab.bsky.social today. 1) Mona Fawaz: "To survive after ceasefire, rebuild Lebanon for all its citizens" www.newarab.com/opinion/surv... 2) Leila al-Shami: "Our dream of an Assad-free Syria has returned with rebel advance" www.newarab.com/opinion/our-...

I've written a summary/ initial analysis of what's happening in Syria. qunfuz.com/2024/12/01/h...

Bluesky feels like a throwback to the Twitter days of 2013, and now a Syrian rebel offensive — somehow it feels all too familiar.

So a lot is happening right now in Syria, but this didn't start yesterday. Here's a thread of resources to understand the Syrian context that centres Syrian revolutionary and liberatory voices. First up, humbly, I made a comic a couple years ago on this very thing! unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolut...

My cardinal directions as a marxist: 1) make Palestine central 2) brinng sartre back 3) value oriented stuff and ideology critique aren’t as opposed as many present them 4) residual antipathy to the fragment on the machine

Read the words on the sweater of this Palestinian child standing in flood water outside his meager tent shelter in Gaza. Read the words and ask yourself why the US is allowed to do this to him.

Impunity for crimes and a lack of avenues for recourse remain issues that many in Iraq feel should be addressed with urgency. A recent ruling awarding millions to Abu Ghraib torture victims has rekindled interest in the role that private security play in Iraq. www.newarab.com/analysis/abu...

This essay has been on my to-read pile ever since it was published. Just finished it this morning and can only wish I got to it sooner! Such an incredible and necessary piece. Take the time to read it yourself!

An important read from @khalilsayegh.bsky.social Donald Trump has gifted Christian Zionists control of his cabinet, giving Israel a green light to trample over Christians in Palestine. Put simply, Donald Trump's pro-Israel cabinet is Christian Zionism on steroids. www.newarab.com/opinion/gaza...

According to Raja Sharaf, audiologist and speech-language pathologist from Gaza, hearing loss has remained a significant and growing problem since the Israeli siege on the enclave in 2007 due to frequent Israeli bombing and sonic booms. www.newarab.com/news/bombed-...

"The War on Terror has coincided with the explosive rise of Big Tech, and this is no coincidence." Great article - with practical recommendations and resources too by @adelewalton.bsky.social with illustrations by Heedayah Lockman for Shado Mag shado-mag.com/opinion/isla...

The Pakistani military has orders to open live fire on protestors who have gathered in the capital city to demand the release of imprisoned prime minister Imran Khan. The political situation is the most explosive that the country has seen in years and the press has been silenced: t.co/JzXiIxVHZt

couple notes from a Jason Hickel thread from over on Twitter:

Sudanese asylum seekers and refugees in Lebanon are trapped between two wars. Their ordeal points to a clear gap in international protection, whereby asylum seekers are left to fend for themselves once their country of asylum degenerates into conflict. My latest www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

A few words from me on Trump and the “liberal order” for @aljazeera.com

On the left, a progressive US newspaper On the right, a progressive Israeli newspaper

BREAKING NEWS: Israel and Lebanon have reportedly agreed to the terms of a ceasefire deal to end the Israel-Hezbollah war, a senior US official told Axios

🚨🚨🚨MY DEBUT GUARDIAN OP-ED IS UP

All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail

It's not just Netanyahu and Gallant on trial at the ICC, but the West itself. If the West fails what Francesca Albanese calls the Litmus Test of Palestine, the essential building blocks of the existing global order will fail with it. @alonso-gd.bsky.social in TNA www.newarab.com/opinion/icc-...

Such a good read. Looking back, what a spark that # was, is, and will be. @zidani.bsky.social

some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair

UK companies arming Israel mapped by @caatuk.bsky.social, inc those producing parts for Israeli F35s bombing Gaza & Lebanon, killing our Palestinian & Lebanese loved ones. We need to take action. UK complicity & active participation in genocide must end #stoparmingisrael caat.org.uk/data/countri...

Some useful reflections here (from 2020) by @benlauderdale.bsky.social on being a journal editor - recommended reading for anyone thinking of doing this, wondering about it, contemplating the role of peer review, etc: benjaminlauderdale.net/blog/archive...

Colonies of former colonies: India’s ongoing subjugation of Kashmir holds portentous lessons about the nature of contemporary colonialism aeon.co/essays/india...

this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...