1- This year just marked the 78th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, which befell the Palestinians when about 750,000 of them were forced to leave or they fled in fear as Zionist militias carried out military operations against them with implicit orders to expel "the Arabs".

Reading Arundhati Roy’s great biographical work with so much pleasure

1- The whole online world is now grappling with how AI content is generated and consumed. It is incumbent upon Meta and the wider tech industry to act faster, and ideally together.

Two wrongs do not make a right. Well, unless they do as Roald Dahl warned us and both Trump and Netanyahu and MBS and … showed us. They proved their rights are just built on many wrongs.

What Happens When You Can’t Get a Death Certificate in Gaza? For families of the missing, systemic obstacles to identifying remains and locating people in Israeli detention has created a kind of social and legal purgatory. www.wired.com/story/what-h...

The parents of Hassan, 16, search for him or his body in Gaza. He is one of thousands of people in Gaza whose disappearance casts their families in unceasing grief and legal limbo. Israel blockades Gaza and provides no information to the Palestinians families. www.wired.com/story/hassan...

The Israeli government does what it does best, denying the Palestinian people their rights and strangulating international aid to them. Today Israeli bulldozers and officials started demolishing the UNRWA offices in Jerusalem and seizing the land.

“Time buries time …” one of the many gems in a treasure that Omar El Akkad sprinkles throughout his beautiful - if bleak - novel, “American War”, of a post war US that is no longer united in the final years this century. The novel presents a war whose genesis we might be watching unfold now--

To understand the predicament of the Palestinians, watch "All that is left of you" a great movie by Cherine Dabis spanning three generations from 1948 to 2022. It shows the depth of loss, anger, and how the Israeli state could continue the slow annihilation of the Palestinians.

How Israel systematically destroyed Gaza. Great writing by @aloner.bsky.social

The daily life under a ceasefire, preemptively killing people some of whom may think or act in the future against your state which occupies their land, besieges them and controls every minute of their lives!

New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7 www.972mag.com/98-palestini...

Every morning when I hear or read the news, somewhere buried towards the end of the bulletin, we get the usual report that Israel killed several people in Lebanon or Gaza or the West Bank..

عن صانعة الحلي عزة فهمي واحلامها .. al-salon.com/article/dab-...

The 10 leading AI tools repeated false information on topics in the news more 35% of the time in August 2025, up from 18% a year earlier. www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/a...

From 9/11 to Gaza: How I lost faith in the humanitarian system This is the title of my commentary published today by the New Humanitarian. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

On his first Father’s Day, Mahmoud Khalil will sit in a detention center 1,500 miles away from his wife and newborn son, as punishment for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights.

Schreef met @k-mansour.bsky.social dit stuk over belang van #kunst #cultuur bij wederopbouw #syrië #heling #kunstiszuurstof

Wrote an article on @ActionForHope العمل للأمل and #Syria with @k-mansour.bsky.social in @euobserver.com (thank you @koertdebeuf.bsky.social for connecting) #artisoxygen #hope #syria #healing #art #culture @kajakallas.bsky.social @hadjalahbib.bsky.social #eusyria

"What time did they say this kid gets out of class again?”

‘By styling himself as a warrior against antisemitism, Trump packages a highly repressive – and discriminatory – campaign as a crusade against bigotry.’ Adam Shatz on Columbia’s surrender, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Always remember: the autocrat, Trump, is not your friend—even if he purports to want to protect you; even if he hurts those you have proclaimed your enemies, writes @aloner.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Israeli strikes have killed 71 people overnight in Gaza. A local hospital spokesperson says 710 killed and 900 wounded in Gaza in the last 48 hrs. Mass protests in Israel against renewal of the war. IDF intercepts missile launched from Yemen www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"This is Assad’s persisting legacy: a state eviscerated of public function, and a people long deprived of the capacity to organise and participate as citizens in peaceful politics" I try to explore Syria's next chapters in this piece for the #Prospect. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

A very perceptive piece on how alleged anti-semitism has become weaponized by the right against the left and how this threatens freedom of expression... www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...

في جنوب سوريا يوجد قاعدة القوات الأمريكي في التنف، وفي الشمال الشرقي قاعدتان روسيتان. وبالاتجاه شمالا هناك مستشارون وقواعد عسكرية تركية، بينما وسعت اسرائيل وجودها من هضبة الجولان المحتل حتى جبل الشيخ في الجنوب الغربي. الجزء ١ من مقالتي حول الاجانب في سوريا khaledmansour.org/%d8%aa%d9%82...

اندلعت الثورة السورية عام 2011 لأسباب عديدة منها الغضب الشعبي من إمعان السلطات في الإذلال وردود فعلها العنيفة على احتجاجات سلمية. هنا انطلق شعار “الشعب السوري ما بينْذَل”. والآن سقط النظام ولكنَّ ذلُّ الفقر لم ينته بعد، بل يُخشى من أن يشكِّل وقودًا للاضطرابات. khaledmansour.org/%d8%a7%d9%84...

I remembered a certain memorial in Berlin, when I read that Israeli security on Sunday searched a famous bookshop in Palestinian East Jerusalem, on Sunday and confiscated books, and arrested owners. The two owners were still detained as of Tuesday morning. www.972mag.com/educational-...

في اللغة العربية فعل "التهجير" يعني الانتقال قسرا ومرادفاته هي: إقصاء تشريد، طرد، الخ. ولذا عندما تصر دولة عربية خليجية على إدخال تعديل على نص البيان المعد لاجتماع القمة العربي القادم، يحقّ لنا التشكك في نواياها وموقفها من سعى ترامب لفرض التطهير العرقي في غزة.

The US is threatening Egypt and Jordan if they refused to join in committing the war crime of massive displacement of Palestinians. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

عن تحديات الاقتصاد في سوريا والتي يمكن ان تدفعها لهاوية من العنف والقمع! www.manassa.news/stories/21781

عن هيئة تحرير الشام www.manassa.news/stories/21538

عن زيارتي الأولى لسوريا منذ 14 عامًا، بعد أسبوعين من سقوط بشار الأسد. عن النشوة والأمال والأحلام والمخاطر .. manassa.news/stories/2153...

مقالة عن أهمية العدالة الانتقالية وكيفية تحقيقها في سوريا legal-agenda.com/%d8%b9%d8%a7...

بينما قد يدَّعي كبار مسؤولي الأمم المتحدة في سوريا أنهم بذلوا كل ما بوسعهم تحت حكم نظام الأسد الإجرامي، إلا أنهم في الواقع غالباً ما ساهموا في تمكين هذا النظام بذريعة أنهم، باعتبارهم منظمات حكومية دولية، ملزمون بالتعامل مع «الحكومة الشرعية» ذات السيادة. aljumhuriya.net/ar/2025/01/0...

This photo of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiyeh, as he proceeds with diginity towards Israeli tanks in besieged, starved and deatroyed. Gaza after the IDF destroyed his hospital, should haunt us and the perpetrators until full accountability is achieved.

The UN needs to tune in to the new season in Damascus and replace its leadership. aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/01/0...

Just listened to a sophisticated DW journalist tell the BBC that the Saudi attacker who killed 2 and injured many in an east German town, will fuel anti Muslim sentiments. The man was anti-Muslim (reportedly an athiest who got asylum on this ground ) but still a Saudi with a Muslim name, a foreigner

بعد اسبوع في الرياض للمرة الأولى منذ ٢٠ عاما، ترى في الشارع وفي الحوارات مع سعوديين وسعوديات: مسؤولين واصحاب أعمال وسائقي أوبر ومهنيين ان هناك ماردا كان مكبلا ثم انطلق، في اتجاهات عديدة، ولكنه انطلق. سيكون التحدي الهائل ان تشارك اغلبية ساحقة في صناعة الانطلاق وتعديل مساراته والاستفادة منه

بعد اسبوع في الرياض للمرة الأولى منذ ٢٠ عاما، ترى في الشارع وفي الحوارات مع سعوديين وسعوديات: مسؤولين واصحاب أعمال وسائقي أوبر ومهنيين ان هناك ماردا كان مكبلا ثم انطلق، في اتجاهات عديدة، ولكنه انطلق. سيكون التحدي الهائل ان تشارك اغلبية ساحقة في صناعة الانطلاق وتعديل مساراته والاستفادة منه

تمارا الرفاعي تكتب عن سوريا والفرحة والقلق والاعتراف بالجميل وتدعوكم للزيارة. www.shorouknews.com/mobile/colum...

38 killed 203 injured yeaterday - the daily carnage as inflicted by the IDF continues. This is not a protective/defensive/preemptive war. This has long been a vindictive retaliation and in the language of the ICJ a “plausible” genocide.

التعاون الأمني الفلسطيني مع اسرائيل مستمر، قُبض على ١٨٠٠ شخص في الضفة معظمهم من حماس، بينما تم اعادة اسرائيليين عديدين دخلوا المنطقة التي تسيطر عليها السلطة بسلام ..... الصحفي آموس هاريل ذاته بدا مندهشا بعض الشئ وهو يكتب تقريره المفيد الذي نشرته هاآريتز أمس. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A jarring and articulate piece by Ursula Lindsey on the state of anger, grief, hopelessness and percolating explosions in the Arab world regarding the genocidal war in Gaza. It is full of facts, informed analyses, and connects many dots. Worth reading in full. www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-hori...

Israel’s trade with Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, Morocco and Bahrain grew in the year to the end of May despite regional tensions and the Gaza war, a think tank report has revealed. Bilateral dealings with Egypt up 166% Trade with Bahrain up almost 1,000% www.agbi.com/trade/2024/0...

McKenzie Global institute identified 18 arenas of the future that could reshape the global economy, generating $29-48 trillion in revenues by 2040. These include AI, cybersecurity, future air mobility, drugs for obesity and related conditions, robotics and nonmedical biotechnology.

Goldman Sachs estimates that unauthorized immigrants account for about 4.4% of the US workforce. The share is much higher in some industries: about 20% in landscaping and private household services, 17% in crop production, 15% in food processing manufacturing, and 13% in construction.

I am honoured and ashamed to attend the annual Gala of the Committee to Protect Journalists