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Elias Muhanna
QifaNabki
On November 21, 2013, a cargo ship arrived in the port of Beirut, carrying 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate. The authorities all plead ignorance of the affairs of the port
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Tony Badran
AcrossTheBay
OFAC adds to its SDN list Nabih Berri aide and former Finance Minister (!) Ali Hassan Khalil, as well as former public works minister (!) Youssef Finianos, who is close
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Christian Sahner
ccsahner
A question for Middle East Twitter: Throughout history, how common was it for Arab Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land to use the honorary title “Hajj/ Hajja” (حاج/حاجة) like their
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Faisal Al Yafai
FaisalAlYafai
THREAD Go Home, Refugee. A glance at the photos in @mannocchia @alessioroa piece in yesterday's @newlinesmag and it is obvious why that most powerful of words - home - recurs
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Christiaan Triebert
trbrtc
The secondary (and first, presumably) explosion in Beirut happened at the Beirut Port Silos, geolocation: 33.902226, 35.518766. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9022304,35.516572,872m/data=!3m1!1e3 There are reports of two explosion location
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Christian Sahner
ccsahner
1/ Today is the feast of the Masābkī brothers of #Damascus (ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī, Francis, and Raphael), Maronite martyrs who died during the sectarian bloodshed of 1860 They are an interesting
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Phillip Smyth
PhillipSmyth
Iran has a great number of Sunni and even Marxian (at this point what does that even mean, but still) proxies: PFLP-GC, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, Harakat Tawhid al-Islami (Lebanon),
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bi-derman ψ
IR0NSPIDEY
The amount of misinformation that people are spreading about the explosion in lebanon??? Here’s a thread about the stuff that is true: There is no firework factory in beirut, what
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Remi Brulin
RBrulin
January 1, 1982: Lebanon. A packed stadium. Bombs have been positioned where the PLO leaders will be seated. Bigger bombs are outside, ready to target panicked survivors This is Olympia
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Guns, Ganders, and Goats
MENA_Conflict
Anyway, I've been on a Levantine military history kick and wouldn't you know it, Israel just keeps popping up. Today let's talk about Operation Mole Cricket 19 or as I
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Mohamad Faour محمد فاعور
Mohdfaour89
*THREAD*So @PaulaYacoubian suggested a Currency Board. While in theory it's a nice idea, it would simply not work in #Lebanon now.Why? 1) It requires that every LBP is 100% backed
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Luna Safwan - لونا صفوان
LunaSafwan
For everyone concerned about my mental health post #Beirutexplosion - I have been into therapy for exactly a year now due to an accumulation of hostile coverages in addition to
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Ann O'Byrne
ann_obyrne
Well what a year!We discovered new ways to keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues, we’ve lost so many wonderful people, we’ve made so many new friends, we’ve also
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Faisal Al Yafai
FaisalAlYafai
The shifting fortunes of Middle East Christians / A Thread. Today @newlinesmag, we publish an essay by @aelghossain about #Lebanon's #Maronites. It serves as a lesson in understanding how minorities
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Charles Lister
Charles_Lister
The debilitating socio-economic consequences of #Assad's blind investment in all-out war on his own population & infrastructure have been clear for a long while -- I'd posit that they're a
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Andrew Fleischman
ASFleischman
So a couple of years ago, a story out of Portland went viral. The Willamette Weekly had responded to police saying they could look through people's trash without a warrant
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