#MENA

La Matrone: My סבתא (grandmother) was born in Nedroma, Algeria in 1928 to a family that had lived in Algeria since their expulsion from Spain. Finding life in Vichy controlled
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Some Western “Leftists” need to understand that there is nothing progressive about Islamist movements in the MENA (or whatever you want to call it); they are certainly not the equivalent
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oof. other Jews, you seriously need to stop calling Christianity an innately colonial ideologywhat does that even mean in the context of Palestinian Christians, Coptic Christians, Assyrian Christians, the Ethiopian
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When you see the outsize influence of the UAE upon regional affairs remember the following. The UAE is has a population of around 10 million out of whom 9 million
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The @WorldBank has been forecasting that #remittances will fall dramatically as a result of #COVID19. This excellent podcast sets out the evidence to date and explores the reasons why forecasts
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Askenazi and Mizrahi are not racial categories. I don't believe we need to have this conversation but apparently we do. Apparently some of you think European Jews and MENA Jews
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early Israel DID force SWANA/MENA jews to de-orientalize and abandon practices from diaspora countries bc it was seen as culturally inferior+wanted them to assimilate to the greater jewish monolith but
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Afro-Iraqis are a critical part of Iraqi culture and unfortunately continue to endure brutal discrimination. Slurs like “Abeed” (slave) are still used against them.Hear from these community members themselves from
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New investigation from @Bellingcat shows how influencers use services that provide monkeys, tigers, lions and cheetahs that they pose with in their Instagram posts that can be tracked to a
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An excellent documentary on Cretean Muslims to understand the politics of identity formation in the contemporary MENA. Syrians refer to their neighbors as Arab yet when they make an official
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Switzerland joins the growing group of European countries with a dedicated #Africa strategy. Nice work by @SwissMFAafrica and her team, as the strategy went through cross-departmental consultations and enables a
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White folks - as you sort through your feels, I wanna encourage you do something. Take time to hold the reality of how hellish today has been for Black, Indigenous,
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I might have a little bit of respect for the supposed 'free speech' absolutists' "concern" about deplatforming the obnoxious fascists who incited a coup attempt to overthrow the democratic government
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I want to take a second to talk about this kind of shit (below), and why as an Arab American, the white terrorist mob that commited treason/sedition/insurrection on 1/6 hits
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Facts about #Terrorism (2019) 1/ Terrorism has been on a downward trend since its peak in 20142/ Terrorism deaths decreased by 15.5% between 2018 and 2019.3/ Deaths from #BurkinaFaso increased
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My piece on the despicable propaganda advanced by @EmmanuelMacron when,in a letter published in a British outlet,he used #eugenics parlance to describe underfunded suburbs full of #Muslims as “breeding grounds
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