#Lebanon

Raj 🇮🇳

LibtardsKaDoc

#THREAD𝗕𝗮𝗮𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗸 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 – 𝗟𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 !!The Baalbek temple is a monumental 2000 year

Matthew Petti 🎅🎄☃️

matthew_petti

HISTORY THREADThis is Monte Melkonian, the strangest, most interesting man of the late Cold War.His story took him from suburban California through the Vietnam War, the Iranian Revolution, the Lebanese

Rebecca Hamlin

hamlinr1

I just finished final edits on my book “Crossing” on the migrant/refugee binary (out from @stanfordpress this winter), so for this #WorldRefugeeDay I thought I’d share the recent works

Indic Kartavya

IndicKartavya

Thread: Dont look at these events in isolation, here is the big picture for which the shankhnaad was done by Erdogan when he changed Hagia sophia museum to a mosque.

AnObserver

WatchingEurasia

Exactly 10 years ago today, Egypt's leader of nearly 30 years stepped down. Hosni Mubarak was one of the leaders toppled during what was known as "the Arab Spring." This

Devon

devoninMENA

On January 3, 2020, a US drone strike killed Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani—the second most powerful man in Iran after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—near the Baghdad International Airport in

Orde F. Kittrie

ordefk

Thread: 1/ The Morocco-Israel peace deal is good for both countries, but sustained US follow-through by Biden admin & Congress will be key to ensuring peace is implemented in a

Ben 😷 Hubbard

NYTBen

NEW from the @nytimes international/graphics dream team: How corruption and dysfunction in Lebanon's government and the port of Beirut allowed the accidental assembly of a massive bomb - and how

Synaps

SynapsNetwork

THREAD Since March, the Syrian government has reacted to the covid epidemic primarily through measures designed to hide the problem from view. The result is that—as Syria now buzzes with

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

Some PA counties “choosing to separate-but not count-mail-in ballots postmarked on Election Day & arriving thru Friday...contrary 2 guidance from ⁦@PAStateDept⁩ ”: Lancaster, Montour, Snyder, Northumberland, Cumberland, Chester,

Garrett M. Graff

vermontgmg

THREAD: Every death from Covid-19 is a tragedy—all 340,000 Americans so far—but it's hard to ignore that the Republican Party has become a literal death cult, all to assuage Trump's

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

New #covid19 variant #B117 has led to vastly different responses around the globe.Japan, for instance, has stopped all foreigners from entering until the end of January— they had detected cases

DawsonSField

DawsonSField

Follow the money, it often leads to the explosives, illegal arms deals, corrupt banks, & Swampy politicians. #BeirutExplosion #ButNothingsHappening https://twitter.com/OCCRP/status/1296842313826795522 A Russian operator, explosives from

Bruce Baird

drbairdonline

Tribunal to announce verdicts Tuesday in trial of four Hezbollah members for killing former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri in Feb 2005. But analysis (once again!) reveals NO WAY Mitsubishi truck

Thomas Juneau

thomasjuneau

I miss travelling.(Tian Shan mountains, eastern Kyrgyzstan, near Issyk Kul lake, close to the border with China, 2002) I miss travelling, part 2: Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India (1999/2000).

Rime Allaf

rallaf

20 years ago today, I was at a Damascus hair salon when an assistant rushed to tell us Hafez Assad had died. What I saw and lived in the next

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