The amount of people denigrating a traditional Emirati dance whose meaning they have no clue about shows how reflexively racist and orientalist liberals can be when they’re mad about the current American president

@AlbertoMiguelF5 I’m sure they can, my point is that it’s almost a stereotypical knee jerk reaction to Arab states hosting it

America doesn’t deserve to host the World Cup due to its human rights record in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan as well as its crackdown on free speech and treatment of refugees and migrants

I’ve spent the last 30 mins trying to get ChatGPT to generate a Ramadan related kids coloring page WITHOUT the little girl wearing a veil and failing despite explicitly instructing the AI to generate it without it.

For three days, thousands of Alawites hid in their homes, watching a battle that was never theirs. For @newlinesmag, Kamal Shahin brings this harrowing first-person account of the bloodletting that engulfed the Syrian coast earlier this month. https://t.co/TvTrsdGa3n

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@stef_dgn @newlinesmag I came up with it 😂

So glad we managed to do an Aleppo soap story with the headline "The Gharfather". By @stef_dgn for @newlinesmag https://t.co/J4IxaDjcCU

Mourning, anger and a search for meaning at Hassan Nasrallah's funeral in Beirut. A first-person account by @newlinesmag contributor Nassim Badani. https://t.co/9yIqyOMmQz

Photo of Nazi troops invading Poland in 1939, when Poland famously launched World War II

Why does the wealthiest man in the world, and one of the most powerful, care what a bunch of online gamers have to say about him? @kshaheen and Alec D’Angelo analyze Elon Musk’s bizarre gaming scandal. https://t.co/6CthpMPZNl

The monumental task of tallying the dead across 14 years of war in Syria is essential for accountability and justice, argues @desilva_rowena in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/xh4fxmEx13

The Syrian regime’s fall just over a month ago was met with excitement, joy, trepidation and anxiety. The stories of three Syrian citizens from that fateful night encompass these complex emotions, reports Suhaib Anjarini for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/6UCmZ0dTs1

A provocative video of the burning of an Alawite shrine in Aleppo ignited tensions in Syria last month, demonstrating how the crumbling of Assad’s regime poses the greatest test yet for the community’s identity, writes Kamal Shahin for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/pGv4c84yrk

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I'm back on the @newlinesmag podcast discussing with the team what we think will happen in 2025. Here's my thoughts on Syria:

oh no

Such a beautiful piece: After 15 years, @FarisZwirahn returned to Syria. As he writes in this @newlinesmag essay, what he found in Damascus was both familiar and different. The city is the same — but its inhabitants are smiling. https://t.co/twBT8OI9Hi

This is my favorite song by him, a really beautiful haunting melody (he changed the words in the concert from "we don't want Assad's rule" to "we brought down Assad's rule") عالهودلاك - وصفي المعصراني - Wasfi Massarani https://t.co/qDzyH8I2V4