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Alia Malek عليا مالك

8 years

"a brilliant combination of geopolitics & family history" my book on #Syria out FEB 28 2017 via @PublishersWkly

The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek

Malek’s (A Country Called Amreeka) multigenerational memoir is a brilliant combination of geopolitics and family history. In an ...

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Alia Malek عليا مالك

@AliaMalek

4 years

From a friend in #beirut

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@AliaMalek

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Over 50 faculty members at the Newmark J-School at CUNY call for the protection of journalists & the freedom of the press in light of “sobering milestone” reached: according to @pressfreedom this has been deadliest month for journalists since CPJ was founded

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4 years

So here’s a ? in this double standards discussion: I’m flying today out of BWI; there are folks in their paraphernalia from yesterday’s display. Will airlines remove them bc they make others feel unsafe?The way people wearing hijabs, speaking Arabic, looking ethnic were removed?

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@AliaMalek

1 year

via @NYTimes my profile of the #Italy rapper ⁦ @GhaliFoh ⁩ who bought a boat to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea

Can a Rapper Change Italy’s Mind About Migrants? (Published 2023)

As the country’s right-wing government takes a hard line on Mediterranean immigration, the hip-hop artist Ghali has become a prominent voice of compassion.

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@AliaMalek

3 years

What strange bedfellows… Rana condemns Saudi brutality in #Yemen & now Modi & MBS trolls unite.

Rana Ayyub

@RanaAyyub

3 years

Saudi trolls are being cheered on by Modi supporters in India. You missed nothing

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@AliaMalek

4 years

NOT SURPRISED: A THREAD (cc: the entire media industry but esp the enablers @nytimes ) RCMP arrests ‘Abu Huzayfah’ for allegedly faking his past with ISIS |

RCMP arrests ‘Abu Huzayfah’ for allegedly faking his past with ISIS | Globalnews.ca

Sources identified Shehroze Chaudhry as the subject of the award-winning New York Times podcast Caliphate.

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@AliaMalek

4 years

Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife "dream team" | Reuters — the couple are the children of Turkish immigrants to Germany who put in some lab time even the day of their wedding

Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife "dream team"

Positive data on BioNTech and U.S. partner Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine is an unlikely success for the married couple behind the German biotech firm, who have devoted their lives to harnessing the...

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Alia Malek عليا مالك

@AliaMalek

7 years

As I said last year at this time, these strikes have nothing to do with protecting #Syria people or even altering the balance of power. The status quo doesn’t change.

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@AliaMalek

6 years

I've debated responding bc this isn't surprising, but it's still jarring to see how tone deaf, self-congratulatory& unable to learn from past mistakes #Hollywood can be -- despite what might be best intentions on all sides. A thread #Syria

Lena Dunham to Adapt Refugee Survival Story for Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams (EXCLUSIVE)

Lena Dunham has been tapped by co-producers Spielberg and J.J. Abrams to script "A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea."

variety.com

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@AliaMalek

1 year

What an embarrassing take

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@ianbremmer

1 year

hamas supports genocide but doesn’t have the capacity. israel has the capacity but not the intention.

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@AliaMalek

5 years

For this Sunday, some thoughts triggered by this @nytimesbooks review by @ABarnardNYT of Elliot Ackerman's latest book – while I will touch on the substance of the work briefly, this is really a thread about who gets to be part of these conversations

A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known (Published 2019)

In his memoir, “Places and Names,” the Marine veteran Elliot Ackerman travels to Syria and sees a refracted image of the forever wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

www.nytimes.com

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@AliaMalek

5 years

not to comment on the obvious, but currently on @CNN @andersoncooper has 3 male guests to talk #QassemSoleimani -none of whom are from #Iraq or #Syria or #Lebanon or even #Iran - the nations whose people have been the main victims of Soleimani's "strategizing"

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@AliaMalek

4 years

now up @NYTimesAtWar the 3rd dispatch from my long term reporting project following several families from #Syria rebuilding their lives in Europe (currently in year 5) His Family Fled Syria. He Didn’t Cry Until He Heard About His Sisters.

His Family Fled Syria. He Didn’t Cry Until He Heard About His Sisters. (Published 2020)

Yousef was just 13 when his family left Syria for Europe. Five years later, he’s adjusting to life separated from his three sisters and the ups and downs of adolescence.

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@AliaMalek

4 years

In response to pandemic, @basmehzeitooneh schools for #Syria #refugee kids in #Lebanon switched to online classes, distributed 760 tablets w/internet cards, reaching 1652 students. Plz consider donating to support this great initiative TAX DEDUCTIBLE-

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@AliaMalek

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We lost Anthony Shadid 9 yrs ago today. I think of him on this day & many others. As we approach 10th anniversary of what could've been a new era in #Syria , I wonder what he'd say. There’s been much death &loss; his still stings as if it were yesterday. Rest in Power ya معلم

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@AliaMalek

7 years

Pathetic- at least know whose cuisine you are appropriating. #palestine #lebanon #syria (mhamara aka “walnut/red pepper dip” is specifically from #Aleppo )

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Holiday Feast Highlights - Israeli nite, meze stuffed grape leaves, hummus, beet dip, eggplant and sun dried tomato dip, walnut and red pepper dip, and tabouli

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@AliaMalek

3 years

I often critique @nytimes when needed but feels much better to applaud. Give credit where credit is due. Front page treatment for the children #Israel killed in #Gaza

NYT At War

@NYTimesAtWar

3 years

Just minutes after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, Baraa al-Gharabli, 5, was killed in Gaza. He was one of at least 68 children killed during the conflict. Nearly all were Palestinian. These are the children who died.

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@AliaMalek

7 years

@Turkewitz @YousefMunayyer It’s irresponsible of official spokesperson to use an image from another context completely. Also burning tires in protest is not this large or systemic

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@AliaMalek

4 years

You’re really not a US president till you bomb a middle eastern country

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@AP

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The US launched airstrikes in Syria targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militia groups. The strikes were in retaliation for an attack against US forces in Iraq.

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@AliaMalek

4 years

this industry is so unable to be self-reflective that the reporter behind the Caliphate & several stories from the last several years where she has recounted w/breathless aroused prose that Arabic was spoken, that Muslim verses were invoked, that traditional clothing was worn etc

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@AliaMalek

4 years

Awfully fast diagnosis but: #Lebanon state-run NNA news reported that a major fire broke out near Beirut port, in a warehouse for firecrackers, and strong explosions were heard.

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@AliaMalek

4 years

Said instead tells my students what one needs to gain knowledge abt others is common sense and critical assessment which is available to anyone, he says. But apparently not to NYT editors & reporters so blinded by racist narratives that they ignore what was obv to many

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@AliaMalek

4 years

They tell you you have to understand Ali, the Koran and a gazillion other things to understand why Palestinians can't love being occupied; why Iraqis can't build a viable state after the world's only superpower decimates it; why French men hate a racist "satirical" magazine etc

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@AliaMalek

4 years

the utter embrace of Islamophobia paired with utter eschewing of COMMON SENSE that allows the material support law is also what allows for the sort of "journalism" that has been peddled here. MEANWHILE

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@AliaMalek

4 years

Watching @Comey on @andersoncooper regurgitate common theme of last week: terrorists are usually thought of as “Islamic” -not “from here” “not the United States of America” (insert incredulous tone);Comey actually said folks who attacked Capitol “don’t look like terrorists” 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@AliaMalek

8 years

As cathartic as what happened at @HamiltonMusical is, @mike_pence appearance there was a stunt. Focus attn on this⬇️

The New York Times

@nytimes

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In a remarkable concession, Trump, who derides legal settlements, will pay $25 million in the Trump University case

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@AliaMalek

10 years

Je suis un enfant syrien mort de froid #Syria http://t.co/03rNM8diiw

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@AliaMalek

4 years

what is clear — & has frankly been clear & which other countries w/similar experiences (ie #Italy w/ #Berlusconi ) warned USA media abt in 2016 was that building an entire brand (looking at you @CNN @MSNBC ) around what indecent/scandalous thing Leader did today ⬇️

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@AliaMalek

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Islamophobia & racism against Arabs is real- these are needed to dehumanize the people that belong to these groups to justify decades of USA foreign policy that has brought death and destruction into their lives. We’re all so steeped in it that patently problematic reporting

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@AliaMalek

4 years

because i belong to an industry that is remarkably not self-reflective, i often have to assign my students in int'l reporting & cross cultural journalism criticisms from other disciplines -ie literature, film, art et al -- that also take on representations of other peoples

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@AliaMalek

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i hate that i have to spend so much time responding to work that has been PATENTLY problematic from its start. & i'm talking about when it first got on my radar over 5 yrs ago.Singularly obsessed people unable to be self aware or even remotely critically minded are one thing.BUT

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@AliaMalek

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Let me be clear: being critical of US involvement in the forever wars WITHOUT ALSO understanding how US nationalism/exceptionalism allows Americans to forever be innocent or just “mis-guided but well intentioned” is no intellectual accomplishment

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@AliaMalek

4 years

we have actual white supremacists running for office, or occupying the WH, suppressing findings from their own agencies abt that kind of domestic terrorism

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@AliaMalek

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how that acts on US foreign corespondents as Americans first & then second, as journalists and how our industry then perpetuates the racist narratives that both enable apocalyptic US policy abroad (while often also winning awards , praise, and editor enabled immunity)

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@AliaMalek

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after an entire semester in intro to int'l reporting, after which we break down US nationalism & how it hands Americans a ready made language (made by the CIA in collusion w/US universities/think tanks etc ever since post WW2 era) w/which to rationalize US policy abroad and

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@AliaMalek

6 years

it's a short speech, have a listen. imagine that we have so dehumanized Palestinians et al, that his work was radical. i had a long running fantasy of being his guide to Syria one day. A LOSS Anthony Bourdain's acceptance speech at the MPAC Media Awards

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@AliaMalek

6 years

I appreciate @lenadunham @jjabrams Spielberg using their high profile to highlight #Syria stories.But why not enable Syrian storytellers? There are so many Syrian writers/directors who have lived a version of these stories or are at least way more intimately acquainted w/them

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@AliaMalek

1 year

World, @AchrafHakimi shared my NYT article on Ghali. I can die now bye

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@AliaMalek

6 years

@KarlreMarks Chairs without people for a people without chairs!

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@AliaMalek

6 years

#TweetYourThobe Solidarity w/my Palestinian sisters! Mabrouk @RashidaTlaib !!! Shukran for inviting me @SusanDarraj - have had this shawl w/ #Ramallah embroidery since 1998 and wear it often. story attached too. (quick photo below shot running to airport, sorry it wasn't ironed!)

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@AliaMalek

4 years

As an aside, remember for Syrians Iraqis ISIS has been a plague,not a way to a Pulitzer or a Polk. The giddiness/twitter threads w/which violent attacks were greeted,the breathless reporting,the kissing of documents etc was utterly vulgar. But taste is personal,we’re all entitled

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@AliaMalek

5 years

Ps here’s one of those panels from a 2017 book fest. It was called “Telling Syria’s Stories” - yup, only Syrian and only woman.

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@AliaMalek

4 years

THEN, i finally assign Edward Said & other cultural critics. This puts me in the minority, I know.Others assign the kind of aforementioned prize winning work that tells how what happens in Palestine, Iraq, Syria et al is abt Islam. Centuries old theology has determined today

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@AliaMalek

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says w/apparently no self awareness in response to the arrest: "“His social media alone in an American setting would likely be enough for a material support of terrorism charge,” Rukmini Callimachi wrote." LET ME SPELL THIS OUT FOR YOU:

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@AliaMalek

4 years

YAWN another article about #Lebanon as told through its bar scene. So bored of this neo-Orientalist trope. #Beirut Nightlife Survived Civil War. Can It Withstand Pandemic? - The New York Times

Beirut’s Nightlife Survived Civil War. Can It Withstand Pandemic? (Published 2020)

In Lebanon’s capital, it’s a point of pride that the party never stopped, even during war and protests. But will the dancing and drinking come back after the coronavirus lockdown?

www.nytimes.com

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@AliaMalek

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This interview is just 🤦🏻‍♀️ - “we fell in love w/the story” - yes but why? Why does one fall in love w a story that requires us to suspend common sense (& ignore bad reporting?)

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@AliaMalek

5 years

Really thrilled that @NYTimesAtWar will be publishing dispatches from my longtime collaboration w/ @pvanagtmael following the same #Syria refugees in Europe; read the intro here -- Moving Beyond the Label of ‘War Refugee’

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4 years

Key point

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@AliaMalek

4 years

an entire paper/masthead repeatedly standing behind them, enabling them.... not gonna age well. FIN

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Is not only NOT caught, it’s ELEVATED. any real reckoning has to start there, to start with an examination of the biases we have when we look at these peoples and ask ourselves, how is this impacting how I am reporting, the questions I am asking, the answers I am hearing

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@AliaMalek

4 years

🙋🏻‍♀️maybe bc we’re so steeped in a racist project we cannot see how blind it makes us,bc um confirmation bias, bc we care more abt the salacious, the prurient &awards than abt understanding how we actually got to a reality that includes ISIS which means looking at factors that

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Keeping in mind that hijabs/Arabic/ethnic appearance were ridiculously taken to mean proof of ISIS/alQ etc WHILE these folks here at airport are walking around w/ their allegiance to yesterday’s participants ON THEIR ACTUAL CLOTHING. Fully cognizant what happened yesterday

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@AliaMalek

5 years

In today's @nytimes Sunday Review-my essay on #Syria ; diseases vs. symptoms;cancer & metastasis; beautiful dreams & stolen revolutions; who we can't bury in Syria & what we shamefully have already ‘He Didn’t Want to Lie in a Grave That Couldn’t Be Visited’

Opinion | ‘He Didn’t Want to Lie in a Grave That Couldn’t Be Visited’ (Published 2020)

Syria became a graveyard, where an aspirational vision of who we are and what we will tolerate now lies. We won’t be immune to the consequences of our failures.

www.nytimes.com

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@AliaMalek

4 years

#Caliphate fiasco has brought together diverse camps - those critical of the media’s anti-Arabism & Islamophobia; audio journalists refuting argument that audio is inherently less fact-checkable; and a kind of audio MeToo camp Im embarrassed to say I didn’t know much about.

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@AliaMalek

5 years

If an American (ex soldier no less) takes the voice of an Afghan or Iraqi, wouldn't it be interesting to know from actual Afghans or Iraqis if the voice feels real? Would that not be enlightening? Would that not get us out of our echo chamber? Isn't that obvious?

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@AliaMalek

2 years

Don’t want the day to end without noting that 11 years ago today we lost the great #AnthonyShadid - mentor, friend, incredible journalist.

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@AliaMalek

3 years

For years, USA journalists played into this “both sides” discourse re: #Palestine #Israel EVEN THOUGH they understood this has always been a situation of dispossession, apartheid, & settler colonialism where 1 side has all the power. Some went along willingly, but 1/

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Thanks @ajplus for trying to keep #Syria in the public eye. Happy to have joined @WafaMustafa9 @RamiJarrah in talking to @sakhr #Syria10

AJ+

@ajplus

4 years

Ten years ago, Syrians marched in the streets demanding change. These three Syrians witnessed that uprising. How are they staying hopeful?

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(To remedy this, I can’t more strongly suggest that folks read the very excellent “Notes on a Foreign Country” by @suzyhans )

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@AliaMalek

2 years

This is absolutely correct. There a few good #Syria orgs to support including @basmehzeitooneh whose board I am on. Even as our team members have themselves been affected they are working to assist victims. 🙏 consider donating

Earthquake Disaster Response in Turkey and Syria

Help Basmeh Zeitooneh raise money to support The Smile & Olive Foundation

www.justgiving.com

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2 years

rescue efforts are in the hands of Syrians NGOs entirely, between those managing the health and emergency response sectors, the Syrian civil defence. there is nobody else. there is no state. there is no authority. there is only Syrians helping Syrians.

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4 years

Sadly many foreign correspondents use the work and insights of accomplished local journalists and then call them “my fixer”- that’s an industry problem. Gross

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@AliaMalek

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There I realized he actually not only knew very little about Syria, but that he also -- like many others -- was so captured by US exceptionalism that he could not see clearly the enterprise he had been a part of and why that would mean he and Abed could never be equivalent.

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Why doesn't this new atmosphere of attempted gender& racial inclusiveness in US journalism/criticism (sincere or not) apply to foreign writers or Arab or Muslim writers (often themselves Americans) w/backgrounds in these countries that the US is actively shaping the destinies of?

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Wait first let me add, having an editor versed in terrorism-a suggested solution— could make it even worse, bc “terrorism experts” often have the same problem/blind spots as terrorism reporters. Which also have trickled (well more like flooded down) into population at large

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To that quote slandering any criticism as banal identity politics:if there’s any way to tame appetites for war through literature, then perhaps its by reading writers from the rest of the world;reviewing them;& assigning reviews to people outside the echo chamber

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@AliaMalek

4 years

solidarity w/ #GeorgeFloyd and #BlackLivesMatter painted on a bombed out building in #Syria - photo by @omar_hajkadour for @AFP - see his IG post

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Look through @RaedFares4 feed to see the movement he was central to. And ponder what it means that BOTH the Assad regime AND the extremists are rejoicing that he’s dead. They both target people like Raed who are the real threat to those who would rule by fear and the gun #Syria

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Support for civil society and independent media is crucial

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So no real reckoning. Sneaking in retroactively editors’ notes to old articles is hardly really facing the music. It’s also clear they didn’t ask themselves *why* the “hoax” worked or *why* they dismissed so easily all the red flags raised by others. I’ve said this before but

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What I want to focus on here however, is not the content of his work. Folks will pick their subjects as they will. It's a free country. But let’s talk abt @nytimesbooks & WHO its editors allow 2b part of the convo about how US forever wars & ripples are discussed and remembered

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If no Syrians can be found, there are also Iraqi Lebanese Palestinian Egyptian and Arab American artists who are more intimately acquainted with these stories. Some of them are already in Hollywood...

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Ackerman has now been reviewed 3 times on said pages; each of those times, spoiler alert again, his reviewers have NOT BEEN Iraqi or Afghan or Syrian. Why doesn’t it come to mind to assign these reviews to them?

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In 2017, when Ackerman’s “Syria” novel came out,so did my non-fiction book on #Syria , my country of origin, where I returned to throughout my life, where I have lived, whose language I speak & whose history I meticulously studied.I found myself paired w him at major US book fests

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2 years

Al-Messi Bin Argentina #ArgentinaVsFrance #FIFAWorldCup

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To plenty of people of color, yes mobs of white people brandishing certain flags and other markings are exactly what a “terrorist” looks like

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2 years

Our @basmehzeitooneh team in southern #Turkey is homeless but alive. We will be providing relief to them and those they serve. If you can help, link here 🙏

Earthquake Disaster Response in Turkey and Syria

Help Basmeh Zeitooneh raise money to support The Smile & Olive Foundation

www.justgiving.com

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The #Italy media said in 2016 to the US media “don’t focus on his behavior, focus on the issues.” A lot of people make a lot of money at those networks just for "commentating" -- IMAGINE if it were spent instead on real journalism. (Also, PS polling is snake oil)

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Something to note - many Arabic speaking and in fact Arab (or Arab origin) journalists/academics/experts (many of them women too) have been ringing alarm bells for years. Their concerns were not treated as having much weight. To be considered

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@AliaMalek

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my story for @NYTimesAtWar about a woman from #Syria making a new life in #TheNetherlands - I've been following her family's story for exactly four years now. It has been a surprising and humbling journey. Please meet Souad below.

The New York Times

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It has been 7 years since Souad fled war-torn Syria. Now she is looking to find herself much more than she is hoping to find a home, a concept that has become so unattainable that she has learned to live without it.

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Alia Malek عليا مالك

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After several months, my story re #AlKhatib trial in #Koblenz - grateful to many, who will name check next tweet, but of course indebted to Ruham above all others & the survivors who let me in How a #Syria War Criminal Was Brought to Justice — in #Germany

How a Syrian War Criminal Was Brought to Justice — in Germany (Published 2022)

When refugees won historic convictions against the Syrian torture regime, they also opened a new front in the global fight for human rights.

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@AliaMalek

4 years

I’m going to ugly cry tho when @KamalaHarris is sworn in on Thurgood Marshall’s bible by SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor - will be back to critical assessment of the VP and policies tomorrow

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this has been my favorite video so far. ya libnan!! #طرابلس #LebanonProtests #لبنان_ينتفض

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@AliaMalek

8 years

thanks @harikondabolu @wkamaubell for curating a conversation that touched on #Syria @JustinTrudeau & #KamaSutra -

Giving Season for Syria

Dear Friends: To all of you who have reached out to us over the past several years to ask us what you can do to alleviate the humanitarian crisis affecting Syria and its people, thank you. We know...

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Politically ReActive

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8 years

NEW EPISODE: journalist @AliaMalek tells the story of Syria as a "probiotic" for America's messed up thinking

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When the investigation was announced there were 3 questions i and others wondered about: 1) was she too big to fail? 2) Would she be scapegoated as sole person responsible 3) would there be any kind of real reckoning?

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How #Syria @SyriaCivilDef (White Helmets) became victims of an online propaganda machine #Russia

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4 years

Today we got answers. 1) apparently yes, too big to fail. As per NYT own reporting, other reporters/experts consistently raised concerns abt the reporting going back years. While she will no longer cover terrorism, she remains. The editor’s note maintains she is a “fine reporter”

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Alia Malek عليا مالك

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Also, again apparently without irony, when in February, @khaled_khalifah , one of Syria’s greatest contemporary novelists was given a brief review in the NYT of his excellent novel “Death is Hard Work,” who wrote it? Spoiler again, it was Ackerman.

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Alia Malek عليا مالك

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4 years

Wow this by @sahelblog is brutal and the kind of media criticism we needed years ago on this work and the genre

Rukmini Callimachi’s Broken Clock Moment in Timbuktu

I have been torn about whether to write and post this. In the media furor that has broken out recently over the New York Times’ ISIS reporter Rukmini Callimachi, I have chimed in substantivel…

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Alia Malek عليا مالك

@AliaMalek

5 years

Why didn’t the editors think of assigning this to any of the many Arab or Syrian writers out there? Or any writer from a country or a diaspora that has experienced civil war/unraveling? Or a writer who actually knows the country?

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4 years

then talking about it for hours and endlessly in the universe’s most unsatisfying circle jerk is not effective in 1) winning any voters over & more importantly 2) informing the public ⬇️

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4 years

The daughter of brown immigrants 😭

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& that depends on editors/readers/Americans showing less interest in the experience of “the American” in another country & more interest in the ACTUAL peoples those correspondents are writing about...

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On #Kashmir by ⁦ @MalikSajad ⁩ Opinion | Life in Indian Controlled Kashmir: The Longest Lockdown

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4 years

Again,many warning signs were flashing red.Many criticisms were expressed.A lot of them by Arabic speaking or Arab journos/academics/experts.NYT dismissed them.Reporter responded like a bully, trying to delegitimize many — NB w/protection from on high

NYT Will ‘Re-Report’ Blockbuster Podcast After Main Character’s Terrorism Hoax Charges

The paper plans to re-examine the reporting in its Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast after its central character was charged by Canadian police with concocting a terrorist hoax.

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3 years

It’s depressing how relevant Edward Said’s “Covering Islam” is today (written in the late 70s). A colonialist project as large as the dispossession of #Palestine (over decades) requires a justifying discourse. USA journalists have played an outsized role in creating it

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@AliaMalek

3 years

@sareemakdisi Edward Said writing an updated introduction to “Covering Islam” - about @TheAtlantic & @newrepublic (last graf)

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(sidenote:many “war” journos/photogs suffer from this affliction, of needing 2b near tragedies their home countries have helped perpetrate/perpetuate but whose direst consequences–ie collateral damage-are not borne by them, but rather by the unfortunate natives of those places)

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Alia Malek عليا مالك

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4 years

So stupid

Wolf Blitzer

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4 years

I spotted these National Guard troops at a normal Washington street corner not even near the Capitol. So many streets have been closed. It reminds me of the war zones I saw in Baghdad or Mosul or Falluja. So sad.

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I'd be curious to know @SusanSarandon what sources you follow on #Syria especially as your prepared for the current film. what books did you read? scholarly or journalistic? what part of the original tweet were you endorsing?

Susan Sarandon

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6 years

In which @ejbeals , journalist, misses the point of @jimmy_dore ’s Tweet completely by replacing “American Corporate News Media” with “Syria Press.” American mainstream media is not the same as independent journalists on the ground in Syria and other war zones.

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The @nytimes is hiring a #Beirut correspondent! You can work in “stepping stone” “feisty” #Lebanon and then “there is, of course, the #Syria civil war” - er that’s a bit glib no? But yay it’s “rich in human drama” #OnSafari ...

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2 years

Mabrouk to my @newmarkjschool class of 22 students @lucypapa96 & @YOBounab who won @opcofamerica awards tonight!!!

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