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Wendy Pearlman

17 days

It's #PubDay for THE HOME I WORKED TO MAKE! Recording Syrians' stories has been the honor of my life. The book “is a testament to the resilience of the survivors of war in the face of unspeakable loss” ( @BookRiot ). It's also about the meaning of home.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

4 months

... And, as a Professor of Middle East Politics, I'll add: You don't need to be a "Mideast Authority" to recognize that genocide is wrong.

Daniel Wickham

@DanielWickham93

4 months

Neither does being a petulant racist with an op-ed column.

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3 years

Academics! Sign this "Open Letter and Call to Action -- Palestine and Praxis: Scholars for Palestinian Freedom."

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Wendy Pearlman

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3 years

Scholars of Jewish Studies & Israel Studies condemn "unjust, enduring & unsustainable systems of Jewish supremacy, ethnonational segregation, discrimination & violence against Palestinians." Deep respect for those who made this remarkable statement happen.

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Wendy Pearlman

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2 years

I never thought that I'd see myself in @apsrjournal !👇 Here I urge more attention to the emotional experience of research for research participants due to how those emotions affect both the data that researchers collect & the ethics of collecting it. Please check it out & share!

Cambridge University Press - Politics

@CUP_PoliSci

2 years

#FirstView from @apsrjournal - Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions - - @Wendy_Pearlman

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

9 months

This interview is an absolute must-watch 👇 #CeasefireNOW

Omar Baddar عمر بدّار

@OmarBaddar

9 months

This is incredibly insightful about how desperate life in Gaza is right now:

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

Our statement from the MENA program @NorthwesternU . I hope more academics & academic programs take a stand. We need to work to make universities fulfill their promise as spaces of free thinking, where no one feels afraid to criticize Israel & voice solidarity with #Palestine .

MENA at Northwestern

@MENAprogramNU

3 years

The Faculty and Graduate Students of the MENA Program have issued a Solidarity Statement on Palestinian Rights. Read the full statement at:

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

Never let anyone say that the struggle for a free Syria lacked leadership. Countless heroic leaders have been killed, forcibly disappeared, exiled, or are braving airstrikes as you read this. And today Syria lost yet another leader. RIP Mohammad al Masarwa.

The Syria Campaign

@TheSyriaCmpgn

6 years

Our deepest condolences to @SyriaCivilDef & @RaedAlSaleh3 on the loss of Mohammad al Masarwa. Mohammad, co-founder and former Director of the White Helmets in #Ghouta , was martyred today. RIP.

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Wendy Pearlman

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7 months

It is outrageous that @IndianaUniv has suspended a distinguished professor in a blatant move to stop students from discussing #Palestine . Bravo to Jeff Issac for this call to defend academic freedom. My fullest solidarity with Prof. Abdulkader Sinno.

Indiana University Caves to Political Pressure by Suspending a Tenured Professor

Activism / January 10, 2024 Indiana University Caves to Political Pressure by Suspending a Tenured Professor There is a perfect storm of repression overtaking college campuses, generated by an unholy...

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

The follow-up to WE CROSSED A BRIDGE is on its way! HOME IS THE DETAILS presents interviews with Syrians around the world about losing home, seeking home, finding home & reinventing what home means... It is an incredible honor to collect these stories. I can’t wait to share them!

Pande Literary

@pande_literary

3 years

🎉 NEW BOOK DEAL! 🎉 Today, we are delighted to announce that @Wendy_Pearlman 's HOME IS THE DETAILS has been sold to @haley_bracken at @LiverightPub . Congratulations, Wendy! 🤩🎊

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

280 characters do not suffice to thank everyone who contributed to WE CROSSED A BRIDGE AND IT TREMBLED. But today, with the publication of the paperback, I hope more people come to understand your struggle, admire your courage, and act in solidarity. #Syria

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

When I began interviewing Syrians 6 years ago, again and again people told me that if I really wanted to understand Syria, I needed to read "The Shell." I read it, and understood what they meant. Read it and you will, too.

مرهف murhaf

@Murhaf

6 years

"The Shell" by Mustafa Khalifa. Many of those who read Khalifa's novel cannot tell whether it is an autobiography or fiction for it is impossible to tell fiction from reality in Syria. This novel stands out as one of the most powerful testimonies on the Assad's prisons.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

A mass grave uncovered at a hospital in southern Gaza. Nearly 300 bodies, some with hands and feet tied. It is unclear "if they were buried alive or executed." AT A HOSPITAL. This depravity must end & Israel must be held accountable.

More than 300 bodies found in mass grave at Gaza hospital, says Gaza Civil Defense | CNN

A mass grave with more than 300 bodies has been uncovered at a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Gaza Civil Defense workers said, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the...

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

8 months

My thoughts in @CNNOpinion . 20 years ago I was in #SJP & we were ignored. Why the uproar about college campuses today? It's not primarily about #antisemitism . It's about silencing a young generation more supportive of #Palestinian freedom than ever before

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

Why are we still needing to debunk this myth about the 2000 Camp David Summit? For just a few of the many great sources that have set the historical record straight: ** ** ** **

Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors | Robert Malley

Mr. Malley, as Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs, was a member of the US peace team and participated in the Camp David

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Jacob N. Kornbluh

@jacobkornbluh

3 months

Hillary Clinton, on Morning Joe, says young critics of Israel lack knowledge of history on Israeli-Palestinian conflict: “If Yasser Arafat had accepted [the BillClinton/EhudBarak peace proposal at Camp David], there would have been a Palestinian state now for about 24 years.”

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Wendy Pearlman

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1 year

Thank you, @apsrjournal ! This piece presents steps for how researchers can pay more attention to research participants' emotions. This matters both ethically & methodologically, because emotions are data, influence other data & affect future data collection.

American Political Science Review

@apsrjournal

1 year

Calling for emotional sensibility, @Wendy_Pearlman argues research political science research should "glean people’s emotional experiences." Incorporating emotional sensibility improves data collection and research ethicality. #APSRFirstView

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Wendy Pearlman

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9 months

Bravo to the Congressional staffers demonstrating the moral clarity that most members of Congress lack. They say: "Our constituents are pleading for a #ceasefire ... Most of our bosses on Capitol Hill are not listening to the people they represent."

IMEU

@theIMEU

9 months

HAPPENING NOW: Congressional staffers are walking out to demand a #CeasefireNOW in Gaza. Israel has killed over 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 4,200 children, in the past month.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

Our @NorthwesternU faculty letter standing with students' rights to protest now has 230 signatures. NU active or emeriti faculty, please read & sign here:

Open letter from Northwestern Faculty: Do not ban protest at NU

April 23, 2024 Dear President Schill and Provost Hagerty, Northwestern’s University Mission declares its commitment to encourage debate; champion access, diversity, and belonging; strengthen our...

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

Students at @NorthwesternU have begun an encampment in solidarity with besieged Palestinians in #Gaza . More than 170 faculty have called on the university to uphold its own commitments & protect students' right to protest. Link below to sign on!

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

I am an academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world view and my scholarship. Pass it on.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

Students at @NorthwesternU have begun an encampment in solidarity with besieged Palestinians in #Gaza . More than 170 faculty have called on the university to uphold its own commitments & protect students' right to protest. Link below to sign on!

LTE: An Open Letter from 171 Faculty — Do not ban protest at NU

Dear President Schill and Provost Hagerty, Northwestern’s University Mission declares its commitment to encourage debate; champion access, diversity and belonging; strengthen our community; and care...

dailynorthwestern.com

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

5 months

My new essay in @newlinesmag : Israel’s reduction of the Palestinian national struggle to certain leaders or factions — its nonrecognition of Palestinian society — has been a strategy for over a century. Today it takes on horrific new dimensions.

The Erasure of Palestinian Society

Israel's long-standing strategy of ignoring the agency and lived reality of millions of men, women and children has taken on horrific new dimensions

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

2 years

Northwestern Political Science ( @PoliSciatNU ) is hiring! **Assistant Professor of Political Violence** **Assistant Professor of the Politics of China** Consideration of applications begins 10/1. Details: @APSAtweets @womenalsoknow @POCalsoknow @PVGlance

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

4 years

Grants from @Cornell to complete translations of works from the Global South into English. Awards from $1000 to $5000. Applications due Dec. 10, details here:

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

March 15 is viewed as the anniversary of the #SyrianRevolution . But March 18 was arguably the real turning point. What happened & how? This #Syria10 thread honors the courage & strategic smarts that changed the world, based on tens of interviews with people who were there 1/

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

Dr. Alia Mossallam is a brilliant historian using songs & stories to bring the popular past alive. She has just been detained in Egypt. I hope that all the institutions connected to her academic journey ( @AvHStiftung @LSEGovernment @SOAS ) join demands for her immediate release.

Ahmed Ezzat

@ahmed3zat

3 years

Dr Alia Mossallam was detained in Cairo Airport upon arrival from Berlin. She was interrogated by the National Security Police before being referred to the State Security Prosecutor where she is held now. Alia is currently a postdoc fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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Wendy Pearlman

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4 months

His ability to speak leaves me speechless. Enough, enough, enough of this killing. #CeasefireNOW

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

“I used to think of my boy every night as I went to bed, imagining what he was doing ... He was in a grave all that time.” Crushing words from Syrian families receiving news that loved ones, many missing for years, have been killed in Assad prisons.

Louisa Loveluck

@leloveluck

6 years

The Syrian government has begun issuing death notices for political detainees at an unprecedented rate, according to groups that monitor the prisons, in an effort to resolve the fate of thousands of missing Syrians as the regime prevails in its civil war.

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Wendy Pearlman

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8 months

There are no words to describe the shame and guilt of being a US citizen, witnessing how this country perpetrates violence against Palestinians both far and near. All hopes are with Hisham, Kinnan, and Tahseen and their fullest recovery from this heinous crime.

Mondoweiss

@Mondoweiss

8 months

The following joint statement was issued by the families of Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ahmed: As parents, we are devastated by the horrific news that our children were targeted and shot in Burlington, VT. At this time, our primary concern is their full

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4 years

Thanks for sharing! This is the greatest honor of my academic career. Thank you, @NorthwesternU students, for making me a teacher.

MENA at Northwestern

@MENAprogramNU

4 years

“My purpose is not only to make the material come alive for my students, but also to inspire them to think about what ordinary people’s everyday struggles teach us about politics,” says @Wendy_Pearlman , winner of the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

5 years

Researching or writing about #refugees ? Want to go beyond simplified narratives of suffering & redemption? @rifaietammas offers valuable insight on how we should--& should not--collect & use refugees' stories Read this. Think about it. Assign it in class

Refugee stories could do more harm than good

The pressure of storytelling can leave refugees feeling tokenised and disempowered.

www.opendemocracy.net

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

9 months

What a time to see this article in print! I guess it is never too early or too late to argue that people should try to understand others' feelings and experiences ... and that doing so helps you act in ways that are both ethical and smart. #CeasefireNOW

American Political Science Review

@apsrjournal

9 months

Calling for emotional sensibility, @Wendy_Pearlman argues political science research should "glean people’s emotional experiences." Incorporating emotional sensibility improves data collection and research ethicality.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

4 months

Thank you so much for this first glimpse of advance copies of my new book! #TheHomeIWorkedtoMake shares stories of displaced #Syrians about losing home & searching for home. It invites everyone to learn from them about what home means. Out July 9th from @LiverightPub @wwnorton

Xavier Bonilla

@xavierbonilla87

4 months

It’s important to let #syrian voices speak for themselves. Excited to read this one from @Wendy_Pearlman #syria

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6 years

Try to imagine what it is like for Syrians who, having been forced to flee Syria, now have to go to Syrian consulates & pay ridiculously high fees to the Assad state in order to renew their passports. Imagine having to do that every 2 years.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

6 months

Biden's statement on the 100th day of the war on Gaza doesn't mention the war on Gaza. It doesn't even say the word "Palestinian." History will not forgive this inhumanity, @POTUS

Statement from President Joe Biden Marking 100 Days of Captivity for Hostages in Gaza | The White...

Today, we mark a devastating and tragic milestone—100 days of captivity for the more than 100 innocent people, including as many as 6 Americans, who are

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

6-month virtual fellowship to support social scientists -- and especially young scholars from the #MENA region -- working on themes related to "exiting violence." Applications due 15 September. Details below. @acss_org @APSNtweets @APSAMENA @POMEPS

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

4 months

Congratulations @dbgreenwald ! This masterful book traces how Israel rules the West Bank via the Palestinian Authority, as well as how Palestinian politicians navigate that form of occupation. An unparalleled dive into Israeli domination & Palestinian agency at the local level.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

Today, March 30, is the anniversary of another important #Syria10 marker: Bashar al-Assad's first public address after the start of peaceful protests in 2011. This thread remembers this critical turning point in the early days of the #SyrianRevolution . 🧵1/

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Wendy Pearlman

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3 years

Thank you @AmalHanano for tagging me to urge @POTUS to #SpeaktoSyrians , stand with their courageous struggle for freedom, and take meaningful steps to end atrocities in #Syria and demand accountability. I nominate @sahloul to continue pushing forward this campaign.

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Wendy Pearlman

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6 years

@MaxBlumenthal @dancohen3000 The Palestinian struggle is for freedom, dignity, and human rights. The Syrian revolution is a struggle for freedom, dignity, and human rights. Support for one should demand support for the other.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

5 years

Once the call was for a no-fly zone. Then to uphold a red line against chemical weapons. Then to stop massacres in Aleppo & Ghouta. Now we will call merely not to return refugees to their fate under a war criminal. #Syria : death of the illusion of civilian protection.

Steven Heydemann

@SHeydemann

5 years

Germany stops processing some Syrian asylum applications.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

Delighted to see this article in print. I wrote it long ago, but it is never too late to honor the courage it takes for people to speak truth to power and to remember that Syrians' protest against tyranny is a moral act.

British Jnl Poli Sci

@BJPolS

6 years

Moral Identity and Protest Cascades in #Syria - @Wendy_Pearlman -

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@Wendy_Pearlman

4 years

What is happening in Syria is "a warcrime masquerading as a war" @Roy_Gutman tells @RonanLTynan . As Tynan writes, "To talk of 'war' without making these crimes against humanity headline news is ... to miss the real story."

SYRIA: ‘A Warcrime Masquerading As A War’

Every idea needs a Medium

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@Wendy_Pearlman

1 year

Elizabeth Tsurkov is a treasure. The best of the best. As @newlinesmag writes, "She deserves America’s every effort to bring her to safety." Let us all do whatever we can on her behalf. We miss you, @Elizrael

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@Wendy_Pearlman

1 year

Thank you, @APSAtweets , for entrusting us with this honor.

APSA

@APSAtweets

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APSA is delighted to announce that @anamarjona and @Wendy_Pearlman of Northwestern University have been selected to lead the APSA flagship journal @PoPpublicsphere .

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

Concerned Jewish Faculty petition with 900 signatures and counting: "The IHRA definition (of antisemitism) will delegitimize & silence Jewish Americans–among others–who advocate for Palestinian human rights or otherwise criticize Israeli policies" Sign:

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@Wendy_Pearlman

9 months

You lost my vote @SenDuckworth . The same goes to you, @SenatorDurbin & @janschakowsky . The mass protests on the streets of Chicago represent Illinois better than do politicians who support & enable bombardment of civilians. #CeasefireNOW

Carlos Ballesteros

@ballesteros_312

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I asked Illinois Sen. @TammyDuckworth at a news conference today in Pilsen if she’s willing to call for a ceasefire. “I am not willing to call for a ceasefire at this point because that would not help the residents of Gaza nor would it help the security of Israel,” she said.

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2 years

An article I began long ago is now out in @IMRjournal : "How Homeland Experiences Shape Refugee Belonging: Rethinking Exile, Home & Integration in the Syrian Case." I'm excited to tell you about it! A short 🧵 #exile #RefugeesWelcome #Syria #SyriaNotSafe

How Homeland Experiences Shape Refugee Belonging: Rethinking Exile, Home, and Integration in the...

Studies of refugee belonging, as a key facet of integration, primarily focus on post-flight processes. Adopting an approach to integration that is temporally an...

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

4 months

Thank you @omarelakkad for these words: "The Home I Worked to Make is an absolutely vital book, unflinching in its commitment to the testimony of people much of the privileged world has chosen to forget. In an effort to explore a central question ..." 1/3

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4 years

My essay in @EIAJournal returns to a landmark in the Syrian war: @BarackObama ’s decision not to take military action after Assad's 2013 chemical attack killed 1400 people. Every American should grapple with this event. THREAD

Syrian Views on Obama's Red Line: The Ethical Case for Strikes against Assad | Ethics & Internati...

Syrian Views on Obama's Red Line: The Ethical Case for Strikes against Assad - Volume 34 Issue 2

www.cambridge.org

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

7 years

Excerpts from my new book in @Harpers . #Syrians tell their own stories of fear, courage, hope, love. Pre-order now!

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

#Syria is repeatedly framed in terms of false "choices": between Assad & chaos, between Assad & terrorism, & now between Assad & war. Yes, @nytimes & @CarterCenter , killing must stop. But the regime is the source of the catastrophe and can't be a solution.

Opinion | In Syria, an Ugly Peace Is Better Than More War (Published 2018)

The Assad government is not going away soon. But the killing has to stop.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

4 years

Sharing my essay "Religion & Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising & War," which learns from work by @YassinHSaleh @ThomasPierret @samer_abboud @LeilaShami @heiko_wimmen @LinaKhatibUK & many others. In @OUPAcademic Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies

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@Wendy_Pearlman

5 years

"The revolution persists wherever Syrians continue to believe in their capacity to make change..." My second of two pieces in honor of today's anniversary of the Syrian struggle for freedom & justice.

5 ways the Syrian revolution continues

The revolution begun by Syrians exactly eight years ago has been won – by the murderous leader they rebelled against. But the struggle for freedom, dignity and justice Syrians launched is not over.

theconversation.com

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

"The language of "both sides" and "no good guys" has created an artificial levelling where a largely peaceful uprising is placed on the same moral plane as the murderous regime that forced it to militarise" @im_PULSE 's brilliant commentary in @The_NewArab

Are there really 'no good guys' in Syria?

Comment: The 'no good guys' argument places the largely peaceful Syrian uprising on the same moral plane as the murderous regime that forced it to militarise, writes Idrees Ahmad.

www.newarab.com

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@Wendy_Pearlman

4 years

And professors: assign this film & encourage students to watch it together with family or friends, if they can. In my class, @forsamafilm was a vital complement to political analyses, laying bare what is at stake in #Syria .

FRONTLINE

@frontlinepbs

4 years

Unfolding as a love letter from a young mother to her daughter, @forsamafilm tells the story of filmmaker @waadalkateab 's life through 5 years of the uprising in rebel-held Aleppo, Syria. Watch the @PeabodyAwards & @RFKHumanRights Journalism Award-winner.

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Yes, I received a dissertation grant from @USIP , with zero political input or strings attached, to finish my PhD thesis on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. 100s of PhD students have similarly benefited from that funding to conduct academic research. @SHeydemann

Dan Cohen

@dancohen3000

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@MaxBlumenthal @democracynow @democracynow guest @Wendy_Pearlman is a former fellow of @USIP , a US gov’t funded operation which “is an arm of the U.S. intelligence apparatus” run by a “‘who’s who’ of right-wing ideologues from academia and the Pentagon”

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I've been behind the pack in saying it ... but a huge congratulations to @pstanpolitics on another major contribution! His work continues to be a model for careful, thoughtful, and deeply insightful #PoliSci research. @CornellPress

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2 months

This inhumanity must end. This impunity must end. How many more massacres will it take? End this nightmare now.

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6 years

My commentary in @chicagotribune today: a call to protect civilians in Syria & also to remember that Syrians are struggling "not simply for life, but for life with dignity."

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The concept "PTSD" does not apply to #Palestinians because there is no "post." Rather, there is Continuous Traumatic Stress Disorder (CTSD), which “cannot be changed unless the root of the problem is solved by ending 74 years of living under occupation.”

‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychiatrist challenging western definitions...

Chair of the Palestinian ministry of health’s mental health unit says the clinical definition of PTSD does not fit the reality in Gaza

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

" @NorthwesternU faces a historic opportunity to be a national model for responding to student dissent in thoughtful & peaceful ways. We are proud of our students for demonstrating discipline, creativity & camaraderie as they...work to make a better world"

LTE: An Open Letter from 158 Faculty — Let’s continue productive conversations

To Mr. Peter Barris, chair, and other lifetime members of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees, We, the undersigned tenured Northwestern faculty of different backgrounds and political...

dailynorthwestern.com

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

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"One of the century’s bravest shows of people’s power"...The anniversary of the revolution reminds us what Syrians achieved when they broke the wall of fear 8 years ago... & encourages us to work so narratives of the conflict always honor that achievement.

How the Syrian uprising began and why it matters

On the eighth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, scholar Wendy Pearlman writes about the people who risked their lives and raised their voices to fight the oppressive rule of Bashar al-Assad.

theconversation.com

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@Wendy_Pearlman

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We're now at 256 faculty calling for ongoing protection of our students' right to protest. @NorthwesternU faculty, sign the letter here:

Open letter from Northwestern Faculty: Do not ban protest at NU

April 23, 2024 Dear President Schill and Provost Hagerty, Northwestern’s University Mission declares its commitment to encourage debate; champion access, diversity, and belonging; strengthen our...

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

Students at @NorthwesternU have begun an encampment in solidarity with besieged Palestinians in #Gaza . More than 170 faculty have called on the university to uphold its own commitments & protect students' right to protest. Link below to sign on!

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I am speechless to see @SamanthaJPower name "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" on the list of her 10 favorite books. Thank you, Ambassador Power & best wishes at the helm of @USAID !

Samantha Power

@SamanthaJPower

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A few weeks ago, @vulture asked me to describe 10 books that have impacted me along the way. List just out: Chinua Achebe, Dorothy Day, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, Doris Kearns Goodwin, & more:

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Wendy Pearlman

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Solidarity with #BogaziciUniversity as it rejects the government's imposition of a non-elected university president. This is yet another intolerable threat to pluralism, democracy & academic freedom in Turkey. #BogaziciDireniyor

'Neoliberal authoritarianism at its best': Boğaziçi University academics defy Erdoğan's rector...

The appointment of a pro-government rector to one of the most prestigious universities in Turkey continues to raise eyebrows, with academics pointing to the gravity of the antidemocratic practice....

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

10 days

Excellent piece on the lengths gone to stifle dissent & the significance of the student uprising for Palestine: "Students at campuses across the country express the last vestiges of the nation’s conscience in the face of apocalyptic horror."

How Israel Lost America | Los Angeles Review of Books

Saree Makdisi writes on the student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

It's an honor to have worked with @Loubnamrie to present voices from brave and resilient Syrians from #Ghouta , in this week's @TIME . Please read. Please care. Please do something in solidarity.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

In 1948, 750,000 Palestinians were made refugees. Some families made new homes in Jerusalem's #SheikhJarrah neighborhood, under Jordan's control. Israeli courts now order to evict them & give their homes to settlers.🧵on the latest in a long history of Palestinian dispossession

IMEU

@theIMEU

3 years

THREAD: What’s happening in Sheikh Jarrah? 1) Four Palestinian families are facing eviction from their Jerusalem homes in the #SheikhJarrah neighborhood. #SaveSheikhJarrah Photo credit: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

Please call your senators. Urge them to block arms sales to Israel, to demand an immediate ceasefire & to speak up for Palestinians' rights. A call takes less than one minute & they need to hear from us. Find contact information here:

Bernie Sanders

@SenSanders

3 years

At a moment when U.S.-made bombs are devastating Gaza, and killing women and children, we cannot simply let another huge arms sale go through without even a Congressional debate.

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Wendy Pearlman

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5 years

On the 8th anniversary of the Syrian anniversary, I've written two pieces for @ConversationUS . Today, this essay looks back at how the revolution began. Tomorrow, the essay will look forward to how #TheRevolutionContinues , in spite of everything ...

How the Syrian uprising began and why it matters

On the eighth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, scholar Wendy Pearlman writes about the people who risked their lives and raised their voices to fight the oppressive rule of Bashar al-Assad.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

WOW. In case you missed it, as I did, @SaraYafi 's impassioned, brilliant two-minute explainer on the political and economic catastrophe in Lebanon is equal parts 🔥 and 💔

The Debate – France 24

@F24Debate

3 years

🇱🇧 "They are mafia lords, militia lords...a can of carcinogenic worms who thrive and survive in sectarian divides." 🗣️ Listen to @SaraYafi 's impassioned take-down of #Lebanon 's ruling class as the country plunges further into economic turmoil. 📺➡️

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3 years

Today Palestinians join a general strike, as they did for 6 months in 1936. Today is part of a tradition of more than 100 years of protest against colonialism & dispossession. More than 100 years of Palestinians acting together to refuse national erasure. #PalestineOnStrike

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

Forcing any refugee back to Syria is an abomination. #SyriaIsNotSafe

Mazen Hassoun

@HassounMazen

3 years

Tragic story from Denmark. Syrian refugee Akram Bathiesh dies of a heart attack after receiving the decision of the Danish authorities to withdraw his residence permit and asylum status and give him a month to leave Denmark to Syria.

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10 months

The one-and-only YASSIN AL-HAJ SALEH is making his first-ever trip to the US! First stop: two special events in #Chicago : **Oct. 16 @NorthwesternU **Oct. 17 @haymarkethouse Details below! @MENAprogramNU @haymarketbooks @newlinesmag @Yassinhs @skayyali1 @DannyPostel #Syria

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

The World Must Act Now on Syria ... an appeal for responsibility in @nybooks via

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

10 months

What is more important to #Israel : security or revenge? Dehumanization of Palestinians won't protect Israelis. Massacring Palestinians won't protect Israelis. There is only one way to end more than one hundred years of war: #FreePalestine #HumanRightsforAll

Middle East Eye

@MiddleEastEye

10 months

The #Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said "we are fighting human animals", referring to Palestinians, and vowed to "act accordingly". He announced a "complete siege" of the #Gaza Strip, saying there will be "no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed"

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6 years

"We are complicit in our knowledge, indifference and inaction." @kshaheen 's brilliant essay in @nytimes mourning all that has been massacred in #Syria : children, parents, a country, the myth of international justice, & basic values of human decency ...

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Wendy Pearlman

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1 year

“We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria” will now be available in Arabic! I am indebted to @aljumhuriya_net for incredible work translating the book. It will release a new chapter every Saturday. The first chapter is online now. 👇👇👇

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@aljumhuriya_net

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📕 تفتتح الجمهورية اليوم نشر الترجمة العربية الكاملة لكتاب ويندي بيرلمان «عبرنا جسراً وقد اهتز»، والذي ستتوالى فصوله تباعاً كل يوم سبت. اليوم، سيتحدث سوريون وسوريات عن قصصهم مع نظام حافظ الأسد، وعن حياتهم اليومية للرعب السياسي والأمني.

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

Hats off to you @Loubnamrie : you started over, but you never stopped. Your work bringing Syrian voices to the English-reading world is essential. No one can say that he/she "doesn't know" about what's happening in Syria. No one has an excuse for not acting in solidarity now.

Loubna Mrie

@Loubnamrie

6 years

Working on this piece was mentally exhausting. Interviewing people whose homes I spent time in with their families makes me resent the fact that I was able to escape, to flee, to start over, while they are still there, left behind. Life is not fair.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

My 99-year-old grandmother is catching up on her stack of @NewYorker & just read @Anand_Gopal_ 's epic piece on Syria, probing the complexity of revolution & war through unforgettable human stories. Grandma thinks it would make a great screenplay & I agree

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6 years

Please honor Palestinian photographer Yasser Murtaja by watching his final footage from #Gaza ... it will be the most unforgettable 2:08 minutes of your day.

Gaza photographer's last video captures brutal crackdown on protests

Palestinian photographer Yasser Murtaja’s final images eerily prescient as he documented the rising violence in Gaza before he was shot dead

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

I just watched @farah_nabulsi 's stunning short film #ThePresent , nominated for #Oscars2021 & now streaming on @netflix . It's a powerful glimpse into the everyday injustice & indignity of occupation in #Palestine . Take 24 minutes & watch this @PhilistineFilms film!

Reuters

@Reuters

3 years

'The Present,' a short film by British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi, has been shortlisted for the 2021 Academy Awards

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

The current events in Palestine and Israel must be seen in the context of oppression and subjugation that @hrw and other local and international human rights organizations have been documenting for decades. If you haven't reckoned with this damning report yet, please do.

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

3 years

A Threshold Crossed Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution @HRW report

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

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As #Syrian refugees face mob violence in Turkey, expulsion from Lebanon, a surging right in Europe & normalization of the dictatorship that forced their flight...Listen to all they endure to find something to call home. From my new book, in @thebafflermag :

Leaving, Again | Wendy Pearlman

For the vast majority of people who flee Syria, none of the UN’s durable solutions for refugees are within reach.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

From a friend in #Gaza : " There are no words to describe the ugliness & the suffering last night. Painful feelings will remain engraved in our memory & the memory of our children. However, we insist to endure ... With fear, screams, & cries of agony sometimes, we must endure."

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@Wendy_Pearlman

4 years

Over months, conflict scholars participated in an open discussion on what transparency means for our research. Learning from them, @Ras_Karya @anamarjona & I wrote the #QTD report "Research in Violent or Post-Conflict Political Settings.” This 🧵shares some main conclusion: 1/

Perspectives on Politics

@PoPpublicsphere

4 years

The #QTD "emerged in this context of accelerated rule-making on... data sharing & other forms of openness in #political #science #research .." THE #QUALITATIVE #TRANSPARENCY #DELIBERATIONS : INSIGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS By Alan M. Jacobs, Tim Büthe & more

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

4 years

Applications open for fellowships at @FU_Berlin for scholars at risk because of their academic work or civic engagement in human rights, democracy & pursuit of academic freedom.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

5 years

Excited to be a part of a new wave of political science research on refugees in and from the Middle East, joining @rbkhoury @lamamourad @kelseypnorman @RawanArar @Nooralori @ali_the_hamdan @RefugeeResearch @refugeestudies @POMEPS @APSAMENA

Comparative Politics

@Journal_CompPol

5 years

“Host State Engagement, Socioeconomic Class, and Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Germany,” by @Wendy_Pearlman , now available to subscribers on Fast Track:

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

2 months

In 2003, as a PhD student, I wrote "Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada." A group asked a bookstore to cancel my talk, saying "Would you let the KKK speak?" The tactic is now used against the university where I teach. It won't distract or silence us

Ussama Makdisi

@UssamaMakdisi

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In yesterday's House defamation hearings (Republican run House Committee on Education) about Palestinian students and faculty in solidarity with Palestinians as "antisemites" the Republican representative from Utah asked whether the university presidents would react the same way

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

Thank you @EricaChenoweth & @PVGlance ! I'm honored to make this list of must-read books on political violence, featuring @stephenWalt @tanishafazal @SusannaCampbell @HooverGreen @kathryn_sikkink @carsonaust @engagedscholar @melander_erik @Nick_L_Miller

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6 years

Why so many in Gaza --who love life like all people love life--are risking their lives to demand freedom, dignity, & a better future for their children. @FadiAbuShammala 's beautiful testimony about the #GreatReturnMarch in today's @nytimes @JustVisionMedia

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 months

Support for #StudentsForGaza encampments, which have spread to 75 campuses in just 10 days, is circulating in Arabic with hashtags like #The_American_Spring and #The_US_Student_Rebellion . Transnational solidarity with transnational solidarity! #الربيع_الأمريكي #تمرد_طلاب_امريكا

Aya Hijazi آية حجازي 🇵🇸🔻

@ItsAyaHijazi

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كل ده وما عداش ١٠ أيام 🇵🇸✌🏾🔥 ٧٥ جامعة. #تمرد_طلاب_امريكا

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The National Labor Network for Ceasefire represents 9 million workers demanding #CeasefireNOW in #Gaza . I can’t believe I get to join such incredible leaders at the Network webinar this Thursday👇 @RashidaTlaib @SummerForPA @UAW @ShawnFainUAW @NEAToday @BeckyPringle @democracynow

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@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

Must-read from @andrewrawnsley in @guardian : "After seven years of failing to act in Syria, we can audit where a non-interventionist policy has got us. It has been an utter disaster in every respect."

Syria has paid a terrible price for the west’s disastrous policy of doing nothing | Andrew Rawnsley

After seven years of failing to act in Syria, we can audit where a non-interventionist policy has got us. It has been an utter catastrophe

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@Wendy_Pearlman

2 years

"We must assert unapologetically that opposing Israeli apartheid is not antisemitic; it is #antiracist . It is part of a larger struggle that values inclusion over exclusion, and rejects oppression in all its forms." Powerful must-read in the @LRB Blog

Elsa Auerbach, Sara Roy and Eve Spangler | The Safety of Others

It is incumbent on us to resist any initiative that drives a wedge between Jews and other oppressed groups. We must...

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

What a day for the incredible @rbkhoury ! She defended her dissertation, earned her PhD & published this insightful piece in @monkeycageblog , all before noon. The sky is the limit & we at @NorthwesternU can't wait to see what she'll do next.

Analysis | The U.N. says Syrians can keep getting international aid from Turkey — for now. Here’s...

Syrian activists have built humanitarian aid groups and a nascent civil society in rebel-held areas — which puts them in danger if the Syrian government retakes that territory.

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@Wendy_Pearlman

3 years

Reflecting on the Arab Spring 10 years on, @MadaMasr @aljumhuriya_net @aljumhuriya_eng organized a series of essays on revolution & memory. Here is my piece, based on interviews that I continue to do at every chance. Available in English, Arabic & Italian!

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

4 years

Syrian prisons are a literal definition of inhumanity.

Emma Beals

@ejbeals

4 years

Just stumbled on a picture of a Syrian guy who was released from Sednaya prison a few weeks ago and doesn't know who he is anymore. His picture is being shared in the hopes someone 'claims' him. The kind of thing Syrians don't share as news because it's somehow 'normal.'

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

6 years

The Assad regime bombards communities, forces families to flee, demolishes properties, expropriates land & is now even renaming those communities. This is "reconstruction" based on dispossession, social engineering & historical erasure

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Wendy Pearlman

@Wendy_Pearlman

5 years

"Must read" is not strong enough to describe the urgency of this report by @ABarnardNYT on torture, rape, disease, & brutalization in Syrian regime prisons. “We don’t have the right to get depressed,” activist Fadwa Mahmoud says. And no one else has the right to look away.

Anne Barnard

@ABarnardNYC

5 years

Our in-depth @nytimes investigation: Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Assad Crushed Dissent

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