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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

1 year

BREAKING: Israeli airstrikes hit both Damascus and Aleppo airports in Syria. The Iranian foreign minister was set to visit Damascus tomorrow after Saudi Arabia and Iran's leadership had a call this morning about the situation in Gaza.

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@chehayebk

2 years

Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian Senior Al Jazeera Correspondent Shereen Abu Aqleh while she was reporting on a raid in Jenin. She was wearing a vest with the word “press” clearly marked on it.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

3 years

Some personal news: Excited to announce that I have joined @AJEnglish as a correspondent covering Lebanon and Syria as they undergo drastic transitions. I'm thrilled to be part of their stellar online team. As always, my DMs are open for story tips.

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@chehayebk

4 years

About 100 volunteers cleaning up Gemmayze Street in #Beirut crowd around French President Macron, chanting “the people deand the fall of the regime” and “President Michel Aoun is a terrorist.” #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

8 years

Whoever is running @RoyalJordanian airlines' social media: you're hilarious. 😂 #MuslimBan #Trump

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

5 years

Definitely biggest turnout yet since this all started. #Beirut #Lebanon #لبنان #لبنان_ينتفض

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

2 years

I'm extremely excited to be joining the top-notch @AP bureau in Beirut to report on #Lebanon & #Syria . Many thanks to all those I worked with at @AJEnglish , who cover the region with diligence. ✉️ To reach me for story tips, my DMs are still open and my email is in my bio.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

3 years

Power goes out at the Lebanese Energy Ministry moments before #Lebanon , #Syria , and #Jordan sign electricity deal.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

1 year

Friends in BEIRUT: AFP's brilliant photographer Christina Assi needs type A positive blood as she undergoes her treatment after last night's Israeli shelling. She's at The American University of Beirut Medical Center. Please head over and donate if you can.

Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

1 year

Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon kills Reuters videographer @LbIssam and wounds 6 other journalists. Among the wounded are Issam’s colleagues from Reuters, Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazeh, and Al Jazeera’s @CarmenJoukhadar and Elie Braykh. @AP

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Lebanon's prime minister-elect Saad Hariri versus the microphone.

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@chehayebk

4 years

What a time to be alive. #CapitolBuilding

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Protestors are using the spades they used to help clear rubble to destroy a concrete barrier near Parliament. #Beirut #Lebanon

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Lebanese cuisine: Hummus Fattoush Tabboule Kibbeh Tear Gas

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

7 years

@GoldingBF They're celebrating a cricket game victory, you numpty.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Setting aside what #Beirut "was" and what it looks like now ... the impact of the #BeirutBlast will be severe. #Lebanon is going through a damning economic crisis, and now the capital's port - a key economic artery - is destroyed. We rely on imports for almost everything.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon can't provide sufficient electricity, public healthcare, education, & social security. Now, it isn't willing to bring in a crane to save a child stuck in the rubble for 30 days. How does the international community think such an inhumane system can be reformed?

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

I try not to use Twitter to talk about myself, but: #Lebanon 's ruling class left several friends & relatives injured. 1 is in the ICU. Please keep them in your thoughts, as well as all victims of our profit-hungry megalomaniacs & kleptocrats. #BeirutExplosions #NeverForgive

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

5 years

#Lebanon ’s old/unfinished theater in Downtown #Beirut aka “the egg” has been occupied and is now a space being organized for free lectures and open discussions. Current lecture is on “capitalism in crisis” #لبنان_ينتفض

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

11 months

#Gaza : A 64th staff member of @UNRWA has been killed since Oct. 7. His wife & 8 children were also killed. “This is the highest number ever of @UN aid workers killed in any conflict around the world in such a short time,” @JulietteTouma told the @AP .

Israeli airstrikes crush apartments in Gaza refugee camp, as ground troops battle Hamas militants

A barrage of Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City, and footage showed rescuers pulling men, women and children out of the rubble.

apnews.com

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

3 years

Protests in #Beirut from Mar Elias refugee camp to Chatila to support Palestinians being evicted in #SheikhJarah .

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

5 years

So, the impossible happened. #Lebanon #Beirut #لبنان_يتنفض

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Harrowing Facebook posts in #Lebanon of people offering furniture, glassware, & even shoes in exchange for diapers, cooking oil, & baby formula. The country's remaining middle class is being destroyed, & the working class decapitated. This is the economic crisis.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Some people broke into #Lebanon consulate in Los Angeles, took down the portrait of President Aoun and stepped on it.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

2 years

In the leaked video of the gruesome Tadamon massacre in #Syria , a family recognizes a relative who went missing 9 years ago. They watched Syrian intelligence officers execute Wassim Siyyam, blindfolded w/his hands tied. @AJEnglish

Family discovers missing relative in grisly Syrian massacre video

A leaked video explicitly reveals gruesome crimes committed by Syrian intelligence officers against civilians.

www.aljazeera.com

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

2 years

It’s 2022. Scientists have brilliantly calculated the number of ants worldwide, but Lebanon somehow hasn’t had a population census since 1932.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

11 days

I spoke too soon; it is in fact the deadliest day in Lebanon since last October The health minsitry said the casualty of today's strikes is now at 100 people killed and over 400 wounded. Israel continues launching airstrikes in southern Lebanon. Many making their way to Beirut

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@chehayebk

11 days

One of the deadliest days in Lebanon since last October...

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

2 months

That was… very loud. Israeli jets break sound barrier over Beirut just a few minutes before Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah starts speech ahead of anticipated Iranian and Hezbollah retaliatory attacks on Israel.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Bangladesh sends #Lebanon humanitarian aid. Let’s thank them by abolishing #kafala . Migrant workers from Bangladesh, Philippines, and other countries were not spared from the #BeirutExplosions .

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Bangladesh sends humanitarian assistance to Lebanon. We stand in solidarity with Lebanon in this hour of need. @AmbMudallali @UNIFIL_ @pmbdny

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

At least 14 attacks on media workers and journalists today by security forces in #Beirut . Shame. #Lebanon

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

8 years

Saudi Arabia's Qassim Women's Council... Wait a second.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

3 years

#BeirutBlast : Grieving families who lost their children continue to seek justice I spoke with the parents of 7 year-old Bissan Tibati, 16 year-old Elias Khoury, 3 year-old Alexandra Naggear, and 2 year-old Isaac Oehlers. @AJEnglish

‘I miss her all the time’: The Beirut explosion’s child victims

One year after deadly explosion in Lebanese capital, grieving families who lost their children continue to seek justice.

www.aljazeera.com

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

3 years

The committee of Families of #BeirutBlast Victims give #Lebanon 's authorities 30 hours to lift immunity of officials or else "bones will break".

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Good idea. Love, Beirut.

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@Bacharelhalabi

4 years

Senegal to Move 3,000 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate From Dakar’s Port

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

This is the weirdest Lebanese election I've ever seen.

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"This is a major fraud on our nation ... so we'll going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop." -- Trump is counting on SCOTUS to help him steal the election

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

I have a Lebanese joke but it’s stuck in the bank.

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@ianbremmer

4 years

I have a nihilist joke but who cares.

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@chehayebk

2 years

Boat carrying over 100 migrants from Lebanon and Syria drown, leaving over 30 dead. Dozens still missing. The incident is one of the deadliest since a surging number of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians have tried fleeing crisis-hit Lebanon by sea.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

5 years

A Tale of Two Christmas Trees in Martyrs Square: 2018 - #Beirut Municipality spent $1 million with additional corporate and state institution sponsors. 2019 - The #Lebanon revolution Christmas tree.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

2 suicides documented in #Lebanon today: One young man from Hermel shot himself by the Sarroula Building on #Beirut 's Hamra street Another young man found dead in his home in Saida Notes left & preliminary evidence indicate that the cases were linked to economic hardship

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Some personal news: I'm excited to have started my nonresident fellowship at @TimepDC today, where I'll be focusing on transparency and access to information primarily in #Lebanon .

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon 's currency lost more than half its value since last fall. Bring in the pallbearer meme. #WorkersDay h/t @LyesAbouJaoude Link to original video:

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

9 months

Good one, Kareem.

Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

9 months

Wishing everyone a happier, healthier, and more peaceful 2024. We sure need it.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Protestors throw rocks at Saad Hariri’s convoy in downtown #Beirut . #Lebanon

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Huge explosion in #Beirut Port. Hundreds wounded according to Red Cross. No words. I have never seen anything like this here.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

5 years

Remember the iconic woman who kicked MP Akram Chehayeb's bodyguard on October 17 in #Beirut ? Her husband said on FB she was summoned to military court over this #Lebanon still tries civilians in military court - usually for terrorism charges or attacking security personnel

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

BREAKING: #Lebanon PM Hassan Diab resigns. He accused the political class for trying to shift blame for economic crisis and corruption on his Cabinet. "I said that corruption is rooted in every part of the state. But I found out that corruption is greater than the state."

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

2 years

#LebanonElections2022 : There's something particularly cruel about Lebanese expats voting for those who have deprived the country of electricity, healthcare, and social protection, while they live in a country that provides them.

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@chehayebk

1 year

#Lebanon : AFP photographer Christina Assi still needs A+ blood before another surgery Al Jazeera videographer Elie Brakhya needs AB+ blood as as well The two wounded journalists are at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, which receives blood donations before 3pm

Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

1 year

Friends in BEIRUT: AFP's brilliant photographer Christina Assi needs type A positive blood as she undergoes her treatment after last night's Israeli shelling. She's at The American University of Beirut Medical Center. Please head over and donate if you can.

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@chehayebk

4 years

Incredible. Someone missing from the #BeirutBlast was found in the sea, and he's still alive. #Lebanon

LBCI Lebanon News

@LBCI_NEWS

4 years

العثور على المفقود امين الزاهد في البحر وهو لا زال على قيد الحياة

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@chehayebk

4 months

To a degree never seen before, Israel is killing entire Palestinian families in #Gaza , a loss even more devastating than the physical destruction and the massive displacement. @AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more By @seldeeb

The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more

Israeli airstrikes are eradicating entire Palestinian families in Gaza, sometimes generations at a time, to a degree never seen before in previous conflicts there.

apnews.com

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

2 years

🇱🇧🇹🇷🚑 #Lebanon is sending a team of soldiers, first responders from the Red Cross and Civil Defense, and firefighters to #earthquake -hit #Turkey , a Lebanese Red Cross spox tells the @AP .

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

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The death toll in Lebanon has climbed to 558 people, the country's health ministry said. @firassabiad said that among the killed are 50 children and 94 women. Paramedics and firefighters were also among the killed.

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@chehayebk

4 years

Downtown #Beirut looks like a warzone, but there’s a sea of protestors stretching all the way to Gemmayze Street. #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

8 years

About 100 people are standing out here under the rain in solidarity with #Aleppo . #Beirut #Lebanon

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

5 years

The amount of photoshopped news headlines, WhatsApp voice note rumors, and tampered videos being shared in #Lebanon is ridiculous. Disinformation is dangerous. Please check your sources and verify. I'm happy to do what I can to verify; my inbox is open to everyone.

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

Protestors in their thousands. Security forces lob teargas, but they continue to walk towards them. #Beirut #BeirutExplosion #Lebanon

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

5 years

We're taking applications for part-time investigative reporters for a soon-to-be launched journo-owned & run media platform in #Lebanon : ✅ Courage ✅ Passion ✅ Moral backbone ✅ Initiative ✅ Works in a team w/diverse skills Got those traits? DM @LaraJBitar

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

10 days

A journalist in southern Lebanon with Al-Mayadeen was killed in an Israeli airstrike while he was at home, the pan-Arab network told the @AP The 22 year-old was in his home in Burj Rahhal near the coastal city of Tyre

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

BREAKING: #Lebanon Prime Minister Hasan Diab calls for early elections

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

9 years

To be honest, I'm annoyed that people in #Beirut couldn't check in on Facebook as "safe" the other day.

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@chehayebk

4 years

The concerted attacks against @Jad_Ghosn are absolutely disgusting ahead of his move to the UAE. Ghosn is one of #Lebanon 's best journalists, who has done phenomenal work over the years. #جاد_غصن

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

29 days after the #BeirutBlast . No public updates on the investigation. Also today, Chilean rescue workers detected a possible heartbeat in a body under the rubble in. #Lebanon is hoping for a miracle; it could mean a chance at life for my relative & others still in critical.

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@chehayebk

4 years

Hours after #France President Macron greets volunteers in #Beirut clearing rubble, #Lebanon security forces uses mostly French tear gas to disperse protestors nearby. Sacré bleu.

How Lebanese protesters are targeted by French military-grade tear gas

Lebanese security forces' use of tear gas has been described as a show of 'excessive force' - but accountability seems unlikely

www.middleeasteye.net

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@chehayebk

5 years

#Lebanon 's @ALJADEEDNEWS dropping bombshells on corruption and public funds laundering of different officials on a show called "Down with Corrupt Rule" As the show airs, the General Prosecutor asked for a copy of the episode... make of that what you will. #يسقط_حكم_الفاسد

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@chehayebk

3 years

Families of the #BeirutBlast victims are trying to break into the interior minister’s residence. The investigation almost a year later has gone nowhere. #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

5 years

In #Lebanon 's revolution, downtown #Beirut turned from a ghost town for the wealthy into a bustling tent city. Inhabitants say they've reclaimed a privatized public space & perhaps put into effect the Lebanon they dream of. My feature for @CityLab

Beirut's Protest City Is a Rebuke to the Privatization of Public Space

Anti-government protesters set up a cooperative tent city in downtown Beirut, where a generation ago, redevelopment pushed out ordinary people.

www.bloomberg.com

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@chehayebk

4 years

No street lights and no traffic lights - even on #Beirut ’s Hamra Street. Lights from billboards and the few shops that remain open on this historically bustling street guide the way. #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

5 years

President Michel Aoun called for the prosecution of people spreading "bad publicity about the national currency" during a meeting with the #Beirut Bar Association at Baabda Palace I can't anymore. I just can't. #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

4 years

This. This is anger. #Beirut

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@chehayebk

2 years

Israeli authorities say Palestinian gunmen killed Abu Aqleh. However, Abu Aqleh’s colleagues from Al Jazeera, an AFP photographer and @MiddleEastEye reporter- all who were with her - say Israeli snipers shot at them.

Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

2 years

Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian Senior Al Jazeera Correspondent Shereen Abu Aqleh while she was reporting on a raid in Jenin. She was wearing a vest with the word “press” clearly marked on it.

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5 years

#Lebanon 's new prime minister-designate has a map of where he's traveled in his 134-paged CV.

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@chehayebk

4 years

My dear friend @BachirRamadan89 sustained injuries to his skull, eye, and face due to the #Beirut_Blast . He works just 800 meters from the Beirut Port. I'm so thankful you're still with us, Bachir. I can't wait to see you back on stage. <3

‘I am lucky to be alive' Nervecell drummer Bachir Ramadan on Beirut blast ordeal | The National

The musician was working 800 metres from the site of the explosion

www.thenationalnews.com

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@chehayebk

4 years

On top of the immediate costs of the #BeirutBlast , #Lebanon is also dealing with: - Roughly 50% below poverty line - Fuel shortages -> extended powercuts - Medicine shortages - Currency devaluation by ≈ 80% - Rampant economic inequality - Virtually non-existent social security

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@chehayebk

7 years

Iftar in besieged Douma, 10 kilometers northeast of #Damascus . #Syria

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@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon bank CEO buys Jennifer Lawrence's New York penthouse for $9.9 million, while people are withheld from withdrawing their own money & watch their savings evaporate.

Jennifer Lawrence makes $5.7million loss on New York penthouse

The actress has finally sold her New York penthouse for $9.9million- a staggering $5.7million less than her original asking price.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@chehayebk

4 years

#Beirut Governor says damages of #BeirutBlast will cost between $3-5 billion "perhaps more", and "hundreds of families in Beirut are homeless." #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

4 years

Tear gas blanketed much of this side of Downtown #Beirut . But protestors are now trying to climb over a barricade that leads to Parliament. They’re throwing rocks and whatever they can fine from the rubble. #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

4 years

About a 10 minute drive from where the explosion took place. #Beirut is devestated. #beirutexplosion #Lebanon

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@chehayebk

3 years

We’re on our way to #Lebanon ’s southern border where solidarity protests for #Gaza and #SheikhJarrah are taking place. Dozens buses like these are on their way. Some people are even hitch-hiking. @FirasHaidar

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@chehayebk

2 years

Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian migrants are trapped at sea near Malta on a sinking fishing boat. The migrants told activists and relatives over a satellite phone that 2 children have died, and that they have been without food and water for 3 days. @AP

Lebanese migrants adrift in Mediterranean plead for rescue

Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian migrants are adrift in the Mediterranean on a fishing boat that has taken on water near the coasts of Malta and Italy.

apnews.com

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@chehayebk

4 years

Lebanese-Armenian Maral Najarian went missing in #NagornoKarabakh 3 months ago. Her family continues to try to find her on their own, w/virtually no support from #Lebanon & #Armenia . My latest for @MiddleEastEye

Lebanese-Armenian family searches for woman who disappeared in Nagorno-Karabakh

Maral Najarian has been unaccounted for since November, with relatives worried about her fate and angry about the inaction of authorities in Lebanon and Armenia

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@chehayebk

5 years

#Lebanon ’s austerity protests and wildfires tell the same grim story. My column for Washington Post @PostOpinions #لبنان #لبنان_ينتفض

Opinion | Lebanon’s protests and wildfires tell the same grim story

The government’s crippling austerity measures, failed policies and economic corruption have left the country vulnerable.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@chehayebk

2 years

🇱🇧 🗳 #LebanonElections2022 Lebanese elections monitors say they documented 3,600 violations @LADELEB says partisans of various parties threatened and beat observers, mostly from Hezbollah & Amal - also Christian Lebanese Forces, & supporters of Druze leaders Jumblatt & Wahhab

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Syrian newspaper Al-Watan says the Israeli strikes hit runways and left both airports are out of commission.

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@chehayebk

4 years

How a Massive Bomb Came Together in #Beirut ’s Port: A system of corruption and bribes let the perfect bomb sit for years. Happy to have contributed to this interactive for @nytimes and get to work work w/ @NYTBen @Abihabib & of course @hwaida_saad .

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@chehayebk

9 years

Hey @jk_rowling ! Made this for you. #Palestine

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@chehayebk

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Lebanese photojournalist @Christina_assi , wounded in Israeli strike in southern #Lebanon , carries @Olympics torch to honor journalists “For me, justice comes the day I can stand up again, hold my camera, and get back to work" w/ @lujainjo for @AP

A Lebanese photojournalist, wounded in Israeli strike, carries Olympic torch to honor journalists

A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon has carried the Olympic torch in Paris to honor journalists wounded and killed in the field.

apnews.com

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@chehayebk

5 years

Let’s see what’s happening outside of Lebanon for a change. ...Okay, back to Lebanon.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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@chehayebk

4 years

In a video being shared widely tonight in #Lebanon as protestors and security forces scuffle at a Jal el Dib roadblock: Protestor to the officer: "I'm hungry" Officer to the protestor: "I'm hungrier" #LebanonProtests

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@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon past 24 hours: Last night, a diesel tank exploded at a bakery in #Beirut 's Tarik Jdideh area, killing 4 and wounding 59 people. This morning, a fuel tank exploded in Achrafieh, leaving 1 dead & 2 wounded. Meanwhile, wildfires continue to rage across the country.

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@chehayebk

4 years

🤣 Surreal reporting during Macron's meeting with #Lebanon 's political leaders. He gathered with Saad Hariri, Gebran Bassil, Walid Jumblatt, Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad, Samy Gemayel, among others at the French ambassador's resident in #Beirut .

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@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon Parliament goes on a one-month paid vacation. Why not? The country isn't falling apart or anything.

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@chehayebk

3 years

32 year-old rapist Marwan Habib made headlines in #Lebanon during the 2019 uprising after women called him out for harassment & assault. More victims soon spoke out. Instead of jail time, he got airtime. Now in Miami, he faces serious charges for assaulting women. @fox_sheldon

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@chehayebk

3 years

Some 4,500 Lebanese are trapped in #Ukraine and have no one to rely on but each other. One student who called the embassy was told this: “Your government is very poor now and can barely feed themselves, how do you expect anything from this government”

‘Hiding in basements’: Thousands of Lebanese trapped in Ukraine

Members of the 4,500-strong Lebanese community in Ukraine plead for evacuation help amid Russia attacks.

www.aljazeera.com

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@chehayebk

3 years

BREAKING: #Lebanon Judge Ghada Aoun freezes some of Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh's assets: - 7 real estate properties in Broumanna and Qornet Shehwan - 4 high-end luxury cars (Maserati, Audi, BMW, Infinity)

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon this past week: - #Israel kidnaps goats, returns them via UNIFIL - Free Patriotic Movement to distribute quails - Cabinet reschedules session by 1 day to appoint official before age cutoff date - Exchange shops aim to reduce 4,000 LL-$1 to 3,200, but now approaches 5000

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@chehayebk

2 years

"Please don't leave me": One of 20 survivors of capsized migrant boat shares his harrowing story covered in gashes and bruises. At least 94 died in the boat that left Tripoli, #Lebanon last week, the deadliest incident in years. @AP

'Don't leave me': Survivor recounts Lebanon boat sinking

A Palestinian from Beirut who survived one of the deadliest migrant boat sinkings in recent years has shared a harrowing tale.

apnews.com

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@chehayebk

1 year

A recent history of #Lebanon : 2019: Banking crisis and uprising 2020: Currency collapse, Beirut Port blast 2021: Fuel and medicine shortages, blast investigation 2022: Elections 2023: Barbie

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon Health Minister says those who died in #BeirutBlast was “fate” whereas #Covid_19 infections and deaths were individual decisions. Wow...

Salman Andary

@salmanonline

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لم يموتوا قضاء وقدر.. ماتوا بسبب اهمالكم جميعا.. مستفز جدا وزير الصحة في كلامه ولغة جسده. انفجار بيروت حصل بسبب اهمالكم واصابات كورونا ترتفع بسبب قراراتكم. قال قضاء وقدر!!!!!! ...

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

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By the way ... 1. What happened to the "postponed" financial aid for low-income families from last April? (400,000LL for almost 190,000 families) 2. The 1 million masks for #Covid_19 ? 3. Parliament's $300m aid package to help poor households, daily workers, farmers? #Lebanon

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Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب

@chehayebk

4 years

#Lebanon 's power cuts at a whole new level: - State telecom company Ogero says there will be some internet cuts - Traffic lights keep turning off - ACs turned off and surgeries postponed at some hospitals - Even private generator providers struggling b/c of fuel shortages

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