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Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Political Rhetoric | #سورية #revolution #socialmovements

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10 months

Delighted to announce the publication of my paper “The U.S. American Left and Reverse Moral Exceptionalism: When to Villians become Heroes?” in one of our field’s top journals, the Quarterly Journal of Speech #publication #americanleft #syrianrevolution #Solidarity

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2 years

When #Syrians have a light breakfast🥐🥚🫘

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2 years

Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation on the Syrian Revolution, and officially became Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad💚 #PhDone

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A dream of mine came true🤍 I am delighted to announce that I have accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Rhetoric and Political Discourse in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama, starting in Fall 2022. #RollTide

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It. Is. Happening. #PhDone

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3 years

This is not an image from a dystopian Hollywood movie. This is happening right now at the Belarus-Poland border.

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3 years

Roger Waters from Pink Floyd is a genocide denier who called our first responders terrorists. He denies Assad’s chemical weapons attacks on civilians. We do not need to retweet him on Palestine. There are many with a better track record who havent trampled over the oppressed

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"كيف ستشعر يا بايدن لو جاء أحمق وأخذ منزلك؟".. مشاهير ونواب غاضبون حول العالم من الجرائم التي ترتكبها سلطات الاحتلال بحق الفلسطينيين في #القدس المحتلة.

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Murals in the rebel city of Daraya, by the artist Abu Malek al-Shami

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"Syria is for Syrians". A photograph of protests against the French mandate in Syria, which lasted from 1920 to 1943.

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4 years

Found out my beloved uncle unfriended me on SM for fear his phone might end up in someone’s hand & he would get in trouble for my anti-regime posts. It stung for a second, but the totalitarian fear the regime has instilled, even in twice-removed association with dissent is real

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Dr Alaa Mousa, a military doctor in the Syrian regime’s 261st security branch, is the third former Syrian official to face charges for crimes against humanity. #Thread

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3 years

Something to warm up your twitter feed today 💚A Syrian family united after 12 years separation by borders and authoritarianism.

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2 years

If you are a scholar on Syria, please do not refer to the revolution as a civil war, specially with no context. This is an immediate red flag which alerts Syrians to your (dismal) ethics of solidarity. End of Rant.

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2 years

Running on 5 hours of sleep (and last minute packing) to make it to my flight. As much as I dread the anxiety-ridden conference prep, I am slightly depleted after a teaching intensive first semester and am excited for intellectual energizing discussions with comrades #NCA2022

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2 years

Kevin Mazur’s book was an extremely triggering and painful book to read on the Syrian revolution #thread

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4 years

A little piece of Syrian folklore at my local arab store today! This triangle-shaped #bonjus took me down nostalgia lane to sweeter simpler times. Yes, I shamelessly bought the whole carton - because I am an adult and can do that now☺️

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3 years

Twitter, why has this genocidal dictator’s official election twitter account not been suspended and banned? It is honestly outrageous that someone with crimes against humanity is given a legitimate space on your platform.

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3 years

Jude Shreet was killed yesterday with a laser missile by Assad forces, with support of 🇷🇺& 🇮🇷, targeting a residential building in Idlib. Jude was 21 years old and full of hope for the future. She had just graduated and was running a school for little ones.

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3 years

I wanted to pop in to share that my most recent paper is out and free to read! It was written from my deep conviction that lived experiences matter, positionality matters, & our historied narratives matter. In hopes of #solidarity with Syrians.

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4 years

From memory lane, Abu Omar in his home in Aleppo (2017)

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3 years

#thread : Today is the 9th anniversary of the #Houla massacre, in which whole families were herded like sheep into rooms and killed in cold blood in Homs. 108 people were killed with hatchets, knives and guns, nearly half of them children

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4 years

Gets under my skin to read western academics on Syria only reference other western academics on Syria. It makes me question how they view Syrians if they cannot even admit that Syrian academics exist. We are publishing, and you should be engaging with our work on our country.

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I love being Syrian. I love my community of Syrian activists. I am inspired by how they continue to dream of freedom for our people. I am thankful for this blessing💗

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I purchased this book on the recommendation of a friend that it is her favorite book on Syria. So far, it does not disappoint. Pages of poetry, art work, autobiographical accounts, prayer...and the paper quality and styling is just stunning #Syria

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The beauty of diaspora! In the market square in east Tennessee, we come across an elderly musician. Not our first time to see him. This time, he asks where we are from? Syria we say. He says he’s an Iraqi immigrant who lived in Jaramana. Then he sang and took me back home🤍

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3 years

#NewProfilePic

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2 years

Brimming with pride at @molhamteam ’s incredible success raising over $1 million to build permanent homes for Syrian refugees living in tents. Syrians around the globe pitched in to make this happen #UntilTheLastTent

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Molham Team | فريق ملهم التطوعي

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لحظة تأمين المليون دولار!🥳 #حتى_آخر_خيمة The very first moments after raising $ 1M! #UntilTheLastTent

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Green for our #syrianrevolution today.

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3 years

This is a slam-dunk case of “access journalism”: when authoritarian regimes give access to journalists who publish stories palatable to it and which serve its agenda, under the pretense of objectivity. When you prey on the most vulnerable in this way, you have lost your integrity

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The Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk was destroyed in the brutal battle between Syria’s gov’t & foreign-backed militias that occupied it, including ISIS. US sanctions on Syria prevent its reconstruction. No matter your views on the war, why block its survivors from rebuilding?

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4 years

So excited to share this labor of love on #worldrefugeeday This is in honor of all the #revolutionaryrefugees who fought so valiantly for freedom. P.S. this is my first foray into journalism. Please show it some love♥️

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On World Refugee Day, let's remember our revolutionary refugees

Comment: We must expand our understanding of the refugee figure beyond the spectacle of suffering, to a celebration of bravery and revolution, writes Noor Ghazal Aswad.

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3 years

Why only engage in ad hominem attacks? Why not engage actual content of the letter? I am a signatory and I am not pro-intervention and certainly not a “western based regime changer”. This is a dishonest smear campaign against Syrians and their suffering at hands of Assad regime.

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As the US military occupation of Syria deepens & Western sanctions spawn starvation & medical shortages, a group of Western-based regime changers publish another tired open letter attacking critics of the dirty war & implicitly endorsing intervention. Thread on some signatories

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Congratulations to @ShadiaMartini ! The first Syrian-American of any party to be nominated for the Michigan State Legislature💙

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4 years

This is not an oppression olympics. I just got shamed for standing in solidarity with my fellow Lebenese, and told that my priority should my country. Let me be clear. I will always stand with the oppressed, the hungry, the downtrodden who are abused by the powerful. Full Stop.

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3 years

Amazing. Just a day after several Syrian activists reported Assad’s official election page, it has been temporarily restricted. I hope it remains suspended, as it should. Thank you @Twitter

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3 years

Twitter, why has this genocidal dictator’s official election twitter account not been suspended and banned? It is honestly outrageous that someone with crimes against humanity is given a legitimate space on your platform.

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3 years

It was so sweet to be selected for the Graduate Student Research Spotlight at #theuofm for April 2021 🧡 although I cannot deny how tired my eyes look in this photo - it will have to do😅

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PhD candidate, Noor Ghazal Aswad, was recently selected for the Graduate Student Spotlight at the University of Memphis for April 2021. Here is the link: #COMMStudyWithUs

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@im_PULSE I think we need to remind them that they are not only “foreign” fighters but also “colonizers” in our country. America is not the only evil imperial actor on the world stage.

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Honored to receive @rhetsoc 2023 Honorable Mention for the 2023 Dissertation Award! Their beautiful words on my work, which theorizes from arabic grassroots rhetoric of Syrian revolutionaires, means so much💚

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4 years

43 Syrian refugees were killed in the #BeirutExplosion . We need to know their names, their stories, their struggle, and their faces too.

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3 years

My bi-annual prove-I-am-a-good Syrian activity #yabra2

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4 years

This.

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3 years

Coming soon #rhetoricscholars

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1 year

Fascinating and unexpectedly vulnerable conversation with @USAmbQatar about behind the scenes of politics, diplomacy and human rights abroad. We spoke about US’s role in preventing normalization with Assad regime in the region and the imperative not to forget the Syrian struggle.

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2 years

Submitted final dissertation chapter to my advisor. Waiting with baited breath for his extensive(ish) feedback, which I always appreciate. This time he said, “I read it all in one sitting, it is very fluid. Aside from minor comments, it’s ready.” #hallelujah

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“But we Syrians are not just victims,” says Yassin al-Haj Saleh, “that's why I don't want us to get used to this status. We have a long history in the struggle for freedom, and it is not over yet.”

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"If something is complicated, you should really take a look," says @Yassinhs . “Then you would see two wars: that of a people against its dictator. And then the geopolitical, the occupying powers on the back of this people."

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3 years

I can attest to this. The trauma infiltrates into even the most intimate of relationships, into how you raise your children, and how chose to love them.

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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي

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Trauma makes everything worse. One of the biggest reasons post-war and post-tyranny societies are full of social problems and political dysfunction is trauma. Not "their culture is backwards".

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3 years

What happens when refugees are weaponized in a “political game”? A thread on what is happening at the Polish-Belarusian border:

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2 years

So I didn’t know I had to purchase a 8-point tam hat for my doctoral graduation and wore the undergraduate square hat instead🤦🏽‍♀️ Neverthless, I found beauty and sacredness to the pomp and ritual of the #doctoralhooding ceremony. Thank you @aejohnsonphd for doing me the honor.

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3 years

I remember when Gov. Nikki Haley refused to let Syrian refugees into South Carolina. What upset me was how she used her own immigrant history as an argument for rejecting Syrians as an exception to America’s moral exceptionalism. This was a labor of love:

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3 years

It never escapes my mind how when I was an architecture student, my advisor told me to walk & take pictures of my city, #Halab , to capture the urban development over time. Now I have a folder of 1000s of images of a city that is a shadow of itself, that I can barely bear to open.

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@KhaledBeydoun Sanctions do not apply to humanitarian aid.

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2 years

So often, when I talk about Syria, “but Iraq” is the only retort. So many have been unable to move past this framework of understanding the region. In the last 20 yrs, the world has changed drastically. You’d think it was obvious, but Iraq is not Syria, & neither is Libya.

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Me, crying and pulling my hair out: You can't just say everything is "just like Iraq"!!! Every dipshit Millenial with a podcast pointing at any geopolitical event on the planet: "This is just like Iraq"

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If you are looking for trustworthy organizations to donate for emergency relief for victims of the #earthquakesyria , please consider the following:

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3 years

Damascus is officially the world’s least livable city according to the @TheEconomist . As if we needed more confirmation that Syria has no future with Assad in it. We need him out.

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3 years

“Dear ocean, thank you for making us feel tiny, salty, humble, and inspired, all at once” #stpetersburg #belatedspringbreak

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عشر سنين و لسا روح الثورة موجودة فينا! مكملين💚💚💚 Ten years since the start of our revolution and the spirit of revolution still lives within us! Onwards!

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3 years

All the memes on #TheIllegitimateSyrianElection were funny for a while, but today, I am depressed and trying to cope with my sadness. Syria deserves so much better. We deserve so much better.

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The aftermath of a Russian airstrike on aid trucks near the last humanitarian border border crossing in Syria. Now, Russia is threatening to veto a resolution to keep this artery open. Severing this life-sustaining aid would be a humanitarian disaster to millions of Syrians

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The seeds of this paper were born of discussions with many scholars and activists on twitter and fb upon the assasination of Qasem Soleimani - an event which really made evident to me the limits of those on the left in listening to those in struggle

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When “path-breaking” western scholarship on Syria from prestigious university presses is just a recycling of what indigenous scholars and grassroots voices have been saying for years, the theft feels personal for some reason.

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As #WorldRefugeeDay approaches, I want to re-share my article on “biased neutrality”, i.e. the duhumanizing coverage of Syrian refugees under the umbrella of “empirical impartiality”

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Biased neutrality: the symbolic construction of the Syrian refugee in the New York Times

Although the Syrian refugee crisis has received global media attention, studies exploring the representation of Syrian refugees in American media have been lacking. Using both content and critical ...

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My book chapter is out! I illustrate how humanitarian NGOs depict refugees as existing within “paradigms of transculturality” acceptable to the western imaginary, contingent on their presence at borders and as beneficiaries of American exceptionalism #syrianrefugees #immigration

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Today’s headline: Two children died last night, including seven day old Fatima, in the laith displacement camp in Idlib. She was blue and bleeding from the mouth when she arrived at the hospital. “When I touched her, she felt like ice”

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After an exhausting semester, this was just the news I needed this week. Thankful to my students for always giving me the benefit of the doubt💗👩‍🏫

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The U.S. American left and reverse moral exceptionalism: when do villains become heroes?

This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and those on the U.S. American left who mi...

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It is 2021, but I can’t believe a girl’s right to education is still negotiable or up for discussion.

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11. It is high time that disfiguring scholarship on our revolution is called out by Syrians.

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12. We demand better by those who operate from the pedestal of the “objectivity” of the scholar, but which fail to understand the heart of what our struggles are actually about.

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This is why I have been deliberate in citing Syrian scholars and voices in my work instead of the same ones who keep getting recycled again and again, steal the ideas of Syrian intellectuals, & who never cite us. Our citational practices matter.

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When it is time to get a new bookcase #bookaholic 📚

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4 years

My 5 yr old had a meltdown over #coronavirus yesterday. His eyes welled up as he said he misses school, he misses art, he misses soccer, he misses class, he misses everything. I was gobsmacked. Had not realized how much he had been bottling in all this time #parentingandcovid19

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An unfortunate discovery: not all celebrated social justice warriors are kind or generous people who live up to the beauty of their rhetoric and admirable political positions in their interactions with “real” people.

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The process of writing and reading for me are inextricably linked. I cannot read without writing, and I cannot write without reading. Each inpsire, fuel, and feed the other #AcademicChatter #teamrhetoric

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

Shifting blame from the Assad regime to the sanctions for the destruction of Syria is a form of genocidal apologism. You negate Assad’s role for the state Syria is in, and negate Syrians as victims of his genocide and neoliberal corruption.

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Aaron Maté

3 years

@joel_rayburn Joel, are you denying that US sanctions kill Syrians? Your own colleagues note that US sanctions "crushed" Syria's economy (Jeffrey) and "exacerbated fuel and food shortages for everyday Syrians." (Tabler). When you crush an economy & deprive food, what do you think happens?

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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4 years

On this day 7 yrs ago, the Assad regime carried out a chemical weapons attack in #Ghouta that killed 1700. On this day, some slept with their families and woke up with them dead. On this day, Syrians realized they would be extinguished for their dreams for freedom

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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2. In insisting the struggle was based on “identity claims” rather than a genuine quest for liberation from the oppressed, Mazur makes several and coarsely racialist moves by insisting that ethnicity constituted the “center of gravity” (p.115) of the revolution.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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4 years

Happy Eid Adha my twitter family! 🐑✨🕋 wishing you all the blessings today!

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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4 years

Well, I guess the good news of receiving 2 top paper awards at our national conference could only end with my car being rear-ended as I drove along on cloud 9🙈All the more reason to celebrate with relentless abandon into a good tub of brambleberry crisp ice cream #nca #phdlife

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4 years

Coming from an immigrant family, I have always struggled with not having family nearby. An unattached and fragmented existence. Getting #coronavirus this week been the softest remembrance that there are friends, there is family, & then, there are friends who become family

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4 years

When you are overly optimistic with your online orders #AcademicChatter #doctoralstudies

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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2 years

7. Elsewhere, he insinuates the chant “No Iran and no Hizbullah” is an ethno-chant (p.29), instead of what is really is, a chant objecting to the colonial presence of these actors in the region.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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2 years

5. The move is disturbing, crude, and reductionist. I found it hard to see as anything other than an orientalizing move to describe those in the region as already preternaturally at war and separate from one another.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

With the disastrous news of Syria now being added to #interpol , granting the regime the authority to order international arrest warrants for dissidents, we must take steps for the official recognition of the multiple #genocides of the regime over the last 50 years

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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1 year

Today Nadia Kahf was sworn in as a Superior Court judge in New Jersey. In a historic moment, the Honorable Kahf was sworn in on a vintage Quran handwritten by her great grandmother. She is the first to wear a hijab on the bench & one of a handful of Muslim women superior judges

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

@masspeaceaction @RaniaKhalek As a Syrian and activist, I beg you to please re-think this decision!

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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2 years

1. It has the typical marks of the western scholar, who hones in on “sectarian differences”, grossly overstates and slippingly refers to them as “ethnic” and decides the revolution by its second year, was an “ethnic insurgency” as the “dominant” form of contention.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

My grandma in Aleppo is living on 2 hours of electricity a day. It has really taken its toll. They had had to throw out much of their food and preserve what they could. My last call with her left me depressed for a week.

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Razan Saffour

3 years

a little ‘real life’ context to the return/liveable narrative - my aunt in west aleppo has electricity a couple hours a day, but otherwise spends her day freezing attempting to keep warm with what she has. she’s in her 60s.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

This is exactly why my dissertation is (tentatively) entitled: “Syria as a Litmus Test” - the Syrian situation is a litmus test of people’s ability to stand in #solidarity with the oppressed & defines the stakes for later social movements.

@proud_damascene

Velvet | ڤلڤت 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 #DroneAssad

@proud_damascene

3 years

When Syrians say that their country's struggle is a good litmus test for someone's politics, they don't revel in that reality, it's one of the worst things to be reminded of every single day. It doesn't just apply to people with appalling views, but also to those with no views.

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3 years

What do we do when lived experiences don’t fit into narratives? We deny them. Then, we demonize those sharing their testimony.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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4 years

Last word’s of Syria’s disappeared to their loved ones. These stories can’t be made up.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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4 years

#NCA folks, come attend my paper at the Top Paper Panel of the Rhetorical and Communication Division. Starts at 11am EST. I talk about a topic near to my heart, the Syrian revolution and how we might stand with its radical subjects.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

“If we really care about human rights, Syria is the place to actually be engaged” - @Qidlbi to the White House

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

The highlight of my visit to Seattle for #NCA2021 was finally meeting this beautiful soul! @mshalabiye you are such an inpsiration habebti 💗

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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2 years

Only on twitter can breakfast be controversial! 😅by way of explanation: The dish to the top is Mamoniye, an Aleppan semonlina dish with cream, not fatteh. The yalanji is a meatless cold appetizer that is perfectly accetable for a late 1pm arab breakfast/brunch on weekend☺️

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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2 years

When #Syrians have a light breakfast🥐🥚🫘

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2 years

Just learnt that I am on a top paper ethnography panel at #NCA this year. The rhetorician in me is puzzlingly and pleasantly surprised🥰

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

I am proud signatory of this important letter.

@aljumhuriya_eng

Al-Jumhuriya English

@aljumhuriya_eng

3 years

In an open letter marking 10 years since Syria's uprising, over 300 signatories from #Syria & 32 other countries decry the dehumanizing propaganda & disinformation with which Syrians are often smeared in the name of left-wing or "anti-imperialist" politics

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4 years

Humble brag alert. My paper “Exploring Charismatic Leadership: A Comparative Analysis of the Rhetoric of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election” was one of the most downloaded last year #AcademicChatter

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2 years

8. This gross misrepresentation of the character of the revolution at such an early stage, is modus operandi of those who are unable to see past the faith of others in their resistance against an oppressor.

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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3 years

Some good news next week “inshalla”🙏🏻

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

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4 years

When #COVID19 ruins your summer plans to visit your family in the Middle East, and instead, you are sent torturous videos like this to salivate over #musakhan #madebymama

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Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad

@noorghazalaswad

3 years

A criminal regime which bombed doctors, healthworkers and hospitals is now being welcomed to the @WHO ! I am sick to my stomach.

@WHOSyria

WHO Syria

3 years

Today #Syria was elected as a new member of the @WHO Executive Board (EB) among other newly joining members for the period of 3 years.

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