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Syed
gypsy_heart6
1. In modern Persian, zamin-dar means 'the one who holds land' but it might be related to Middle Persian Zamin-i dātbar (Land of the Justice-giver). Zamin-i dātbar/Zamindawar was capital of
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Paul Antonopoulos 🇬🇷🇨🇾
oulosP
THREAD: Today we commemorate the Greek Genocide victims of Pontus, killed by Ottoman & Kemalist forces. 1 million Greeks were massacred - 353,000 of them from Pontus alone.We will never
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Dani Ellis
lapinesque
I am currently living near Heseke (a city of 1/2 million people) and for 3 months we’ve had no mains water, for 3 days no water deliveries and in the
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Elizrael
Interesting article by former senior Russian diplomat, Alexander Aksienionok, who served in Syria under Hafez’ regime, criticizing both the Syrian leadership, painting the regime as economically fragile & having a
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Elizabeth Tsurkov
Elizrael
The aftermath of the Ghouta CW massacre is highly instructive. The attack was the most clear violation of Obama's "red line" on the use of chemical weapons in Syria &
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Alex
JewishWonk
Today is #YomHaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day. You're going to see many (rightfully) somber messages, but this is not one of them. Instead, I'd like to discuss popular memory.Thread.
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Hitesh Tikoo
refugeeathome
Thread Diversity and Multiculturalism? Or the Islamic Conquest of the Great Britain? Since the previous census result of 2011, number of people identifying themselves as Christians in England dropped from
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
MAHJARI PRINT CULTURE: Now, let's talk about Syrian serials in this diaspora.Yesterday I described the problems in locating migration history in state records when states are invested in migration control.Thankfully,
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
There's a new Op-Ed about how "medieval" America's response to the plague is. I'm sure #MedievalTwitter has thoughts, but, since my Global Medieval Lit class happens to have been reading
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Duke of Qin
qin_duke
It's really difficult for American pundits to understand cause and effect because the incentive structure of Washington DC is so dysfunctional that it breeds people detached from reality who think
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Radical Arab
iiHMZii
The Dangers of Arab Localism and Al-Shu’biyyah:[Thread] What is Modern Shu’biyyah?The definition of Shu’biyyah in more non-linguistic but rather more casual terms is the anti-Arabian belief. There has been two
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@RabbiSolomons #FreeRabbiZvi #FreeNasrallahKippur
rabbisolomons
@MPeakeOfficial uses a modern version of blood libel to slander Israel, as being responsible for the death of George Floyd for training police in counter terrorism. Ironically @amnestyintl put out
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Trenton Schoenborn
SchoenbornTrent
A few days after the announcement, HTS released their new production on the last year's worth of battles in Hama and Idlib: "Tahadath Ikhbaraha", the very title a reference to
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Osama Bin Javaid
osamabinjavaid
Rights activists say at least 8,000 people have disappeared after being arrested by security forces in Indian-administered #Kashmir.For 17 yrs, Parveena Ahangar has been waiting for her missing son to return
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Sheikh Sahab
Gareeb_Sheikh
A long, unsyncronised,ranting thread on a few things. 1. Independent Kashmir2. Ethno nationalism of certain valley brothers. 3. 'Pakistan exploits us Kashmiris' When we quote the case of Maqbool Bhatt
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Victoria Rietig
VRietig
I am happy @TheEconomist decided to knight me with a quote - but even happier the text is so nuanced. Yes, we did well in many ways. But there is
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