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⚠️📢 We are thrilled to announce the launch of AD's All New Top Ten Podcast Countdown!
First up at no. 10 is @SanamVakil Understanding Iran first broadcast 8 October 2024 a week after Iran had hit Israel with ballistic missiles. @ch_menap
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Iraq’s anti-corruption campaign has uncovered cash stuffed in pickle jars, gold bars & weapons. But @renadmansour ’s question is bigger: can arrests of less-protected bureaucrats dent a system where corruption reaches billions?
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What do the #US midterm results mean for the #MENA region? 🗳️
@renadmansour says voters have sent a clear message on Trump’s war with Iran. @BillLaw49 @CH_MENAP
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While huge attention has justifiably been paid to the election to the U.S. Senate of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the election to the House of Representatives of pro-Palestine Egyptian-American Dr. Adam Hamawy is also worthy of attention.
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Endemic corruption at home, armed militias at the door, and the threat of another Iran war next door. ⚠️
@renadmansour on the choices facing #Baghdad. ⚖️ @ChathamHouse @BillLaw49
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Iraq has an annual budget often exceeding $100bn. Yet a state-owned health company spent $1bn a year on pharmaceuticals while much of the country’s medicine was counterfeit or expired. So where did the money go?⚠️@renadmansour @BillLaw49
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Can #Iraq’s new government survive between a hot #Iran war and its own pro-Iranian militias?
In this episode, @renadmansour of @ChathamHouse joins @BillLaw49 to discuss the tightrope facing PM al-Zaidi. 🇮🇶 @CH_MENAP
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Impressive and encouraging manifestation of international solidarity
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While no one should imagine that even if Trump's pronouncement were honored it would signal a long overdue US declaration of independence from Israeli control, it is significant Trump has chosen to announce a "deal" with Netanyahu for ending US tribute. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
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Why does Huna end with “To a free Palestine, where all roads lead”?
@El_Gendy_95 explains the link between Egypt’s prisons and Gaza. 🇵🇸🇪🇬
@BillLaw49
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“The cuffs in my hands were paid for by tax dollars and euros and sterlings.” ⛓️💸
In this week’s episode, @El_Gendy_95 explains how Western governments fund Egypt’s prisons, and why readers are implicated. @BillLaw49
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#Egypt holds over 60,000 political prisoners.
Author @El_Gendy_95 says they are “acceptable collateral damage” in a relationship funded by the US, UK and EU. ⚠️ @BillLaw49
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Why did @El_Gendy_95 refuse to write the “torture spectacle” Western readers expect?
He wants them to ask: “Where do I stand?” 🔎@OneworldNews @BillLaw49
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“Huna is not a book about how I survived. Huna is how I survived.”
@El_Gendy_95 on writing in prison and smuggling his words out on scraps of paper. ✍️
@OneworldNews
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Arab Digest retweeted
Madness. @andyburnham end this ant- democratic legislation now
Abdul Rahman Al Gandhi was 17 when he was arrested in Egypt. His father was apolitical—until his mother asked him to accompany his son to a protest. When officers grabbed Abdul Rahman, his father tried to wrench him free. They arrested them both.
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“This is a love letter to Baba.” Egyptian writer @El_Gendy_95 on the father he was arrested alongside at 17, and the guilt he still carries. Author of Huna. 📖
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What does “we will remain here” mean when no one wants to remain? 🤔
@El_Gendy_95 explains the protest song behind the title of HUNA. 🎶 @BillLaw49
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Arab Digest retweeted
In 1933 around 43% voted for the Nazi party
Now in some countries genocidal parties get around 52%
Arab Digest retweeted
My new book is available for pre-order. The book looks at the Sisi's model of state capitalism, where I argue that this is an economic model where surplus values in Egypt are in a process of continuous pillaging , backed by mass state violence.
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He was 17 when he was arrested. He spent six years in Egypt’s prison system. Now @El_Gendy_95, National Book Award finalist, joins @BillLaw49 to discuss his memoir HUNA. 📖 @OneworldNews
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