Mohamed Abdelfattah

@mfatta7

Global affairs, communications and culture. It’s easier to start a revolution than to finish one. 📸: Alexandria on Jan 28, 2011. Global Editor .

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Joined January 2010

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  1. 2 hours ago

    And the muscle memory almost ordered kofta kabab plate with garlic sauce on the side

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Working from the office today, so naturally, I opened Uber Eats to get a ride.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Incredibly insular & provincial view of how the world works. Even war itself has laws to try to protect civilians and provide humanitarian support (obviously rarely enforced) which makes this tweet nothing short of medieval.

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  4. 18 hours ago

    Immigrants also use infrastructure such as water pipes and they eat food such as vegetables and fruits

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  5. 18 hours ago

    The Arizona Attorney General is suing to say that immigrants drive climate change because they drive cars and they live in houses

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  6. May 28

    Going to be an impressive summer almost kicking off in Chicago (in celsius)

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  7. May 27

    It’s not a good day if you’re in “Big Tech” today. First, Europe considering antitrust probe into Facebook, then this in the US.

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  8. May 27

    Egypt' pivot to East Africa/Horn: 1) Egypt/Sudan realignment 2) Egypt's defense/intelligence pacts with Uganda, Burundi, and Kenya 3) Sisi in Djibouti to forge econ/security ties 4) Egypt's growing economic ties with Tanzania, Zambia, and South Sudan 5) Potential pact with Rwanda

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  9. May 26

    Absolutely surgical precision in deconstructing the dilemmas surrounding advocacy for Palestinian rights 👇 “Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is often so shocking that just describing it neutrally seems defamatory.” By ⁦

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  10. May 26

    There are real instances of antisemitism, fueled by the growth of white supremacy. The solution to is solidarity with other oppressed people. There is no such thing as “liberation” via the oppression & colonization of another people. Only solidarity leads to liberation. 3/3

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  11. May 26

    I want to be clear that fights between pro-Israel & pro-Palestine protestors is about *Israel* not about antisemitism. Politicians now decrying and weaponizing antisemitism is an all too predictable backlash against the growth and successes of the movement for Palestine. 2/3

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  12. May 26

    I’m a Jewish New Yorker. And incidentally, was born in Israel to parents who had fled Europe pre- (dad) and post- (mom) the Holocaust. Conflating anti-Israel sentiment with antisemitism is an insult to my parents and to the family that they lost in Europe. 1/3

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  13. May 26

    Devastating beyond words. Take some time to view, read, and reckon with this piece.

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  14. Just minutes after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, Baraa al-Gharabli, 5, was killed in Gaza. He was one of at least 68 children killed during the conflict. Nearly all were Palestinian. These are the children who died.

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  15. May 25

    “We are those who survived the “nakba,” the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, when more than 75 percent of the Palestinian population was expelled from their homes to make way for Jewish immigrants during the founding of Israel.” via

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  16. May 25

    "And the cause of the marches certainly wasn’t to win vague news releases from corporations about solidarity and commitments to fight for equity, which in hundreds of cases failed to include robust follow-up." By

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  17. May 25

    "Palestinian Americans living in Ferguson and greater St. Louis recognized the ritualized terror inflicted on Michael Brown and the people of Ferguson by local police (which had coincided with a fresh outbreak of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians)."

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  18. May 25

    Captured it perfectly here: "Palestinians know in their bones what state violence, militarized policing, and occupation of communities look like."

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  19. May 25

    “Like African American youth, Palestinians as young as 15 and 16 are in the vanguard of protest and face the threat of imprisonment or worse—hundreds have been arrested.” By 📷: Graffiti of George Floyd in the occupied Palestinian West Bank

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  20. May 25

    . explains that “the UAE-Israel tech alliance is complementary, and allows the two countries to benefit from each other's value proposition.” Read the rest of his piece on the latest tech alliance here:

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