@EugeneMcParland Threads that should have been pulled a long time ago will hopefully unravel now 🙏🏼. #Syria #WhiteHelmets #Ruzzia #BarrelBombs #CBRN #ObamaRedLines #ArabSpring #Iran #Turkey

The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe

Lecture by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam & co-author of "#SyrianGulag: Inside #Assad’s Prison System"

CW: contains images & description of #torture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljV4BUjZ2-A&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB

#Syria #SyrianUprising #SyrianRevolution #ArabSpring #SyrianWar #PoliticalPrisoners #PoliticalDetainees #AssadDynasty #SyrianPrisons #SyrianRefugees #paramilitaries #books

These two strategies are in tension: the more you censor, the less you know about the true feelings of your citizens and the easier it will be to miss serious problems until they spill over into the streets (think: the fall of the #BerlinWall or Tunisia before the #ArabSpring). Dictators try to square this circle with things like private opinion polling or petition systems, but these capture a small slice of the potentially destabiziling moods circulating in the body politic.

2/

https://inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=3CWELoSyYN0&listen=false

#ShadiHamid on How #Obama Greenlighted 2013 #EgyptCoup,
KillingThe #ArabSpring

3/ #Twitter: I started on Twitter in 2009 as a quirky way to exchange ideas and fun with people all over the world, and to possibly promote my business. I never did gain much traction there with business although I made many friends, some of which I met IRL.

The potential for Twitter to be a space for progress became evident with the #ArabSpring in 2011, a thrilling time of getting actual eyewitness news from the ground in the moment it was happening. I loved Twitter through all that and so appreciated every voice speaking out. There had never been anything like that before.

Then the drama deescalated for a few years and I actually thought the site was dying — until 2016. That horrific candidacy anointed Twitter as its media of choice, and suddenly the site was on everyone’s mind again. It was shocking how quickly the site became hateful at that point, but it was also where a huge surge of #activism, especially with marginalized groups, had a space to respond and educate. I came to rely on Twitter for #gay, #Black, #disabled, #Indigenous, #Muslim, #trans voices. I learned a ton.

So that’s what I’ve missed most since I basically abandoned Twitter in November 2022. For the next few months, I established myself on TikTok and Mastodon and had to work hard to recreate some semblance of what I had been using Twitter for. Now, I do not miss Twitter at all. My account is still there so I can keep the name, but it’s dead in the water.

#SocialMedia

Twitter, once integral to historical events like the #arabspring, is now reduced to a pitiful web service built on chickenwire and bubble gum. #RateLimitExceeded

Connections Episode 67

#Syria Today: Mouin Rabbani interviews #OmarDahi

https://www.facebook.com/Jadaliyya/videos/579881584309589/

#SyrianWar #SyrianRevolution #SyrianUprising #ArabUprisings #ArabSpring #MiddleEast #geopolitics

@escarpment @chrismessina Yes but from graphic design point of view would suck. Without the hashtag you’ll have: “Police brutality in Tripoli. Arab Spring” vs “Police brutality in Tripoli. #ArabSpring” . Which one is more elegant and readable?

Funny enough, this is what Biz Stone told me in 2007 when I pitched him the idea for the hashtag (which he rejected).

I get it, but how would an LLM label #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, or #ArabSpring?

Unless you don't want the people to self-organize?

#DeadTwitter

"Nell Gabiam spoke with #Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani about Palestinian refugees in Syria. This episode of Connections examines the Palestinian refugee community in Syria, the policies of the Syrian state towards this community, and the impact of a decade of conflict in Syria upon its fortunes."

#PalestinianRefugees in #Syria with #NellGabiam

https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45067

#Palestinians #ArabSpring #SyrianRevolution #SyrianWar #SyrianCivilWar

Concluding the #ArabUprisingsProject

w/ Project Co-Organizers #BassamHaddad & #AmaneyJamal

Monday, 24 April 2023 3 PM EST

"In an effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the #ArabUprisings, we launched a yearlong set of events, reflections, and conversations. We have also compiled and categorized in a dedicated portal a variety of resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists .. "

https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/44969

#PrintempsArabe #ArabSpring #MoyenOrient #MiddleEast

#Jadaliyya

Tunisia: Police raid opposition party office, arrest leader

https://www.dw.com/en/tunisia-police-raid-opposition-party-office-arrest-leader/a-65354897?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Africa #ArabSpring #PressFreedom

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/5/tunisian-opposition-defies-protest-ban-with-rally #Tunisia Facing a new #ArabSpring ??

@millerpeace damn, it really makes you think how you can trust anyone. Wasn't this Saied guy a former human rights lawyer? Now he's just another authoritarian. The failure of the #ArabSpring to usher in literally any success story is one of the most depressing things I can think of. I remember being a kid and seeing it happen amd then seen #OccupyWallStreet happen and thinking that I'd grow up in a rapidly changing society only to instead feel like everything is becoming like the 1930s again

And here's me, pointing out the pre-conditions for #ArabSpring five months before it started.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/8/9/891691/-

Reverberations of #InterconnectedCrises: #Solidarity, Agency & #Identity after the #ArabSpring:
Orient Institut Beirut and #GIGA cordially invite you to keynote lecture by Maha Yahya at #MECAM Traveling Academy, 21 February in Beirut and live online.
➡️ To join: https://bit.ly/3Kgbv4j

More info on our MECAM activities: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/research-and-transfer/projects/merian-center-advanced-studies-maghreb-mecam-imagining-futures-dealing-disparity

Today in Labor History February 17, 2011: Protests against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi launched the Libyan part of the Arab Spring. Meanwhile, security forces violently attacked protesters in Pearl Roundabout, in Manama, Bahrain on Bloody Thursday. They killed four protesters and injured 300. Most were sleeping at the time of the unprovoked attack.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #protest #massacre #bahrain #ArabSpring #libya #gaddafi

Today in Labor History February 14, 2011: The Bahraini uprising began with a 'Day of Rage'. It was part of the Arab Spring,

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #Bahrain #ArabSpring #uprising

لماذا نجحت الأنظمة الملكية في العالم العربي وفشلت الجمهوريات؟

https://youtu.be/VuFe28txgo4

#democracy #monarchy #republics #kingdoms #MiddleEast #NorthAfrica #ArabSpring #video #arab #arabs #Andeel #wednesday

See Hesham Sallam on Twitter on « @IMESatGWU book launch of "Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World: Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring" (@UofMPress)

The edited volume is available for free via open access: bit.ly/3RjB7yE
#ArabSpring #MENA