Middle Eastern Studies
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Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1949-1959, a brief history 🧵
A lot of people are asking about the intra-Sunni dynamics in future Syria What will happen to the local Ash‘aris? What is the new government's own leanings? Will they force anythi...
There are two conditions that US in the past 30 yrs has imposed on any Muslim country (1) political subservience (2) secularization. They dont mind nonsecular regimes that are doci...
Good thread, too bad Cedric tweets in French. The mass return of Sunni scholarship to Syria represents Al-Shara's real test as an emerging politician: if he wants to govern Syria,...
Zionists are notoriously unable to contend with reality, so here is a thread regarding the history of Nazi and Zionist collaboration (🧵) First, I will address the common Zionist "...
13/ Additionally, HTS can tactically engage with indirect channels to keep U.S. policies in check. By emphasizing the risks of further instability if they are sidelined and demonst...
🧵 Why did Assad's army collapse so fast? Thread about the history of the Syrian armed forces. Of course, Assad was abandoned by his allies. That was decisive. But his own force...
Imagining the Arabs are something other than what the Arabs are is exactly how we all (Arabs included) got here. The Chatham House Version exists in local variants everywhere. Th...
non-negligible factor for online support for Assad i.e young men in the West listening to "Allah, Syria, Bashar" over ISIS nasheeds was received wisdom that Middle Eastern minoriti...
A Muslim cleric Rahmatullah Kairanwi (from UP) was wanted for his role in 1857 mutiny. He fled to Saudi Arabia and established a madarsa in Kaaba primarily funded by Indian residen...
🇮🇱🇮🇷 Leaked for the first time: The contracts behind Israel's weapons sales to Khomeini and Iran https://t.co/bLDEDcPuzy
and Bairut as Paris of east. There were no restrictions on women. Education level was high In 1975 as Muslim population crossed threshold they did in which they are best, they sta...
🧵In this tradition, early Muslims appeal to the “Torah” to settle an issue unresolved in the Qur’an & the sunna. Here’s some background for this tradition: [1/7] https://t.co/n0Fc...
Resurgence of the Sassanid Caste System in Medieval Iran, and its influence upon Hanafi Law. https://t.co/mWJRU0Uvxe
LF of Gaegae tweet in English about non-existent Christian oppression in Lebanon & circulate anti Hezbollah propaganda nonstop, but in Arabic they threaten of murdering those they...
President Nasser of Egypt was regarded as a trouble-maker in Washington owing to Egypt's alliance with the Soviet Union . In the Arab Cold War between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Dean...
Incompetent leaders like Shafiq have failed to understand the difference between a political party and an NGO. Instead of dealing with power issues, they started looking for applau...
How many Jews need to die for the sake of Zionism? A 🧵
Why The Crusades were INSANELY Based (& justified) - a 💎🧵 https://t.co/dlUcec0ktr
1/ I would like to consider Israel's "operation" in the West Bank not as the next step in Israel's plan to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians and rob their land but as a sign of d...
🧵 Lebanon - another case study of the marriage between "the left" and Islamic takeovers. I'm half Lebanese. And while a thread on the full history would go on for hours, I find t...
15 Israeli (former) leaders call it Apartheid. A 🧵
How is Israel able to act in Iran, assassinating scientists and terror chiefs at will? How fragile is Iran? (tldr: very.) One map and one chart explain this and more: Iran is a...
Israel doesn't have a constitution. Instead it has 14 basic laws whose purpose is to establish "the values of the State of Israel as a Jewish & democratic state.” So Israel's purp...