La Nakba du Liban-Sud
Lebanese francophone outlet L’Orient Le-Jour: the Nakba of South Lebanon.
We Lebanese are calling it for what it is: a continuation of the 1948 Nakba.
The photo shows a Lebanese village with an Israeli flag on it, planted by the genocidal army.
My latest for Middle East Eye: satellite imagery analysis reveals that an Ethiopian army base in western Ethiopia is being used as a weapons & logistics hub by Sudan's UAE backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to launch cross border attacks on Sudanese army positions from Ethiopia.
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.
🔔 Tomorrow, March 17, at 9:30 AM EST, join us for "The Regional War Lebanon Hoped to Avoid: Unpacking the Escalation," an online event with Jad El Dilati, @justinsalhani.bsky.social, Jasmin L. Diab, and Jean Kassir.
Register here: timep.org/2026/03/10/t...
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I just released another monologue on @thefirethesetimes.com on how Israel's war on Lebanon haunts our world, and why Israeli impunity is creating monstrous realities that can engulf us all.
On all podcast app
thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/16/l...
To support: ko-fi.com/eliaayoub
Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news.
www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Women Facing the Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia: Invisibility and Structural Injustice alqst.org/uploads/wome... by @alqst.bsky.social
This is a fundraiser from a very trusted grassroots network in Lebanon working on shelter, food and medicine aid. I know A LOT of people who are organizing with them rn. Please help them reach their goal and beyond.
www.chuffed.org/project/1719...
"While the geopolitical focus remains on military targets, migrant workers – the backbone of the GCC, Jordanian, and Lebanese economies – are the invisible casualties. Trapped by the exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system, many lack passports and mobility".
womeninmigration.org/2026/03/urge...
Yes, we know and have known there are different rules and standards when it comes to our humanity. No one can continue to pretend we are seen equally or that we have the same rights to life, dignity, safety, etc.
Most of the world is focused on Iran or the GCC. Haven’t heard much from international actors comment on Israel reclosing entry into Gaza or the disproportional response Israel is committing on Lebanon through mass displacement and constant attacks
Drones have been incessantly buzzing throughout the night and into morning.
Numerous attacks across the country. Reports of at least 10 dead in an attack on Baalbek.
Many are angry/questioning Hezbollah’s decision to attack Israel again. It’s clear Israel was waiting for this
If you’re a media outlet / podcast and need an explainer on what’s going on I’m happy to do so.
Priority for independent media
Ayoub@thefirethesetimes.com
Signal @ Ayoub.02
It highlights the reality of the current political divide. The far-right are pitching not just toxic nostalgia, but an entirely imagined past. They could not achieve their political vision even if they had an actual time machine. All they have to offer is cruelty, violence, corruption and decay.
Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social
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The Fire These Times Masterclasses
Beware of Small States: Lebanon since 1975 In this 5-parts class, you will get an overview of Lebanese history and politics from 1975, with a focus on the so-called ‘postwar’ from 1990 onward. We will go beyond sensationalist headlines and shallow coverage, and beyond simplistic, top-down explanations for the country. Instead of a linear timeline of events, which you can get from Wikipedia anyway, you will get a messy one. After all, politics is not linear. Political actors evoke events from the recent or not-so-recent past as part of their politics in the present. I will also use personal stories as someone who grew up in Lebanon in a very conservative, at times even Far Right, Christian environment, to explain how my own personal journey away from right-wing and towards left-wing, quasi-anarchist, politics helped me understand Lebanon better. Classes are on average 2 hours long, once a week.
Over the last few years, places like Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon have dominated the headlines. But if you want to actually learn what these places are like, what animates the people who live there, and what the future might be for them, you need to sit down and take it slow and learn from an expert. Elia Ayoub is one such expert for Lebanon, and his course on modern Lebanon, Lebanese identity, sectarianization, and the struggle for a better future in Lebanon is so illuminating. If you want you expand your thinking and approach this country with a new frame of mind, you should take a course with Ayoub.
Registrations are now open for the March-April class on modern Lebanese history and politics. All the info you need is here: thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/
(Link also includes free resources on Lebanon)
And here's a nice testimony by @diplomatofnight.com who attended the January-February class
The fact this is happening in Gaza is horrific enough. But this is also the stated vision of many neoreactionary right wingers (that’s how they define themselves) for the world at large.
Today, Gaza. Tomorrow everywhere else.
Ratcliffe clearly does not understand The United Way
Last year Ratcliffe threatened to walk away if he ever got the kind of hostility the Glazers get from United fans. Well, hopefully pedalling far right "great replacement" conspiracy theories is all the fuel we need to get this parasite out of our club and send him packing back to Monaco
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
On the From The Periphery Podcast, we spoke about the prisoners on hunger strike in the UK whose lives are at risk. This is an extremely urgent situation.
With @aymanmak.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/7oIo...
More here: prisonersforpalestine.org
The UK is effectively criminalising a sentence because has an Arabic word.
Intifada just means uprising. The Warsaw Uprising, for example, is just ‘Intifadat Warsaw’ in Arabic.
Our very identities are being effectively criminalised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Margaret talks to Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar.
@margaret.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
🚨 FIFA just awarded its newly created “Peace Prize” to U.S. President Donald Trump, without any criteria or transparency on the selection process – and against a backdrop of escalating attacks on human rights and civil freedoms in the U.S.
Learn more: sportandrightsalliance.org/world-cup-20...
Abolish Fifa.
📣 As #FIFA prepares to award its first-ever “FIFA Peace Prize” at the #WorldCup draw in Washington, DC, a coalition of human rights organizations, unions, and fan groups is calling for real action to protect the people who make global football possible.
🔗 sportandrightsalliance.org/world-cup-20...
The mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes by the Coward Tucker Carlson.
'How Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes sparked infighting between the Heritage Foundation and Ben Shapiro, and the growing influence of America First branded antisemitism in the Republican Party'
pca.st/episode/3347...
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