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9 Sep, 3 tweets, 2 min read
I was invited by #Women20 #W20 #SaudiArabia (an official #G20 engagement group) to moderate its summit in October. I have declined as I stand in solidarity with women's rights defenders in Saudi Arabia & beyond, including #LoujainAlhathloul, who remains in prison in the country.
Per her sister @LinaAlhathloul, from Aug. 31:

"My parents visited Loujain today. She was on a hunger strike for 6 days after acknowledging some detainees are allowed to call and not her. Her health was deteriorating extremely during her hunger strike."
#FreeLoujain

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8 Sep
53-yr-old Marie's Karantina home was wrecked in the #BeirutBlast, her son was injured & her grandchild fell unconscious. Now she's not only dealing with trauma, but also hunger & having to rebuild her home w no aid

"We were never hungry before," she says

tinyurl.com/y48ztno6
"I have to go to my son’s house to take showers and to clean my clothes every day. Every time I leave my home, I leave it in fear that someone’s going to break in & take the little we have left away from us. We are desperate."
"In truth, I don’t have any more feelings. I’m spent. I love Beirut. But the situation here is disgusting. We’re done. We’ve lived in this appalling situation for long enough. We were born in it. We’re living in it. And now we will die in it."
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24 Aug
In an effort to document the tragedies of the #BeirutBlast in the words of its survivors, I'm collecting testimonies from #Karantina w/ photos by @lynnkchaya

Today we share the story of Joseph Nasr, a 64-yr-old taxi driver whose home & car were destroyed
medium.com/@ZahraHankir/d…
Full text in the Medium link ^

Snippets below:

"At first, I couldn’t quite understand what happened. I was in a trance. When I came around, I realized I was covered in blood"

"What we witnessed when we were helping get people out of the rubble, we'll never, ever forget"
"You have to understand; this is a tight-knit community. We love one another. The entire area has been shaken by this disaster. We've gone from tragedy to tragedy. We survived the civil war together"

"We look out for one another. We looked out for one another that evening"
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12 Jul
THREAD. Some of you have been asking how you can help people in #Lebanon 🇱🇧 during this brutal economic crisis.

I've put together a thread of resources and organisations to donate to

Please do look them up before donating/contributing

Suggestions welcome, esp local charities:
Lebanese Food Bank

@lebfoodbank's "mission is to fight and overcome hunger by developing effective Feeding Programs in parallel with Development & Awareness programs to eliminate hunger"

lebanesefoodbank.org
Jobs for Lebanon

@JobsforLebanon "is a solely economic initiative that aims at empowering the entire Lebanese diaspora to create job opportunities for Lebanese in Lebanon"

To help Jobs for Lebanon get in touch with them directly; more details here:

jobsforlebanon.com
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15 May 18
#MyNakbaStory thread: 1/ In June 1947, my grandpa Abu Adel secured a building permit from the Government of #Palestine for a home in Balad al-Shaykh, a village on the outskirts of #Haifa. For yrs, he'd been selling ful medammes (favabean stew) & hummus from the back of a donkey—
2/ —his first ever business partner. He'd take the donkey from one Palestinian village to another, traveling along unmarked roads in and around Haifa from sunrise to sunset. The people of those villages came to know my grandfather as بياع الفول, the ful seller.
3/ Abu Adel sold ful and hummus this way until he saved up enough money to open his own ful shop, pictured above in 1945, and to buy land upon which to make a home for his growing family. His shop became so popular that he would later be referred to as ملك الفول, the King of Ful
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