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Mediterranean with interest in Politics, History, and Economics. Méditerranéen avec un grand intérêt pour la politique, l'histoire et l'économie.
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Dec 2 11 tweets 4 min read
If Bashar El Assad's regime falls, what happens to 🇱🇧?

Who wins/loses the most from a regime change in syria 🇸🇾🇮🇱🇷🇺🇹🇷🇮🇷🇺🇸?

Thread🧵 Image 1/ Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over parts of Halab and moving south. they are 17km away from Hama.

They're a Salafist Jihadi group who split from al-Qaeda in 2017 headed by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. They have around 15,000 combatants. Image
May 18, 2022 23 tweets 19 min read
How did the FPM, LF, Kataeb and Marada fair in the 2022 Elections.

The number of seats doesn't tell the whole story.

Thread 🧵 1/Bcharri

The Lebanese Forces are a major force in Bcharri and they reinforced their position in 2022 despite losing a seat.

In 2018 they had 64% of the votes which increased to 69% in 2022 with the same candidates.

Melhem Taouk votes dropped from 24% to 17%.
Apr 20, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
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Maritime border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel. A Laymen's attempt to understand what's going on.

#ترسيم_الحدود

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Image 1/ It all started when a big mistake was made by a Lebanese team delegated by the Siniora government to negotiate maritime borders with Cyprus in 2007.

Line number 1 was established.

Fortunately the final agreement with Cyprus was not signed by 🇱🇧 and is not legally binding. Image