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Nafeesa Syeed

@NafeesaSyeed

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asst. op-ed editor @latimes . Visiting Scholar @UCLA Past @business @ap @ajfaultlines in MENA/South Asia/DC - Fellow @the_IAS @penn . Views are my own.

LA - DC
Joined August 2009
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Nafeesa Syeed
12 days
"As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute."
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Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus
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Some personal news: I'll be joining the LA Times as Assistant Op-Ed Editor next week. Thrilled to work on this team and with writers, in the city of my birth! @latimes
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Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to president, walks out of panel on fake news after students' questions @Georgetown
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I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. I fear a media blackout of the war - by Yara Eid in @latimesopinion "My journalist colleagues who are still alive in Gaza are not only grieving their slain peers, but feel under severe threat themselves."
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Trump signs order on "new vetting measures" to keep out "radical Islamic terrorists," only want to admit those who love/support "our people"
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4 years
RBG in a Kashmiri coat. My mom went up to her at this event and said: I like your coat. RBG said: Oh yes, it’s from Cashmere.
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First day @latimesopinion . Op-eds, personal essays, narrative writing, graphics, visual art. We do it all. Tell me your favorite writers--established and emerging--and send me folks with great stories.
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6 years
Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid are expected to ask Trump and Pence to voluntarily testify in an NFL blacklist case. Should the White House refuse, the players' attorneys plan to subpoena the president and vice president, a source says via @bpolitics
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3 years
Me: Can't get any work done today. Friend in UK: Trying to work during a coup is the most American thing ever.
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Op-Ed: How to confront bigots on social media — and win by @DrewAfualo
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Incredible student journalists @WKCRFM - saying there will be no more reporters outside of Hamilton Hall as NYPD escorted away, and who will be left to document what happens.
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Op-Ed: It’s not partisan for the media to expose the GOP’s lies - by @kurtbardella
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6 years
Tillerson's Redesign Chief Quits After Three Months @StateDept via @nwadhams @bpolitics
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Op-Ed: It's Groundhog Day for the GOP. Failure after defeat is becoming a hallmark - @kurtbardella "Racism, misogyny and conspiracy theories are accepted as part of the agenda. You can see it in virtually every soundbite, every tweet, every policy."
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4 years
I’ve covered dozens of protests in DC over two decades and have never seen anything like the images I’m seeing today #dcprotesters
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With nearly 70 journalists killed, who will be left to cover the Gaza war? by Youssef Jajili in @latimesopinion "The killing of journalists in Gaza is being normalized with no one taking responsibility."
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“His girlfriend is Persian. Or Indian. I don’t know. Some kind of brown.” - two dudes at LAX about their friend. Now I know the title of my memoir - SOME KIND OF BROWN
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7 years
Senate confirms Nikki Haley as UN ambassador - Bernie Sanders, Tom Udall, Chris Coons, Martin Heinrich voted against
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6 years
FBI Plans Task Force to Expose Russian Social Media Manipulation via @bpolitics
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2 years
I know 'print is dead'... but writers are consistently stoked when I tell them their piece will be in print, in the paper.
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This year, more than 1,600 migrants and refugees have been lost at sea. Some finally reached the continent that had consumed their dreams. But Europe was not welcoming.
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Your 'superbloom' selfie isn't worth destroying California's ecosystems - by botanist @naomibot in @latimesopinion
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Op-Ed: As a Muslim filmmaker, I want to tell my own story - by @assuss "Gatekeepers must consider how they perpetuate harm by ignoring their biases."
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4 years
RGB in another Kashmiri outfit 😭
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7 years
Large stream of protestors march down 7th St NW thru DC's Chinatown chanting anti-Trump slogans - by folks in gowns, tuxedos headed to balls
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7 years
Russia Anti-Corruption Protests Draw Biggest Crowds Since 2012 via @business
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4 years
Another of RGB in apparent Kashmiri attire (‘RGB’ movie)
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3 years
Excited to be named the 2021-22 Writing in Color Fellow @lighthousewrite and join this wonderful literary community!
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8 years
Big congrats to @AzmatZahra for winning @sajahq Daniel Pearl award for her important story
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AUB establishes the Shireen Abu Akleh Endowed Memorial Scholarship. "The endowment will fund scholarships for women from Palestine to obtain master’s degrees in media studies."
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7 years
Russia-Linked Bots Hone Online Attack Plans for 2018 US Vote via @business w/ @benimmo @agarwalnitin @rosenbergerlm
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The Woman Shaping #Iran ’s Oil Future - profile of Elham Hassanzadeh via @business
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Why Palestinian Americans believe Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke the truth - @sareemakdisi in @latimesopinion "Tlaib powerfully captured the extent to which Palestinians have been silenced and dehumanized in institutions across the United States."
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9 years
Ankara. Sinai. Beirut and now Paris. Growing list of attacks in past 5 weeks, whose combined toll may exceed 500
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My whole family is in Gaza and they have nowhere to run. Will it be at their graves that we meet again? - by @emadmoussa in @latimesopinion "Now I feel sick to my stomach just thinking that my people could be ethnically cleansed again, or worse."
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6 years
Twitter says Obama had 3 of the 10 most retweeted posts of the year while Trump had none via @bpolitics
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2 years
Farewell @lighthousewrite Lit Fest! Thanks for carving space for new voices. Found Toni in a quiet corner, recalling her words: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
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Such a powerful piece by @TeresaWatanabe as the LA Times today drops the word 'internment' and instead use 'incarceration' : "The decision comes eight decades after The Times viciously campaigned to incarcerate Japanese Americans during the war."
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8 years
#Saudi Arabia's first international bond sale is expected to raise $17.5 billion via @markets
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Opinion: Biden is ending COVID emergency declarations. But the healthcare worker crisis continues - @latimesopinion
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2 years
Ooof. This image of little @minjinlee11 made my heart fall. How many other kids still do the same? "That year, we moved into a two-bedroom rental in the back of the same building, overlooking the parking garage, and in the evenings, I’d wait by the window for their safe return."
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For a long time, I have been afraid. “Behind my small eyes, there comes a light, which I use to see you, and in its flicker, I hold the hope that you will see me, too.”
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All writing is a struggle against erasure - @LailaLalami says she didn’t see ppl like her in books, so it became a “matter of survival” to write her stories, and make care the world care about them @latimesfob
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Outside the NYC literary bubble! New Yorkers scoffed. 10 years later, @LAReviewofBooks is a cultural force
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Vladimir Putin is filling the Middle East power vacuum via @bpolitics
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I wrote a novel. Here's an excerpt. In CM:45, print/online from @HurstPublishers
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Short Story: Valley Within the Valley #CriticalMuslim
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In today’s Opinion, meet 4 formerly incarcerated ‘lifers’ as they reintegrate into a vastly changed world - in this incredible multimedia project by @OGpenn and @BE_DIZZLE
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Today, I am walking out with my @latguild colleagues. There’s no such thing as journalism without journalists.
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Thinking of journalist colleagues on the scene. I covered way too many mass shootings in my own day. You don't forget seeing the blood on the ground, the body bags. Can't imagine this one...
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What Michael Flynn could tell the Russia investigators via @bpolitics
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So much resonated in @olivasdan 's Op-Ed, from the personal to the system: "Too many historically marginalized writers still battle ingrained bias to obtain acceptance by agents and publishers that authors from more entitled backgrounds take for granted."
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Lebanon's president asks Saudi-backed Saad Hariri to form a new cabinet via @business
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Don't we see this headline every couple months? Keyword: STILL Tech companies still aren’t hiring black workers via @technology
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As a Gaza teen, I used to dream of college. Now I feel sentenced to death by Israel's bombings -by Salma Hamad in @latimesopinion "Biden’s own life has been marked by profound loss — a deep, aching grief that I feel, too. So I wonder: Will he save us?"
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Op-Ed essay by novelist @thesailorsgirl in @latimesopinion #QueenElizabeth "Something that has not happened or maybe could not happen under the queen’s reign is a genuine accounting of what the British Empire meant and its continuing impact."
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His agency statement minutes ago: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
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Exclusive: Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs has told associates he expects to be fired by the White House. Krebs has drawn the ire of the Trump administration over a website debunking misinformation about the election
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Look what I (finally) found at the Princeton bookstore! Big mabrook @ZahraHankir @DonnaAN1 Excited to read these women’s stories with no filter, no gaze but their own.
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Read a submission advocating Jeff Bezos runs for president in 2024, and then shivered because I'm reading @vauhinivara 's terrific novel, "The Immortal King Rao," where a Bezos-like, tech CEO character becomes leader of the whole world!
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Perfect pearls of hail in LA
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U.S. Intelligence Sees Gloomy Global Trends for Next Five Years - report by @ODNIgov @ODNI_NIC via @business
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CIA Director Blasts WikiLeaks as ‘Hostile Intelligence Service’ via @bpolitics
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U.K. Watchdog Gets Warrant to Search Cambridge Analytica Offices via @business
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Q: Should we use espionage act more? A: @CIA Director Pompeo: Yes. #AspenSecurity
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Putin Says Russia Won’t Give in to ‘Blackmail’ Over #Syria via @markets
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Mueller’s investigation is expected to continue well into next year, official says via @cstrohm @spettypi
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#Iran has cyber-attacked Saudi Arabia `several times' in last three months - Gen Keith Alexander @IronNetCyber tells @HouseHomeland
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For all the mixed kids, and those of us navigating multiracial families: My Chicana-South Asian daughter, finding her roots in Karachi and South Texas - by @sehbasarwar
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Angela Merkel vows to challenge Trump's “America First” doctrine on trade and climate at this week’s G-7 summit via @bpolitics
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3 years
As a young reporter, I covered law enforcement in the DC region. I mapped out dozens of local, state and federal agencies. Just noting my spreadsheet had dozens of agencies, it was dizzying to cover. Where were they?
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Spellbound. My pal, @Nick_Bruckman by your film #NotGoingQuietly with @AdyBarkan
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Yates Says She Warned White House Flynn Could Be Blackmailed via @bpolitics
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Late to this terrific piece on Octavia Butler's writing journey in LA by @lynellgeorge "while Butler never learned to drive in a city that seemed almost to demand it, that lack didn’t stop her from traversing expanses of time, place and imagination."
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Op-Ed: White replacement theory is fascism's new name - by @jasonintrator @FinchelsteinF
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