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Writer. Translator. Beiruter. Senior editor @TheMarkazReview . Read me: NYT/The Baffler/Paris Review/LitHub &more. Write me/Pitch me: lina @themarkaz .org

Joined September 2016

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@warghetti

Lina Mounzer

2 years

Received word that my essay The Gamble has been selected for Best American Essays 2022. It means so much that it’s for this one: this very personal piece about my dad & all his gambles. Huge T hanks to @FreemanReads who gave it a home in CHANGE, the fall 2021 issue of Freeman’s

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Lina Mounzer

21 days

It fills my heart with such joy to know that WeRateDogs is on the right side of history. 20/10

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21 days

This police K9 bit an officer for being too aggressive toward protesters at a pro-Palestinian rally in Amsterdam. 14/10

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6 months

"My little cousin Ahmad... he died. Shrapnel in his head. We ran out [unintelligible]." He points to the kid next to him: "This kid. He's so small. It fell on him too."

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6 months

These children are all dolls. Pallywood. 🙃

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4 months

Imagine the fucking horror. You’ve been running for 4 months. You’re hungry, tired, thirsty, underslept. You’re probably in mourning. You’ve seen the worst sights a person could see. And suddenly this vicious rain, a warning: the bombs are coming & there is nowhere left to run

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4 months

They gonna bomb the hell out of Rafah.. omg!

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Lina Mounzer

8 months

45 families. 45 trees, root, trunk & branch, all the generations of loved & married & brought forth & raised & grown, children & grandchildren & uncles & aunts & siblings & parents all carrying the same name, the same history—45 of these universes gone forever from the earth

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The Spectator Index

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8 months

BREAKING: Palestinian health ministry says 45 families have been entirely removed from the Gaza civil registry

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2 years

I knew her partner was Arab & what the smell was before I reached the end of the question. (Also I’ve maintained for YEARS that westerners simply cannot smell zankha even when it’s dizzying)

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5 months

Every day I see the worst, most heart shattering thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Today it is this. I will never, never forget this father’s hand gently pressing the biscuits into his child’s lifeless one, trying to get the little fingers to clasp

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Lina Mounzer

5 months

Yes she’s a sadistic monster, but have you ever seen such a white, first world tweet? The only plastic surgery she can conceive of is the elective kind had by Miami wives& Kardashians. She has no idea that it’s required for burns, tissue damage, amputations—all the worst injuries

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

“We are suffocating. It’s as if the air we exhale has become dirty.” What kills me about this is he’s describing being poisoned from the inside rather than the outside

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TIMES OF GAZA

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Gaza is suffocating.

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2 months

Handcuffed and in scrubs. Doctors who remained steadfast, refusing to leave their patients. Handcuffed, executed, and mass buried in their scrubs. Israel is among history’s most depraved dealers of death

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Carlos Azevedo

2 months

Some of the Palestinian bodies recovered from several mass graves around hospitals in Gaza were handcuffed. Handcuffed.

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2 months

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Read Let This Radicalize You

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Killing a man’s kids and grandkids, then saying the problem is how he reacts

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6 months

This fucking killed me. Killed me. We die a thousand times a day. We're all dead already and this is hell. "Bury me with him," he cries. "Bury me with him." We're all dead already and this is hell

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Trita Parsi

6 months

The words of a Palestinian child in Gaza to his dead, 4-year-old younger brother "My dear brother, I didn't get enough of you. Where can I get another brother like you?" #CeasefireNOW

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

Israel: We’re committing genocide. We want to ethnically cleanse our land from Palestinians Western media: Israel is defending itself Israel: No we’re committing genocide and also singing about it Western media: Israel is defending itself Israel: Hey, how about we nuke Gaza?

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David Sheen

7 months

Pop singer Narqis sings with Israeli soldiers for an extermination and colonization which will be exemplary and inspire other countries to copy it: “We’re finishing off Gaza! We’ll return Gush Katif [former Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip]! We’re a light unto the nations!”

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

This man is older than the state of Israel. Born in 1935; he was 13 when he was forced from his home. He lived as a refugee in Rafah, besieged in an open-air prison for decades. Last night he was killed in an airstrike. A living memory of a time before occupation, wiped out

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شهداء فلسطين

3 years

الشهيد | حماد عياد منصور الدباري العُمــــر | 86 عامًا التاريخ | 12 - 05 - 2021 المكــان | مدينة رفح

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

Aaron Bushnell didn’t take his own life; he gave it—courageously, lucidly—for a cause. May the fire of his beautiful heart light the way for the whole world

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Wallah the Arabic commentator deserves his own trophy for the commentary. “O scribe of history, help me write the next lines, a legend of Argentina’s skill. O Messi, Sheikh-Messi, upon the stage of Lusail you shall play a masterpiece worthy of Sheikh-Speare.” #ArgentinaVsFrance

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

The horrors they have inflicted upon us in this region over the decades. Unspeakable crimes against our people, our countries, our cultures; our histories, presents and futures. Unforgivable.

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Amani

3 months

Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Mushin Hasan holds his head in his hands as he sits on destroyed artifacts in Bagdhad, Iraq. The museum was severely looted by groups allied with the US militia. April 13, 2003.

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

He was not arrested. He was taken hostage, along with a number of other men. He was trying to leave Gaza with his family & was carrying his toddler in his arms. The IOF ordered him to put down his child & then took him away. It is absolute misinformation to call that an “arrest”

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Michael Luo

7 months

David Remnick sent a note to staff this morning abt the worrisome news on Mosab Abu Toa, the Palestinian poet and essayist from Gaza, whose work we have been publishing. We had lost touch w/ him and learned he was arrested in central Gaza. Here's a thread of his @newyorker work.

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

Shlomo makes me realize that the most important human quality one can have is not empathy but curiosity. The minute he saw a reality misaligned with what he'd been taught, he decided to pursue its source for himself. To love, to change, you must be above all willing & curious

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Jennine K

6 months

Former Zionist settler Shlomo Yitzchak talks about how Zionism crumbled for him. Zionism not only dehumanises Palestinians (and beyond), it dehumanises subscribers. And you don’t need to be in Palestine to see it, it’s all on record

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Lina Mounzer

4 years

Sign at my local bakery (run by a Syrian): "If you don't have money don't be embarrassed and leave your family without food. You're welcome to take what you need ❤ What I earn and what you earn are both left to God." Economic crisis is so ugly but people can be so beautiful

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

The makeshift “balloons” to try and give them a little comfort amid unimaginable horror. The way they clutch on to them even though catatonic with grief and fear

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Javeria Sultan

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Gaza | Both these children are without parents in a hospital, I wish I could do something for these children but💔

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

As *any* Arab knows, the baby in the oven is a well-documented horror from the Deir Yassin massacre, perpetrated by Israeli terrorists. Refaat, like all of us, saw this claim made by the IOF & IMMEDIATELY recognized it for the lie it was. A Zionist accusation that is a confession

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Adam Feldman

6 months

@berningman16 For the sake of argument, let’s say there was no baby in the oven (though a first responder has testified that there was). Do you think his joke was a good joke? And do you think that Weiss saying she didn’t like his joke is the reason he died in a war zone five weeks later?

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Lina Mounzer

5 months

No. No. No. No. NO! How is a person supposed to carry the burden of so much pain? To exist in the abyss of so much loss? It is impermissible! You ask what Zionism means? This is Zionism! The expectation that someone else suffer the immense cost of your dream of racial purity

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Ali Hashem علي هاشم

5 months

The son of our colleague Wael Dahdouh, Hamza, was killed in an Israeli strike along with journalist Mustafa Thuraya. Wael lost his wife, two of his children, and a granddaughter a few weeks ago. May God be with you Wael, RIP Hamza.

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

It’s the Reddit post I’ve been waiting for my whole life

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

I don’t know that anything makes me more emotional than watching kids try to be brave and stoic in circumstances that would fell most of us to the ground

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Trita Parsi

3 months

The heartbreaking moment two young siblings are reunited with their toddler sister after Israel bombs their house. The little boy has to identify the little toddler and give her name to the medics. Their parents were presumably killed by Israel. With bombs provided by Biden.

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

To her dying day my friend’s grandmother talked about the still-warm pot of stuffed grape leaves she had to leave behind on the stove during the Nakba. Imagining Zionist terrorists sitting down to them. To her dying day she refused to eat stuffed grape leaves ever again.

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War Monitor

6 months

⚡️Israeli soldiers occupying a Palestinian house in Beit Hanoun,Gaza (Photo posted by Israeli soldier 22 hours ago) If you recognise this house, well, you know….

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Lina Mounzer

5 months

I don’t know that I’ve ever admired anyone as much as I admire this man. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a more lionhearted example of human dignity, courage, decency or the power of witness and words. He is both the story & its teller, the event & its witness ❤️

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وائل الدحدوح Wael Al dahdouh

6 months

سنعود ونعمر الديار رغم كل شيء

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

When King Solomon had to render a judgment between 2 women, each claiming to be the mother of the same child, he knew the false mother by her eagerness to have the baby butchered to have part of it, the true mother by her willingness to give up her child so it wouldn’t be harmed

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

Just as you stop to watch the videos of mutilation by airstrike please take equal time to watch and celebrate the beauty and joy of Gaza. This is what people are fighting for. This is what’s at stake: this small luxury of free and simple pleasures

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Malaka

6 months

A glimpse of Gaza from earlier this year. Two friends in this video were killed by Israel while the destiny of two others remains unknown.

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

Ahed recounts how all the prisoners, men & women, were beaten severely, and how as she was released she was told that her father (in prison) would be killed if she talked. "Despite everything," she finishes, "we are stronger than the occupation, and god willing freedom is near."

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

@angery_chungus You cook an egg, sunny side up, yolks still runny. Eat the egg but make sure some streaks of yolk remain on the plate. Then wash the plate with super hot water. If after that the plate doesn’t stink to high heaven enough to make you want to hurl then god himself can’t help you

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Lina Mounzer

4 months

@GushKatifPride I'm sure your dad regrets not pulling out

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

Targeting bookstores, hospitals, schools, covid clinics, media towers, charity orgs, power plants, sewage infrastructure? All deliberate. Everything that makes for a dignified life is being targeted. Everyone knows it's not Hamas they're after, it's Palestine's will to exist

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Middle East Eye

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“I stopped eating so that I could afford to open the shop.” The owner of Gaza’s largest bookstore, Shaban Aslim, stands in front of the rubble of his bookstore which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Disgusting headline + VILE tweet. Calling it a mosque “compound”, making sure to mention that Jews know it as “Temple Mount” claiming Palestinians had “barricaded” themselves inside instead of “were praying”. Also how “raided” elides the vicious beatings meted out by the IDF

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The New York Times

1 year

The Israeli police raided the Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, to detain scores of Palestinians who had barricaded themselves inside. This prompted rocket fire from Gaza, to which Israel responded with strikes on Gaza military sites.

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

“We are deprived even of giving them a dignified burial.”

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Rami Jarrah

6 months

The moment Aljazeera Journalist Momen Al-Sharafi breaks the news that his entire family of 21 members were just killed in an Israeli Airstrike in #Gaza . The look he gives as he is no longer able to talk, is heartbreaking.

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5 months

The bomb that exploded did so right outside my grandmother’s house. She’s no longer with us, and my aunt left last year to be closer to her kids. But it’s still my grandma’s house, and it’s where I spent Sundays for years on years. It’s totally a residential neighborhood

@safieddine00

Karim Safieddine - كريم صفي الدين

5 months

"Hezbollah stronghold" - western readers would think the region is just militants & their direct affiliates. Dahyeh (the suburbs of Beirut) is a densely-populated area filled with residents & shops. If it's indeed an Israeli strike, it's a form of brutal collective punishment.

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

The man holding up the bank has $200,000 in there he can't access. Meanwhile his father is in hospital being denied a life-saving operation because they can't pay the $50,000 required. Not condoning violence but what does a person do with such rage, in the face of such injustice?

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مصدر مسؤول

2 years

جمعية المودعين اللبنانيين: والد المودع المسلح موجود في المستشفى ويحتاج علاجًا بقيمة ٥٠ ألف دولار

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

I’ve been called to come in for questioning at the intelligence branch (she3bet el ma3loumet) of the Internal Security Forces at 11 am tomorrow morning. They wouldn’t tell me what I’ve been accused of. Please spread the word, I could really use the support

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

This tweet is proving popular with easterners, westerners, & the westerners & easterners who love them and/or have to cook & clean with them. All people who’d do well to check out the comedy stylings of my girl @itsdananas (she’s more active on TikTok but here’s a “taste” 😄):

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Dana Saleh

4 years

This was inspired by every recipe that asks for 1 clove of garlic

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

The Lebanese civil war began 48 yrs ago today. The men behind the deaths & disappearance of 150,000+ are not only still alive, they are still in power. Architects of an economic collapse no less violent. Our past is not a ghost that haunts us, it’s a rotting corpse we live with

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4 months

@themrise It's not unpopular, Egypt is a piece of shit for colluding with the Israelis and keeping that border closed!

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

Please listen: They are hitting bakeries, hospitals, generators, solar panels, water tanks, fishing boats. They are trying to MAXIMIZE the number of casualties, direct & indirect to get rid of as many Palestinians as possible. How is this not obvious to everyone??

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S A R A H✌️🇵🇸

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OMG! The Israeli occupation's aircraft targeted the electricity generator at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. DO YOU KNOW WHAT A DISASTER?!!!

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Lina Mounzer

8 months

Palestinians in Gaza have been saying from the beginning of this war that the IDF is testing out new weapons on them. From bombs that explode multiple times to ones that cause bizarre burn patterns. Gaza has ALWAYS been a testing ground for the military industrial complex

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Osaid - #NotATarget 🗝 🇵🇸

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I’ve received several pics from doctors from #Gaza of full thickness (3rd/4th degree) burn. Doctors report that they’ve never seen such unusual burn pattern where it involves mainly extremities without any other visceral injuries .1 #MedTwitter

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

@valtism @FranklinMaillot YES. Lemon and vinegar get rid of the smell. As do some spices. That's why we make chicken stock with cinnamon sticks, cardamon pods and cloves. Bay leaves also are known for helping mitigate it

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Lina Mounzer

5 months

Incredible how SA is anticipating every propagandistic justification that the Israelis have been offering and the mainstream media has been unquestioningly repeating and heading it off at the pass #ICJ

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Lina Mounzer

5 months

A hallmark of Americans is they have no concept of war, have never seen their cities in ruins or survived anything more harrowing than a drunken binge & yet still have the gall to be excited for their fantasies of liberation in which they will lose nothing & we everything

@bidetmarxman

professional hog groomer

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A hallmark of the liberal conception of resistance is constant gestures toward some vague notion of a 3rd option that exists between strict pacifism and a willingness to use violence as a tool. It’d save everyone so much time if they'd honestly articulate their plan of action!

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

No one gives a fuck what Israelis think about the viability of Palestinian statehood. Freedom is something to be fought and won; it is never a gift from the colonizer. The colonizer’s permission is irrelevant—geographically, morally and politically. So kindly stfu

@Jerusalem_Post

The Jerusalem Post

@Jerusalem_Post

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What these esteemed statesmen have apparently failed to grasp is that the very idea of a Palestinian state is no longer geographically viable, morally acceptable, or even politically tolerable to the overwhelming majority of Israelis - opinion.

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Lina Mounzer

2 months

I want you to look at this. Look. At. This. This is the Israeli state. This is its ethos. Its national anthem. This its archive. Its museum. This is the song to which it dances. The story it tells to put its children to bed. The face it refuses to see when it looks in the mirror

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Lina Mounzer

4 months

When the smoke and rubble clears, we’re going to find the death count much, much higher than anything we’re possibly imagining now

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

Look, I stole your house, but it’s complicated because I feel like the Europeans owe me big time for a history that admittedly has nothing at all to do with you but then whatchagonnado. They had to atone for their crimes & you’re the sacrifice 🤷‍♀️ That is pretty complicated, no?

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Rima Rantisi

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He answers: “Look, these things are difficult. They’re not black and white. You have to remember history’s important here. Some things aren’t either right or wrong.”

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Lina Mounzer

4 years

A man shot himself in front of the Dunkin Donuts on Hamra st. this morning. Left a copy of his "judicial record" on his chest. It declared his clean record. He also left a note: "I am not a heretic. But hunger is heresy." A line from a Ziad Rahbani song. Who can bear this sorrow?

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Lina Mounzer

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

A thread on “leaving”: Those who retort “just leave” about Lebanon perhaps don’t know or remember that leaving home is a devil’s bargain: you must exchange part of your heart for your life. 1/

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Lina Mounzer

8 months

"We won't leave people to face death alone." Imagine the grim, courageous heartbreak of having to make such a decision

@RZabaneh

Rania Zabaneh

8 months

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society: “Despite the occupation's threats to shell; the decision has been made. We did and will not leave. Our medics will carry on their humanitarian duties. We won’t leave people face death alone.”

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Tunisian commentator on the #Mar vs #Por game isn’t even bothering with a pretense of objectivity. “Portugal has the ball… you will not break through! You will not break through! And they lose it! We have it! We have the ball again! It’s ours!” 😂

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

Imagine the Palestinians doing this to the hostage families. Storming their homes, removing them before they have a chance to see their longed-for loved ones. You can’t, right? Because it would be unimaginably cruel. Because in no world would it be allowed to happen

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Dima Khatib

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Israeli police storms homes of Palestinian families in Jerusalem who are expecting a family member (woman or child) to be released from Israeli prisons. Police is taking relatives out of the houses, surrounding houses with police cars, filling the whole neighbourhood with

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Lina Mounzer

5 months

Have found it very difficult to write over the last 3 months, but I here I wrote (warning: a long) thread of thoughts on this final day of 2023:

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

In Beirut so homesick for Beirut

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

What we are watching is no less than an entire people experiencing the end of the world. The end of the world

@FactualNarrator

The Fact Finder

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7 months

A Palestinian doctor stuck in the North, sharing a message of despair, peace, and faith.

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Lina Mounzer

27 days

- The Zionists have entered Rafah, are you afraid? - No! - What are you going to do? - We're going to sing! - All right then sing!

@JalalAK_jojo

Jalal #CeasefireNow

27 days

They really think they can defeat the Palestinian people? #Rafah

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Lina Mounzer

5 months

For those of us who’ve felt like we’ve been going insane these last 3 mos, watching a genocide unfold & hearing it called self-defense, the meticulous detailing of Israel’s crimes & the assertion again & again that they are unconscionable has made us feel momentarily human again

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Lina Mounzer

4 months

And some people want to convince you that it’s Netanyahu and his ministers who are the problem, not an entire society rotten to the core with the poison worm of colonialism, its every institution complicit

@gawanmac

gawanmac 🇵🇸

4 months

Haaretz has published (in Hebrew, not English) an incomprehensibly vile article in the style of a lifestyle cooking feature, about Israel's soldiers finding and cooking with ingredients in the kitchens of Gazans who had to flee their homes and are now starving.

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

That the irredeemable are more irredeemable than I ever dreamed and the heroic more heroic than I even had the capacity to imagine

@samah_fadil

سماح | 🧚🏾‍♀️support palestinians

6 months

tell me one thing you've learned about the world in the last month.

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Lina Mounzer

2 months

@TameeOliveFern To be fair this is what all colonizers fear, that one people’s struggle for self-determination might influence another’s, and then before you know it, all the subjugated & stolen-from of the world are demanding redress — and where does that leave the poor thieves?

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

@iamjourjean Also Anne Frank would have never stood for this bullshit and never endorsed Zionism’s warmongering, she was sensitive and kind and full of wonder about life the opposite of Zionism basically

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

The day before yesterday, we buried my uncle, the composer Ihsan Al-Mounzer. If you’re from the Levant and of a certain generation, you’ve most likely heard of him. At the very least, you’ve heard his music. He was an icon of a particular Beirut & deserves to be remembered 🧵

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

Please please please don't get tired, don't get complacent, don't fall silent with despair, don't grow inured to the horrors, don't stop advocating for Palestine. They're counting on all these things. They want to break not only Palestinians but the spirit of protest as well

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

I cannot, cannot stop crying today

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

"Every few days there’s a new low to get used to." "There is no respite or safe place anywhere." I wrote for @nytimes about the day-to-day reality we're living behind all the depersonalized headlines about Lebanon.

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Opinion | Lebanon as We Once Knew It Is Gone (Published 2021)

The standards by which “normal” or “acceptable” living conditions are measured have long been discarded.

www.nytimes.com

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Every time there's a catastrophe in this part of the world I'm rattled by the vertigo of my feed. Gripes about the Grammys and Leo DiCaprio's creepy dating habits juxtaposed with a relentless avalanche of death and destruction.

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Lina Mounzer

2 months

Unable to comprehend this horror. How we’re all watching happen. How it could have been stopped. How there are more unthinkable horror to come. How it can still be justified. How

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Muhammad Shehada

@muhammadshehad2

2 months

The Shifa hospital massacre is worse than the 1948 Nakba’s Deir Yassin & Tantoura massacres combined Over 300 women, children & men slaughtered. Many zip-tied & executed, some flattened by tanks, burned, or hacked into pieces by missiles, skeletal remains & body parts everywhere

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

@HichamYezza @GabrielGlickman You're being too generous: I truly don't think it's well meaning. People like him only advocate for quiet when they don't like what's being said. & considering how many people are calling out Israeli atrocities for what they are, he'd rather everyone refrained from speaking

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Lina Mounzer

2 months

Tel Aviv’s pathetic secret is that it wishes it had half as much cool and grit and sass as Beirut has in a single alleyway

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Lebanese are so unused to public space they can’t process when it’s used correctly. The politicians robbed you blind & blew up half the city, 80% of the coast is illegally developed & inaccessible & we have no parks but yes it’s poor kids playing in a fountain that’s outrageous

@rabkamhaddad

Rabih haddad

1 year

“ ساحة سمير قصير تتحوّل لبحيرة فوضى! التقطت كاميرا "هنا لبنان" مشهداً لمجموعة من الأطفال من التابعية السورية وهم يقفزون ويسبحون في البركة وسط ساحة سمير قصير” و مش بس هيك وعم بشِّك 😂

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Western countries will do shit like this and then deny entry to people fleeing war for not “using legal channels” to seek asylum. They call themselves civilized when the only difference b/w them & authoritarian gvts is that their murder weapon of choice is polite bureaucracy

@DutchMFA

Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇳🇱

1 year

@wasilalitaha @irmavandueren Dear Wasila, we deeply regret the current situation you're in. We were forced to close the embassy and evacuate our staff. Unfortunately, this means we can't get to your passport. We advise to apply for a new passport with your local authorities.

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Lina Mounzer

4 months

"Please come take me, please... Please stay with me... don't hang up... It's almost night, I am scared" And then not only did the soldiers kill her, they also killed the rescue workers dispatched to save her. She died terrified and alone. Israel is irredeemable.

@PalestineRCS

PRCS

4 months

A new audio recording of the child Hind documents the moments of horror she experienced while trapped alone amidst the Israeli tanks and the dead bodies of her relatives who were killed by Israeli soldiers around her. Hind was also killed alone as the occupation first bombed the

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Lina Mounzer

4 years

Can't stop crying this morning. Devastated for all of us in #Beirut . Only now beginning to process the extent of the damage: structural, moral, psychological, financial. & we were already so tired. But v touched by all the friends all over the world who checked in. I love you all

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Arabic: Walaw. (Most of the time inflected as a question). An admonition of both positive & negative shame. Can be yelled out at a rude assface in traffic or exclaimed w/ delight at an extravagant gift or clucked at a guest who dares offer help w/ the dishes

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Merriam-Webster

@MerriamWebster

1 year

Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent? Take us to church.

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Earthquake in Beirut strong enough to leap us out of bed as the entire building shook and swayed for a few minutes. Experiencing severe Beirut blast trauma/flashbacks

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Lina Mounzer

2 months

"I'm sorry David I'm going to cut you off there, I'm just trying to get answers to questions and if you can't answer the questions I can't allow you to do the propaganda bit afterwards." YES. This is how every one of these lying hasbarist fuckers should be dealt with

@Channel4News

Channel 4 News

2 months

“I’m not attacking you, I’m just asking a simple question.” @krishgm asks an Israeli spokesman whether the government will apologise to the families of seven people killed in a @WCKitchen aid convoy, amid reports of repeated strikes on aid agencies.

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

@farahkanaan Good god this is so gross. Aren’t Europeans sick of their own racism?

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

All of you responding to this thread are delightful & I've learned SO MUCH from you. 1st I stand corrected: this is no Arab/West divide though linguistically it does seem "West" v "others". I've LONG been obsessed w/ this topic &seeing this discussion unfold w/ so many is amazing

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

Friends abroad ask, how are u & I want to say, I'm trapped inside a burning building &tho my own floor is still liveable there's the sound of people wailing &hurling themselves from the windows &the smell of charred flesh &I can't sleep for the horror of it &instead I say fine, u

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

UN special rapporteur on the Right to Food @MichaelFakhri in the Guardian. Read these words carefully, and then again:

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

“The story of how… 750 migrants [ended] up in one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks is bigger than any one of the victims. But for everyone, it started somewhere, and for Thaer Khalid al-Rahal it started with cancer.” Just incredible reporting

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They knew the boat could sink. Boarding it didn’t feel like a choice.

The story of how as many as 750 migrants came to board a fishing trawler and end up in one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks off the coast of Greece.

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

This. Is. Incredible. The website is a must-visit—can’t believe how much work went into this

@quadrismegistus

Ryan Heuser / @heuser.bsky

@quadrismegistus

3 months

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza @wawog_now , who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT:

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Lina Mounzer

6 months

30 years pf dreams & effort, destroyed forever. Meqdad Printing Press & Library, one of the oldest in Gaza. Millions lost: printing presses & books & equipment. The cumulative efforts of my entire family: my mother, father & siblings. Gone in an instant; my father left w/ nothing

@Almeqdad

Meqdad #غزة

6 months

حُلم وجهد 30 عام..أحرقوه وأنهوه. مطبعة ومكتبة مقداد، من أقدم مطابع غزة. القصف الإسرائيلي أدى لانتهائها بشكلٍ كامل. خسائر بالملايين، نتيجة قصف واحتراق آلات الطباعة وأجهزة وكتب ومستلزمات. هذا الجهد عائلتي كلها، أمي وأبي وأخوتي، لنا يد فيه. أنهوه في لحظة. عاد والدي إلى ما قبل الصفر.

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

I know not everyone who retweeted & commented & DMed is going to see this, but I want you to know how moved I am by all the love & solidarity. And to know I have a lawyer, a good one. Won’t lie, my stomach is in knots, but I also feel so buoyed by the support from all of you ✊🏾

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Lina Mounzer

2 years

I’ve been called to come in for questioning at the intelligence branch (she3bet el ma3loumet) of the Internal Security Forces at 11 am tomorrow morning. They wouldn’t tell me what I’ve been accused of. Please spread the word, I could really use the support

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Lina Mounzer

4 years

"Growing up in Lebanon taught me that an explosion resonates across time, that the shock reverberates forward into your life, and the pressure reconfigures the landscape of the mind." I wrote about the explosion that shattered us for @nytopinion

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Lina Mounzer

2 months

I have no doubt a wider war is coming. Israel is rabid, no one is setting limits &the more they get away with the more audacious they grow. The US is happy: its weapons manufacturers are getting richer, its Evangelicals slavering for the 2nd coming & the int’l community toothless

@PeterHarling

𝖯𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖧𝖺𝗋𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀

2 months

If you don't follow closely events on Israel's northern border, it's easy to believe a regional war is unlikely, that things have already played out. Seen from Lebanon, things look different: months of slow escalation, calculated but unrelenting and plausibly unstoppable 🧵

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

During the civil war it was common to see people wandering the streets muttering yelling gesticulating to themselves. They were known as “majaneen harb” — the war mad. People whose minds had been broken by loss. There are many ways to be killed by war, all of them eternal

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Lina Mounzer

4 years

We are, all of us in Beirut–& those who left Beirut but love Beirut–wrecked with exhaustion, grief and, increasingly, murderous rage. We can only think & talk about one thing. What happened, and how, and who is responsible. I wrote this for @ObserverUK

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Time for a full clearout. Why we will not forgive the men who did this to Beirut | Lina Mounzer

The explosion that devastated the city was no accident and anger is boiling over

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Lina Mounzer

3 years

After a break, I'm back! I wrote abt "sex in the Arab world" books (you know exactly the ones) for @thebafflermag & on the way I talk abt shame, language, diaspora vs local takes, & what it's actually like to be a woman having sex in "the Arab world"

Going Beyond the Veil | Lina Mounzer

A contradiction between private comportment and public discourse is the central theme of Leila Slimani’s book Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World.

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Lina Mounzer

7 months

As a fellow Chevening alum, I am horrified that the organization that honored his excellence in life cannot bring themselves to honor his death by naming his killers, or even to say he was killed at all out of fear of offending his murderers. Truly cowardly

@CheveningFCDO

Chevening Awards🇬🇧

7 months

We are devastated to learn about the death of Chevening Alumnus Dr Maisara Al Rayyes and members of his family. We send our deepest condolences to his surviving family. Our thoughts, and the thoughts of the Chevening Alumni community are with you.

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8 months

During the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, while Lebanese were being butchered, I stumbled on a US forum for evangelicals online. They were in raptures: “I can feel Him, He’s so close right now!!!” They were celebrating our deaths bc they thought it was a fulfillment of prophecy

@ajplus

AJ+

8 months

Why are millions of American evangelical Christians so obsessed with Israel? @Dena explains. Hint: It has to do with the End Times.

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

His final words: “THEY SAY DON’T CRY ARGENTINA! BUT YES CRY, CRY ARGENTINA! CRY TEARS OF JOY! IT IS YOURS AND MARADONA SMILES ON YOU FOR RECLAIMING HIS CUP!” 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷

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Lina Mounzer

1 year

Wallah the Arabic commentator deserves his own trophy for the commentary. “O scribe of history, help me write the next lines, a legend of Argentina’s skill. O Messi, Sheikh-Messi, upon the stage of Lusail you shall play a masterpiece worthy of Sheikh-Speare.” #ArgentinaVsFrance

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

Good god this moved me to tears. Transnational solidarity is so fucking beautiful. Also a million extra points for choosing the world’s superior man’ouche: cocktail jebne zaatar

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Abier

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A cheese recipe and a history lesson. Genius ♥️ #Gaza

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Lina Mounzer

4 years

I wrote a piece about Beirut's broken sewage system & how it's both itself and a metaphor for the shit we're living in now: "To say that we’re drowning in our shit—the shit we all made together—is no longer a figure of speech in Lebanon today."

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Waste Away | Lina Mounzer

Decades’ worth of untreated human waste comes to the surface in Beirut, the result of old conflicts and new contracts.

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Lina Mounzer

4 years

"But now it has become clear that there is nothing truly resilient about Lebanon except its politicians and ancient warlords, who refuse to step down, even after their profiteering has bankrupted the country and its people." My latest for @nytopinion

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Opinion | We Lebanese Thought We Could Survive Anything. We Were Wrong. (Published 2020)

The myth of their resilience helped the Lebanese function despite a miserably corrupt and inept state. No longer.

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Lina Mounzer

3 months

@BlumpfiXII @VeldonCoburn Surely you see the blood though

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