Safa Mubgar

A Londoner and a bruised Springing Arab, of the Adeni variety.

[Assaad Taha أسعد طه @Assaadtaha]

لو كان لا جدوى للكلمة
ما قتلوا أصحابها.

#أنس_شهيد

[Louis Theroux @louistheroux]

I wrote a piece for the guardian about the reaction to my settlers documentary. https://t.co/KLIHfVkqnG

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The UK took over the colonial guardianship of Palestine in 1917, formalised as a mandate in 1922, and immediately put in place a series of measures which led to most of the indigenous Palestinians eventually being driven from their homes and becoming refugees. We have a much, much greater historical responsibility to Palestinians than we do to Ukrainians. Sadly few of our Westminster politicians know anything of the history of the region and most are blindly unaware of this.

[Assaad Taha أسعد طه @Assaadtaha]

المؤلم في مشاهد المفرج عنهم من سجون بشار أن كل عربي يتصور نسخة بلده الخاصة ويتخيل كيف أن عزيزه المعتقل يعاني الآن وفي هذه اللحظة.

[Peter Harling @PeterHarling]

The speed at which people run home...

Let it be a lesson to all those lazy thinkers, within European governments and beyond, who back bankrupt regimes as the answer to their obsession with migration.

[amel🪽 @sleepyamel]

Arab Twitter is crying in joy for prisoners released after decades in the worst torture facilities in modern history, while Anglo American leftists are calling everyone US backed regime change terrorists. The difference in priorities is staggering

[Richard Spencer @RichardJSpencer]

So it turns out that the people who in 2011 said Assad's hold on power was unsustainable were right... just a little premature. Personal friends celebrating today include Syrian Christians and Alawites as well as Sunni Muslims.

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

The prisons and the people bewildered upon their release some after decades are beyond devastating. Mabrook to the Syrians. We wish you solace in your reunions and returns. Inshallah the day will come for us too.

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

My body can't process this, every emotion that it lived through in the past 13 years is triggered at once, it's overwhelming

[Israa | ﮼إسراء @IsraHazel]

We are measuring our liberation prison by prison, not town by town!
This is the story of Syria in a nutshell.

[Tammam Aloudat تمّام العودات @Tammamo]

The schizophrenic thinking that makes people anti-Israel and pro-Assad is mind bending!
Oppression and tyranny are the same!

[Rime Allaf @rallaf]

I'm Syrian and have written, spoken & worked on Syrian affairs since 2000. I am overwhelmed by the sense of collective hope we are sharing, the determination to survive our grief & build this beautiful country after not just 13 years of war, but 54 years of violent Assadism.

[Assaad Taha أسعد طه @Assaadtaha]

كل ديكتاتور يعتقد جازما أنه لم يسقط.
ونحن نعتقد جازمين أنه بإذن الله سيسقط.
في انتظارهم واحدا واحدا.

[Tarek Megrisi @Tmegrisi]

The fear that developments in Syria could lead to a rekindling of Arab Spring dynamics is sad to see

The lesson from Syria is you cannot deny people their rights indefinitely under predatory, extractive leaderships.

The choice is either steer into the change, or crash into it

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

The fall of Aleppo in 2016 was a grim prelude to Bucha, Mariupol, and Bakhmut in 2022. It was in Syria that Russian pilots learned how to raze Ukrainian cities to the ground. The world’s failure to stand up to Putin and Assad back then became an open invitation for Putin to invade Ukraine.

Today’s rebel success in Aleppo is promising. With Putin’s army being decimated in Ukraine, he likely can’t spare sufficient forces to save Assad. But the lesson remains: 2016 and 2022 could’ve been avoided if from the very beginning democracies had fought tyrants instead of just shaking the air with words.

[Rime Allaf @rallaf]

Why always so threatened by people peacefully protesting all over the world? In Syria and in Georgia, the basic struggle is the same: freedom, dignity, and the democratic right to help shape your own future.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

@eraso21 @CounsellingSam It's interesting isn't it? I was naive enough to believe that the Good Friday Agreement would produce some principles for diplomacy worldwide. People would apply what was learned there to other situations.

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Banning UNRWA is not just about allegations of staff members bring connected to Hamas. It’s about the fact that UNRWA legitimises Palestinians’ refugee status and the ‘right to return’ to what is now Israel. There is more to this than meets the eye.

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

I'm finding it very hard to comment on events in the Middle East. The indifference and even enthusiasm towards the indiscriminate bombing of Arabs and Muslims speaks to something deeper and dark. It never went away. But I never thought I'd see it presented so unapologetically.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Question for people trying to defend Keir Starmer and criticise the media...

Q: Who was the Prime Minister who ditched Leveson 2 and refuses to make reforming the media a top priority?

A: Keir Starmer.