Syed Urooj Bukhari

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett says journalist Amal Khalil received threats from an Israeli WhatsApp number during the last war, warning her to stop reporting or leave Lebanon “if she wanted her head to remain on her shoulders,” before being killed today in an Israeli attack.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

The U.S. Treasury Department allows India to buy Russian oil for 30 more days!

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

A couple of things about my #Iran posts

Disagree with my views, but don't casually disregard my facts. Whatever I have written about Iran, including that Tehran was fully compliant with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement until Trump came and sabotaged it in 2018, was factual. If I make factual mistakes, I own them up and make corrections. That's part of my job.

Two, I am not anti-West. I am non-West--that's a methodological difference. I refuse to fall prey to the mainstream western narrative. My world is not divided between binaries. In the case of Iran, there were several binaries-- the liberal one is that this is a fight between an oppressive regime and a freedom-loving people; and there is conservative binary between American interventionism and the Islamist radicalism of the East. Which one you will choose--they will ask you! None. I try to look at the grey matter.

That doesn't mean that I am blind to the quest of the Iranian people for more rights and freedoms. I have written extensively about the inability of the system to reform--including reports from Tehran. But you have to place the rigidity of the system in the extremely hostile economic and geopolitical environment it is operating in. You should also be mindful of the propaganda. In the Persian Gulf, Iran and Iraq are the only two countries that offer some meaningful representation to their people. Thirty million people, that's half the electorate, voted in the 2024 Presidential elections in Iran. Have you heard of it? While other despotic countries in the region -- presidential or monarchical-- have functional economies, either thanks to their oil wealth or economic assistance from the US--Iran, despite its oil wealth, is unable to take care of the economic needs of its people, because of the sanctions. That's what is keeping the system rigid, triggering circles of crisis.

The liberal critique of Iran, which Said would love to call Oriental gaze, overlooks these structural realities. Because they don’t fit their narratives, which are used by their foreign policy establishments, including the human rights-living Israel. As students of IR, our job is to go beyond the mainstream narratives and simpleton generalisations, drawing in from history, particularly from the recent western military interventions in the east in the name of bringing in freedom and democracy.

[Iran in India @Iran_in_India]

The martyrdom of 165 innocent schoolgirls in the brutal attack by the criminal regimes of the United States and Israel on an elementary school in the city of #Minab.

[KeriA @KeriA1776again]

Family is everything.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Oho. But wasn't it blamed by some of the Modi ministers on the UPA government as a major blunder and disaster for the country?

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

We firmly oppose the expansion of Israeli military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering is intolerable.

In the lead-up to the June 18 conference in New York, we must all work toward implementing the two-state solution.

Our joint statement — France, the United Kingdom, and Canada — on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank: https://t.co/yxWkKOAsnt

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

People of knowledge if can suggest some books with respect to subjects:
- History of kashmir from ancient to modern
- Sufism in kashmir
- Islam and Sufism
- History and spread of Islam in early centuries.

I will be much obliged.

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

@Shimounhassan Everyone killing it out there.

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

People complain about Instagram making people depressed.
Fun fact: Try opening LinkedIn.

[Healing Of The Hearts -شفاء القلوب @ShifaaQulub]

Recitation of Salawat before the Tarawih prayers at the Ayasofya Camii in Istanbul. (Ramadan has started in Turkey). This is the first tarawih in the Ayasofya Camii in 88 years!

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

People - unconcerned, unaffected and oblivious

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

@SyedAbidShah @wef I hope we also find a solution for solid waste management as eutrophication will kill the lake ecology and algal blooms will result in uninhabitable condition and eventually we will be forced to find refuge somewhere else.

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

This is so cool. I am excited https://t.co/gDiJ2e8qBQ

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

False positive makes us loose faith in the Epidemic Management System and for some in the Epidemic itself. It is imperative that testing labs maintain the highest quality standards.

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

The strongest is never strong enough to be always master unless he transforms his power into right, and obedience into duty.
~ Jean Jaques Rousseau

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

Guns, germs, steel and a junk crisis.

[Syed Urooj Bukhari @_uroojbukhari]

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