Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈

Journalist, nerd. Co-host of @LebPoliticsPod.

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

Ugly.
https://t.co/96pgudrH1P

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

While I disagree with the changes implemented at the publication, and had no role in planning them, I honestly hope I'm wrong. Best of luck to all of my former colleagues at L'Orient Today and OLJ; congrats on a record-setting month, and wish you all success in the future.

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

Personal note: As of today, I have been removed as the managing editor of L'Orient Today. The publication's editorial direction and control will now be exercised by the editors-in-chief of L'Orient-Le Jour.

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

These people truly are all-stars: @OmarTamo19, @GhadaAsharif, @TalaRamadan, @sewella, @rjsalame, @Georgi_Azar, @EmCLew, @waeltaleb23, @Rana_Tbb, @AlbinSzakola, @letoscot, @NiamhFF, Jake Pelini, @SGhoussoub and Joelle El Khoury.

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

@ramezdagher @mich_h By my math, it's been 5,924 days since Mikati's gov't gained confidence on April 27, 2005. If we take that as a starting point, we've had no gov't for 1,419 days, just shy of 24% of the time. If we add in the gap between formation and confidence, it goes up to 27% of the time

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

@bnoujaim @timourazhari @lorienttoday Hi, we're separate newsrooms with separate editorial teams, but guided by the same basic editorial principles of empathy, transparency and critical inquiry. A number of pieces are translated and co-published, but the bulk of content in each is exclusive.

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

@atJenny Haha yep, totally understand

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

We're back! And we brought reinforcements...

Excited to have my friend and colleague @timourazhari joining us for our fourth season!

[The Lebanese Politics Podcast @LebPoliticsPod]

Season four kicks off with episode 97, @Nizhsn, @benredd & @timourazhari take a closer look at Lebanon's coronavirus response, protests in Tripoli, the slaying of Lockman Slim, the port explosion six months on & stalled government formation 🎙️ https://t.co/taSaxSzlr1

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

Video of the moment #Lebanon security forces open fire on rioters in northern Tripoli, #Lebanon.

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

Absolutely not.

[Omar Tamo @OmarTamo19]

نقابة المحررين طلبت من الصحافيين الراغبين بتلقي اللقاح تزويدها بمعلومات عنهم في مهلة اقصاها 28 الحالي.

This is unbelievable and unacceptable, I really cannot believe they’re doing it

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

@Watchdogslb @henrichaoul @riachi_jean @LOrientLeJour @CommerceLevant @MaucourantNada @OmarTamo19 @MichelHe @saharalattar Thanks for the support. But no one person can do that — it's going to take a team of people inside and outside the newsroom. That's why solidarity, having each other's back, is so crucial

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

@ramezdagher It seemed the most illustrative...

[Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd]

Oh, hello!

[The Lebanese Politics Podcast @LebPoliticsPod]

Episode 96 will be available midnight! Masks are on but gloves are off as @benredd is joined by @timourazhari to discuss the latest on the investigation into the explosion at Beirut's port as the country awaits accountability four months on from the deadly blast 🎙️

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

I went to Tripoli today to speak to some of the approximately 270 Syrian families who were driven out of Bsharri after a Syrian man killed a Lebanese man in a personal dispute Monday. My latest: https://t.co/Xl5cfhzfcF via @lorienttoday

[Albin Szakola @AlbinSzakola]

Venezuelans implicated in a mind-bogglingly huge money laundering scheme, one of whom is wanted by Caracas and indicted in Andorra while another is the brother of a fugitive former oil czar, established a mysterious web of offshore firms in Lebanon https://t.co/kVYQTJrIBZ

[Mike Azar @AzarsTweets]

Had a great conversation with @Nizhsn and @benredd yesterday. We are all getting tired of talking about forensic audits, but it's important to document the details so we don't forget. Banking secrecy is a secondary issue at this point. The problem is there's no will to cooperate.

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

My latest: Aid checks were given to families of the victims of the Beirut port blast...but banks wouldn't cash them https://t.co/2xqgPRnyTs via @lorienttoday

[Aya Majzoub @Aya_Majzoub]

In letters to/meetings with @hrw, #Lebanon's security forces denied wrongdoing during the #Beirut Aug8 protests that injured >700 & instead traded blame for the abuse

But overwhelming evidence we gathered contradicts their claims. Latest for @lorienttoday
https://t.co/GSpOQ7wZu0

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

My latest: A Russian-organized conference in Damascus, with Lebanon's participation, seeks to promote Syrian refugee returns. I look at previous efforts to do this in Lebanon, why they haven't worked, and why this one likely won't either https://t.co/eze0cG2XF9 via @lorienttoday