Karim Emile Bitar

Lecturer @SciencesPo, Professor of International Relations and Former Dean @USJLiban, Cofounder @KullunaIrada Fellow @InstitutIRIS @TheGCSP @MiddleEastInst, ENA

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🎥 🎵 🕵️ “C’est une information pour le moins surprenante. Connu pour son rôle inoubliable de «Nestor Burma» ou encore sa chanson «Destinée», popularisée grâce au film «Les Sous-doués», Guy Marchand a-t-il mené une double vie ?"
👉https://t.co/AzCbUk0SDS
"C’est ce qu’a affirmé le journaliste Franck Renaud sur @franceinfo : l’acteur et chanteur décédé en 2023 avait été un correspondant du service action de la DGSE au sein de réseaux dormants."

Sacré Nestor !

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🍁 Unfortunately, Canadian immigration officials only accept refugees, not buyers with remorse…

Canada has a strict no-refund policy on American democracy!

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

Israel has detained dozens of Syrians since seizing control of a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone in southern Syria two years ago. Families are desperate for answers.

@chehayebk and @AlsayedGhaith delve into the stories of some of the detainees

https://t.co/Laumu4Uu3j

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🧠 “Hell hath no fury like a malignant narcissist scorned,” said psychologist Dr. John Gartner. Following the midterms, viewed as a referendum on Trump’s second term, he has entered the “third act” of his political career and is more dangerous than ever.”
https://t.co/a2Xjx0d4aE

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇺🇸 🗳️ 🧠 “After the Republicans’ crushing midterm defeat, forensic psychiatrist Dr Bandy X Lee says Trump could lash out in an attempt to restore his image – with potentially catastrophic consequence.
Her fears about his state of mind and his next move.”
👉https://t.co/wB3dXkyJw0

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 🧠 J’ai rappelé sur @BFMTV que 37 des plus éminents psychiatres américains ont depuis longtemps tiré la sonnette d’alarme sur la santé mentale de Donald Trump et son narcissisme exacerbé qui, en l’absence de contre-pouvoirs, pourrait conduire le monde entier vers l’abîme…👇

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

“Israel’s illiberal and ethno-nationalist forces are reshaping the country in their image. This is a structural transformation that runs deeper than the election and will outlast Netanyahu. ECFR maps the battle of ideas for the country’s future and what it could mean for Europe.”

[ECFR MENA @ECFRMena]

📰 As Gadi Eisenkot works to form a new government, @BethOppenheim's @ecfr project, "The ideas of Israel", dives deeper into Israel’s structural transformation, a process that runs deeper than October’s election, and will outlast any current government.👉️https://t.co/zBqRSwPVk0

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🤖 💻 “How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science
A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. But OpenAI disproved it — raising the possibility of radical new efficiencies.”
https://t.co/QVeW0ba87x via @NYTimes

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇮🇹 🇬🇧 💣 "En Italie, des centaines d’écoles évacuées à la suite de fausses alertes à la bombe ; des « messages menaçants » envoyés à des établissements scolaires au Royaume-Uni"
https://t.co/X8EROPDPot
"La cheffe du gouvernement italien, Giorgia Meloni, a convoqué une réunion gouvernementale plus tard dans la journée de mercredi après que 312 écoles ont reçu des menaces."

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

“Newly released transcripts from the 1956 Sinai Campaign show Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion warning that continued rule over Gaza could bring terrorism, international isolation, an arms embargo and profound moral damage.”
👉https://t.co/MW4i1Wt7Pb
via @haaretzcom

[FRANCOIS CLEMENCEAU @Frclemenceau]

En ce 11 novembre, se souvenir des soldats américains venus deux fois participer à la libération de la France de l'occupant allemand. Se réconcilier quand c'est nécessaire, résister aux vassalisations, toujours. Ma récente contribution à l'Echo du Dôme, la revue du @MuseeArmee

[BFM @BFMTV]

Candidature de Teddy Riner: financement, soutiens, déplacements...les informations de BFMTV

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

« Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rêves… »
Charles Baudelaire, Les Sept Vieillards.

« Respirer Paris, cela conserve l'âme. »
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables.

Dessin de Sempé 👇

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🤖 💰 💃🏻 “the costliest extramarital affair of all time” 👇

[Dan Koh @dank]

These are my Lebanese and Korean grandfathers, from opposite sides of the world, holding their grandson. Last week, that grandson made history as the first Asian American and Arab American elected to represent Massachusetts in Congress.

America, the beautiful melting pot. ❤️🇺🇸

[Tyler Pager @tylerpager]

NEWS: Alina Habba’s $50 million contract was terminated last week.

Company fired her for “failure to perform duties.” She will keep $6.5 mil in salary and $8 mil signing bonus.

The firing came days after The Times reporting prompted a Trump outburst.
https://t.co/TLqGda12Og

[Odeh Aburdene @OdehAburdene]

@tylerpager an Iraqi born lawyer who made it to the top with Trump who is no longer
Part of the inner circle .

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

📚 “L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe…”

Gustave Flaubert

Dessin de Flaubert par Sempé

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

“Netanyahu has reportedly been calling Trump every day, urging him to launch a renewed military offensive against Iran …Those who don’t want a war within the White House and outside have been trying to combat that”
https://t.co/ZgIi8l2Vbg
“Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and others would prefer the status quo,” Trump wrote”

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

“Stephen Miller, the incoming White House chief of staff & Israel's outgoing national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, share plenty of racist, authoritarian beliefs. Both are often called 'Nazis.' How does their Jewish identity fit in?” @EstherSolomon

https://t.co/itmt9CMYtH

[Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman]

Those who track Russian influence will be familiar with most of these names. An impressive investigation! https://t.co/QBzgW2Nfw4