Menna Farouk منة فاروق

Journalist @AFP covering Egypt and Sudan | Previously Reuters, WSJ, Guardian | RTs are not endorsements, views are personal

[Tala Ramadan @TalaRamadan]

Oct 3 (Reuters) - The co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 attempted to carry out a "terrorist" attack during the flight, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general said on Saturday, according to the state news agency WAM.

The co-pilot attacked the pilot inside the cockpit with an axe and attempted to take control of the aircraft, the prosecutor general said.

Investigations are ongoing to determine the circumstances of the incident, the motives and any related connections, as well as to examine physical and digital evidence, he added.

[Zeinobia 🎙️📷📓🍉 @Zeinobia]

ده شغل متصدقش

[Reuters @Reuters]

Saudis plan assault on Houthis to break Red Sea chokehold https://t.co/ZKBtH1lV4N https://t.co/ZKBtH1lV4N

[Jared Malsin @jmalsin]

A story: I flew to Baghdad with a small team of @wsj colleagues last month to write a story about the end of the official U.S. military presence in Iraq and how the American attack on Iran has destabilized the country. 1/

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

May the systems that promote and protect abusers all around the world crumble.

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

I dont disagree with this view, but frankly, Washington and Khartoum are now trapped in a cycle of litigating their differences through the press. It's not the first time it has happened and it never results in progress. Time now for some quiet diplomacy. https://t.co/c9ns5rNdix

[The Big Pharaoh @TheBigPharaoh]

It was a passenger, not the off duty pilots, who pulled the controls up to stop the plane’s dive. He saw it on the TV series Air Crash Investigation

[Mai Shams El-Din @maishams]

REUTERS: The Israeli government believes an incident on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel, which diverted to Saudi Arabia, may have been an attempted "terror attack" by one of the pilots, according to 2 Israeli officials.

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

I’ve seen NAZA. It is not about Gaza or even about IDF rules of engagement. It is 100% a film about Israeli society. It is about how the most liberal, educated and enlightened socioeconomic elites among us could carry out such mass killing, some even while being well aware of it.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🚕 Rebellious Afghan taxi drivers defy ban on music

Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are turning on the tunes in their cars, defying a ban imposed by the Taliban government despite the fear of getting caught by morality police.

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

Bragging openly about a war crime at UNGA is next level pariah state stuff

[Ahmed Ragab @Ragab]

ده كلام صحيح. محدش تقريبا في البلد عنده رؤية واضحة ومتماسكة ولا حتى الجهتين اللي انت تقصدهم. وادينا شايفين النتائج.
عشان يبقى عندك رؤية حقيقية وواقعية، لازم نكون كلنا من متاح لنا ممارسة عمل سياسي حقيقي من اول الجامعة والمحليات وصولا لرئاسة الجمهورية. نفشل ونغلط ونتعل�� ونجرب دي الظريقة الوحيدة.
لو بإيدي هختار على "الثورة" ان النظام نفسه يفتح الطريق بالتدريج لعمل سياسي حقيقي نبدأ بالجامعات والمحليات ويشيل كل القيود، ويسيب للمجتمع المدني يشتغل. ويسيب الناس تمارس سياسية على المستوى ده بس، ويكون باتفاق واضح مع المجتمع المدني. وبعد فترة نروح لمستوى أعلى من برلمان او ودولة وزارية.
في الأخر السياسة الناس مش بتتعلمها في الكتب، ولا نظري. دي ممارسة ولازم في لحظة نتعلمها لكن لو خمس اصدقاء من كام سنة كانوا عايزين يدخلوا الانتخابات فاتقبض عليهم عشان علموا اجتماع واحد. فامتي وازاي الناس دي هتقدر يبقى عندها رؤية واقعية ومتماسكة.
النظام هو السبب، وبيعمل ده بوعي كامل، لكنه بده بيراهن بالبلد كلها رهان خسران.

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

Took off from Riyadh to London not long before this happened. Think I've said this before but it seems like sheer luck that we haven't had a real tragedy with so many missiles and drones zooming around Middle Eastern airports this year

[Hussein Mahran @H_Mahran]

ابن نجيب ساويرس واتنين أصحابه اشتروا بوجاتي، مش اشتروا عربية بوجاتي لأ اشتروا شركة بوجاتي نفسها 😊

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Israel’s culture minister threatens to strip creators of NAZA of their Israeli citizenship for treason. So pathetic

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

The most serious breaches of the arms embargo in Sudan have been coming from the UAE and Iran - each on opposing sides

I guess the UAE MoFA isn’t kept in the loop

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

I will not defend the phenomenon of Israelis winning awards for films about the suffering of Palestine; It feels like a terrible insult, and I share that feeling.

But know this: there are Israelis who are pure-hearted and pained and insulted to the roots of their existence by the shame of the apartheid and genocide. They are a very small minority - a fraction of Israeli Jewish society - but they exist, and they are some of the best and most committed people you'll meet.

I know Rachel from some work we did together year ago, and I will vouch for her conscience with my life. And she is a phenomenally gifted and sensitive photographer.

Palestinians need to be the ones telling their story, and the world must hear them first and foremost. But some Israelis resist and hate the racism and privilege of Zionism like some white people hated apartheid is South Africa, and like some white Americans marched for black liberation.

It is not easy to accept, I know. But life is not always simple and clearcut this way. The small minority of Jews and Israelis who abhor Zionism are not you enemy, and not humanity's enemy; they are your partners.

InshaAllah, in years to come, justice will be done with Palestinian talent and ownership of the the Palestinians story as well, smack at the center of the world stage, the way it should be. I personally long for this day, and see it as inseparable from the liberation of Palestine and Palestinians

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

“They ghost-wrote official testimonies with the goal of having them delivered by two people at the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council. The content was engineered with specific restrictions ensuring that neither speech mentioned the UAE.”

[Ahmed Ragab @Ragab]

لا شيء يقارن بشجاعة الفلسطنيين في غزة، ولا صمودهم.
أما بعد، شجا��ة الواد يوفال ده والدور اللي عمله سواء بتحقيقاته الصحفية او أفلامه شيء ملهم جدا.

[Menna Farouk منة فاروق @MennaFarouk91]

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