sofiane alsaar سفيان

🌍 Journalist ✍🏽 Saudi Arabia for @AFP ex @UNmigration 🇺🇳

[sofiane alsaar سفيان @sofianealsaar]

🎛️🪩💃🏽« Au Caire, j'ai pu voir des femmes derrière les platines, elles sont puissantes, talentueuses et compétentes » @halak404

✍🏽Ma dernière contribution pour @afpfr sur ces femmes qui se battent pour exister en tant qu’artistes electro et pour rendre la nuit plus inclusive ✨

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

💬 "Toute ma vie, j'ai vu des hommes aux platines, (...) ça fait du bien de voir la scène musicale évoluer"

🇪🇬🎹 En Egypte, la scène électro au féminin enflamme le dancefloor

➡️ https://t.co/Td4HKC7i23
🖊️ @sofianealsaar #AFP

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has said that Iran "will not have a nuclear weapon", in a post on Truth Social.

🔴 More on https://t.co/5H0QqpfIYw

[Agence France-Presse @AFPespanol]

El jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense, Marco Rubio, dijo que las negociaciones técnicas entre EEUU e Irán para poner fin a la guerra en Oriente Medio se reanudarán el 29 o 30 de junio en Suiza. "El grupo técnico volverá, creo, el 29 o el 30", dijo Rubio #AFP

[ᴅʀ. ʜ.ᴀ. ʜᴇʟʟʏᴇʀ 🖖🏾 ⚜️ @hahellyer]

Marco Rubio in Gulf to reassure allies hit hard by Mideast war --- AFP. Includes my thoughts: https://t.co/7XQE2XegdU

“To be quite frank, any kind of drop in Washington’s standing in the region, especially in the Gulf, is I would say, a bit erratic. None of these countries are interested in replacing their relationship with the United States. On the contrary, my assessment is that they will deepen as much as possible their relationship with the United States, but at the same time I think what they will do is diversify their security relationships across the board, because they simply don't view the United States as being dependable and predictable”

“I think that Rubio is probably going in order to try to reassure all of these Gulf partners…we're here and we stand by you. I don't know how much of it will change the equation because again none of them are looking to push the US out or anything like that, so it's not as though anything he's going to do is going to impact that. The key variable that he can’t shift them about is the actual reliability of the United States.”

“In terms of assuaging them about overall American predictability and centering of Gulf security in the Gulf, I don't think he will succeed in this regard at all, because the United States, at the end of the day, went to war in the Gulf against the wishes of the Gulf with the single, the single worst partner that it could have gone to war in league with, which is the state of Israel”

“They're not looking to replace the US or to downgrade the relationship with the US, that's not the point. They simply will diversify on top of it. In fact, they will deepen, I think, their relationship with the US”

“The UAE thought that they had an understanding with Iran before this war began. Within a few hours of the US and Israel striking Iran at the beginning of the war, the UAE took, I think, more missiles and attacks than Israel did which took them by surprise.

“But it wouldn’t surprise me if he was, he was trying to put distance (…) This deal is quite controversial within the Republican party”

Dr H.A. Hellyer, senior associate fellow, Royal United Services Institute and Center for American Progress

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇦🇪 🇺🇸 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected in the UAE on Tuesday, the first stop on a tour of Gulf states aimed at showing solidarity with key allies hit hard by the Middle East war ➡️ https://t.co/USUhZLQLkB

[Aya Iskandarani @Aya_Isk]

After bearing the brunt of Iran's attacks in a war they never wanted, the US-Iran deal left the Gulf exposed to Iran's proxies & missiles & frustrated with an unreliable US ally.

We wrote about the view from the Gulf, with @CallumPaton1 & @sofianealsaar.
https://t.co/fFYqMgbM8f

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

The Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs.

Paid to have a camera strapped to their foreheads, a growing army of thousands of AI system trainers in the world's most populous country are teaching machines how to move like humans in the real world – from folding towels to factory work
https://t.co/QrPvODw5ou

[فرانس برس بالعربية @AFPar]

أطلقت #السعودية ناقلتها الوطن��ة الثانية "طيران الرياض" الأربعاء، بعد انتظار لأكثر من عام بسبب تأخير تسليم طائرات بوينغ، في وقت تفرض الحرب في الشرق الأوسط تحديات على اقتصادات دول الخليج ولا سيما شركات النقل الجوي.

https://t.co/7PW62IzPOL #فرانس_برس

��️📸 @sofianealsaar

[Haitham El-Tabei التابعي @Haithamtabei]

تقرير الزميل سفيان الصعر @sofianealsaar

أفاد الرئيس التنفيذي لطيران الرياض توني دوغلاس @AFPar
أن الانط��اق هو "ثمرة أربع سنوات من التحضير".
وأضاف دوغلاس الذي جلس إلى مقعد بلونَي الذهب والخزامى "نريد أن نعيد البريق والرقي والأناقة إلى تجربة السفر الجوي".
https://t.co/xSNeMJy0kB

[Aya Iskandarani @Aya_Isk]

Saudi launched its 2nd national carrier Riyadh Air today, despite delays and a regional context overshadowed by war.

Riyadh Air is one of the kingdom's more pragmatic giga-projects.

By @sofianealsaar
https://t.co/LnZQncw3qY

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🕋 Hajj begins at Mecca's Great Mosque

More than 1.5 million pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Worshippers head to the Masjid al-Haram Great Mosque in Mecca to perform Tawaf Al Qudum, the arrival circumambulation around the Kaaba, marking the beginning of the pilgrimage rites.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇸🇦 🕋 Hajj begins at Mecca's Great Mosque in shadow of Middle East conflict

More than 1.5 million pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Worshippers head to the Masjid al-Haram Great Mosque in Mecca to perform Tawaf Al Qudum, the arrival circumambulation around the Kaaba, marking the beginning of pilgrimage rites

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

With ice cream and giant fans, hajj pilgrims battle searing heat.

Saudi Arabia's National Center for Meteorology predicted daytime temperatures will hover between 42 and 47 degrees Celsius in Mecca during the hajj

https://t.co/Qa45sXJkDL

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Drones were launched at several targets in the Gulf on Sunday, with one hitting a freighter sailing towards Qatar, as Tehran warned the United States that it would no longer hold back from retaliatory strikes.
➡️ https://t.co/RH1ZE0Zufl

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Trump: We have completely destroyed Iran's army, Iran's government is full of 'sick people' whom the US will never allow to have nuclear weapons

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/lJa1iSocDR

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Iran war redraws sea routes.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz as well as tensions in the Red Sea are reshaping trade routes, with Africa becoming a hub of global container ship traffic, according to logistics and maritime sources

https://t.co/qSBTzKKdhT

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

The loyal, lonely keepers of Sudan's pyramids.

Mostafa Ahmed Mostafa is the heir to a long line of groundskeepers who have guarded Sudan's ancient pyramids of Meroe. Now, three years into the war between the army and paramilitary forces, he stands near-solitary sentinel over his heritage
https://t.co/WaSrVINFih

[FRANCE 24 – Urgent @UrgentF24]

🔴 URGENT - En direct : Netanyahu confirme un cessez-le-feu de dix jours au Liban pour "faire avancer" les efforts de paix https://t.co/gWSJlPhigt

[وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 @KSAMOFA]

سمو وزير الخارجية الأمير #فيصل_بن_فرحان @FaisalbinFarhan يتلقى اتصالاً هاتفياً من وزير خارجية الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية عباس عراقجي.

[Arthur Sarradin | آرثر سري الدين @ArthurSarradin]

🇱🇧 Les massacres du 8 Avril |

C’est sans nul doute l’un des articles les plus durs que j’ai eu à écrire. Récit d’une journée se bombardements israéliens à Beyrouth, de crimes de guerre en série au Liban.

Lire les noms et les voix des victimes. ⬇️

[Aya Iskandarani @Aya_Isk]

Gulf countries are reporting Iranian attacks:

UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain have all reported Iranian strikes hours after the truce came into effect.

Kuwait seems badly hit, with the army saying attacks have been ongoing since 8am, damaging power, desalination plants& oil facilities.