William Shockley

Interests: Politics, Middle East/North Africa, Islamism in particular. Also Birds and 🚲.

[William Shockley @WilliamShockley]

@Keywest_Felix !

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

There’s still a way to build a Palestinian state, @SSinijlawi writes. But both sides will need to radically change their thinking—­and their leadership: https://t.co/aOGClf3oW7

[Antiokhos in the West @AntiokhosE]

A gruelling overnight flight to southern Anatolia - to Sanliurfa.

Perhaps one of the oldest cities on earth, claimed as birthplace of biblical Abraham, Urfa would be refounded as Edessa by Seleukos I, later a frontier between Romans and Persians, Crusaders and Saracens /1 🧵

[William Shockley @WilliamShockley]

@OSidorkiewicz @johnpaul_newman Found it: Now (Volume 3) https://t.co/N57Bg0nm6n

[William Shockley @WilliamShockley]

@OSidorkiewicz @johnpaul_newman Depending on when you need it, a saved search on eBay is worth a try. Just had a look and there are only copies of volume 7 at the moment.

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[William Shockley @WilliamShockley]

@QcWynter One of these: Silverline Flexible Pick-Up Tool 600mm (277860) https://t.co/rXFQqOQsKS

[William Shockley @WilliamShockley]

@JackTShaw @CharlesTTHF I think when measuring the success of important initiatives like this, it’s not all black and white.

[Antiokhos in the West @AntiokhosE]

The surviving works of Theodoric include the upper course of scenes from the life of a Christ, and the saints beneath them; as well as large depictions of the Ostrogothic naval base at Ravenna and Theodoric’s palace as they would have appeared in the early 6th century 7/8

[Antiokhos in the West @AntiokhosE]

A thread on an awesome Bolognese church - Saint Stefano - which preserves a still substantially late Roman fabric, and through which one can trace its evolution from a small temple to Isis to today’s sprawling complex 🧵 /1

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The long-running conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh has created partnerships in the South Caucasus that cut across religious, ethnic, and geopolitical lines in surprising ways.”
https://t.co/jkVcdkhxaZ

[Lewis Pugh @LewisPugh]

An osprey fishing in slow motion. What a sight to behold!

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

The art of Henna has been practiced in South Asia, Africa & the Middle East for over 5000 years. The botanical name of the henna plant is Lawsonia inermis. A member of the Loosestrife family, henna originally comes from Egypt.

A thread on the art of henna in Muslim cultures...

[William Shockley @WilliamShockley]

@SamWhyte @JamesHarrisNow eBay saved searches are worth a go for things like this. Good luck!

[William Shockley @WilliamShockley]

@katebevan Why can’t you just live laugh love?

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🔋THREAD🔌
The inconvenient truth about climate change is that solving it will involve digging, blasting & leaching more minerals from the skin of this planet than ever before.
No one much likes to talk abt this.
But talk about it we must.
⛏👇

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

2/ Calligraphy Leaf
Ottoman Turkey
19th century

Chestnut leaf inscribed with a Qur’anic verse from Surat al-Isra’ (“The Night Journey,” Q17:80), which reads: “And say, ‘Lord grant me a good entrance and a goodly exit, and sustain me with Your power.”

@AgaKhanMuseum #Ramadan

[History Defined @historydefined]

A Roman Silver 'Swiss Army Knife', 200 - 300 AD.

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.