#  @fath0039 Fathel Fathel posts on X about lebanon, in the, this is, israel the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::3780502354/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +33% - [--] Month [---------] -69% - [--] Months [-----------] +19,818% - [--] Year [-----------] +2,948% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::3780502354/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +800% - [--] Month [---] -7.60% - [--] Months [---] +101% - [--] Year [---] -63% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::3780502354/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +0.48% - [--] Month [-----] +2.20% - [--] Months [-----] +37% - [--] Year [-----] +71% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::3780502354/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 53.92% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 5.88% [financial services](/list/financial-services) 0.98% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.98% [finance](/list/finance) 0.98% **Social topic influence** [lebanon](/topic/lebanon) #148, [in the](/topic/in-the) 8.82%, [this is](/topic/this-is) 8.82%, [israel](/topic/israel) #2213, [faroe islands](/topic/faroe-islands) 6.86%, [countries](/topic/countries) #1347, [egypt](/topic/egypt) #365, [books](/topic/books) 6.86%, [libya](/topic/libya) #99, [saudi arabia](/topic/saudi-arabia) #308 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@alab9898653](/creator/undefined) [@missmaryma18217](/creator/undefined) [@bouch3ar1003](/creator/undefined) [@cloudofposting](/creator/undefined) [@wahb_allat](/creator/undefined) [@bakiberkati0](/creator/undefined) [@hdiashid](/creator/undefined) [@izamsm](/creator/undefined) [@mouinrabbani](/creator/undefined) [@jibrailgaboro](/creator/undefined) [@drsalehseyidli](/creator/undefined) [@shinmarginalscr](/creator/undefined) [@ghquisay](/creator/undefined) [@whirlwhindy](/creator/undefined) [@naisselinezwawa](/creator/undefined) [@qatilqatilshoua](/creator/undefined) [@arabtunisiann](/creator/undefined) [@joesant27234830](/creator/undefined) [@harrata01free](/creator/undefined) [@eliascassab](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@EliasCassab Rearabizing Lebanon 🦁💪" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020443921076167028) 2026-02-08T10:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It was not a bad time to go the Faroe Islands. The weather here is warmer than in Copenhagen even though it is much closer to Iceland than Denmark" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020572181118292386) 2026-02-08T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What Really Went Wrong by Fawaz Gerges serves as a stealth history of American military involvement in Mena during the 1950s and 1960s and its devastating effects on the region. It is one of the best introductions to the region" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020594326968119762) 2026-02-08T20:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "One of the major themes is the U.S.'s violent opposition to Nasser and the Eisenhower Doctrine and its effects on the region's dynamics and regimes. He also recounts the enormous effects of the Camp David Accords on the region" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020596863347646844) 2026-02-08T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@SnarlsDeGaulle American healthcare is a scam" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020800242740859263) 2026-02-09T10:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Me on the Faroe Islands. With the crew https://t.co/hceOsTjlRy With the crew https://t.co/hceOsTjlRy" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020836583470248255) 2026-02-09T12:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "South African apartheid like Israeli was similarly held up by American supplied air power and the American ensured impoverishment and dependency of the region's countries" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020843997099630992) 2026-02-09T12:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In What Really Went Wrong Fawaz Gerges makes the point that the death of Nasser and the Sadat's "corrective movement" took away Egyptian deterrence which shielded Lebanon and Egypt was no longer there to keep Lebanon's contradictions from imploding the country" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2021523542148571174) 2026-02-11T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I agree with the assessment. We often discuss fault on an almost purely internal basis vis-a-vis who started the civil war without the regional dynamics" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2021523545566982384) 2026-02-11T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If you wanna visit Denmark I'd recommend checking out the Faroe Islands as well" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2021528564647014888) 2026-02-11T10:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Kata'ib and Sham'oun were the two most powerful and felt inclined to not negotiate or compromise with any opposition regardless of how moderate it was. The feeling of perceived American support and concrete support from Saudi Arabia did encourage maximalism" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022017550545301845) 2026-02-12T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Franjieh was always at odds with them and more sympathetic to the demands of parts of the opposition same goes for Sarkis and Shihab. With the death of Nasser there was no longer an Arab consensus of pragmatism towards Lebanon as well" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022017553607143497) 2026-02-12T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "In What Really Went Wrong Gerges argues that Nasser because he was a primarily diplomatically minded pragmatic actor (compared to everyone else in the region) kept Lebanon's contradictions contained. Nasser was a proponent of Chehab for example. I'd like to see Fawaz Gerges tackle Lebanon in a book. What all Lebanon books lack regardless of quality lack is really intertwining the local with the regional dynamics. David Hirst does it kinda in Beware of Small States but it is not about the civil war specifically. I'd like to see Fawaz Gerges tackle Lebanon in a book. What all Lebanon books lack" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022100930754490544) 2026-02-13T00:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "And Lebanon's more militant and risk taking elements like Jumblatt or Jumayyil lacked the ability to manoeuvre prior to Egyptian disengagement from Lebanon which allowed Syria Saudi Arabia Iraq etc to fill the vaccum" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022100932767666579) 2026-02-13T00:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Maybe I should drop everything and become a sheep herder on the Faroe Islands" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022113980626743576) 2026-02-13T01:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I'm currently curating a reading list of books on American nationalism and it informs its foreign policy especially the sort of frontierism protestant milenarianism American exceptionalism kind" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022615653547376952) 2026-02-14T10:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Americans are the revisionist power ushering in naked kratocracy and they still talk as if they are the vanguard of international law. This is just externalizing what is taking the world down its current trajectory instead of building an actual liberal international order. Asked what victory in Ukraine looks like AOC replies: "There's no conversation about Ukraine that can happen without Ukraine and so they of course lead in terms of setting their their terms on this." "But I think that overall as a principle we shouldn't reward https://t.co/8UCZ8ka2iw Asked what victory in Ukraine looks like" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022633551645302989) 2026-02-14T11:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Italian Arabs" seriously https://t.co/ISDQ8E5SUj https://t.co/ISDQ8E5SUj" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022828065970163977) 2026-02-15T00:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "We should care equally about these authoritarian systems and human rights violations. By only caring about all you tell me is that you're a hack partisan who couldn't care less about the people killed in Sudan and slowly being executed in Egyptian prisons" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022989805337149826) 2026-02-15T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Kafr_Abdou_Zep It is better in Tripoli thought issues persist due to the predatory nature od the system as it is now. You'd think this would make Egypt less happy to support him considering he always defies Sisi" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023033034375840089) 2026-02-15T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@hdiashid There isn't. Honestly you'd have to read a combination of books. I'd go with Crossroads to the civil Coexistence In Wartime Lebanon Beware of Small States War and Memory In Lebanon A History of Modern Lebanon and A House of Many Mansions" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023114525260890249) 2026-02-15T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@cloudofposting His point is about the general Maronites in the area of Beirut and Mount Lebanon not really having it better than the Sunnis Greek Orthodox Greek Catholic and Druze. Still the Maronite elite were the preeminent force even though Sunnis were not that far behind" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023138544815157374) 2026-02-15T20:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@izamsm You'd have violent uprisings if it were to happen. We not Moroccans" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022701392335417837) 2026-02-14T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Egypt and Iraq are gone. If Iran becomes a failed state like Iraq or neutered economically crippled American client state like Egypt what is to stop Israel from turning on weak and fragile Saudi Arabia" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023036837443649611) 2026-02-15T14:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The emirs of "Lebanon" like Fakhr al-din and the later Shihabs were nothing more than Ottoman and Egyptian officials in the area. Lebanon is seen as the quintessential artificial Arab state but a lot of that is due to the narratives by the Lebanese themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023302117147189539) 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "After its formation and the establishment of a democratic secular Syria you had Maronite leadership who pragmatically cam to accept this new Syria just like the Jews Druze Greek Orthodox had more enthusiastically done earlier" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023302122532716806) 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "My final Lebanon reading list that I'm halfway through. If anyone has any recommendations that you feel should be on there please list them" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022428215709691992) 2026-02-13T21:50Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements "It is no more artificial than Palestine or Syria. We can go back to the formation of the Arab Syrian Congress of [----] headed by Rashid Rida where they elected Faisal king of Syria under what would be a secular parliamentary democracy. There was buy-in from all fhe region's sects" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023302118908510467) 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The only major outlier were the Maronites but this was no Maronite consensus. You had prominent Maronites who sided with the Congress. An example is brother of Maronite patriarch Habib Istefn who went to Damascus and called for Arab unity against French domination" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023302120632430827) 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Lebanon obviously is not and that is true for most Arab countries. This is due to demographics resources geography structural dependencies set up by colonial powers etc" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023302125925597276) 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Lindsey Graham is a vile genocidal anti-Arab racist who has celebrated every bomb dropped and sanction imposed on every Arab country" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020446955034263873) 2026-02-08T10:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Even though it is winter on the Faroe Islands we already have spring weather. It is rainy but not cold at all" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020811117920985545) 2026-02-09T10:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DrSalehSeyidli I take it as compliment. I was able to successfully parody Thomas Friedman by writing so pretentious and pseudo-intellectual" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022438927354015929) 2026-02-13T22:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@i_Spirito Architecture And Tourism In Italian Colonial Libya Libya" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022650756260651422) 2026-02-14T12:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@DEyesalli It is pretty incredible the narrative these people tell themselves. The LNM was held together by two things: the sheer personality of Kamal Jumblatt and fanatics like the Jumayyils and Sakr refusing to entertain even the mildest reforms" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022664164620308695) 2026-02-14T13:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@ShinMarginalScr Maybe it is adjacency to western Europe Estonia is similar odds about it and they like to themselves as part of the nordics" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022690557445669365) 2026-02-14T15:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@cloudofposting To sum up Kata'ib was an outlier in that they viewed Israel as an ally to accomplish their revanchist goals and they had a shared disdain of Palestinians. Another prominent Maronite would be Sulaiman Franjieh who was always far more sympathetic towards the Palestinians" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022816050845286857) 2026-02-14T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@cloudofposting On the popular level Lebanese Christian support for Palestinians was always much greater than on the elite level and for the whole region Christians have always been very pro-Palestine because they frankly don't have Lebanon's contradictions and little elite representation" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022816195934568546) 2026-02-14T23:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ghquisay Egypt was also still under British domination to a significant degree. Your tribe was affected as well by the mass displacement and camps" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023062473507811814) 2026-02-15T15:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@cloudofposting Though there was always too much disagreement among Maronites to truly yield the system. You had prominent Maronites like Franjieh (who was from the north) side with the Arab Nationalists and pro-Nasser faction in 1958" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023139404190253270) 2026-02-15T20:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@whirlwhindy I'm Libyan. If you've read about it you'd know that ISIS in Libya Sirte was to a great extent made up of foreign fighters. Their sharia judge was a Yemeni and their main commander was an Iraqi. I'd recommend reading The Burning Shores by Fred Wehrey" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023073700611080622) 2026-02-15T16:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Italian tourism brochures from Colonial Libya" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022631295919239240) 2026-02-14T11:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "There is no world where either of Algeria and Libya join the Abraham Accords" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022667626166845668) 2026-02-14T13:41Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements "Libya and Algeria fought two of the most violent wars of independence of the 20th century. They view their struggle for freedom from foreign tyranny as interlinked with Palestine" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022669552354517397) 2026-02-14T13:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The true Toika of Tyranny is Miami Tel Aviv and Dubai/Abu Dhabi" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022680945682235694) 2026-02-14T14:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "You hear this often. One of the most prominent Arab Christian of the last [--] years is the Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda who openly defied Sadat (who had recently violently purged all opposition) by vocally opposing the Camp David Accords back in the late 1970s. @sawaya_nicolas Israel flunkies will just say Arab Christians are all fanatic Zionists but too scared to reveal their real views. @sawaya_nicolas Israel flunkies will just say Arab Christians are all fanatic Zionists but too scared to reveal their real views" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022735186585116982) 2026-02-14T18:10Z [----] followers, 18.7K engagements "There is tendency among Arab liberal conservatives eto downplay the viciousness of regimes that are pro-US. We don't see the same outrage towards the equally horrific torture dungeons of Egypt or Saudi Arabia as we do Iran or the same outrage against the UAE axis as the AoR" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2022988809022173332) 2026-02-15T10:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This was one of the darkest chapters in Libya's modern history. For many decades Libyans and Egyptians have enjoyed close ties and a lot immigration between both countries including many Copts to Libya. Despite all this continues. Eleven years ago the world watched Islamic State militants behead twenty one Christians on a Libyan beach. The victims included twenty Coptic workers from Egypt and one from Ghana. They refused to renounce Jesus despite certain death. Images from the February fifteenth twenty https://t.co/a2Biu45J23 Eleven years ago the world watched Islamic State militants behead" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023030875060052476) 2026-02-15T13:45Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements "I think this is true. History has shown with one less adversary Israel gets bolder and more ambitious. There is not even a pretens of partnership with other American client states. Contained adversaries is what the Gulf wants. Iran today Iraq post-1991 and Egypt post-1967. "IRAN IS A BUFFER" Iran isnt just a rival to Saudi Arabia its a buffer between Israel and the Gulf. That reality shapes every regional decision. @tparsi https://t.co/wHZvjb0T92 "IRAN IS A BUFFER" Iran isnt just a rival to Saudi Arabia its a buffer between Israel and the Gulf. That reality shapes every regional decision." [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023036834700513337) 2026-02-15T14:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Thread: The whole Lebanon is artificial is kind of silly. Yes Lebanon was the product of violent French partition and prior under Ottoman rule there was a sense of unified rudimentary identity and free movement" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023302115171717148) 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Yes Lebanon is a product of the violent conquest and partition of the Kingdom of Syria by France. However I think what is more important to discuss than how artificial a country is is whether it is viable" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023302124222714097) 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@RashmanTheHorse After only year it is pretty conclusive that Syria is a far more sovereign country than Iraq currently is. This whole bulwark against Iran can't work if the US insists on having the power dictate the most minute details of Arab government formations" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023329539128983591) 2026-02-16T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Something that is common on this site is people dismissing the views of North African Jews. If we're pro-Palestine people will tell you that you're either lying to avoid "Muslim wrath" or is brainwashed lol. And everyone does this" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2023333212500439072) 2026-02-16T09:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "With the recent deal of 10s billions of US-French Investment into Libya's hydrocarbon industry with more to come. I at least hope some of these revenues will be used to help poor countries like Tunisia and Lebanon" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016217716093284687) 2026-01-27T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@ArabProgressiv1 This was in the Mashriq. The Maghreb was also closer connected to Europe" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016219326546653662) 2026-01-27T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Tension exists within the GCC over oil quotas especially between the UAE & KSA With 10s of billions in FDI in Libyan oil & with Libyan refinement/extraction costs being lower than the Gulf's the potential millions of extra Libyan barrels of oil will be something harms the Gulf" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016448417296204148) 2026-01-28T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@anarchosheesh Who is "Clavicular"" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016561166261121311) 2026-01-28T17:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Trump if you annexe the Nordics please make the governor of the Faroe Islands" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016567802761527385) 2026-01-28T17:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@abdelbassethnyk I've never met a Copt with Islamophobic views. All the ones I've met in Libya can't stop talking about how we are one people" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016571640943927640) 2026-01-28T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "See you on Friday Faroe Islands" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016573293537444340) 2026-01-28T18:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Arab culture in [----] is listening to Afro house music in a Dubai beach bar while drinking matcha wearing a labubu while eating Dubai Chocolate" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016645085505421444) 2026-01-28T22:50Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements "@jomana_hasan90 The Slave Yards by Najwa Bin Shatwan" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016893877018308949) 2026-01-29T15:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Kamal Salibi on the Maronites Druze and Shi'a of Lebanon. (The Modern History of Lebanon; Salibi)" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2016931452621820179) 2026-01-29T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Gonna take a break from this site" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2017029226822500522) 2026-01-30T00:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Mark Carney and Pedro Sanchez arw tankies. We need more good pro-American and pro-western and pro-human rights and democracy leaders like Abiy Ahmed Paul Kagame Netanyahu Aliev MBZ etc who value the rules-based order not tankie revisionists" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/2020458581854728545) 2026-02-08T11:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The U.S. and its servile clients are effectively threatening to tear apart the Lebanese social fabric. https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/28/news/u/as-israel-ramps-up-strikes-on-lebanon-egypts-intelligence-chief-joins-international-push-to-de-escalate-by-kickstarting-talks/ https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/28/news/u/as-israel-ramps-up-strikes-on-lebanon-egypts-intelligence-chief-joins-international-push-to-de-escalate-by-kickstarting-talks/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983517264772247786) 2025-10-29T12:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A must-read article on what's happening in Darfur. https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/27/feature/politics/the-fall-of-fasher-darfurs-old-wound-that-has-never-healed/ https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/27/feature/politics/the-fall-of-fasher-darfurs-old-wound-that-has-never-healed/" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1983519259331289096) 2025-10-29T13:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Morocco is the Foud Ajami of Arab countries" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1983653183877718410) 2025-10-29T21:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This is not correct. The RSF only has an ideology in as far as it is a vehicle for Hemedti's power and enrichment. It is more useful to think of them as chauvinist gangsters with enormous military resources. Americans are too stupid to understand Shia vs Sunni no shot they're going to comprehend the RSF being secular Arab supremacist anti-Islamists. Absolutely no shot. https://t.co/qNRFjqtK9d Americans are too stupid to understand Shia vs Sunni no shot they're going to comprehend the RSF being secular Arab supremacist anti-Islamists. Absolutely no shot. https://t.co/qNRFjqtK9d" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1983876494066618662) 2025-10-30T12:39Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements "Today is my 29th birthday" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1983932223800717387) 2025-10-30T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Really struck a nerve. It is his modus operandi: where he interjects Iddisch words and makes sweeping claims without sources. It is his modus operandi: where he interjects Iddisch words and makes sweeping claims without sources" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1983994659518214548) 2025-10-30T20:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""This is why you deserve to die" refreshingly honest from Lindsey Graham. To my friends in Lebanon I understand being upset when innocent people are killed or harmed by Israeli military operations designed to suppress Hezbollah a historical threat to the State of Israel. However I firmly believe that Israels military incursions into Lebanon are To my friends in Lebanon I understand being upset when innocent people are killed or harmed by Israeli military operations designed to suppress Hezbollah a historical threat to the State of Israel. However I firmly believe that Israels military" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1984146286220828776) 2025-10-31T06:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Edward Said made the best critique of Hamas. He condemned the use of suicide bombings and the broader framework of religious nationalism but he never for second failed to mention the Israeli responsibility in shaping the conditions that has led to it" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1984319424174997754) 2025-10-31T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "There are two lineups in the Middle East: 1- Modernization by renouncing the old and endorsing the new. The UAE and Israel are leading this alliance. 2- Islamism and going back to 7th century. Qatar and Turkey are leading this coalition. Saudi Arabia is missing in action. Iran is There are two lineups in the Middle East: 1- Modernization by renouncing the old and endorsing the new. The UAE and Israel are leading this alliance. 2- Islamism and going back to 7th century. Qatar and Turkey are leading this coalition. Saudi Arabia is missing in action. Iran is" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1984736851207356700) 2025-11-01T21:38Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements "My review of When We Were Arabs" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1985048132095291577) 2025-11-02T18:15Z [----] followers, 19.8K engagements "The vision most American supposed liberal think tank people have for Mena is truly despicable and no amount of faux progressivism or deluding will make that less apparent" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1985673616995029433) 2025-11-04T11:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This is a great insight into the warped priorities of American think tank people in the Gulf. The chief concern is maintaining these surface level people-to-people interactions between Gulf Arabs and Israelis. There is no mention of genocide nor of Israeli surveillance tech. "The honeymoon is over." An assistant professor of Middle East politics at NYU Abu Dhabi discusses the future of the Abraham Accords https://t.co/iEeA9YbEoV "The honeymoon is over." An assistant professor of Middle East politics at NYU Abu Dhabi discusses the future of the Abraham Accords https://t.co/iEeA9YbEoV" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985680302287753364) 2025-11-04T12:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The fact that affluent Israelis can go to Dubai and celebrate openly their national identity is something that brings you joy. I care a lot more about how this alliance is waging a war on civil society democracy and the literal people of Palestine and Sudan" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1985680717632733542) 2025-11-04T12:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Dick Cheney was evil and anyone who tries to rehabilitate him clearly believes the millions of victims of his policies are subhuman" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1985737354116485150) 2025-11-04T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In contrast the consumption of poetry in the Arab region has been fully replaced with Dubai chocolate labubu matcha slob. Architecture is poetry in space. Iran having a cultural affinity for poetry is naturally enthusiastic about architecture as well Architecture is poetry in space. Iran having a cultural affinity for poetry is naturally enthusiastic about architecture as well" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986002672785240341) 2025-11-05T09:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Danish right are losing their minds over Mamdani. This is a country of America-obsessed Charlie Kirk fans. They are incapable of not seeing themselves as to-be Americans" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986029123920101741) 2025-11-05T11:13Z [----] followers, 21.6K engagements "This is especially pronounced in Copenhagen. Most people here speak English in their daily lives to a significant degree and almost exclusively consume American media. There are a ton of places in the city where you have an easier time getting around with English than with Danish" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1986030799888798066) 2025-11-05T11:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "America should just annex Denmark and make it the 51st state. Then your conservatives could finally LARP as Vikings and Ozempic would become American. The Danish right are losing their minds over Mamdani. This is a country of America-obsessed Charlie Kirk fans. They are incapable of not seeing themselves as to-be Americans. The Danish right are losing their minds over Mamdani. This is a country of America-obsessed Charlie Kirk fans. They are incapable of not seeing themselves as to-be Americans" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986031719212867965) 2025-11-05T11:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Recommended reading. This paper by Toby Craig Jones is probably the best concise work on the U.S.-Saudi relationship" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1986036697411256527) 2025-11-05T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Of all the books on Sudan maybe the best I've read has been Contested Sudan: The Political Economy of War and Reconstruction by Ibrahim el-Nur. It is the most comprehensive book on the country" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1986041281278054532) 2025-11-05T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Not that you're incorrect about the unseriousness of these people but you demand functionally the same commitment to from social movements and groups in Mena conform to your sensibility politics. Zohrans win shows the futility of electoral politics. Join a Leninist reading group instead Zohrans win shows the futility of electoral politics. Join a Leninist reading group instead" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986453971821605026) 2025-11-06T15:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@musajalal001 Who is this even for" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1986456396796228071) 2025-11-06T15:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@souljagoyteller Who is there even to meet Ofer Cassif would likely tell him not to come that Israel should be boycotted like the genocidal apartheid state it is" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1986720067195671009) 2025-11-07T08:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Zohran Mamdani should go to an Israeli restaurant in Dubai and eat Israeli cuisine like Couscous and Falafel as a sign of solidarity and inter-faith coexistence" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1987070268779499589) 2025-11-08T08:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Would people be interested in a list of books about the ethnography of political violence specifically in Arab countries" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1987131130496094673) 2025-11-08T12:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@matthew_petti The Tunisians do it the same way as the Lebanese but this has deeper self-loathing roots. The Algerians don't do it. The Algerians Palestinians and Libyans are too traumatized by genocidal imperialism to LARP this way" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1987136862138384793) 2025-11-08T12:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Great chapter by Saree Makdisi. With all going on in Darfur this chapter is quite relevant. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/jj.32657595.14.pdfrefreqid=fastly-default%3Af75dbd661ec96f41469df58cacd95165&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Ftest&initiator=&acceptTC=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/jj.32657595.14.pdfrefreqid=fastly-default%3Af75dbd661ec96f41469df58cacd95165&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Ftest&initiator=&acceptTC=1" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1987163800940740670) 2025-11-08T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "With the whole "what about Sudan" crowd I'd recommend reading this chapter. Scholars like Mamdani and De Waal have been writing about this use of Sudan and Darfur in particular for decades. https://t.co/OcVwG2lN79 Great chapter by Saree Makdisi. With all going on in Darfur this chapter is quite relevant. https://t.co/oTVEaVn0QR https://t.co/OcVwG2lN79 Great chapter by Saree Makdisi. With all going on in Darfur this chapter is quite relevant. https://t.co/oTVEaVn0QR" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1987166336212951484) 2025-11-08T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "post you and your celeb lookalike :-) https://t.co/mfDxgpneDI post you and your celeb lookalike :-) https://t.co/mfDxgpneDI" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1987947487278121277) 2025-11-10T18:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "People underestimate how much of a departure Biden was. His biggest problem with Obama's and Bush's foreign policy was that there was too much funding for civil society in global south countries. Biden embodies the same naked contempt and supremacism of the Trump administration" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988054804309176358) 2025-11-11T01:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "All this talk of Saudi-Israeli normalization is detached. This slavish devotion to salavging the optics of a regional status quo that allows for murderous dictatorships and genocidal apartheid states. Im glad to be sharing my interview I did with @IsraelHayomEng For normalization between #Saudi and #Israel so many stars need to align - even stars that never been aligned before. Now these stars are not even in the same galaxy Im glad to be sharing my interview I did with @IsraelHayomEng For normalization between #Saudi and #Israel so many stars need to align - even stars that never been" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1988266675951530282) 2025-11-11T15:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The peak of western sectarianism tacitly pushing for communal violence or the least discrimination and marginalization of Syrian children to push some vile agenda of intra-ethnic violence. Hey Lebanese [------] Syrian kids under [--] are living in Lebanon right now. Keep fighting few guys pushing for a Christian Lebanon. In [--] years most kids in Lebanon will be Syrian 😂😂 Bravo keep defending the mafiocrat system you fkn hypocrites. https://t.co/VFDkO6iELe Hey Lebanese [------] Syrian kids under [--] are living in Lebanon right now. Keep fighting few guys pushing for a Christian Lebanon. In [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1988555916770160868) 2025-11-12T10:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Four books I'd recommend. Four books I read this year that I recommend: https://t.co/1OOIOPmySA Four books I read this year that I recommend: https://t.co/1OOIOPmySA" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1988716663412518967) 2025-11-12T21:12Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements "I wrote a short post about the use of "Dhimmitude" by Western sectarians to launder support for Israel and Islamophobia. https://open.substack.com/pub/fathel/p/dhimmi-this-dhimmi-that-why-you-asr=2was6m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/fathel/p/dhimmi-this-dhimmi-that-why-you-asr=2was6m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1988953708164735457) 2025-11-13T12:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It is hard to believe Obama used to know Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said personally and he still sought out Dershowitz concerning Palestine. Somehow one of the most damning emails I've seen. Somehow one of the most damning emails I've seen" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1989107941417578790) 2025-11-13T23:07Z [----] followers, 325.9K engagements "One of the most interesting and insightful books on Palestine and Palestinians by @LalehKhalili Highly recommended read" [X Link](https://x.com/fath0039/status/1989354639171703132) 2025-11-14T15:28Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@fath0039 FathelFathel posts on X about lebanon, in the, this is, israel the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence countries 53.92% travel destinations 5.88% financial services 0.98% technology brands 0.98% finance 0.98%
Social topic influence lebanon #148, in the 8.82%, this is 8.82%, israel #2213, faroe islands 6.86%, countries #1347, egypt #365, books 6.86%, libya #99, saudi arabia #308
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @alab9898653 @missmaryma18217 @bouch3ar1003 @cloudofposting @wahb_allat @bakiberkati0 @hdiashid @izamsm @mouinrabbani @jibrailgaboro @drsalehseyidli @shinmarginalscr @ghquisay @whirlwhindy @naisselinezwawa @qatilqatilshoua @arabtunisiann @joesant27234830 @harrata01free @eliascassab
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"@EliasCassab Rearabizing Lebanon 🦁💪"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It was not a bad time to go the Faroe Islands. The weather here is warmer than in Copenhagen even though it is much closer to Iceland than Denmark"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What Really Went Wrong by Fawaz Gerges serves as a stealth history of American military involvement in Mena during the 1950s and 1960s and its devastating effects on the region. It is one of the best introductions to the region"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of the major themes is the U.S.'s violent opposition to Nasser and the Eisenhower Doctrine and its effects on the region's dynamics and regimes. He also recounts the enormous effects of the Camp David Accords on the region"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SnarlsDeGaulle American healthcare is a scam"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Me on the Faroe Islands. With the crew https://t.co/hceOsTjlRy With the crew https://t.co/hceOsTjlRy"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"South African apartheid like Israeli was similarly held up by American supplied air power and the American ensured impoverishment and dependency of the region's countries"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In What Really Went Wrong Fawaz Gerges makes the point that the death of Nasser and the Sadat's "corrective movement" took away Egyptian deterrence which shielded Lebanon and Egypt was no longer there to keep Lebanon's contradictions from imploding the country"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I agree with the assessment. We often discuss fault on an almost purely internal basis vis-a-vis who started the civil war without the regional dynamics"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If you wanna visit Denmark I'd recommend checking out the Faroe Islands as well"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Kata'ib and Sham'oun were the two most powerful and felt inclined to not negotiate or compromise with any opposition regardless of how moderate it was. The feeling of perceived American support and concrete support from Saudi Arabia did encourage maximalism"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Franjieh was always at odds with them and more sympathetic to the demands of parts of the opposition same goes for Sarkis and Shihab. With the death of Nasser there was no longer an Arab consensus of pragmatism towards Lebanon as well"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"In What Really Went Wrong Gerges argues that Nasser because he was a primarily diplomatically minded pragmatic actor (compared to everyone else in the region) kept Lebanon's contradictions contained. Nasser was a proponent of Chehab for example. I'd like to see Fawaz Gerges tackle Lebanon in a book. What all Lebanon books lack regardless of quality lack is really intertwining the local with the regional dynamics. David Hirst does it kinda in Beware of Small States but it is not about the civil war specifically. I'd like to see Fawaz Gerges tackle Lebanon in a book. What all Lebanon books lack"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"And Lebanon's more militant and risk taking elements like Jumblatt or Jumayyil lacked the ability to manoeuvre prior to Egyptian disengagement from Lebanon which allowed Syria Saudi Arabia Iraq etc to fill the vaccum"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Maybe I should drop everything and become a sheep herder on the Faroe Islands"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I'm currently curating a reading list of books on American nationalism and it informs its foreign policy especially the sort of frontierism protestant milenarianism American exceptionalism kind"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Americans are the revisionist power ushering in naked kratocracy and they still talk as if they are the vanguard of international law. This is just externalizing what is taking the world down its current trajectory instead of building an actual liberal international order. Asked what victory in Ukraine looks like AOC replies: "There's no conversation about Ukraine that can happen without Ukraine and so they of course lead in terms of setting their their terms on this." "But I think that overall as a principle we shouldn't reward https://t.co/8UCZ8ka2iw Asked what victory in Ukraine looks like"
X Link 2026-02-14T11:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Italian Arabs" seriously https://t.co/ISDQ8E5SUj https://t.co/ISDQ8E5SUj"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We should care equally about these authoritarian systems and human rights violations. By only caring about all you tell me is that you're a hack partisan who couldn't care less about the people killed in Sudan and slowly being executed in Egyptian prisons"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Kafr_Abdou_Zep It is better in Tripoli thought issues persist due to the predatory nature od the system as it is now. You'd think this would make Egypt less happy to support him considering he always defies Sisi"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@hdiashid There isn't. Honestly you'd have to read a combination of books. I'd go with Crossroads to the civil Coexistence In Wartime Lebanon Beware of Small States War and Memory In Lebanon A History of Modern Lebanon and A House of Many Mansions"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@cloudofposting His point is about the general Maronites in the area of Beirut and Mount Lebanon not really having it better than the Sunnis Greek Orthodox Greek Catholic and Druze. Still the Maronite elite were the preeminent force even though Sunnis were not that far behind"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@izamsm You'd have violent uprisings if it were to happen. We not Moroccans"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Egypt and Iraq are gone. If Iran becomes a failed state like Iraq or neutered economically crippled American client state like Egypt what is to stop Israel from turning on weak and fragile Saudi Arabia"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The emirs of "Lebanon" like Fakhr al-din and the later Shihabs were nothing more than Ottoman and Egyptian officials in the area. Lebanon is seen as the quintessential artificial Arab state but a lot of that is due to the narratives by the Lebanese themselves"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"After its formation and the establishment of a democratic secular Syria you had Maronite leadership who pragmatically cam to accept this new Syria just like the Jews Druze Greek Orthodox had more enthusiastically done earlier"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"My final Lebanon reading list that I'm halfway through. If anyone has any recommendations that you feel should be on there please list them"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:50Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements
"It is no more artificial than Palestine or Syria. We can go back to the formation of the Arab Syrian Congress of [----] headed by Rashid Rida where they elected Faisal king of Syria under what would be a secular parliamentary democracy. There was buy-in from all fhe region's sects"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The only major outlier were the Maronites but this was no Maronite consensus. You had prominent Maronites who sided with the Congress. An example is brother of Maronite patriarch Habib Istefn who went to Damascus and called for Arab unity against French domination"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Lebanon obviously is not and that is true for most Arab countries. This is due to demographics resources geography structural dependencies set up by colonial powers etc"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Lindsey Graham is a vile genocidal anti-Arab racist who has celebrated every bomb dropped and sanction imposed on every Arab country"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Even though it is winter on the Faroe Islands we already have spring weather. It is rainy but not cold at all"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DrSalehSeyidli I take it as compliment. I was able to successfully parody Thomas Friedman by writing so pretentious and pseudo-intellectual"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@i_Spirito Architecture And Tourism In Italian Colonial Libya Libya"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DEyesalli It is pretty incredible the narrative these people tell themselves. The LNM was held together by two things: the sheer personality of Kamal Jumblatt and fanatics like the Jumayyils and Sakr refusing to entertain even the mildest reforms"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ShinMarginalScr Maybe it is adjacency to western Europe Estonia is similar odds about it and they like to themselves as part of the nordics"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@cloudofposting To sum up Kata'ib was an outlier in that they viewed Israel as an ally to accomplish their revanchist goals and they had a shared disdain of Palestinians. Another prominent Maronite would be Sulaiman Franjieh who was always far more sympathetic towards the Palestinians"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@cloudofposting On the popular level Lebanese Christian support for Palestinians was always much greater than on the elite level and for the whole region Christians have always been very pro-Palestine because they frankly don't have Lebanon's contradictions and little elite representation"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ghquisay Egypt was also still under British domination to a significant degree. Your tribe was affected as well by the mass displacement and camps"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@cloudofposting Though there was always too much disagreement among Maronites to truly yield the system. You had prominent Maronites like Franjieh (who was from the north) side with the Arab Nationalists and pro-Nasser faction in 1958"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@whirlwhindy I'm Libyan. If you've read about it you'd know that ISIS in Libya Sirte was to a great extent made up of foreign fighters. Their sharia judge was a Yemeni and their main commander was an Iraqi. I'd recommend reading The Burning Shores by Fred Wehrey"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Italian tourism brochures from Colonial Libya"
X Link 2026-02-14T11:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There is no world where either of Algeria and Libya join the Abraham Accords"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:41Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements
"Libya and Algeria fought two of the most violent wars of independence of the 20th century. They view their struggle for freedom from foreign tyranny as interlinked with Palestine"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The true Toika of Tyranny is Miami Tel Aviv and Dubai/Abu Dhabi"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"You hear this often. One of the most prominent Arab Christian of the last [--] years is the Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda who openly defied Sadat (who had recently violently purged all opposition) by vocally opposing the Camp David Accords back in the late 1970s. @sawaya_nicolas Israel flunkies will just say Arab Christians are all fanatic Zionists but too scared to reveal their real views. @sawaya_nicolas Israel flunkies will just say Arab Christians are all fanatic Zionists but too scared to reveal their real views"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:10Z [----] followers, 18.7K engagements
"There is tendency among Arab liberal conservatives eto downplay the viciousness of regimes that are pro-US. We don't see the same outrage towards the equally horrific torture dungeons of Egypt or Saudi Arabia as we do Iran or the same outrage against the UAE axis as the AoR"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This was one of the darkest chapters in Libya's modern history. For many decades Libyans and Egyptians have enjoyed close ties and a lot immigration between both countries including many Copts to Libya. Despite all this continues. Eleven years ago the world watched Islamic State militants behead twenty one Christians on a Libyan beach. The victims included twenty Coptic workers from Egypt and one from Ghana. They refused to renounce Jesus despite certain death. Images from the February fifteenth twenty https://t.co/a2Biu45J23 Eleven years ago the world watched Islamic State militants behead"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:45Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements
"I think this is true. History has shown with one less adversary Israel gets bolder and more ambitious. There is not even a pretens of partnership with other American client states. Contained adversaries is what the Gulf wants. Iran today Iraq post-1991 and Egypt post-1967. "IRAN IS A BUFFER" Iran isnt just a rival to Saudi Arabia its a buffer between Israel and the Gulf. That reality shapes every regional decision. @tparsi https://t.co/wHZvjb0T92 "IRAN IS A BUFFER" Iran isnt just a rival to Saudi Arabia its a buffer between Israel and the Gulf. That reality shapes every regional decision."
X Link 2026-02-15T14:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Thread: The whole Lebanon is artificial is kind of silly. Yes Lebanon was the product of violent French partition and prior under Ottoman rule there was a sense of unified rudimentary identity and free movement"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yes Lebanon is a product of the violent conquest and partition of the Kingdom of Syria by France. However I think what is more important to discuss than how artificial a country is is whether it is viable"
X Link 2026-02-16T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@RashmanTheHorse After only year it is pretty conclusive that Syria is a far more sovereign country than Iraq currently is. This whole bulwark against Iran can't work if the US insists on having the power dictate the most minute details of Arab government formations"
X Link 2026-02-16T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Something that is common on this site is people dismissing the views of North African Jews. If we're pro-Palestine people will tell you that you're either lying to avoid "Muslim wrath" or is brainwashed lol. And everyone does this"
X Link 2026-02-16T09:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"With the recent deal of 10s billions of US-French Investment into Libya's hydrocarbon industry with more to come. I at least hope some of these revenues will be used to help poor countries like Tunisia and Lebanon"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ArabProgressiv1 This was in the Mashriq. The Maghreb was also closer connected to Europe"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tension exists within the GCC over oil quotas especially between the UAE & KSA With 10s of billions in FDI in Libyan oil & with Libyan refinement/extraction costs being lower than the Gulf's the potential millions of extra Libyan barrels of oil will be something harms the Gulf"
X Link 2026-01-28T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@anarchosheesh Who is "Clavicular""
X Link 2026-01-28T17:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump if you annexe the Nordics please make the governor of the Faroe Islands"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@abdelbassethnyk I've never met a Copt with Islamophobic views. All the ones I've met in Libya can't stop talking about how we are one people"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"See you on Friday Faroe Islands"
X Link 2026-01-28T18:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Arab culture in [----] is listening to Afro house music in a Dubai beach bar while drinking matcha wearing a labubu while eating Dubai Chocolate"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:50Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements
"@jomana_hasan90 The Slave Yards by Najwa Bin Shatwan"
X Link 2026-01-29T15:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Kamal Salibi on the Maronites Druze and Shi'a of Lebanon. (The Modern History of Lebanon; Salibi)"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Gonna take a break from this site"
X Link 2026-01-30T00:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Mark Carney and Pedro Sanchez arw tankies. We need more good pro-American and pro-western and pro-human rights and democracy leaders like Abiy Ahmed Paul Kagame Netanyahu Aliev MBZ etc who value the rules-based order not tankie revisionists"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The U.S. and its servile clients are effectively threatening to tear apart the Lebanese social fabric. https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/28/news/u/as-israel-ramps-up-strikes-on-lebanon-egypts-intelligence-chief-joins-international-push-to-de-escalate-by-kickstarting-talks/ https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/28/news/u/as-israel-ramps-up-strikes-on-lebanon-egypts-intelligence-chief-joins-international-push-to-de-escalate-by-kickstarting-talks/"
X Link 2025-10-29T12:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A must-read article on what's happening in Darfur. https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/27/feature/politics/the-fall-of-fasher-darfurs-old-wound-that-has-never-healed/ https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/10/27/feature/politics/the-fall-of-fasher-darfurs-old-wound-that-has-never-healed/"
X Link 2025-10-29T13:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Morocco is the Foud Ajami of Arab countries"
X Link 2025-10-29T21:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is not correct. The RSF only has an ideology in as far as it is a vehicle for Hemedti's power and enrichment. It is more useful to think of them as chauvinist gangsters with enormous military resources. Americans are too stupid to understand Shia vs Sunni no shot they're going to comprehend the RSF being secular Arab supremacist anti-Islamists. Absolutely no shot. https://t.co/qNRFjqtK9d Americans are too stupid to understand Shia vs Sunni no shot they're going to comprehend the RSF being secular Arab supremacist anti-Islamists. Absolutely no shot. https://t.co/qNRFjqtK9d"
X Link 2025-10-30T12:39Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements
"Today is my 29th birthday"
X Link 2025-10-30T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Really struck a nerve. It is his modus operandi: where he interjects Iddisch words and makes sweeping claims without sources. It is his modus operandi: where he interjects Iddisch words and makes sweeping claims without sources"
X Link 2025-10-30T20:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""This is why you deserve to die" refreshingly honest from Lindsey Graham. To my friends in Lebanon I understand being upset when innocent people are killed or harmed by Israeli military operations designed to suppress Hezbollah a historical threat to the State of Israel. However I firmly believe that Israels military incursions into Lebanon are To my friends in Lebanon I understand being upset when innocent people are killed or harmed by Israeli military operations designed to suppress Hezbollah a historical threat to the State of Israel. However I firmly believe that Israels military"
X Link 2025-10-31T06:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Edward Said made the best critique of Hamas. He condemned the use of suicide bombings and the broader framework of religious nationalism but he never for second failed to mention the Israeli responsibility in shaping the conditions that has led to it"
X Link 2025-10-31T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There are two lineups in the Middle East: 1- Modernization by renouncing the old and endorsing the new. The UAE and Israel are leading this alliance. 2- Islamism and going back to 7th century. Qatar and Turkey are leading this coalition. Saudi Arabia is missing in action. Iran is There are two lineups in the Middle East: 1- Modernization by renouncing the old and endorsing the new. The UAE and Israel are leading this alliance. 2- Islamism and going back to 7th century. Qatar and Turkey are leading this coalition. Saudi Arabia is missing in action. Iran is"
X Link 2025-11-01T21:38Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements
"My review of When We Were Arabs"
X Link 2025-11-02T18:15Z [----] followers, 19.8K engagements
"The vision most American supposed liberal think tank people have for Mena is truly despicable and no amount of faux progressivism or deluding will make that less apparent"
X Link 2025-11-04T11:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is a great insight into the warped priorities of American think tank people in the Gulf. The chief concern is maintaining these surface level people-to-people interactions between Gulf Arabs and Israelis. There is no mention of genocide nor of Israeli surveillance tech. "The honeymoon is over." An assistant professor of Middle East politics at NYU Abu Dhabi discusses the future of the Abraham Accords https://t.co/iEeA9YbEoV "The honeymoon is over." An assistant professor of Middle East politics at NYU Abu Dhabi discusses the future of the Abraham Accords https://t.co/iEeA9YbEoV"
X Link 2025-11-04T12:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The fact that affluent Israelis can go to Dubai and celebrate openly their national identity is something that brings you joy. I care a lot more about how this alliance is waging a war on civil society democracy and the literal people of Palestine and Sudan"
X Link 2025-11-04T12:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dick Cheney was evil and anyone who tries to rehabilitate him clearly believes the millions of victims of his policies are subhuman"
X Link 2025-11-04T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In contrast the consumption of poetry in the Arab region has been fully replaced with Dubai chocolate labubu matcha slob. Architecture is poetry in space. Iran having a cultural affinity for poetry is naturally enthusiastic about architecture as well Architecture is poetry in space. Iran having a cultural affinity for poetry is naturally enthusiastic about architecture as well"
X Link 2025-11-05T09:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Danish right are losing their minds over Mamdani. This is a country of America-obsessed Charlie Kirk fans. They are incapable of not seeing themselves as to-be Americans"
X Link 2025-11-05T11:13Z [----] followers, 21.6K engagements
"This is especially pronounced in Copenhagen. Most people here speak English in their daily lives to a significant degree and almost exclusively consume American media. There are a ton of places in the city where you have an easier time getting around with English than with Danish"
X Link 2025-11-05T11:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"America should just annex Denmark and make it the 51st state. Then your conservatives could finally LARP as Vikings and Ozempic would become American. The Danish right are losing their minds over Mamdani. This is a country of America-obsessed Charlie Kirk fans. They are incapable of not seeing themselves as to-be Americans. The Danish right are losing their minds over Mamdani. This is a country of America-obsessed Charlie Kirk fans. They are incapable of not seeing themselves as to-be Americans"
X Link 2025-11-05T11:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Recommended reading. This paper by Toby Craig Jones is probably the best concise work on the U.S.-Saudi relationship"
X Link 2025-11-05T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Of all the books on Sudan maybe the best I've read has been Contested Sudan: The Political Economy of War and Reconstruction by Ibrahim el-Nur. It is the most comprehensive book on the country"
X Link 2025-11-05T12:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Not that you're incorrect about the unseriousness of these people but you demand functionally the same commitment to from social movements and groups in Mena conform to your sensibility politics. Zohrans win shows the futility of electoral politics. Join a Leninist reading group instead Zohrans win shows the futility of electoral politics. Join a Leninist reading group instead"
X Link 2025-11-06T15:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@musajalal001 Who is this even for"
X Link 2025-11-06T15:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@souljagoyteller Who is there even to meet Ofer Cassif would likely tell him not to come that Israel should be boycotted like the genocidal apartheid state it is"
X Link 2025-11-07T08:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Zohran Mamdani should go to an Israeli restaurant in Dubai and eat Israeli cuisine like Couscous and Falafel as a sign of solidarity and inter-faith coexistence"
X Link 2025-11-08T08:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Would people be interested in a list of books about the ethnography of political violence specifically in Arab countries"
X Link 2025-11-08T12:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@matthew_petti The Tunisians do it the same way as the Lebanese but this has deeper self-loathing roots. The Algerians don't do it. The Algerians Palestinians and Libyans are too traumatized by genocidal imperialism to LARP this way"
X Link 2025-11-08T12:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Great chapter by Saree Makdisi. With all going on in Darfur this chapter is quite relevant. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/jj.32657595.14.pdfrefreqid=fastly-default%3Af75dbd661ec96f41469df58cacd95165&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Ftest&initiator=&acceptTC=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/jj.32657595.14.pdfrefreqid=fastly-default%3Af75dbd661ec96f41469df58cacd95165&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Ftest&initiator=&acceptTC=1"
X Link 2025-11-08T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"With the whole "what about Sudan" crowd I'd recommend reading this chapter. Scholars like Mamdani and De Waal have been writing about this use of Sudan and Darfur in particular for decades. https://t.co/OcVwG2lN79 Great chapter by Saree Makdisi. With all going on in Darfur this chapter is quite relevant. https://t.co/oTVEaVn0QR https://t.co/OcVwG2lN79 Great chapter by Saree Makdisi. With all going on in Darfur this chapter is quite relevant. https://t.co/oTVEaVn0QR"
X Link 2025-11-08T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"post you and your celeb lookalike :-) https://t.co/mfDxgpneDI post you and your celeb lookalike :-) https://t.co/mfDxgpneDI"
X Link 2025-11-10T18:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"People underestimate how much of a departure Biden was. His biggest problem with Obama's and Bush's foreign policy was that there was too much funding for civil society in global south countries. Biden embodies the same naked contempt and supremacism of the Trump administration"
X Link 2025-11-11T01:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"All this talk of Saudi-Israeli normalization is detached. This slavish devotion to salavging the optics of a regional status quo that allows for murderous dictatorships and genocidal apartheid states. Im glad to be sharing my interview I did with @IsraelHayomEng For normalization between #Saudi and #Israel so many stars need to align - even stars that never been aligned before. Now these stars are not even in the same galaxy Im glad to be sharing my interview I did with @IsraelHayomEng For normalization between #Saudi and #Israel so many stars need to align - even stars that never been"
X Link 2025-11-11T15:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The peak of western sectarianism tacitly pushing for communal violence or the least discrimination and marginalization of Syrian children to push some vile agenda of intra-ethnic violence. Hey Lebanese [------] Syrian kids under [--] are living in Lebanon right now. Keep fighting few guys pushing for a Christian Lebanon. In [--] years most kids in Lebanon will be Syrian 😂😂 Bravo keep defending the mafiocrat system you fkn hypocrites. https://t.co/VFDkO6iELe Hey Lebanese [------] Syrian kids under [--] are living in Lebanon right now. Keep fighting few guys pushing for a Christian Lebanon. In [--] years"
X Link 2025-11-12T10:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Four books I'd recommend. Four books I read this year that I recommend: https://t.co/1OOIOPmySA Four books I read this year that I recommend: https://t.co/1OOIOPmySA"
X Link 2025-11-12T21:12Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
"I wrote a short post about the use of "Dhimmitude" by Western sectarians to launder support for Israel and Islamophobia. https://open.substack.com/pub/fathel/p/dhimmi-this-dhimmi-that-why-you-asr=2was6m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/fathel/p/dhimmi-this-dhimmi-that-why-you-asr=2was6m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"
X Link 2025-11-13T12:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is hard to believe Obama used to know Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said personally and he still sought out Dershowitz concerning Palestine. Somehow one of the most damning emails I've seen. Somehow one of the most damning emails I've seen"
X Link 2025-11-13T23:07Z [----] followers, 325.9K engagements
"One of the most interesting and insightful books on Palestine and Palestinians by @LalehKhalili Highly recommended read"
X Link 2025-11-14T15:28Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
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