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Alex Shams

@alexshams_

Writer, PhD of Anthropology from U of Chicago. Editor @ajammc. Based in CDMX; Previously, in Tehran and the West Bank. Bylines @latimes @nymag @chicagotribune

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Anyone calling for a "two-state solution" is totally checked out of reality. Israel has spent five decades building settlements across the West Bank that make a Palestinian state an impossibility That was literally the point - and the US sent Israel billions of $ to do it

Anyone calling for a "two-state solution" is totally checked out of reality.

Israel has spent five decades building settlements across the West Bank that make a Palestinian state an impossibility

That was literally the point - and the US sent Israel billions of $ to do it
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Teherán despierta entre escombros tras días de bombardeos. Alex Shams (Alex Shams) relata el trauma colectivo y la incertidumbre que enfrenta la población iraní en busca de un futuro sin miedo. redaccion.nexos.com.mx/el-futuro-inci…

Annika Schmeding (PhD) (@annikaaneko) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Afghan #mutualAid networks have rapidly emerged in recent weeks to support deportees dropped at the border, amid a mass deportation drive that has expelled half a million #Afghans from #Iran. I explore the past&present of these grassroots solidarity networks for Ajam Media

Jeremy Konyndyk is at jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social (@jeremykonyndyk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

Mira the Bitch 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (@mira_the_bitch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wrote an article on TruthOut about the 100 Iranian trans prisoners who were murdered by the Israeli attack on Evin Prison. Read here 👇 truthout.org/articles/israe…

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"The Iranian state and its prisons are a nightmare, but Israel is not our savior. Their bombs do not liberate us. Their rainbow flags do not protect us. Their “queer rights” propaganda means nothing: they kill queer people alongside everyone else." truthout.org/articles/israe…

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"Far from weakening the Islamic Republic’s apparatus of repression, Israel’s war emboldened it, rolling back the fragile gains won through years of homegrown civil defiance. It has sabotaged decades of grass-roots organizing by Iran’s civil society." nytimes.com/2025/07/26/opi…

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"...the picture is now clear: Iranians are still caught between a ruthless regime that extinguishes life under the hollow claim of protecting a revolution and foreign powers that drop missiles on innocent people under the treacherous guise of liberation."

"...the picture is now clear: Iranians are still caught between a ruthless regime that extinguishes life under the hollow claim of protecting a revolution and foreign powers that drop missiles on innocent people under the treacherous guise of liberation."
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you personally had Mahmoud Khalil kidnapped from his pregnant wife and kept him in a cage for months missing the birth of his child because he protested Israel. I’m sick of the US lecturing the rest of the world when they’re the biggest hypocrites

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While Israel brings death and destruction, Palestinians teach life and hope: "Eqraa Ketabak (Read Your Book) is a small book stall that opened in late April right in the middle of the destruction in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip." electronicintifada.net/content/book-s…

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NEW POLL: The dam is breaking in the Democratic Party. Our poll with Data for Progress found that Mamdani’s unapologetic support for Palestinian rights supercharged his campaign to victory, with 78% of NYC voters saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

NEW POLL: The dam is breaking in the Democratic Party.

Our poll with <a href="/DataProgress/">Data for Progress</a> found that Mamdani’s unapologetic support for Palestinian rights supercharged his campaign to victory, with 78% of NYC voters saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Ajam Media Collective (@ajammc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Iranian national identity is just as (if not more) invented as Afghan national identity. The fact that they are constructed identities does not make them inauthentic. What other tools do we have besides the power to imagine and make meaning?" ajammc.com/2018/02/11/fer…