The most striking aspect of Sinwar's appointment isn't that he is Israel's number one target. It's that all the rampage through Gaza's neighborhoods, hospitals, universities, cemeteries, and so forth has left Israel's number one target in a position to assume leadership.

Egypt’s Nile Delta is home to more than 40 million people living on the best arable land. Why, then, are many struggling even to feed themselves? Lyse Mauvais, ندة & Alex Simon explore this mystery, in the third essay of our three-country series synaps.network/en/post/Egypt-…

If a word defines the Arab world for me, it is generous: generous people, generous food, an incredibly generous nature, especially in places like the Delta. And yet the Delta is dying. This is a disease called neglect. The cure is to pay more attention. synaps.network/en/post/Egypt-…

This sums up the state of US diplomacy in the Middle East. The US "mediator" is an Israel-born former IDF who doesn't speak directly to the other party at conflict, and checks in regularly without concrete ideas on offer, to see if the problem just won't go away.

Macron aura chamboulé les partis traditionnels, les services publics, les grands corps de l'État, et maintenant le jeu électoral au fondement de la cinquième République. Non seulement il porte de fait le RN au pouvoir, mais il fragilise d'avance l'État qu'il lui livre.

In Egypt's Nile Delta, the farmers who feed society increasingly struggle to feed themselves. This cruel irony is not unique to Egypt. On the contrary, it defines food systems in one country after another 🧵 synaps.network/en/post/Egypt-…

بدأت سينابس رحلة جديدة في الأردن وهي جزء من طموحنا لتوسيع عملنا على المستوى الإقليمي. ننشر الآن مقالنا الأول عن التغير المناخي في الأردن وأثره على المزارعين والعمال والفئات الهشة في المجتمع. synaps.network/ar/post/Jordan…

The data brilliantly processed by Beirut Urban Lab shows a slow, relentless escalation on the Lebanese front over months. It doesn't track the nature of targets and the types of weapons, which have been escalating too. News-driven diplomatic agitation totally misses the point.

Yet another spectacular round of tit-for-tat closes. Commercial flights will normalize, diplomats will relax, and the "nothing will happen" mantra will resume. Meanwhile, our real problem deepens: a more insidious, structural escalation, which no one is doing anything about.

Obama's tenure saw a drift from substantive politics to the cultish celebration of his personal style and charisma. What is worrying with the Kamala Harris bid is that, from the start, it jumps straight to the latter.

Outre les morts, la violence, le ressentiment et les fléaux économiques, la santé mentale est un enjeu central qui obère la reconstruction de la #Syrie. Or, la toxicomanie touche de plein fouet un pays déjà dévasté. 𝖯𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖧𝖺𝗋𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀 orientxxi.info/magazine/toxic…

"Si l’escalade de la guerre a alimenté le boom de la drogue, le déclin des affrontements armés n’a rien fait pour l’arrêter. C’est même le contraire qui s’est produit." Toxicomanie. La septième plaie de la #Syrie à lire sur ORIENT XXI 𝖯𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖧𝖺𝗋𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀 orientxxi.info/magazine/toxic…

إن ما بدأ هذا العام كخطاب شعبوي حول منع السوريين من التعليم قد أصبح الآن واقعا يقاسيه أطفالهم. لن يؤدي هذا الواقع إلى تقليل عدد السوريين في لبنان، بل إلى حرمان مزيد من الأطفال حقهم في التعليم وتفاقم التحديات الاجتماعية. نستعرض في هذه تحديات وصول السوريين للتعليم في لبنان:

Across Europe, it's not only mainstream politicians who abet the far-right by normalizing its thinking: It's a big chunk of traditional media, which is puzzling. How can so many conventional journalists assume the far-right will do anything but enslave them?

Look beyond 7 October and Gaza: Increasingly, it's about Israel's implosion, the collapse of postwar international norms, and a crazed attempt at ending the Palestinian cause. Now look for a policy that comes even close to recognizing, let alone meeting, the challenge.

Synaps is a learning organization: Lifelong learning is central to our culture, and expected of all our staff. The projects we take on always include a learning component. Now we're looking for a consultant to help us systematize this effort. We want to learn from them too!

Policies are the bane of small civic organizations. To help, Synaps is developing a complete set of short, solid, sensible policies that our peers may use as templates. Now we are looking for a consultant to complete this process. Help us find them, for our sake and for yours!

La France fait face a deux blocages. Un refus d'accepter la fin du presidentialisme, qui renvoie a une longue tradition de concentration du pouvoir. Et une hantise des elites a l'egard des politiques de gauche, dans un systeme beaucoup plus conservateur que sa propre societe.