There's a saying: When you visit the Middle East for a week, you write a book. When you visit for a month, you write an article. And when you visit for a year, you write nothing. Let me add: When you've never visited the MidEast, you become a twitter expert. h/t Sarah Dadouch | سارة دعدوش

"This is a rallying cry as we enter the last 15-year stretch of a race we have been running for millennia... we are going to be the generation that defeats the oldest disease known to man" - Brent Morgan, International Director of TLM. Read more: bit.ly/36RuI5l

Steve Hendrix Ruth Marks Eglash ECFR's Hugh Lovatt: a wildly unrealistic best-case scenario in Trump's plan gives Palestinians "an atrophied entity made up of disconnected Bantustans." In practice, it'll just cement race-based dual legal systems as an inseparable feature of Israel as such. ecfr.eu/article/commen…

#Syria: Severe crisis in Idlib. 3 million people trapped. More than 500,000 people displaced in the last 2 months. 53 health facilities were forced to suspend activities in January alone. #stopbombinghospitals منظمة أطباء بلا حدود @msf_syria bit.ly/39i6H8J

5 Things you didn’t know about leprosy: leprosymission.org/our-story/blog…

A hero with principles!

If you noticed the embroidery on Waad Al-Kateab’s dress, you’ll be interested to know that it’s an Arabic poem that translates as “we dared to dream and we will not regret dignity” #oscars #redcarpet #redcarpetfashion #oscars2020 #waadalkateab #forsama

Indeed!!!

Says it all!! Former WHO director Anthony Costello: 'Opening pubs before schools says something about our priorities' theguardian.com/world/2020/jul…

Boris Johnson faces Tory wrath as party slumps in shock poll .... please please let this be the end if this incompetent, arrogant, dangerous idiot! theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.

We are under siege. The military has jumped over the fence and has now taken control of our home

Launch of Lancet Series on Women’s & Children’s Health in Conflict Settings Tickets, Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite eventbrite.com/e/launch-of-la…

Break the walls and build bridges! Love is stronger than hatred! The day after... 4 years of polarization in the US. What a relief for the entire world.

Shocking ... the world should not turn a blind eye again! Ethiopia's humanitarian crisis risks getting worse, warns UN euobserver.com/foreign/150791

Football fans contemplating Doha - read this!! A boycott should be imposed ! Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup theguardian.com/global-develop…

Videos started emerging from the hijacked plane. Despite claims of a bomb on the plane no bomb disposal specialists were present on site and all passengers were let out slowly and one by one, again despite supposed danger that the bomb might go off. What a farce. #Belarus

I’m Josh Shapiro — and I’m the AG who stopped Donald Trump from undermining the 2020 election in PA. Now, I’m running for Governor in the most competitive state in the country, and one of the most important. Can you retweet to help our campaign reach 180K followers by midnight?

Meanwhile on Russian state TV: annoyed by Trump reportedly promising to destroy the Russian Federation and Putin's hegemony, state TV host Olga Skabeeva said that Russia "will have to think whether to re-install him again as the American president. We haven't decided yet."