Pro- #Palestinian protest at #Greek independence day parade in #Athens

Tanf was established in 2016 as an outpost for international forces fighting #ISIS but evolved and expanded after ISIS defeat to try to counter the #Iranian project of establishing a land bridge to the Mediterranean. read iason11 Stimson Center stimson.org/2024/tower-22-…

If there's one global tinderbox, it's the ＃Red_Sea: militarized geopolitical hotspot mixing conflicts with antagonistic local, regional and world powers. Current tensions: ＃Somalia & ＃Ethiopia compound civil wars in ＃Yemen, ＃Sudan and ＃Ethiopia
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With world leaders arriving at #Davos , how many Houthi leaders are participating in this year's event who can shed insight from a Yemeni perspective on the world's most major humanitarian, geopolitical and commercial crisis?

Since mid-October, the Houthis launched numerous missiles and drones at Israel & Red Sea ships in response to the 🇮🇱 military campaign in Gaza.
Iason Athanasiadis explores the geopolitical impact of these attacks and the 'Prosperity Guardian' operation.
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I wrote about the David-and-Goliath confrontation between two very different mentalities and worldviews in the #Red_Sea . #shipping #Suez #Houthis
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My most recent short film on the work being done by the #Greek #architectural group #Boulouki up in the #Pindos mountains on how to build with #stone and #wood .
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I wrote about Kasselakis, the former Goldman Sachs banker who just parachuted into the leadership position in Syriza, the former 'leftist' government.
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'Filothei Halvatza remembers the moment she became a #refugee .'
My reported article from the #Thessaly #Floods about Storm #Daniel 's destructive touchdown in #Greece , ahead of its murderous visit to #Libya 's #Derna . balkaninsight.com/2023/09/26/if-…

The #Pakistani brother of a victim in the #Pylos shipwreck battles grief while he lives in anxiety of being deported from #Greece
2023 marks a record year for #migration deaths in the #Mediterranean hyphenonline.com/2023/09/20/mig…

I took my #motorbike up to the fabled mountains of #Thrace to ask why #Greece 's #Muslim minority became a major issue in the early summer national #elections .

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We haven't seen lines of #FirstWorld refugees in Europe since #WorldWarTwo #Rhodes #Greece #ClimateCollapse
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Pushbacks were a non-issue and the Left collapsed completely

iason11 explains the Greek elections for Hyphen

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Join TMR & 5 writers this Thurs for a roundtable on WORK (media, film, immigrants, fiction, Arab, Muslim)
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iason11 Middle East Institute Arts and Culture AMEJA Lorraine Ali

How the #Arab _world ’s most famous media outlet went from boisterous matchbox to counter-hegemon with an establishment role
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#al_Jazeera #Qatar #media #Middle_East #Arab

We stand with free press organizations and journalists worldwide calling for the release of prominent Chinese journalist Dong YuYu, who is being held on 'espionage' charges, punishable by a 10-year-sentence. #JournalismIsNotACrime .
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“Me and my colleagues were wondering why the #Arab world hadn’t exploded yet, given that it was horribly governed,” said the former US diplomat. “This was a room full of gunpowder and then somebody finally lit a match.” themarkaz.org/working-the-ne…
#alJazeera #news #Middle_East #media

I wrote about the further #financialization of Greek #real_estate & entry of int'l financial funds. Greek banks are selling bad debt in packages similar to those that led to the 2008 #subprime_mortgage_crisis balkaninsight.com/2023/04/17/gre…

“I was on the green land — my land, my trees. Now, as you can see, I am only among the dead,” he says, sighing heavily.'
#Climate #Iraq #Dispossession
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What happens when it takes an Odyssey to recognize the hollowness of your Ithaca
#Home #cities #Mediterranean #Greece #Middle_East #Doha #Kabul #Tripoli #Cairo #Tehran #Istanbul

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