Once again, a perfect braid, styled by a mother who rose early in her displacement tent to prepare a future scholar for her makeshift classroom Hungry, likely without even having had dinner last night, yet neat, beautiful, and more determined than ever to chase her education

A quick first story from Sudan, where tonnes of gum arabic has been looted by the RSF in Kordofan in recent days middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-gum…

One of the very few films that suggests that the past is so fundamentally strange to us that if we travelled back there it would appear to us as a dream

Sara Jodat, an undergraduate student of photography at the Pars University of Architecture and Art has been killed in #Israel's airstrikes on #Iran's capital, her professor confirms to me. Another aspiring artist is the casualty of belligerence. May her memory be a blessing 💔

Iranian Philanthropist Hasti Mohammadi is one of the 71 people who were killed when Israel launched airstrikes on #Tehran's Evin Prison on June 23. She was negotiating the release of some inmates through bail. Several bodies still remain trapped under the rubble. 💔🖤

Some exquisite sinking of pints here back in 1971 as Reece Elliot from Birtley in Co. Durham - 52 years a pitman - sings the satirical miners' ballad 'The Celebrated Working Man'.

for The Nation i wrote about the beauty (and virality) of Iranian brickwork thenation.com/article/cultur…

🧵 1/ “There is no prior experience in my five decades of humanitarian experience that can come close to comparison to the horror we are all seeing in Gaza” - Martin Griffiths tells Middle East Eye in a wide-ranging interview.

Spoke to experts on what starvation does to the body &the findings have been shocking: -Weakened immune system, anaemia, breathlessness -Risk of re-feeding syndrome and Kwashiorkor -Next generation impacted -People living on water with salt/sugar newarab.com/news/gaza-how-…

It is simply remarkable how much the recent pivots to condemning Israel are premised on fabricating a recent watershed, on summoning a new history of events. Hind Rajab was killed a year and a half ago. The ICJ case was filed in 2023.

NEW: Syria’s Captagon empire may have spread to Sudan following Assad’s fall. Intriguing story from Daniel Hilton who visited the abandoned factories in Sudan middleeasteye.net/news/inside-dr…

At a captagon factory in Sudan, Daniel Hilton + Mohammed Alamin found equipment which experts like Caroline Rose says is very similar to what's been found in Syrian labs recently Near the equipment, they also found a shipping crate from a UAE company: middleeasteye.net/news/inside-dr…

I spoke to Daniel Hilton and Mohammed Alamin for Middle East Eye about the rise of #captagon in #Sudan, where recently discovered production equipment appeared very similar to those found in #Syria.

Since being forcibly displaced from his home, 75-year-old Salim Asfour, who used to be a muezzin at al-Sahaba Mosque in Gaza, has been living in a makeshift tent of fabric and plastic sheeting.

Israel’s war on Gaza: Why do legal experts say it’s genocide? middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ga…