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Happy to share the 1st part of our @nytimes investigation into some of Syria's most notorious regime officials: "The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice"-
Erika Solomon
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Erika Solomon
@ErikaSolomon
NYT Iran and Iraq Bureau Chief. Former correspondent for the FT in the Mideast and Berlin; learned the ropes at Reuters. RTs, favorites not endorsements etc.
- Issam was the sweetest colleague. He let me take a kitten I was nursing on assignment once, and made it a bed in his helmet. But he always reminded me, whenever I got careless: “Our goal is to cover the news, not become it”. I am so sorry this happened to you my dear Issam. RIP.
- Excited to share my 1st feature for @nytimes, about the amazing Holocaust survivors who fled war once more, via an amazing rescue by @TheJDC & @JewishClaimsCon “They told me Germany was my best option. I told them, ‘I hope you’re right”
- Debate over @MelnykAndrij comments stirred questions over how 🇩🇪 & 🇺🇦see a dark chapter of their shared history. More important, it exposed how diverging views of history shape one of the tensest European partnerships against Russia’s invasion -
- “Is it any surprise that Jews in Germany worry that the country’s obsession with Israel has more to do with the German psyche than their own sense of safety and belonging?” - fascinating piece by @Deborah_Feldman | The Guardian
- “We’re at the limits of our capacity. I’m raising the red flag.” - by @GuyChazan and @JohnReedwrites ft.com/content/d40e00…
- “For now we have calm. If it stays that way, it was just a shitty six weeks.” Instead, the real trouble was yet to come. @FT on.ft.com/3Lf9WSb
- "Most Germans thought he was the man who was best prepared for the job, but it seems he wasn’t really ready" - Olaf Scholz's terrible week, by @kbennhold
- "It’s turning my world upside down" - Many Russian-speaking Ukrainians are abandoning their native tongue for Ukrainian to reject "the language of the occupier". Language activists in western Ukraine have formed "language clubs" to promote the switch.
- I said goodbye to the @FT this month— thank you to my editors and colleagues for 8 fantastic years. Can’t recommend it enough as a place to work for those that get the chance!
- Germany’s domestic intel agency released its annual report today, & called China “the greatest threat in terms of economic and scientific espionage”—Awkward timing, as 🇩🇪 gov & biz hold talks with 🇨🇳 gov delegation 😬… via @nytimes
- Replying to @ErikaSolomon
- “They are imposing conditions, materially and psychologically, that make people feel: Gaza is coming to you." @NYT video analysis and extensive interviews document IDF West Bank raids that locals said were the most destructive they have ever seen. nytimes.com/2024/09/25/wor… w/
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