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Sarah Dadouch | سارة دعدوش
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Sarah Dadouch | سارة دعدوش
@SarahDadouch
Producing for @ObserverUK from@Damascus. Formerly @FT, @WashingtonPost, @Reuters. From Damascus, شامية قحّ [email protected]
- My street is drenched in darkness. All the windows are blown out and all people inside seem to have left. But one neighbor left a candle in his empty living room and I cannot explain how much calm its small light keeps lending me.
- after 14 years, finally, an Eid morning spent on our balcony in Damascus
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00:25yet another Eid morning not spent on our balcony in Damascus - someone sent me this video from Damascus: imagine how much each of these colored posters cost for an election whose results are already known in a country going through acute economic devastation
00:00 - For the first time in 12 years, I can truthfully say "I am going home."
- we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days.
- A reminder to foreign journalists descending on Damascus: prisoners are human beings who deserve dignity and should not be treated recklessly or used as pathways for clicks. Please treat people with the dignity that they’ve been deprived of for decades.
- Friend’s video of #Beirut playing the adhan and church bells simultaneously at 6:08, the time of the blast
00:00 - 20 hours have passed and #SaudiArabia has yet to issue an official reaction/statement on Biden’s win. In the same 20 hours, King Salman and MbS have however had the time to congratulate Tanzania’s president for reelection and Cambodia’s king on independence day—which is tomorrow
- Hamas told the Post it proposed releasing civilian hostages in exchange for: -5 day ceasefire -release of women & children prisoners -opening of Rafah so 16,000 wounded get treated in Egypt -let UN monitor fuel, food, medicine & water delivery to hospitals
- I know we Arabs have a bad rep, but suggesting only westerners have messages they stick to, stay on schedule, and carry hand sanitizer makes me just a tad angry
- This was two hours ago. The crowds have only grown bigger, relentless against the nonstop tear gas in Beirut. This woman screamed into the crowd, “if I die today, trample on me and keep going.”
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