
Alex Rowell
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Senior editor @newlinesmag | Author 'We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World', 'Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nuwas'
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Syria’s Stolen Homes The Assad regime expropriated the private property of dissidents and gave it to loyalists — an injustice that remains unaddressed. Abdulaziz Ramadan (Xoşewîst) reports for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-h…








Israeli soldiers tell Haaretz.com they were ordered to shoot at Gazans gathered at aid-distribution sites: "It's a killing field, live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars... our form of communication is gunfire." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…


"فقبل أن تنحسر العِرافة والكهانة والتنجيم، زوّدنا العصر الحديث، خصوصاً من خلال جمال عبد الناصر، بطاقة سحريّة لا يُستهان بها، تنهزم لكنّها تنتصر، وتنكفىء لكنّها تعمّ وتسطع" مقال جميل لـHazem Saghieh حازم صاغية aawsat.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D…

Great book. And great to see it in Arabic translation by one of the very best Lebanese publishing houses out there, Dar al Jadeed!

A new recognition for New Lines Magazine’s work. Farah Adnan’s “The disappeared children of Iraq" won a SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Crime Reporting category In good company: spj.org/sigma-delta-ch…



Today in Damascus I met with President Al-Sharaa and FM أسعد حسن الشيباني. I welcomed progress made and stressed the need for an inclusive and representative political transition. The UK stands ready to support the new Syrian Government.
