Honored & humbled. @nytimesbooks says #NoTurningBack “offers page after page of extraordinary reporting & many flashes of exquisitely descriptive prose… Abouzeid’s remarkable journalistic & literary work has given us, at last, a book worthy of the enormous tragedy that is Syria” x.com/robertguinsler/status/…

.@TreyYingst: President Trump says he is getting close to ordering new strikes against Iranian power plants and bridges because "the Iranians are tapping the United States along."

This is the Israeli military justification for attacking a Lebanese army patrol inside Leb territory - ‘the area is an active combat zone, and movement in the area requires coordination with the IDF’ The Israeli military is demanding Leb troops asks its permission to move around its own country 🧵

Seconding this and adding that at the moment, even many of the families of Hezbollah fighters don’t know where they are and are not in communication with them. These guys take their security very seriously, especially comms, voice recordings etc #Lebanon

RT @SimonaFoltyn: Israel strikes LAF military vehicle near Nabatieh, killing several Lebanese soldiers and an officer, just days after Trum…

Weird how so many who pretend to care about human rights never share any of these confessions which have been around for 2 years

Israel army Chief of Staff Zamir: “There is no ceasefire for our troops in #Lebanon”

In this article Narges Bajoghli and I argue that the war has brought about a generational change in Iran’s leadership, bringing to the fore men with different experiences and outlook on state, society and foreign policy. This new generation is now confident that it ways has won significant strategic wins which it intends to translate not only into a new regional order but also a new domestic order and social contract with the population. The scale of the war and it took for Iran to survive it and fore the U.S. into a stalemate has also changed Iranian society in profound way. Social grievances remain but will express themselves in this new context. We explain why pre-war ways of understanding Iran don't explain it anymore. “The emergent Islamic Republic will remain highly authoritarian. But the categories that Western analysts have often used to describe the Islamic Republic’s various factions—hard-liner versus moderates, ideologues versus reformists—will be less accurate than ever. The new Islamic Republic’s priorities, and how it pursues them, will be shaped by the specific experiences of its two wars with the United States and Israel: the losses Iran sustained, the confidence its leadership gained, and the new social contract the fighting has made necessary and possible.” foreignaffairs.com/iran/iran…

Family of three killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their vehicle: Dr. James Karam, his daughter Theodosia, and his son Tony from Qlayaa, Marjayoun, struck by a UAV while returning home after end of year exams in Sidon. All three killed on impact. Geolocation: 33.360503, 35.537120 @GeoConfirmed

Gaza is still bleeding

🙏, thank you. It’s a story about what foreign policy looks like on the receiving end, and what it does to families #Lebanon

More than 1,100 Lebanese have been killed during a ‘ceasefire’ that took effect on April 17 #lebanon

There aren't many options. Haidar, displaced from the southern village of Blat near the border, told me in resignation that he and his family will remain in Dahieh for now: “We can’t leave. There are no houses [for rent], and we don’t have money. There's nowhere to go. It’s fine. Whatever happens happens.” But most people are fleeing the suburb. Many of them are being displaced for a third and fourth time.

Netanyahu & Israel Katz say they will strike #Beirut’s southern suburbs, following major escalation over weekend in south & forced displacement orders for towns around Sidon, ~40 minutes from Beirut. Yet some media continue to call these acts of war a ‘fragile’ ceasefire #lebanon

‘A site it hasn’t held for 26 years’ - as if it is Israel’s to ‘hold.’ Israel's military presence in #Lebanon is an invasion, its holding of territory is an occupation. Call things by their name

Eleven children killed or injured every 24 hours in Lebanon, UN says - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

A well-informed source told me that Trump’s Truth Social post about lifting the blockade was, in fact, the first condition before moving to the next steps of the understanding. According to the source, the Iranian side insisted on a formal public announcement first. Trump appears to have framed it as a secondary issue, while Tehran sees it as a key confidence-building measure before entering the more sensitive files. So far, there has been no direct discussion of the nuclear file itself. The process is expected to move gradually through an MOU, where every step will be matched by a reciprocal step. The same sources say a ceasefire announcement between Hezbollah and Israel is also expected as part of the broader framework currently taking shape.

For the past several months, I’ve talked to US officials and political and legal experts to understand the hierarchy of power within the Board of Peace, and what its plans mean for Gaza and the Palestinians. Read now in @NYMag: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

I travelled to Qatar and hung out with and around the trilingual Palestinian pop phenomenon Saint Levant. This Guardian long read is about his story, but also the contemporaneous solidarity and policing of Arab culture since 2023. theguardian.com/news/2026/ma…