@taavis.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at Project MIGDIA (funded by Kone Foundation, hosted by the Finnish Institute in the Middle East & University of Helsinki). Political economy, education & Lebanon.
“As global #education funding faces steep cuts, an estimated 6 million additional children could be out of school by the end of 2026, around one-third of them in humanitarian settings… #ODA for education is projected to fall by US$3.2 billion”
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Kids in Lebanese public schools will have for the third consecutive year a four-day school week as the government can’t afford a five-day week. #RightToEducation
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"Those in the world trying to recognize a Palestinian state will get an answer from us on the ground”
#Israel to okay plan splitting West Bank in two to 'bury the idea of a Palestinian state' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Haku opiskelijakurssille "Matkalla globaaliksi toimijaksi: kurkistus Arabiemiraatteihin" on avattu!
Dubaissa ja Sharjah’ssa 25.10.–31.10.2025 järjestettävällä opiskelijakurssilla tutustutaan laajasti Arabiemiraattien yhteiskuntaan. Lue lisää ja ilmoittaudu kurssille FIMEn nettisivuilta!
Survivors of the pager attack are easily identifiable, with missing eyes, faces laced with scars, hands with missing fingers. The AP interviewed six of them — offering a rare glimpse into the human cost of the attack
Powerful work by @bmroue.bsky.social @seldeeb.bsky.social @hassanammar.bsky.social
An illustration by artist Sirene Moukheiber depicting the Beirut port explosion of August 4, 2020. In the foreground is a destroyed balcony with outdoor furniture, plants, and a clock strewn around and broken. The clock appears frozen on 6:08 pm.
The deadly port explosion of August 4, 2020, destroyed lives across Beirut.
Five years later and the state has yet to hold anyone accountable.
”U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness, the Trump administration has announced”
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”Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing”
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According to recent polling, a clear plurality of Finns are in favour of Finland recognising Palestine: www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
01.08.2025 11:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
President of #Finland came out in support of Finland recognising the state of #Palestine but the PM’s not having it. Prefers to wait for the ever elusive moment when it would have an ”real impact”.
www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...
I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak
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British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.
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’Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”’
on.ft.com/44De8pm Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
”U.S. contractors…said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices…security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished’
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”IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present”
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
”At least eight people were killed and hundreds were injured in #Kenya on Wednesday, rights groups said, as thousands faced off with the police amid nationwide protests that laid bare the anger at President William Ruto’s government.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/w...
”In the document, the Hamas leaders apologized profusely to Nasrallah for not informing him in advance and begged him to join the war effort.”
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“The Communications Authority of Kenya has ordered all television and radio stations to stop broadcasting live coverage of the ongoing anti-government protests…Kenya Editors Guild [terms] it a gross violation of the Constitution and of press freedom.”
www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/eas...
Täällä Keniassa nk. Gen Z-protestien vuosipäivä. Stubbin Kenian vierailun yhteydessä presidentti Ruto vakuutti, että virkavallan vuoden takaiset väärinkäytökset eivät tule toistumaan. Tänään CNN raportoi, että poliisi on tehnyt kaupungin keskustasta jälleen ”sotatantereen”.
25.06.2025 12:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Meseret Hailu's case "is the first in Lebanese legal history to invoke charges of slavery, slave trading, torture, and racial and gender discrimination under the country’s widely criticized Kafala sponsorship system."
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Lebanese army announces military intelligence detains Lebanese citizen commander of IS in Lebanon, confiscates assorted materiel: www.lebarmy.gov.lb/ar/content/%...
25.06.2025 07:38 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
”The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months”
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Middle East analysis à la the Belgian PM: ““Without Iran, there wouldn’t have been a Hamas. Without a Hamas, not a 7th of October. Without the 7th of October, not a war in Gaza…So it’s a hard regime to feel sorry for.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
President of the United States of America: ”The two countries “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing”, he said, adding: “I’m going to see if I can stop it.””
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Professional stuff aside...man, what a time to be alive.
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”Donald Trump has thanked Iran for giving the US advance notice of a barrage of missiles against the biggest American air base in the Middle East and said he would encourage Israel to make peace.”
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