Journalist. Reporting for NPR in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan. former NYT, Christian Science Monitor, Jazeera English, CNN, Reuters in lots of places.
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Democrats are poised to win back the Senate — sending a Methodist pastor, a Presbyterian seminarian, a Muslim doctor, and a Catholic Native American to Washington while reelecting a Jewish Southerner in Georgia.
This is America at its best.
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Deb Haaland será a primeira governadora indígena na história dos EUA, pelo estado do Novo México
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JUST IN: Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who became a hero of the pro-Palestine movement after treating patients in Gaza, is heading to Congress after officially winning his election in New Jersey.
huffpost.com/entry/adam-hama…
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.@JeffreyGoldberg so this is really what The Atlantic is standing for?
Put aside the vile fear mongering, I would expect you to at least be aware of the definition of “Islamist” before signing off on this sloppy headline.
Shameful.
Abdul El-Sayed isn’t the only Islamist running in this election. Read @powellAtlantic on the slippery Adam Hamawy @theAtlantic
theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Journalistic malpractice.
@Reuters omits the fact that Trump is not cutting off the money, just moving it.
The NDAA will shield US tax dollars to Israel by moving them into the Pentagon procurement process.
Less oversight, less transparency
More US tax $ flowing to Israel
reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
- Dwight Eisenhower
Abdul El-Sayed literally just repeated the gist of the claim that got him in hot water this week:
“It shouldn't be this hard to pay taxes and know that that money's gonna be spent on you and your kids, instead of dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids.”
That is the essence of the highly controversial ad that caused Haley Stevens to break with him and sparked condemnation from Jewish leaders across America.
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“CPJ is deeply alarmed by the reported spyware attack targeting investigative journalist Radwan Mortada, apparently linked to his recent documentary on Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The attack follows the demolition of his home by Israeli forces in October and a pattern of similar cyberattacks against journalists this month. We urge Lebanese journalists receiving suspicious security alerts to contact CPJ and cybersecurity organizations to report and document these threats.”
— Sara Qudah, MENA Regional Director
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Two staffers working on Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers’ campaign are registered foreign agents for Israel.
Spokesperson Abigail Ronson and communications staffer Jesse Stokes work for Convergence Media, which is involved in a $46.5 million Israeli government-funded campaign to promote pro-Israel messaging in the U.S., including through social media and AI.
Source: Drop Site News
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In fact, he acknowledged her with a nod and placing his right hand over his heart, a widely accepted correct way to greet anyone dressed in a way that signals maybe their practice is not to shake hands with the opposite sex.
As Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed took the stage in Dearborn today, he dapped up and shook the guys’ hands while just walking by the one woman on stage, who was wearing a hijab.
This clip shows who Abdul truly is.
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Out of the 120 members of the new Knesset, only 11 hold doctoral degrees in various fields.
9 out of the 11 belong to the Arab parties, and one of them, Yosef Jabarin, also holds a professorial title.
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Imagine if a sitting Republican senator said voters should reject Jon Ossoff or Josh Shapiro because they reject Jesus. That would be a big story. This won't be because Islamophobia from powerful Republicans is simply the norm. It's why there's no comparison between the level of Islamophobia and the level of antisemitism in America today. Only one is actively promoted by the state. peterbeinart.substack.com/p/…
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Thirteen Years of Harassment, and Three Minutes to Close Mada Masr
An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of one of the country’s last major independent news outlets, as authorities intensify their crackdown on independent journalism. @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th…
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Rather dramatic window into how repressive Israeli society is. Truths have to be whispered in secret. And when they come out, those saying them are suddenly in terror
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Caryle Murphy Has Died. She Earned a Pulitzer for Reporting in Kuwait. (and was even braver and more intrepid than I knew but never bragged about it) rip to a true role model nytimes.com/2026/10/25/busin…
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I’ve so much admiration for Lina Attalah and her colleagues in Egypt. They set an example for journalistic courage and independence that all of us can learn from.
CPJ condemns the conviction of Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet @MadaMasr, on charges of running an unlicensed website. We call on Egyptian authorities to reverse the ruling, release the journalist immediately, and end their escalating campaign against independent journalism.
Read CPJ's statement ⤵️
cpj.org/2026/10/cpj-outraged…
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“Muslim women have more rights in Israel than in basically any Muslim country”
Israel ranks 84th on women’s status, tied with Kyrgyzstan, behind the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Albania, Kuwait, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Kosovo.
Women vote and hold office across most of the Muslim world, and Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Turkey have all had Muslim female heads of government.
Inside Israel, Muslim women face systemic racism and legal inequality, like the 2018 Nation-State Law and limits on bringing in Palestinian spouses. Millions of Palestinian women under Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza can’t vote at all in Israeli elections.
And in just three years Israel slaughtered more than 38,000 women and girls in Gaza and left 12,000 permanently disabled.
There is no place on earth where it’s less safe to be a Muslim woman than Israel and the places Israel dominates.
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I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this cordinated campaign to delegimatize Muslim Americans - not just as citizens but as humans.
These increasingly hysterical attacks are a prelude to Republicans bringing us to a very, very dark place after the election.
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So you don't view Arab citizens as Israelis? Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Ambassador.
Today is election day in Israel, which is a national holiday. All voting is in person, ID required. No mail-in or absentee ballots. Arabs vote same as Israelis. Contentious process, but it's a democracy-not many of those in this region!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Arab voters are Israeli citizens. Listing them in contrast to Israelis is misconstruing the facts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citi…
cfr.org/backgrounders/…