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Syria program director @SynapsNetwork. Learning about water, ag, climate

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There's a wealth of great reporting and analysis from COP28 in Dubai.

Rather than add more text, I opted to try something different: A quick photo tour from this year's climate mega-conference
throughtheclimatefog.substack.com/p/cop28-dubai-…

There's a wealth of great reporting and analysis from COP28 in Dubai. Rather than add more text, I opted to try something different: A quick photo tour from this year's climate mega-conference throughtheclimatefog.substack.com/p/cop28-dubai-…
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As we build up our presence in Jordan, we are offering three paid internships to young researchers, with training and travel rolled in!

As we build up our presence in Jordan, we are offering three paid internships to young researchers, with training and travel rolled in!
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Any discussion on climate justice in MENA must tackle the question of ensuring water access in vulnerable countries.

Important briefing by Kristine Beckerle Amnesty International

amnesty.org/en/documents/m…

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Israel used white phosphorus on a town in Lebanon, potentially committing a war crime due to the indiscriminate use of the weapon

Today, meg kelly Alex Horton & I can reveal the US gave them the weapons used in the attack

W/comment from Tirana Hassan

washingtonpost.com/investigations…

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COP28 is a weird distraction from mass atrocities in Gaza. But the Middle East's many wars and crises have also served to distract from long-term, existential threats.

In this series of maps, we make the dire question of water palpable, at a glance.

COP28 is a weird distraction from mass atrocities in Gaza. But the Middle East's many wars and crises have also served to distract from long-term, existential threats. In this series of maps, we make the dire question of water palpable, at a glance.
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By now Washington’s public messaging is almost as unhinged and self-harming as Tel Aviv’s.

There seems to be a basic inability to grasp how insulting such statements are to anyone paying attention

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Lots of good stuff in this piece by Lyse Mauvais — including on the extreme disconnect between the Arab world’s rich and poor states

Lots of good stuff in this piece by @lyse_mauvais — including on the extreme disconnect between the Arab world’s rich and poor states
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There’s something surreal about the deluge of green branding in Dubai: billboards, packaging, hotels, Uber, you name it.

That was true when I visited in September; it’s gone through the roof for COP.

My thoughts on why it matters:

nytimes.com/2023/12/08/opi…

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In Dubai reigns a ‘Good Vibes Only’ approach to climate change, which Western governments are all too eager to embrace.

Our research director Alex Simon writes about his observations from the vantage point of Dubai's COP28, for the New York Times.

nytimes.com/2023/12/08/opi…

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At COP28, the UAE champions a 'good vibes only' climate policy: A belief that we can invest and innovate our way out of disaster, without changing how we live.

The US shares much the same vision—and that's why it's so dangerous.

My latest in The New York Times
nytimes.com/2023/12/08/opi…

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Extraordinary work by Maya Gebeily and others Reuters: investigating and visualizing how the IDF targeted a well-marked group of journalists with a double-tap strike, killing Issam Abdallah and wounding others

reuters.com/graphics/ISRAE…

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The Gaza war has triggered an unprecedented malaise in the civic sector across the Middle East.

Many local NGOs question their financial dependency on countries and donors whose values and positions conflict with their own. 🧵

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Like many around us, we at Synaps have spent the past two months reflecting on our place in a region--and sector--in crisis.

We've also been speaking to others who are doing the same. Some takeaways 👇

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We are thrilled to resume hiring, and to expand our research to Jordan!

We will start with scoping, and on that basis gradually build up a team in the months and years to come.

We are thrilled to resume hiring, and to expand our research to Jordan! We will start with scoping, and on that basis gradually build up a team in the months and years to come.
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Chuck Schumer delivers a specious, condescending lecture about how young people are 'abetting' antisemitism...

but neglects to mention that he spoke at the same pro-Israel rally as a pastor who said God sent Hitler to hunt Jews
nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us/…

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إن تغير الذي من المفترض أن تعالجه الدول والمنظمات غير الحكومية في قمة المناخ 28 في يتطلب التفكير في الترابط بين المجتمعات، وخاصة على نطاق البحر الأبيض المتوسط، وتعارض سياسات الهجرة مع الديناميكيات العميقة التي تشهدها المنطقة.
بقلم Alex Simon
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Did you know that the Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean were already the most salty open seas on earth?

More surprising still: These are also seas we dump an enormous amount of salt back into, in a spiral whose effects are worrying, yet unknown.

synaps.network/post/mapping-m…

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