“I lost my friends; I lost the buildings where I ate and drank with my friends. I lost all my memories. I don’t have any reason to live in Hatay anymore. Because there’s nothing.” ⁦Vivian Yee⁩ ⁦Nimet Kıraç⁩ nytimes.com/2023/02/09/wor…

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'In a sense, #Tunisia 's 2010 revolution — and the wave of Arab Spring uprisings it inspired — began in this hospital burn ward near the capital, Tunis, and sometimes it seems as if its dying breaths are being taken there, too.'

nytimes.com/2023/01/03/wor… Vivian Yee

via @NYTimes — One measure of the crushed hopes of Tunisia’s failed uprising - the blistered bodies of desperate young people filling burn wards. ⁦Vivian Yee⁩ nytimes.com/2023/01/03/wor…

“Death to the dictator,” protesters at Tehran University chanted on Saturday. “Death to the head scarf! Until when must we tolerate such humiliation?”
In videos of the Iranian uprising, women rip off scarves and burn them.
By Vivian Yee Farnaz Fassihi
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UPDATE: State Dept. says it will give most of $300 million in conditional military aid to Egypt, despite Democratic lawmakers demanding they withhold all of it b/c of Egypt's human rights abuses. The New York Times has documented some of the abuses. w/ Vivian Yee. nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/…

Biden’s meeting with MBS was a marked U-turn—but Biden will meet another Arab leader today whose human rights record he’s also denounced.

An incredible look at the tens of thousands of political prisoners in Sisi’s Egypt: nytimes.com/interactive/20… via Vivian Yee Allison McCann Josh Holder

Egypt’s Revolving Jailhouse Door: By analyzing handwritten court documents, we reveal the extent of a system that locks away political prisoners for months or years.

With Vivian Yee and Allison McCann.

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The Emmys are all politics, that's why, despite nominations, The Apprentice never won--even though it should have many times over.

Poor Betty Smith > MT Chuck Schumer Today, more than a tree grows in Brooklyn. Record FEMA $1.6B Sandy-damage award will build new hospital!

Vice's expansion kicks another Williamsburg tenant out: this time, a circus school brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/46/…

The amazing Stephanie Clifford has a new honor to go with her big book/movie deal(!): Gawker's dismayed, begrudging respect gawker.com/check-out-this…

'It smells like gentrification,' one said. As Brownstoner notes, might be 'telling of a shift in public perception of affordable housing'?

Sunset Park-ers reject a plan to expand their library, even though it would add affordable housing (no market-rate) dnainfo.com/new-york/20141…

Bah RT Andrew Grossman '…University of Michigan, an outstanding Big Ten school which until recently had a football team.' online.wsj.com/articles/colle…

'We’ve reached out to CB6 for advice on who to contact about removing decaying animal parts hung above the street' southslopenews.com/blog/news/anim…

For the record, there was no 'retraction' on our story about Patrick Witt's alleged sexual assault while at Yale bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/1…