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qunfuz.bsky.social
Author "The Road from Damascus". Co-author "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War". Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at www.isisprisons.museum. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
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This is a really bad sign. The de facto authorities in Damascus cancel a civil society workshop on justice at the last moment.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Inspiring and super insightful event organised by MENA Prison Forum‘s great Mina Ibrahim yesterday in Berlin 👇 with @qunfuz.bsky.social from @isisprisonsmuseum.bsky.social, Wolfgang Kaleck from @ecchr.bsky.social and human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Most want the de facto authorities to succeed and for Syria to stabilise. We defend our government from Zionist/Iranian/western violence and lies. But at present the new authorities are failing to consult properly, are giving themselves too much power, and that's disastrous

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This is the first detailed study of the worst ISIS atrocity in Syria - the second biggest post-2011 massacre in the country after Assad's sarin gas massacre - the massacre of hundreds of members of the Shaitat clan, to punish them for their resistance.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

As we approach the 4th and 11th anniversaries of the war that Russia started, it is important to remember that this has always been a blatant land grab that turned genocidal as soon as they realized Ukrainians do not want to be Russians

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I just watched it. It's excellent and very worth watching. But now it's been pulled from this platform too. Unbearable censorship to facilitate genocide.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Here's the film about Gaza which the BBC pulled when Zionists told them too. www.dailymotion.com/video/k1UHiQ...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I know I sound like someone from another age or another planet, but... I strongly believe that we would be more prosperous, more secure, and more happy if all the borders in the world were abolished.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Israel executed Buthaina with direct shots to the head and heart. On Christmas Eve. In Gaza. No headlines. No outrage. No condemnation. Not a peep from the world when Israel mass murder children in both Palestine and Lebanon.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump saying that Ukraine started the war - blaming Ukraine for being invaded - is no worse than Biden/ Clinton/ Starmer etc blaming the Palestinians for the decades-long genocide of Palestinians - blaming them for being invaded, occupied, dispossessed and slaughtered by Zionists.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Hamas shouldn't have abducted the old man, mother and two babies. Israel shouldn't have carpet bombed Gaza, killing the four abducted civilians and tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. And Israel shouldn't have been born by driving people from their land into camps in Gaza.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

All solidarity to the people of Ukraine who have resisted so valiantly, defending themselves and also a 'west' which doesn't deserve defending, and which now no longer exists. A West which prefers committing genocide in the Middle East to defending a European population.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

My Syrianness is such that I spend most days thinking of people being whipped with cables or electrocuted or suspended from the ceiling or forced into tires. I was going to say my work but it is my Syrianness, for Syrians are made to think of such things by their circumstances, whatever their work.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I'd like to see a European-Turkish-Arab alliance against Russia (and a counterweight to the rapidly crashing US), but the arrogant, crusading, Zionist nature of Europe (the UK and Germany in the lead) makes this impossible.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

'That was not a good war to go into.' So it was the Ukrainians' fault that they were invaded by Russia, just as it's the Palestinians' fault that they have always lived on 'the Holy Land' of the little baby Jesus, so sacred to Crusader barbarians.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Great news. Our "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War" has been translated into Persian, and is available for free. Please share wherever Iranian (or Afghan) readers may see it. (a twitter link, I'm afraid: x.com/KarimkhanF/s...)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Indeed. The US, the UK, Germany, India, China ... The world is losing it 1930s style, and none of it will end well. (without mentioning the climate.)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The American collapse continues. Off a cliff.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is hosting a hybrid event tomorrow to launch the 52nd issue of *Critical Muslim*, which focuses on the theme of genocide. We are privileged to welcome an exceptional lineup of speakers, including @qunfuz.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

So far, he's hardly posting here (like most Syrian/Palestinian/Iraqi/Sudanese etc accounts, unfortunately), but when - insha'allah - he does, you all should be following @pashadelics.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I think al-Sharaa's explanation of how he ended up in al-Qaida is convincing. But I still want to hear what he thinks about the murder of Raed Fares and Hamoud Junaid, and what his role in it was. Not because I want him to be punished, or even embarrassed, but because Syria needs to hear the truth.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

"As Trump hastens America’s decline and Netanyahu deepens Israel’s vulnerabilities, the balance of power in the region may shift in ways that once seemed unimaginable." bylinetimes.com/2025/02/10/t...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments