Jessica Lee
@jessofarabia.bsky.social
Travel writer | Guidebook Author | Obsessed by deserts, mountains & finding the perfect hummus | Ex-Lonely Planet Türkiye & Egypt author | Lives in a cave | Posts mainly about: MENA, travel, books I like, & my stupid cats | Working on a novel.
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The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
True. I can vouch for this as an ex-tour leader. The Americans were always the best at getting stuck in to local food*
*though also, I worked in North Africa & the Middle East & I think the subset of Americans who chose to travel there may have been extra excellent Americans.
*though also, I worked in North Africa & the Middle East & I think the subset of Americans who chose to travel there may have been extra excellent Americans.
if there is one American value I really do pride myself on adhering to when I travel abroad, it is “I will enthusiastically try all of your local foods”
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
True. I can vouch for this as an ex-tour leader. The Americans were always the best at getting stuck in to local food*
*though also, I worked in North Africa & the Middle East & I think the subset of Americans who chose to travel there may have been extra excellent Americans.
*though also, I worked in North Africa & the Middle East & I think the subset of Americans who chose to travel there may have been extra excellent Americans.
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Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
soniasulaiman.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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The Orwell Prize absolutely embarrassing itself here.
🔴Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say “Orwell would have enjoyed the irony” of the former Conservative minister’s appointment
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Critics say “Orwell would have enjoyed the irony” of the former Conservative minister’s appointment
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Orwell Prize absolutely embarrassing itself here.
Lol. Apologies to Lord Glasman for my dismissal of intergenerational bonds & not wanting to work in a supermarket like my mother. 🤷
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Lol. Apologies to Lord Glasman for my dismissal of intergenerational bonds & not wanting to work in a supermarket like my mother. 🤷
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November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed.
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than…
mondoweiss.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/germ...
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Incredible ghoulish behavior here from Obama’s old speechwriter. She straight up says that she has a hard time convincing people Israel has a right to kill Palestinians because people have seen too many videos of Israeli war crimes
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Incredible ghoulish behavior here from Obama’s old speechwriter. She straight up says that she has a hard time convincing people Israel has a right to kill Palestinians because people have seen too many videos of Israeli war crimes
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Israel announced that they will bomb two villages in Southern Lebanon
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Israel announced that they will bomb two villages in Southern Lebanon
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
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There is no downside
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
There is no downside
Come holiday in Ortahisar where we're officially advertising a pretend Michelin star & some weird hotel complex that doesn't actually exist 🙃
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Come holiday in Ortahisar where we're officially advertising a pretend Michelin star & some weird hotel complex that doesn't actually exist 🙃
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"The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it had relocated its fighters from a mountain along the Kurdistan Region’s border with Turkey to deeper areas within the Region"
A new confidence-building and symbolic measure taken by the PKK.
www.rudaw.net/english/kurd...
A new confidence-building and symbolic measure taken by the PKK.
www.rudaw.net/english/kurd...
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it had relocated its fighters from a mountain along the Kurdistan Region’s border with Turkey to deeper areas within the Region"
A new confidence-building and symbolic measure taken by the PKK.
www.rudaw.net/english/kurd...
A new confidence-building and symbolic measure taken by the PKK.
www.rudaw.net/english/kurd...
I've said it before. I'll say it again:
UK - your entire country will fall apart without immigration.
Take it from someone who arrived in London aged 18 & did all the hospo jobs you don't want to do, then worked in construction cleaning which you lot REALLY can't be arsed doing.
UK - your entire country will fall apart without immigration.
Take it from someone who arrived in London aged 18 & did all the hospo jobs you don't want to do, then worked in construction cleaning which you lot REALLY can't be arsed doing.
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I've said it before. I'll say it again:
UK - your entire country will fall apart without immigration.
Take it from someone who arrived in London aged 18 & did all the hospo jobs you don't want to do, then worked in construction cleaning which you lot REALLY can't be arsed doing.
UK - your entire country will fall apart without immigration.
Take it from someone who arrived in London aged 18 & did all the hospo jobs you don't want to do, then worked in construction cleaning which you lot REALLY can't be arsed doing.
Let's face it, who hasn't fled a war or famine, without their e-bike tucked under their arm. 🤷
Alex Norris knowingly speaking misleading incendiary nonsense. The UK spends 0.014% of its budget on refugees. This is aside from the net economic benefits of migration. Painting this in zero sum economic terms is absurd - the cruelty is the point and these people should be haunted forever by this.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Let's face it, who hasn't fled a war or famine, without their e-bike tucked under their arm. 🤷
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What. The. Actual. F***
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
What. The. Actual. F***
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BREAKING: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bbojcn
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bbojcn
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
BREAKING: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bbojcn
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bbojcn
It's snowing. ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It's snowing. ❤️
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I'm forever reminded that I'm not truly British because I constantly forget to forget about Northern Ireland
What Americans don't understand is 'crassly forgetting Northern Ireland' is a core part of British culture, like cueing and only being able to communicate via laconic understatement.
No. No. It's absurd enough to think this for Americans, but fucking Brits!? Do you not know your own history!? Part of the country was in a civil war!
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm forever reminded that I'm not truly British because I constantly forget to forget about Northern Ireland
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📷 Ottoman Empire Costume Album, 1873
From Right:
✦ Armenian Priest of Konya
✦ Mullah of Konya
✦ Greek Priest of Konya
From Right:
✦ Armenian Priest of Konya
✦ Mullah of Konya
✦ Greek Priest of Konya
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📷 Ottoman Empire Costume Album, 1873
From Right:
✦ Armenian Priest of Konya
✦ Mullah of Konya
✦ Greek Priest of Konya
From Right:
✦ Armenian Priest of Konya
✦ Mullah of Konya
✦ Greek Priest of Konya
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This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
I know there's A LOT in the new Epstein emails but can we in Turkey please concentrate on the fact Thomas Barrack is currently living the high life as US Ambassador in Ankara (& special envoy for Syria).
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I know there's A LOT in the new Epstein emails but can we in Turkey please concentrate on the fact Thomas Barrack is currently living the high life as US Ambassador in Ankara (& special envoy for Syria).
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Middle East wonks take note
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Middle East wonks take note
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More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods without pretext of...