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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Aug 2

New video up!

In this episode, I speak with Nahla Sarraj, a psychiatry resident and humanitarian who works with SEMA and UOSSM about her return to Syria after 17 years.

We unpack what’s changed, what hasn’t, and the emotional toll of coming home.

(Link below)

URGENT: Druze Explains Shocking Suwayda Events w/@AstroGate (PLP Episode #9)

Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jul 29

May Gazans be fed and may Palestine be free.

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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jul 22

If it seems like I did not push back enough, forgive me. I couldn't find it in myself to police his speech.

Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jul 22

Did an emergency episode with @astroramiemad.bsky.social who spoke about what his family has gone through in the last week and expressed his trauma.

Take a deep breath and listen.

Syrians must reckon with where our current government is falling short, not brush it aside.

youtu.be/J9JwpybVSb0

After Assad: Syria's Future and the Kurdish Question w/ Rena Netjes (PLP Episode #7)

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Rena Netjes @renanetjes.bsky.social · Jun 4

If there is one frustration that people everywhere tell me, it is that the moderate voices among the Kurds, among the Muwahidin Druze and among the Alawites are not being heard (in the West).

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Rena Netjes @renanetjes.bsky.social · Jun 4

There are extremists among all sects in Syria, but most, despite demands, tell me that they are Syrians first and do not want separation from the rest of Syria in the northeast, the coastal areas/Homs and Swayda/Jaramana/A. Sahnaya. And much more:

Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨 New episode out now: @renanetjes.bsky.social joins us to unpack the future of the SDF, U.S. sanctions on Syria, her time in Palestine, and the story behind her arrest in Egypt.

youtu.be/vs7ciZYrrpg?...

After Assad: Syria's Future and the Kurdish Question w/ Rena Netjes (PLP Episode #7)

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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨 New episode out now: @renanetjes.bsky.social joins us to unpack the future of the SDF, U.S. sanctions on Syria, her time in Palestine, and the story behind her arrest in Egypt.

youtu.be/vs7ciZYrrpg?...

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Elijah Kahlenberg @elijahkahlenberg.bsky.social · Feb 21

The Bibas boys, like many innocent Palestinian children as well, paid for sins they did not commit or have any control over. Anyone with a conscious should be holding space in their heart for these angels, just as they should for the thousands of innocent Palestinian babies brutally murdered.

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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Feb 21

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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jan 15

Israel has declared war on the promise of a strong, democratic Syria

After being quite comfortable with al-Assad’s tyranny for decades, Israel now fears what Syrian democracy could do.

www.aljazeera.com

Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jan 15

"All those who lament Bashar al-Assad’s fall and gloat over the Israeli bombardment of Syria should do well to reflect on why Israel is attacking now. Clearly a cohesive, democratic Syria would be a much stronger proponent of Palestinian liberation than the Assadist tyranny ever was."

Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jan 7

Got some good news for tankies 👍🏻

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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jan 6

Officially deactivated. Fuck X

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Hayan @hayanomi.bsky.social · Jan 5

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