Saturday, November 10, 2018

Some Tweets from Balsam Mustafa

  1.  Pinned Tweet
     Oct 2
    Happy to share some academic news: my article, 'From personal narrative to global call for action: The case of Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad', is finally published (link: ) …
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  2.   Retweeted
     Nov 9
    Quick thread on : For all the talk about the security breaches that allowed for yesterday's explosion, the video below is what actually frightens me more. For non-Arabic readers, an all-women's gym owner received threats to shut down her business:
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  3.  Nov 8
    Still living the nightmare of car bombs. Their memory makes me wince at any sound or bang. Sad to come across car bombs in the news again. RIP! My heart and thoughts with all the victims and their families in and elsewhere in .
    Car bomb explosion in Western Mosul near Abu Layla Restaurant.
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  4.  Nov 6
    A young Iraqi FEMALE author..
    Replying to @muhammadalwaeli @BalsamAwni
    Regardless of subjective mitigation - the tweets cannot be viewed out of context of what appears a wider coordinated mudslinging i.e. timings, archive research, and even the language employed to subject a young Iraqi author to what is in effect a cyber-bullying onslaught.
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  5.  Nov 6
    People do not accept apologies /change but embrace hypocrisy. Think about your work of place, the people around.Many of whom were (x) in the past but change 2 (y) or (z),the list goes on, in the present.This was quite enough to grant them not just forgiveness, but also privilege
     
     
  6.  Nov 6
    How did you find about her past comments? Is digging through one's social media accounts, circulating their old posts, and inviting everyone to shame and smear the person, ethical?
    Then it is more important than ever that she does now, because we all felt proud when she got that prize because she is Iraqi, and were even more hurt when we found out about her previous stances on Saddam and Shia.…
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  7.  Nov 6
    قبل ان تطالب احدهم بالاعتذار عن ارائه التي تعود لاعوام خلت، طالب من نبش في حساباته الشخصيه ودور منشوراته ليتناولها الجميع بالسب والقذف والطعن بشرف صاحبها ان يقدم الاعتذار اولا . اما اذا كنت تعتقد انه لاضير من هذا الفعل، فانت امام مشكلة كبيرة. وتأكد يوما ما ستتعرض انت لذات الفعل.
     
     
  8.  Nov 5
    We can all be virtually stabbed hundreds of times before this happens in reality.
    When asked what ISIS represents to her, Edinburgh International Book Award winner Shahad Al Rawi answered: "Our hideous facet". Shahad has been slandered and shamed in Iraq today for a facebook post from 2011 where she allegedly adopted a pro-Saddam stance.
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  9.  Nov 5
    حرية الرأي تعني اقامه حفلة شواء وجلد وتقطيع اوصال المخالف بعد نبش حساباته الشخصيه وتدوير منشورات قديمه. هل هذه حرية التعبير المنشودة؟ هنيئا لنا بها اذا.
     
     
  10.  Nov 5
    ما يحصل حول قضية يشير الى أزمه أخلاقيه كبيرة. ربما أكتب باسهاب حول هذا الموضوع يوما ما، فهو أكبر من أن يختصر بتغريدات أو منشورات على الفيس بوك.
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  11.  Nov 4
    Justifying a war on another country is a validation of all other wars. War is war. Always black. No grey area here. Etc.
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  12.  Nov 4
    Congrats to the translator!
    📣AND THE WINNER IS...📣We're delighted to announce that Iraqi writer @ShahedAlrawi has won the Book Festival’s 2018 First Book Award with her stunning debut novel, The Baghdad Clock. Find out more 👇
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  13.  Nov 4
    Pardon me! I don't get it at all. You are dragging this conversation into a personal corner. I was voicing my opinion on the situation in Yemem based on a fact you avoided all of the time. And everyone is entitled their own opinions.
    Replying to @BalsamAwni
    Yes, even worse. You assumed a Yemeni who is also an expert on this particular war is wrong.
     
     
  14.  Nov 4
    Although I was not debating that analyst, I found it very strange to question debate.The assumption that I have little understanding on a simple fact (because this was my argument): 'Saudis are not Yemenis. Houthis are. Both are equally criminal', is what is off putting, Rasha.
    Replying to @BalsamAwni
    I just find it honestly very off putting that you're debating Nadwa, probably the only one who knows what's going on in Yemen with very little understanding and knowledge of the situation. I'm done with this debate Balsam.
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  15.  Nov 4
    وبين هذا الرأي وذاك ضاع المترجم، وغفل الطرفان عن امكانية تفوق النص المترجم على النص الاصلي. الترجمه حياة اخرى ونص جديد، والمترجم كاتب اصيل غير مقلد.
     
     
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  16.  Nov 4
    انقسمت الاراء حول رواية ساعة بغداد التي لم اقراها بعد، لذا لا أستطيع أن ابدي رأي فيها. ولكن ماجذبني هو طريقة النظر لفوز النسخة الانجليزيه من الرواية بجائزة ادنبرة للكتاب فالجائزة اصبحت بمثابة دليل على اهمية الكتاب بالنسبه للمدافعين عن الروايه، في حين قلل الناقدون من شأن الجائزة/
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  17.  Nov 3
    ديمقراطية!
    رجل مرور يحاول القيام بعمله وإذا بحماية مسؤول يعتدون عليه لانه منعهم من السير رونك سايد .. فبئسا لهم ولمسؤولهم
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  18.   Retweeted
     Nov 2
    الرئاسات الثلاث (الجزء الاول): محمد الحلبوسي ومافيا ال الكربولي .. رابط المقطع على اليوتيوب
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  19.   Retweeted
     Nov 3
    الرئاسات الثلاث (الجزء الثاني): برهم صالح ورئاسة الجمهورية .. الإقطاعية الكردية رابط المقطع على اليوتيوب
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  20.  Nov 3
    If you are Iraqi but do not like fish, you can still understand. You can still relate. It is not just a loss of a great resource. It is a loss of a bond. A loss of a connection. Now it is hard to imagine what can fill this space.
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  21.  Nov 3
    Masqoof carp is about family, the ones you love and happy times you spend with. It is about your memories with the good people in your life. It about (2)
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  22.  Nov 3
    This story is disheartening on so many levels but there is also a very personal and emotional dimension which every Iraqi relates to.Iraqi carp has a unique where in the world, one can find something similar (1)
    Only a few months after water crisis spilled over, thousands of carp have died south of in fishy circumstances. drone footage: …
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  23.  Nov 2
    This has become a trend, unfortunately.
    Any chance of major media publishing an oped by a non-governmental critical activist as well...or has media just become space for already powerful governments to print more of what the powerful say?
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  24.  Nov 2
    Left over or rather went to the corrupts' pockets?
    The Basra water poisoning crisis is actually an example of this. Money for the water treatment project in Basra was left unspent because the project collapsed due to corruption & security problems. And now 110K+ Basrawis have water poisoning, but there is money left over.
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