Hassan Hassan
@hxhassan · Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen
Hassan Hassan is the editor-in-chief of New Lines Magazine and co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.
.@Ola_Salem spent years reporting across four continents, from the flower fields of Grasse to the souks of the Gulf, Morocco & Syria, and ploughing through Abbasid-era books, to tell that story.
Thousands of Syrian women signed up for a police force without knowing exactly why they were being recruited. Some were revolutionaries, some widows. One left a 2-month-old at home to train. Reportage by @subhash_anagha in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/qXhLADjFUy
Observing the 2020 Beirut blast from Paris, Renate Mattar began saving material flooding social media. Six years and many conflicts later, she writes about the ad hoc archive she produced, and what it says about Lebanon, for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/v1V5S5byqh
How 9/11 Remade America @shadihamid joins @FaisalAlYafai on The Lede podcast 🎙️ discuss how the attacks 25 years ago changed America and the Middle East, and his new book, “Can Religion Save Democracy?” https://t.co/fOUeVJdZr5
St. Catherine's on Mount Sinai has been running for 15 centuries. Last year its Athens branch took in 539,000 euros, the monastery got 61,000 and the 91-year-old abbot got 63,000. In August he flew in with masked men and had 13 monks thrown out! https://t.co/mVTlO9SVMm
Shahd lost an eye & paid $1,000 for a cosmetic shell that cost $30 before the Gaza war. Over 600 people need prosthetic eyes. Cancer patients whose Israeli permits were denied or delayed died at a 45% higher rate. From @7assan3yman & @chrysographer https://t.co/IMLbCtmaOH
Syrian president Ahmad Al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi refused to fight a war that everyone wanted. A thoughtful essay by @qunfuz2 in @newlinesmag https://t.co/WFfBSQdgOw
Khalas dates belong to al-Ahsa & Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia. So why does every box in New England say Qassim? Historian @AhmedAlSalah5 follows it back to the Aqilat caravan merchants, whose name became a Syrian byword for honest dealing | @newlinesmag https://t.co/x04CGW6yH8
In Afrin, Yazidis returning after 8 years found bulldozed spires and broken gravestones. They light candles in the rubble and tie a stone from Lalish to a baby's back. https://t.co/jrFaSpD8Vd 2/3
Ain Ebel, Debel and Rmeish are among the few towns still standing in the Israeli-occupied strip. About 7,000 people left between them, 48 hours' notice required to move, three olive harvests lost. https://t.co/2FcsaxYWvJ 1/3
Not by design, but we've had daily dispatches from three villages this week. Maronite villages inside Lebanon's occupied zone, a Yazidi village in Afrin, villages built on South Sudan's flooded oil fields. Hyperlocal = @newlinesmag https://t.co/gZlO5lSORY https://t.co/xQaUDhK5sy
Inside Lebanon’s Christian Villages Under Israeli Occupation By @hunterewilliam and Ghinwa Akiki for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/2FcsaxYWvJ
For thousands of years nearly everything written about Yazidis came from outside the faith. A sheikh in Afrin #Syria has assembled a 600-page manuscript. DISPATCH by @hannadavis341 & Sandro Basili in @newlinesmag about Yazidis returning to their homes. https://t.co/jrFaSpD8Vd
Former Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s relationship with Mohammad Ali Ramin sheds light on his personality and transformations, and the path that may have led him to a secret deal with Israel. By @KZiabari who first noted such dealings, for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/5oxSnNJBqW
Reagan gave up church over reports of Libyan hit squads. Clinton fired cruise missiles at Baghdad over a plot against the elder Bush. Historian Alistair Hobson sets Trump’s fear of Iranian revenge for Soleimani in that line https://t.co/aj6qXl6M5q
This essay is an honest and insider account you won’t find elsewhere about #Kuwait these days, amid war and internal changes. By a @newlinesmag contributor https://t.co/CgNLRXY0N0
What do you know about the “poisoning” network that struck Daraa? Assad and the Russians ran it. Arabi21’s coverage of the “Uqba Muhammad” investigation in New Lines magazine
Translated from ArabicMohammed Dahlan, the long-ousted strongman of Gaza, has emerged as an internationally influential figure with the ear of the powerful. Is he positioning himself for a new political role? New details by @lisang in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/NNuLoVdiUJ
A firsthand look at how Saudi Arabia's post-oil ambitions have become a new strategic vulnerability, from the oil terminals of Yanbu to the luxury resorts rising along the Red Sea. @theophilesimon reports for @newlinesmag: