Sam Heller
@AbuJamajem · Think tanks & analysts — US/UK
Sam Heller is a researcher and analyst of Lebanon, Syria, and their wider neighborhood.
.@BenjaminFeve on Syrian authorities' resort to Sham Cash to pay part of dues to farmers for wheat harvest: https://t.co/4kL9tenDxE
Smart, worthwhile paper by @rajanbasra and @irisharab7 on Jabhat al-Nusrah and IS abduction of Lebanese security personnel in Arsal: https://t.co/oe9MkONAC8
.@washingtonpost's @gerryshih on Syria's aspirations to become new energy hub: https://t.co/zSMZuHzcgS
From June: Worthwhile @RashaSirop @mehchy @Peace_Rep_ report on dysfunctional nature of economic governance in new Syria: https://t.co/LO8olTBFhc
Worth reading (and also available in English): @ScprSyria's Consumer Price Index Bulletins for May, June and July 2026:
.@hugobachega @BBCNews reports from Israeli-occupied south Lebanon https://t.co/ieV8GsbDs6
Q2 2026 @UNHCRLebanon protection monitoring report on Syrian refugees in Lebanon: https://t.co/PzgsmNlT7z
.@TheNationalNews' @NadaOHomsi: Israeli military has expanded effective control in areas of south Lebanon beyond Israel's own "yellow line": https://t.co/jpLSh7kfQd
Berri on "pilot zones": South Lebanon's "geography is not 'pilot zones' in which the Israeli occupier gets to test, either directly or by proxy, our army and our civilian and popular institutions, under any name."
Nabih Berri remarks yesterday at commemoration of Imam Sadr disappearance: https://t.co/3eURTXGlM9
.@TheActualAmmar on the unclear trajectory of Syria's improvised transition: https://t.co/f0pDxK3663
Trump's neo-imperial "Donroe Doctrine" is the most naked example of his administration's project to subjugate others. Yet it's of a piece with a more global project of domination, including in the Middle East. More in my latest for @inkstickmedia: https://t.co/pcNaXKrnth https://t.co/auaRffxCRt
.@frencio_schiavi for @BourseBazaar on expansion of trucking across Middle East, as Iran war disrupts maritime trade: https://t.co/8orWwYaJOM
Why would the United States keep paying stipends to Peshmerga forever: https://t.co/PxWbPHSvQL
.@Mouniryouniss @LOrientLeJour on Banque du Liban move to more closely regulate money changers: https://t.co/HnS4hh7kkh
.@firasshoufi for @AlakhbarNews on the breakdown of political opinion in Suweida: https://t.co/jdPErDNRlC
.@Raniaab for @nowvoyagermag on what sovereignty means in Lebanon, and who is meant to defend the country: https://t.co/rsT5gbWWuv
Haaretz on Israeli military's reliance on collaborator militias in Gaza: https://t.co/MmDoWJjHV6
Spoke to @AnanTello @arabnews about Israeli officials’ statements making clear their eliminationist intent in south Lebanon: https://t.co/q117GQbQc9 https://t.co/oxCUZX8qnR
Apropos of the Markey-Moulton primary in Massachusetts next week, Moulton wrote one of the doofy pro-Israel liberal articles about Israel's Gaza tactics that prompted me to write this response: https://t.co/YS4423w4kC Moulton's original piece: https://t.co/dmQxL5i15S
In @trperrry @FerasDalatey @Reuters interview, Syrian foreign minister Shaibani indicates Damascus was prepared to accept partial demilitarization of sections of southwest Syria as part of security agreement with Israel: https://t.co/EiMvsrPtHd https://t.co/Cl6SpUr49S
Good @NanarHawach @CrisisGroup on mob violence and attacks on minorities in new Syria: https://t.co/ykJjE4QHKK
Hama truck drivers protest, allege private traders' fleets are circumventing maktab al-dour to monopolize cargoes from state-owned factories: https://t.co/rE3Jj2LwWJ
Trump admin removal of Syria SST designation also revokes designation of Jabhat al-Nusrah/HTS; therefore delists a host of individual members/affiliates sanctioned for some alleged nexus to Nusrah/HTS, including Shafi al-Ajami, Abdullah al-Muheisini, etc.: https://t.co/pWtntU4c5f
An Israel that won't tolerate the consensual deployment of a NATO military's forces within 200 miles of its border also will not tolerate a sovereign, independent Lebanon, unless it is forced to: