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Sketch. It’s been over a year since my friend #MazenAlHamada was murdered by the #Assad regime. @garancelecaisne and I would love to find a publisher for an English translation of her powerful bio of Mazen ‘Oublie ton nom’. Anyone with publishing contacts pls DM. @RanaKabbani54

In less than 3 weeks, Israel killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon. These are some of their names.

On March 15, 2011, one of the greatest revolutions in history began: the Great Syrian Revolution. We lived through extremely difficult days, months, and years. We endured relentless bombardment as Bashar al-Assad, Russia, and militias of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used various types of weapons in attempts to kill us, displace us, and destroy our cities. Yet despite all this, the belief remained firm that justice must ultimately prevail over oppression. Thousands of Syrians made immense sacrifices for freedom and dignity, and many gave their lives in the hope of a better future for their country. In the end, the people proved that their will cannot be defeated. When a people truly desire life, destiny must respond. The will of the people ultimately triumphed in their great revolution. We prevailed against oppression, against Bashar al-Assad, Russia, and Iranian militias, and the voice and determination of the people remained stronger than every attempt to sile

My father, Dr Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, is gradually being murdered before our very eyes due to the inhumane conditions of his imprisonment. My father is an elderly man, nearly 75 years old. He is being denied his medication, subjected to terrible conditions, and placed in solitary confinement without the most basic necessities. He hasn't been given enough blankets or clothes for five whole days. This isn't negligence... this is deliberate and direct endangerment of his life. His health is deteriorating, and each passing day brings him closer to real danger. #FreeThemAll #Egyptian_hell @int_rec_day @AvnerGidron @Winnie_Byanyima

Sketch from eyewitness video. Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal, unwarranted, unsanctioned, war in Iran has murdered over 1,000 Iranian civilians, including 160+ children, and has lef to the death 13 U.S. service members. DO NOT BE SILENT! OUR TAXES ARE FUNDING THIS SLAUGHTER!

Sketch from eyewitness photo (Reuters?) A woman mourning a child murdered in the US/Israeli strike on a girls’ school in #Iran Behind the pseudo-masculine vomit spewing from the Trump administration is a beleaguered populace being bombed and traumatized by an illegal war.

Loss is of our children’s amputated limbs & lifeless corpses; of our obliterated homes, schools, libraries, hospitals. It also is a long overdue loss of the once-overarching myths of #Westernvalues & #humanrights. ‘The civilizing mission’ of #Napoleon’s #colonial drive daily is unmasked as a depraved mission to obliterate & exterminate us. The hypocrisy in this smug Western narrative is nauseating. #Palestine #Syria #Lebanon #Iran

On International Women's Day, we honor the Syrian women who have carried Syria through its darkest years. Syrian women are the ones who held the revolution together when the world wasn't watching. In the earliest days of the uprising, when protesters poured into the streets, Syrian women were there, chanting, organizing, documenting, healing. They ran underground field hospitals and charity networks for families under siege. They co-founded the largest grassroots coalitions of 2011. They picked up cameras and microphones when silence would have been safer. They spray-painted defiance on walls. They fasted and prayed and organized. They did this while being targeted, arrested, tortured, and disappeared, not despite being women, but often because of it. Over 13,000 women were arrested or forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime between 2011 and 2016 alone. And still, they did not stop. When the guns got louder, the world stopped telling their stories. But Syrian women never stopped doing the work. They became doctors and nurses in bombed-out clinics. They built schools in liberated areas, trained journalists, opened women's centers, and raised children through the impossible. In the camps like Rukban, in the tents and makeshift homes on the margins of the conflict, women became the ones who held families together, who kept communities alive, who returned to help their neighbors even when they had every reason not to. Syrian women are revolutionaries. They are nurses and mothers and schoolgirls and protestors and survivors and dreamers. They are the glue that has held Syria together through more than a decade of war, displacement, and loss. To every Syrian woman: we see you. We honor you. We stand with you.

Sketch from eyewitness photo (Arash Khamooshi @nytimes ). Plumes of noxious smoke from Iran’s destroyed oil refineries, saturate the sky and rain poison on civilians. Trump/Netanyahu ‘s illegal war has absolutely devastated the very people they lie about ‘liberating’.

Sketch from eyewitness photo. Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third grader in Minab, Iran, waves goodbye to his mother for the last time. Later that day a U.S. / Israeli strike murdered him and 170 other young students and teachers. Fellow Americans, OUR TAXES ARE PAYING FOR THIS!

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Sketch from eyewitness photo. On the first day of Trump’s illegal war with #Iran , a U.S. or Israeli precision strike struck a girl’s school, murdering 175 people, mostly young children. Trump is using OUR TAX DOLLARS, without representation, to rain death on civilians.

Sketch. Nurul Amin Shah Alam , a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, who was in the country legally, was dumped by CBP, miles from his home, in sub zero temperatures, at a closed coffee shop (Buffalo, NY). He was found dead, 6 miles from the closed shop. Justice must be served.

Sketch. I just received the horrendous news that my friend Paul Conroy , one of the bravest, most compassionate souls on the planet, has died.Paul was a phenomenally talented photojournalist who covered conflicts from the Balkans to Syria and Ukraine. Rest well dear hero.

Sketches. 4 years ago today #Russia invaded #Ukraine. Today, and everyday, pause, remember, reflect, and honor the beautiful, courageous, indomitable people of Ukraine as they battle this maelstrom of evil. Slava Ukraini! @reflextv @johnsweeneyroar

Sketch. Pregnant women detained in #ICE detention/concentration camps are terrified of giving birth in these filthy, inhumane, gulags, surrounded by guards. Please consider donating to a phenomenal organization that provides real support to detained children @eachstephome

Sketch from eyewitness photo (AFP). I haven’t been able to publicly post my drawings lately due to publishing restrictions. One of the projects I am working on depicts the ongoing, and ‘forgotten’ genocide raging in Sudan. RSF have been massacring non-Arab populations since 2023

Sketch from eyewitness photo (Rep. Joaquin Castro). Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy (blue bunny hat) who #ICE used as bait to detain his father, is now sick, lethargic, and depressed in a Texas detention center. This is evil. @JoaquinCastrotx

Sketch from eyewitness photo (#gouache). ChongLy "Scott" Thao, a U.S. citizen is arrested at gunpoint and forced into the freezing Minnesota weather in his underwear, after #ice agents broke into his home without a warrant. After an hour of interrogation, #Ice returned Thao.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the young artists of Kewanee Central School wanted to remember Eva and Liane Munzer, the beloved sisters of Alfred Munzer. Eva, and Liane (8,6) were murdered in #AuschwitzBirkenau . @HolocaustMuseum #HolocaustRemembranceDay

I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.