Omar S. Dahi
@omardahi
Hampshire College| Security in Context | Jadaliyya
A recording of @acss_org discussion (in Arabic) I moderated with Rabie Nasser, Salam Said, Katty Alhayek "Syria in Transition: Academic Perspectives" : youtube.com/watch?v=xlYy-k…
Saying nothing would have been better than this gaslighting. The structural problem is US provision of weapons & impunity. It’s necessary to undermine that structure. Distinguishing bw offensive & defensive weapons attempts to normalize our role in genocide & how we got here.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
عن تحالفات سلطة الشرع داخليا ودوليا. من حوارات فكرية مع الباحث السوري وأستاذ الاقتصاد في كلية هامشير الأمريكية عمر ضاحي - @omardahi حول الصراع على سوريا بعد الأسد. أجرت الحوار: ألفة لملوم - @OlfaLamloum لمشاهدة الحوار كاملا: clpr.tn/OmarDhahi
It was pleasure to speak with Security in Context on my book Iran’s Grand Strategy youtu.be/ETU43-P9a7M?si…
Tribal armed groups and Salafi-leaning militias affiliated with the Ministries of Defense and Interior within the "Transitional Administration" controlled by HTS have breached the city of al-Suwayda and are carrying out acts that may amount to crimes against humanity. 1
Understanding Iran's Grand Strategy: Negar Razavi’s discussion with Vali Nasr @SecurityContext youtu.be/ETU43-P9a7M?si… via @YouTube
A detailed and heartbreaking report on how Israel systematically destroyed Gaza’s bookstores, printing presses, and publishing houses. It turned centers of learning and knowledge production into ruins and ashes. Please share widely.
Israel destroyed Gaza’s printing presses, publishing houses, and bookstores. These were homes to memory, knowledge, and cultural continuity. Ink and manuscripts turned to ash. Presses were silenced mid-sentence. Report by Fatma Al Zahraa Sehwail: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657550
Just to be sure, on this day more than ever: I stand firmly and convincingly on the side of justice, as I have always done. I come from a country with a tradition of illustrious legal scholars, talented lawyers and corageous judges who have defended justice at great cost and…
1/5 The Assembly of States Parties to the @IntlCrimCourt concludes its special session on the crime of aggression today. Over the past three days, it has considered amendments to the exercise of the Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. The #US, not a State party,…
Following June 30 executive order (whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…), Trump administration has repurposed former "Syria-Related Sanctions" regime (E.O. 13894) as "Promoting Accountability for Assad and Regional Stabilization Sanctions": home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…; ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-prog…
TIL that the United States' "Syrian Sanctions" program (home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/…) is apparently distinct from its "Syria-Related Sanctions" program (home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/…), which flows from 2019's E.O. 13894.
The names of 55,202 Palestinians killed by Israel as of June 15, 2025. This list includes only those whose deaths have been confirmed by health authorities. Tens of thousands more remain missing, unaccounted for, or buried under the rubble.
The worst phase of the Gaza genocide isn’t just deadly, it’s deliberate. Starvation, isolation, and mass death are being imposed on Gaza with chilling intent. Read @YousefAljamal’s powerful piece in @inthesetimesmag.
My latest article: This Is the Worst Phase of the #Gaza Genocide inthesetimes.com/article/worst-… @inthesetimesmag
It was a pleasure to speak with @p_somayajula, host of @ReturnToBandung podcast about Kenya's entanglement with US empire, and more. Take a listen!
🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 20 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by political anthropologist @samar42, author of War-Making as World-Making (@stanfordpress, 2024), to discuss how the U.S. outsources imperial violence to the Global South. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/4GvNEH…
Israel is slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza on an unconscionable scale. Over 500 killed in the last four days alone: Friday: 138 killed Thursday: 118 killed Wednesday: 142 killed Tuesday: 116 killed Everyone of them a universe extinguished
The IDF dropped a 500lb bomb into a cafe in Gaza on Monday. We saw & identified fragments. They had conducted "aerial surveillance" so knew it was crowded with civilians. They had other precise munitions available. Up to 40 died, more injured. My report: theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Wonderful Video on “Syria After Assad” by @MartinSmithDocs & @realmarcellular on @frontlinepbs An extraordinary job of getting the views of #Druze, #Alawite, and #Kurdish leaders as well as those in Damascus, Israel and the US. Alert: Yours truly has 6 bits. Some amazing…
Israel killed 63 people in #Gaza this morning, before I even started preparing #breakfast for my kids. some burned in schools they were sheltering in. Others trying to get aid packages to feed their families. It has been like this almost every day for almost two years.
I can't see how the BBC will ever recover from its headlong leap into this ethical void, all in the name of not upsetting the perpetrators of the most horrific genocide since the end of the 2nd World War.
This is devastating. Over a hundred BBC staff have signed a letter declaring they've been forced to do PR for Israel. Just the latest chapter in the biggest scandal of Western journalism of our time owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-we…
MAGA is using public policy to kill large numbers of Americans and siphon the wealth of those who survive. That’s been happening in America, of course, but the “Big Beautiful Bill” does it at a world-historical scale
How many people will lose health care in YOUR state under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"? • Alabama – 219,803 • Alaska – 39,989 • Arizona – 365,984 • Arkansas – 158,745 • California – 2,368,466 • Colorado – 240,953 • Connecticut – 86,580 • Delaware – 54,957 • Florida –…
on Syria's new rulers: "Ports, water, institutions-sold without a parliament, law or transparency" @ScprSyria
"Ports, water, institutions — sold without a parliament, law, or transparency." Rabie Nasser criticizes the unchecked sell-off of Syria’s public sector. 📺 Economy, Identity & Institutions: The Struggle for New Syria، Rabie Nasser & Omar Dahi 🔗 Watch: youtu.be/EbD2XTJpICQ?si…
Our new investigation into Alawite massacres. Syrian forces massacred 1,500 Alawites. The chain of command led to Damascus. - reuters.com/investigations…
As many Syria's have fled their country since Sharaa and HTS took over as have returned. An important article by Sam Heller @AbuJamajem
Since December, about as many Syrians have fled from Syria to Lebanon as have returned from Lebanon to Syria – maybe more. My latest for @lorienttoday on what those numbers mean, and implications for Lebanon's returns policy: today.lorientlejour.com/article/146683…