Robin Yassin-Kassab
@qunfuz.bsky.social
New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Here is the video of my talk at the Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh. qunfuz.com/2026/09/01/t...
The Blood Between Us at the Lighthouse Bookshop
The good people at the Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh invited me to talk about my new book (and therefore, recent events in Syria) as part of their Book Fringe Festival. There was a great little …
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Syria's president and the country's foremost Kurdish militia commander have defied expectations of a major military clash, overcoming years of discord to make peace against the odds, writes @qunfuz.bsky.social
The Syrian War Many Wanted but Two Men Refused To Fight
President Ahmad al-Sharaa and the Kurdish militia commander Mazloum Abdi have accomplished peace against the odds in Syria
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Syrians who live under and near the new Israeli occupied territories since 2024 say that Israel is turning southwestern Syria into a new West Bank— checkpoints, military bases, closed roads, demolition orders on villages, the kidnapping of civilians into military prisons without charge, and more.
Why is Israel's military presence growing in Syria?
The recent Israeli attack on a Syrian airbase is just one of many Israeli incursions into Syria. In southern Syria, locals say Israeli troops have detained them, destroyed infrastructure and set up mi...
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My talk at Edinburgh's Lighthouse Bookshop. qunfuz.com/2026/09/01/t...
The Blood Between Us at the Lighthouse Bookshop
The good people at the Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh invited me to talk about my new book (and therefore, recent events in Syria) as part of their Book Fringe Festival. There was a great little …
qunfuz.com
One reminder not to lose all hope against fascism is remembering how many people had written off the Syrian opposition and were normalising with Assad in November 2024
"Long-term Idlib microstate" was basically the optimistic consensus scenario until Aleppo fell a few days later
The death of Ratko Mladić means nothing to me. He won. The West rewarded the genocide and handed almost half of Bosnia's territory to his political project. As long as the genocidal entity exists, no justice is possible. The monument to his crimes outlives him.
"As migrants & refugees in exile from Iran, who have loved ones suffering in Iranian state’s prisons & facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’". overland.org.au/2026/08/our-...
Our support for the open letter: To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ - Overland literary journal
As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter To Ir...
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It was a great event. Writers Raja Shehadeh and Alex Rowell were in the small but engaged audience. And Lighthouse is a great bookshop, very well worth visiting if you're in Edinburgh (very close to the central mosque, and the Mosque Kitchen).
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop@lighthousebks.bsky.social · 3w agoWe may be reaching the end of August but Book Fringe continues! @qunfuz.bsky.social joins us with The Blood Between Us tomorrow. If you're interested in Syrian history, Robin's event will bring first-hand reporting and interviews from across the country for a fascinating account. See you at 12pm!
If you're anywhere near Edinburgh, remember to bunk off work at noon tomorrow so you can hear me talking about post-Assad Syria and my new book at the Lighthouse Bookshop.
Author and intellectual Robin Yassin-Kassab aka @qunfuz.bsky.social tells badlands the story behind the not-so-clandestine effort by the CIA and regional powers to arm the Syrian rebel groups which ultimately toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The Real Story Of The CIA’s Regime Change Plot In Syria
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I wrote this about Bashar al-Assad's death sentence. qunfuz.com/2026/08/15/r...
Rushed Justice Won’t Bury the Past
I wrote this in response to the unexpected and sudden death sentence delivered to Bashar al-Assad. It was first published at Syria Direct. On August 11, 2026, Atef Najib was sentenced to death by t…
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As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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On disappearances and detention without due process in new but not-so-new Syria.
Disappearing Hope
This article was first published at the excellent Syrian platform Al Jumhuriya. On 17 June, Syrian content creator Hassan Akkad was arrested in a Damascus café by armed men, as if he were an immedi…
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Talking to @borzou.bsky.social about "The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad"
I cannot help but do it and have to edit myself to stop it sounding too obvious
Númenorean Zhang Jue 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · last mo.Yeah this is literally a normal linguistic phenomenon, most people do it and it especially tends to be common with people who speak more than one language.
Elamite sculpture silver, gold c. 1500 BCE Elamite culture present day Iran An Elamite warrior attacking a Sumerian goddess, probably Ishtar. #art #ancientart #elamiteart #sculpture #silver #gold #conflict #war #warrior #propaganda #sumer #mesopotamia #ishtar #iran #iraq
It's just astounding how we keep making the wrong choice, with no doubt catastrophic consequences, despite all our science, because of capitalism, or inertia, or greed, or whatever we want to call our flaw.
Frederick Deknatel@freddydeknatel.bsky.social · last mo.“If you want to stop global warming, you must get to net zero carbon emissions. If you don’t get to net zero, the world will continue warming, and all the things we’re seeing at the moment will get more intense and more challenging. That’s basically the choice.” www.ft.com/content/e16e...
Talking to @borzou.bsky.social about "The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad"
not sure if I posted this before, but I mostly self funded my book tour (much gratitude to the friends who DID bring me to thier cities). I also had to take two months off of work to do it If you want to help me bounce back, the best way is to buy my art www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/subwa...
'Subway Self-portrait' Intaglio Print by Molly Crabapple — Molly Crabapple
For these intaglio prints, Molly drew herself in the beloved and monstrous New York subway, then printed them by hand on Hahnemuhle copperplate paper. Molly is obsessed with Goya’s intaglios and rece...
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🇸🇾 How is the legacy of the revolution, conflict violence, and 50+ years of regime-sponsored manipulation of communal divides shaping today’s Syria? 👇a really great episode of the Tahrir Podcast introducing Robin Yassin-Kassab’s new book on #Syria after the fall on the regime!
Robin Yassin-Kassab@qunfuz.bsky.social · last mo.“Here again, that contradiction arises between the needs of the people to heal and rebuild and the needs of those in power to consolidate power.” @qunfuz.bsky.social in @hidden-cities.com on Syria’s reconstruction under Ahmed al-Sharaa: www.hidden-cities.com/p/returning-...
Returning to Syria's Sea of Rubble
The ruins stretched for mile after mile. We drove on over dust to what had once been the suburbs of Damascus.
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It's been almost two years since the rebel offensive that brought down one of the world’s most entrenched regimes, ending the sixty-year Baathist dictatorship and the Assad family’s grip on Syria. We're honoured to be welcoming @qunfuz.bsky.social on 26th August at noon to hear all about it!
New in @hidden-cities.com: @qunfuz.bsky.social on returning to a Syria in ruins and what the rubble reveals — from his new book just published by @saqibooks.bsky.social “Someone had painted on an intact bit of wall the words Eid bil-eid n’amara min jadeed, or Hand in Hand We’ll Build It Anew.”
#Syria: Robin Yassin-Kassab, author of "The Blood Between Us", on Syria and why the government’s focus on stability may prove a pitfall @qunfuz.bsky.social @saqibooks.bsky.social qantara.de/en/article/s...
Syria after Assad: Promises of the revolution remain unfulfilled | Qantara.de
Since December 2024, Syria has been oscillating between euphoria and disappointment. The British-Syrian analyst Robin Yassin-Kassab sees optimism as a resource, but the new government’s focus on stabi...
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More than a quote.... Amer's story is told in Chapter four, the chapter about prisons
Amer matar عامر مطر@amermatar.bsky.social · 4mo agoGot my copy of The Blood Between Us: Syria’s Revolutionary Transition by @qunfuz.bsky.social today.I’m looking forward to reading it.Robin has followed Syria for many years with care, honesty, and a sharp eye for the details that often get lost.I’m also glad to find a small quote of mine in the book
