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Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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@FT Middle East Correspondent (🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇶 ). I don't like condensing thoughts and I don't like Twitter. مراسلة الفاينانشال تايمز ببيروت | [email protected]
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Apr 24, 2023
    I’m Raya Jalabi. This is my only Twitter handle. You can verify this by heading to my official @FinancialTimes bio page: ft.com/raya-jalabi Or by checking out the FT's list of its own journalists: x.com/i/lists/570822… Reach me on my FT email with your tips & tricks.
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Jan 29, 2017
    Stay *only* applies to people who were in flight during the signing of the executive order or who landed during. Not to future arrivals
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Jan 29, 2017
    Woman w/ green card, held at US airport then put on plane "back to Syria" per ACLU. Stay means CBP now taking her off just before take off
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Mar 22, 2022
    🚨 A good a time as any to say this is my first week as @FT Middle East Correspondent. 🚨 I'll be based in Beirut (soon), where I'll focus on Iraq, Syria & Lebanon. Excited to return to my Levantine stomping grounds. Less excited to embrace our collective dystopian future.🤖🧟‍♀️
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Dec 21, 2024
    Assad left without so much as a whisper to the people who had pledged fealty to him for decades. He didn’t even bother warning relatives, including cousins, siblings, nieces & nephews, who were left to fend for themselves as the rebels marched on Damascus:
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    The last days of Bashar al-Assad
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Jan 29, 2017
    Judge grants stay for 2 Iraqis detained at JFK + "100-200" others in airports across country- can stay at least until hearing on Feb 21
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Jun 27, 2024
    Israel’s push to create a ‘dead zone’ in Lebanon: Over nearly 9 months of simmering conflict with Hizbollah, Israel’s military has laid waste to swathes of southern Lebanon. We spent the past couple of months looking at the extent of the damage:
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    Israel’s push to create a ‘dead zone’ in Lebanon
    As Hizbollah and Israel trade cross-border fire, radar data and interviews show attacks have ravaged 5km-wide strip of land
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Apr 2, 2023
    For years, we've heard whispers of Asma's increasing influence on regime affairs. "Now, she controls key levers in Syria’s battered economy, both as policymaker & profiteer, helping consolidate the family’s grip over a country in bloodied ruin." My latest:
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    Syria’s state capture: the rising influence of Mrs Assad
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Nov 25, 2014
    Surreal split screen: Obama calls for restraint as what looks like tear gas is deployed in #Ferguson
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Jan 29, 2017
    ACLU currently estimates 100-200 people across US airports being held because of EO. They can all stay until further notice
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Jan 29, 2017
    Judge also ordered gvt to give a list of all people currently being held in airports across the country so we'll know more on numbers soon
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Oct 13, 2023
    Issam was one of the first people I befriended at Reuters. Well, he befriended me, as he did everyone who came into his orbit. He was a kind, caring and passionate journalist, beloved in Beirut and beyond. He will be deeply missed.
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    Timour Azhari
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    Oct 13, 2023
    Issam Abdallah, a Reuters videographer and colleague, was killed when an shell hit near him and a group of journalists at Lebanon’s southern border earlier today. Reuters statement below:
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    May 29, 2019
    THREAD: Last August, Iraq sentenced a French man to life in prison for belonging to Islamic State. But in court & to me, he insisted he had never set foot here & was "brought over by the Americans." Similar cases begun showing up over the next 8 months: reut.rs/2Wxos0Z
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    Raya Jalabi | رايه الجلبي
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    Oct 27, 2018
    Vivaldi rings out in a former Isis training ground in #Mosul during a performance by Kareem Wasfi’s orchestra visiting from Baghdad #الموصل #Iraq:
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