Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

Journalist, nerd. Co-host of @LebPoliticsPod. Beirut Joined October 2008

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

5 years ago

While I disagree with the changes implemented at the publication, and had no role in planning them, I honestly hope I'm wrong. Best of luck to all of my former colleagues at L'Orient Today and OLJ; congrats on a record-setting month, and wish you all success in the future.

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

5 years ago

These people truly are all-stars: @OmarTamo19, @GhadaAsharif, @TalaRamadan, @sewella, @rjsalame, @Georgi_Azar, @EmCLew, @waeltaleb23, @Rana_Tbb, @AlbinSzakola, @letoscot, @NiamhFF, Jake Pelini, @SGhoussoub and Joelle El Khoury.

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

5 years ago

Personal note: As of today, I have been removed as the managing editor of L'Orient Today. The publication's editorial direction and control will now be exercised by the editors-in-chief of L'Orient-Le Jour.

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

5 years ago

@ramezdagher @mich_h By my math, it's been 5,924 days since Mikati's gov't gained confidence on April 27, 2005. If we take that as a starting point, we've had no gov't for 1,419 days, just shy of 24% of the time. If we add in the gap between formation and confidence, it goes up to 27% of the time

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

5 years ago

@bnoujaim @timourazhari @lorienttoday Hi, we're separate newsrooms with separate editorial teams, but guided by the same basic editorial principles of empathy, transparency and critical inquiry. A number of pieces are translated and co-published, but the bulk of content in each is exclusive.

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

6 years ago

@atJenny Haha yep, totally understand

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

6 years ago

We're back! And we brought reinforcements... Excited to have my friend and colleague @timourazhari joining us for our fourth season!

The Lebanese Politics Podcast @LebPoliticsPod

6 years ago

Season four kicks off with episode 97, @Nizhsn, @benredd & @timourazhari take a closer look at Lebanon's coronavirus response, protests in Tripoli, the slaying of Lockman Slim, the port explosion six months on & stalled government formation 🎙️ soundcloud.com/lebpoliticspod…

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Timour Azhari @timourazhari

6 years ago

Video of the moment #Lebanon security forces open fire on rioters in northern Tripoli, #Lebanon.

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

6 years ago

Absolutely not.

Omar Tamo @OmarTamo19

6 years ago

نقابة المحررين طلبت من الصحافيين الراغبين بتلقي اللقاح تزويدها بمعلومات عنهم في مهلة اقصاها 28 الحالي. This is unbelievable and unacceptable, I really cannot believe they’re doing it

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

6 years ago

@Watchdogslb @henrichaoul @riachi_jean @LOrientLeJour @CommerceLevant @MaucourantNada @OmarTamo19 @MichelHe @saharalattar Thanks for the support. But no one person can do that — it's going to take a team of people inside and outside the newsroom. That's why solidarity, having each other's back, is so crucial

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

6 years ago

@ramezdagher It seemed the most illustrative...

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Benjamin Redd 🏳️‍🌈 @benredd

6 years ago

Oh, hello!

The Lebanese Politics Podcast @LebPoliticsPod

6 years ago

Episode 96 will be available midnight! Masks are on but gloves are off as @benredd is joined by @timourazhari to discuss the latest on the investigation into the explosion at Beirut's port as the country awaits accountability four months on from the deadly blast 🎙️

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Abby Sewell @sewella

6 years ago

I went to Tripoli today to speak to some of the approximately 270 Syrian families who were driven out of Bsharri after a Syrian man killed a Lebanese man in a personal dispute Monday. My latest: today.lorientlejour.com/article/1242727 via @lorienttoday

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Albin Szakola @AlbinSzakola

6 years ago

Venezuelans implicated in a mind-bogglingly huge money laundering scheme, one of whom is wanted by Caracas and indicted in Andorra while another is the brother of a fugitive former oil czar, established a mysterious web of offshore firms in Lebanon bit.ly/3kN2DCw

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Mike Azar @AzarsTweets

6 years ago

Had a great conversation with @Nizhsn and @benredd yesterday. We are all getting tired of talking about forensic audits, but it's important to document the details so we don't forget. Banking secrecy is a secondary issue at this point. The problem is there's no will to cooperate.

The Lebanese Politics Podcast @LebPoliticsPod

6 years ago

Episode 95 is out now! @Nizhsn & @benredd are joined by @AzarsTweets, NERD and finance professional, to talk the ins and outs of the postponed forensic audit of BDL, Lebanon's central bank (with honorable mention of the🐙) 🎙️ soundcloud.com/lebpoliticspod…

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Abby Sewell @sewella

6 years ago

My latest: Aid checks were given to families of the victims of the Beirut port blast...but banks wouldn't cash them today.lorientlejour.com/article/1240861 via @lorienttoday

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Aya Majzoub @Aya_Majzoub

6 years ago

In letters to/meetings with @hrw, #Lebanon's security forces denied wrongdoing during the #Beirut Aug8 protests that injured >700 & instead traded blame for the abuse But overwhelming evidence we gathered contradicts their claims. Latest for @lorienttoday today.lorientlejour.com/article/124049…

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Abby Sewell @sewella

6 years ago

My latest: A Russian-organized conference in Damascus, with Lebanon's participation, seeks to promote Syrian refugee returns. I look at previous efforts to do this in Lebanon, why they haven't worked, and why this one likely won't either today.lorientlejour.com/article/1240459 via @lorienttoday