Shannon Gormley

@ShannonGormley

Global affairs columnist for . Cofounder . Prolific writer of emails, relatively frequent writer of features and news stories.

Istanbul/Previously Beirut
shannongormley.ca
Joined March 2012
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    7 Sep 2015

    A kid jumped out of a sinking boat to save other kids. The boat left him for dead. This is his story.

    17 retweets 7 likes
  2. 9 hours ago

    Global power shifts a little more as Canada signs up to China's answer to the World Bank (and gets little in return)

    26 retweets 17 likes
  3. Aug 29

    “This behaviour is not merely wrong, but unthinkable,” writes

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  4. Aug 29

    Liberal nihilism on Saudi arms sales

    7 retweets 2 likes
  5. Aug 28

    Brussels bomb: explosion reported at city's Institute of Criminology

    122 retweets 24 likes
  6. Aug 25

    UN report demolishes Syrian claim that rebel artillery, not Assad bombs, delivered chlorine.

    95 retweets 36 likes
  7. Aug 25

    Hey, I just met you. Amnesty's crazy! But here's my policy: Deport you, maybe?

    2,279 retweets 5,545 likes
  8. Aug 24

    Extraordinary: For doctors in the WhatsApp group, the link to Madaya is an obsession. “My soul is attached there."

    119 retweets 73 likes
  9. Aug 24

    Confidential reports show Assad may have kept some chemical weapons.

    26 retweets 22 likes
  10. Aug 24

    Since first days of war in Syria Turkey pitched to world Turkish buffer zone-after hundred of thousands dead+stalemate it just might get it.

    16 retweets 4 likes
  11. Aug 24

    All smiles. Almost.

    34 retweets 46 likes
  12. Aug 22

    Islamic extremist pleads guilty at ICC to Timbuktu cultural destruction

    14 retweets 5 likes
  13. Aug 21

    Anyone still saying "nothing's changed in Myanmar"? Pokemon hunters swarm Naypyitaw.

    147 retweets 176 likes
  14. Aug 20

    Another deadly attack. At least 30 killed in suicide attack on Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep. Horrific beyond words.

    100 retweets 40 likes
  15. Aug 20

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  16. Aug 17

    So Farage grew a moustache and is trying to become German? If he takes up painting, I will start to worry.

    185 retweets 338 likes
  17. Aug 13

    Chinese Communist mouthpiece the People’s Daily finds an outlet in Canada

    5 retweets 1 like
  18. Aug 13 Trequanda, Toscana

    This is extraordinary: Former Isis Yazidi sex slaves take up arms for revenge, to win Mosul & 'bring our women home'

    227 retweets 192 likes
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    • Louis Fishman
      @Istanbultelaviv

      Asst. prof. Brooklyn College CUNY; finishing book on late Ottoman Palestine. Writes on Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian, Mid-East affairs.

    • Phil Robertson
      @Reaproy

      Deputy Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch tweets mostly on SE Asia; Boston sports fan, rock & roll music lover, Thai speaker. Re-tweets not endorsement

  20. Aug 12

    Wow. Talk about a scary quote. Change last word to "Islam" and you can imagine Islamists saying the exact same thing

    1,603 retweets 1,008 likes
  21. Aug 11

    Crimea head Aksyonov suggests "killing them and hanging them at the border as a warning" as a way to deal with Ukrainian diversionary groups

    31 retweets 8 likes

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