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Ben Hubbard
Middle East Correspondent for The New York Times. hubbard at nytimes dot com. I don't want no botheration. مراسل النيويورك تايمز في الشرق الاوسط
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Ben Hubbard 8h
I got a new job! I'm looking forward to pushing ahead with our coverage of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen and whatever else may come up.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 17
We’ll miss you man. Come back soon.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 17
Twitter fights, in a video.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 17
Why has no one made a bio-pic about Aretha?
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NYT Business Aug 17
"It seemed like better karma at $420 than at $419," Elon Musk said in the interview. "But I was not on weed, to be clear. Weed is not helpful for productivity. There’s a reason for the word ‘stoned.’ You just sit there like a stone on weed."
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Ben Hubbard Aug 17
Replying to @vicpengilley
Keep it up!
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Paul Szoldra Aug 16
JUST IN: statement on cost for upcoming military parade requested by :
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Ben Hubbard Aug 16
I like my kindle but the OS, if you can call it that, is so basic it makes Atari look advanced.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 16
Aretha Transcended. Forever and ever, you'll stay in my heart And I will love you Forever and ever, we never will part Oh, how I love you Together, forever, that's how it must be To live without you Would only mean heartbreak for me
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Ben Hubbard Aug 16
ISIS may be gone from most of Syria, but some communities in ravaged may never recover. Here's a visit to some of them. Photos by
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Ben Hubbard Aug 16
Replying to @NYTBen
If you have not seen it yet, I encourage you to watch this video shot by Osama al-Humran during his last hours alive before being killed in an airstrike in northern Yemen last week.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 16
The US says it is not a party to the war in Yemen. But it sells billions of dollars in arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, shares intelligence and refuels jets in mid air. Sometimes, those jets kill civilians. With
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Arbella Bet-Shlimon Aug 15
My father hails from this region of Syria. I've seen these villages up close, when they were living communities before the war. This article by is painful to read.
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Peter Baker Aug 16
Thanks to the ⁦⁩ for leading the way in speaking out for a free press.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 16
Replying to @SarahDadouch
She's thinking: "بعيد عنك... حياتي عذاب..."
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New York Times World Aug 15
When ISIS began its rampage across Iraq and Syria, the jihadists killed or enslaved Shiite Muslims and Yazidis, but they sought to make money off Assyrian Christians by kidnapping them, assuming their relatives abroad would pay dearly for their release.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 15
I can think of some US allies who do the same thing.
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rickgladstone Aug 14
The power of the press appears alive and well in Baghdad, where a riveting story by about an unsung Iraqi hero-spy who was killed by ISIS has moved the government to help his family.
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Ben Hubbard Aug 14
Is the place next door called Allen?
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Ben Hubbard Aug 14
Not my experience at all. I speak Arabic all the time in Saudi Arabia and I think most people appreciate it.
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