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Alex Simon

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Researcher | Writer | Cat wrangler Research director @SynapsNetwork. Learning about water, agriculture, human mobility
Beirut, Lebanon
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    Alex Simon
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    Jul 17, 2024
    Jordan’s environmental crisis is often framed as a simple case of scarcity: too many people, too little water. It is that, but it’s also more: It’s privatization, profit, state decay. My latest tells this story, and asks what we all can learn from it
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    Exhausting the desert
    Jordan’s environmental crisis is often held up as an extreme, exceptional case. Look closer, though, and the kingdom's story belongs to all of us: It's the tale of a world where the strong monopolize...
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    Alex Simon
    @AlexGSimon
    Aug 11
    Like its cover, "Syrians in the Shadow of War" is a collage. It binds together 32 reports by our team @SynapsNetwork, drawing on over 3,000 interviews between 2017-24. It orders them into six chapters, each tackling a question as relevant today as ever. Here's a preview: 🧵
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    Alex Simon
    @AlexGSimon
    May 13
    Useful breakdown of the problems with this article, ie: 1⃣ its core claim, that 45% of Lebanese oppose disarming Hezbollah, is meaningless without disclosing methodology; 2⃣ the data is 6 months old, which in 2026 makes it severely outdated
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    Alex Simon
    @AlexGSimon
    Apr 27
    Me: [Googles "de jure," because I always forget] Google AI overview:
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    Alex Simon
    @AlexGSimon
    Apr 14
    .@yarbatman is doing us all a service by politely yet thoroughly debunking nonsense claims from people who think their generalist expertise makes them experts on Iran, about which they know nothing
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    Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
    @yarbatman
    Apr 14
    The picture is far more complicated than this and now would be a good time for economists to start to look into how Iran's economy actually works. First, oil exports have long been a constrained source of FX liquidity, as evidenced by the fact that Iran's currency has continued

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