The modern gender norm of nursing as "women's work" was largely shaped and popularised by Florence Nightingale, an English woman in the 19th century. These Twitter salafis are getting duped into gender roles by the white man’s philosophy, thinking it’s Islamic jurisprudence. 😭

Banning men from nursing programmes in Syria is genuinely the dumbest thing you could do, and yes it is sexist. I was in Rukban camp whilst it was under siege by the Assad regime and was honoured to have worked with male nurses who were some of the most resilient people on Earth

The schism between the conservatives and the liberals in post-Assad Syria is always gonna cause a headache. But It’s so nice to observe Syrians slowly start to accept that people can have differing opinions on certain matters and that we don’t have to be at each other’s throats.

This is just frankly embarassing

It’s 2026. You are a Syrian from the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus and have just woken up from a 10-year coma. There is civil unrest in France calling for the downfall of the government. The Assad regime has fallen and Syria is no longer under sanctions. HTS commander Abu Muhammad Al-Golani was in New York not long ago. Damascus is safer than Paris.