“Dubai is now reduced to its component sounds: do-buy”

—  Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Jan 6, 2010, 5:45PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/7462123817 at Twitter.com

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free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political priso… 1981–2015

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