Michael Petrou @michaelpetrou
Historian, Veterans’ Experience, @CanWarMuseum. @Niemanfdn Fellow. Husband. Dad. Bush runner. Long jabber. Still hits the jump shot. Decent cook. Ottawa Joined June 2009-
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It’s been a tough week, journalists. But the @niemanfdn fellowships remain a bright light and there’s still time for U.S. journalists to apply. Here’s how; applications due 1/31. (I wrote mine on deadline & so can you.) nieman.harvard.edu/fellowships/ho…
I'm proud of my friend for this.
I'm proud of my friend for this.
Today is the publication day for What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom, a book that I poured all my heart into. It is the story of my heroic compatriots: the women and men of who fight for a better Iran. Link: simonandschuster.com/books/What-Ira…
Okay. I laughed out loud when I got to the kicker.
Okay. I laughed out loud when I got to the kicker.
I spoke for @CanWarMuseum to introduce the Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture, co-hosted by @JSchool_CU. Veronika Melkozerova is this year's fine recipient. I tried to explain the necessity of journalism, especially in times of war & strife: youtube.com/watch?v=U7dVmm…
Diary of Captain William Stanley Moss: 7th January 1944. Moss has a nice lie-in, there's yet more equipment, CASUALLY ADMITS HE WAS TOO BUSY PARTYING AT TARA TO ACTUALLY DO ANY KIND OF PARACHUTE TRAINING BEFORE THIS TOP SECRET PARACHUTE MISSION (hence why he has no jump…
Tim Cook’s keynote talk on Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands was as thoughtful, insightful, and brilliant as you might expect. BZ. RMC Symposium. @CanWarMuseum
New publication! This one with @_SarahLHart, about a very interesting collection @CanWarMuseum about the early Korean War. scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol32/iss2…
🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 NOV 21, 1909: Dr. Colin Scott Dafoe (1909-1969) was born in Canada. He led an SOE medical team that parachuted into Eastern Bosnia (12 May 1944), and would remain in Bosnia for the following six months. #ColinScottDafoe #MissionDafoe #Force133 #SOE #WW2 1/3
I have a chapter in this book on "Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War" about Yugoslav-Canadian SCW veterans and their comrades who joined the SOE during the Second World War. Many thanks to Raanan Rein and Susanne Zepp-Zwirner for their fine editing. taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…
“Stand by our values and don’t let fear win.” Hers is our most clarion voice on journalism and democracy. A @niemanfdn fellow told me that listening to @mariaressa helped her “renew my vows with journalism.”
“Stand by our values and don’t let fear win.” Hers is our most clarion voice on journalism and democracy. A @niemanfdn fellow told me that listening to @mariaressa helped her “renew my vows with journalism.”
Next Friday, 27 October, I will be at a book launch for "Small Stories of War: Children, Youth and Conflict in Canada and Beyond" at Concordia! You can attend in person or online - check it out! storytelling.concordia.ca/event/book-lau…
The Travers Fellowship, named after the late and much missed journalist and foreign correspondent Jim Travers, is accepting applications for 2024. I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying: traversfellowship.ca
Great titles shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Awards this year. Congratulations to my friends and colleagues Tim Cook and @MarkBourrie: biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/blogs/ottaw…
Thread 🧵 Probably the most poignant letter I will ever read to passengers and someone I always make sure to visit whilst in Arnhem is Ivor Rowberry. Ivor came from Wolverhampton. He didn’t survive. Here is the letter he wrote to his mum 1/
We will miss him. I feel quite privileged to work in a building his creativity helped shape!
We will miss him. I feel quite privileged to work in a building his creativity helped shape!
It was a pleasure to interview Second World War Merchant Navy veteran Aubrey Ingraham. Those in the Merchant Navy suffered high casualty rates during the Battle of the Atlantic but were not afforded official veteran's status until 1992. Aubrey recently celebrated his 102 birthday
It was a pleasure to interview Second World War Merchant Navy veteran Aubrey Ingraham. Those in the Merchant Navy suffered high casualty rates during the Battle of the Atlantic but were not afforded official veteran's status until 1992. Aubrey recently celebrated his 102 birthday
Remembering my jam sessions with Mikhail Gorbachev. @BBCNews
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦.. @acoyne
145K Followers 1K Following Explorer, founder of Lachine, seigneur of Cataracoui, discoverer of the mouths of the Mississippi.
Justin Ling (Has Left.. @Justin_Ling
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Bob Rae @BobRae48
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff
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Matt Gurney @mattgurney
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Chris Selley @cselley
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Les Perreaux @perreaux
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Dale Smith @journo_dale
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Terry Glavin 格立�.. @TerryGlavin
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Scott Reid @_scottreid
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Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau
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Andrew Burtch @PostWarHist
1K Followers 1K Following Post-1945 Historian at the Canadian War Museum. My tweets are my own. Author of https://t.co/4IGEWT1xmM.
OTD Military History @OTDCanMilHis
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod
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Althia Raj @althiaraj
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman
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Evan Scrimshaw @EScrimshaw
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot
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POLITICS WATCH ® @PoliticsWatch
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別處/Yodapperest �.. @Yodapperest
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Shismeso @shismeso92186
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Matthew Heneghan @AuthorMHeneghan
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Eric Richard Scott @Quatrejeudis1
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Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦.. @acoyne
145K Followers 1K Following Explorer, founder of Lachine, seigneur of Cataracoui, discoverer of the mouths of the Mississippi.
Justin Ling (Has Left.. @Justin_Ling
129K Followers 994 Following I'm not here. Substack: https://t.co/5Y2BQGr0Au Mastodon: https://t.co/kbLXRE4nXL Bluesky: https://t.co/VxdwTwK33E… (DMs still open.)
Bob Rae @BobRae48
206K Followers 12K Following Ambassador, writer, teacher. Tweets are my personal views. Retweets are not endorsements
André Picard @picardonhealth
140K Followers 2K Following André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail and author of "NEGLECTED NO MORE". I tweet about public health, health policy, and journalism.
Matt Gurney @mattgurney
49K Followers 3K Following Journalist. Husband. Dad. Tweets my own. Co-founder @the_lineca. Mostly Twitter retired, find me on Substack's Notes and BlueSky, but not that active there.
Chris Selley @cselley
29K Followers 2K Following Bonjour/hi! Columnist for the National Post: Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada, and beyond the infinite. [email protected]
Les Perreaux @perreaux
22K Followers 3K Following Editor-in-chief, Policy Options, @IRPP. FransaskQuebanglo.
Dale Smith @journo_dale
33K Followers 587 Following Freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Author of The Unbroken Machine. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars. Nigellavangelist. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Terry Glavin 格立�.. @TerryGlavin
40K Followers 5K Following Author, journalist. Ottawa Citizen & National Post columnist. Maclean's magazine refugee. Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
Scott Reid @_scottreid
24K Followers 4K Following Principal at Feschuk.Reid CTV Talking Head. Exceptionally tender hearted
Natasha Fatah @NatashaFatah
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Andrew Burtch @PostWarHist
1K Followers 1K Following Post-1945 Historian at the Canadian War Museum. My tweets are my own. Author of https://t.co/4IGEWT1xmM.
Jen Gerson @jengerson
34K Followers 2K Following Co-founder of @the_lineca. Chaotic Neutral. National Treasure. One-time trash cake ambassador. You know I'm right.
Dan Gardner @dgardner
28K Followers 525 Following New York Times bestselling author and co-author of many books. My website: https://t.co/S17Y9SDxGE. My newsletter: https://t.co/XVtKxu6iVi.
Doug Saunders @DougSaunders
42K Followers 3K Following International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, Maximum Canada, etc.
OTD Military History @OTDCanMilHis
11K Followers 2K Following Support my work at https://t.co/SlLj16ezNf Run by @BradStCroix. On #YouTube.
Althia Raj @althiaraj
112K Followers 10K Following "It’s Political" podcast host/producer, National columnist @TorontoStar, “At Issue” panellist on @CBCTheNational. Parfois aussi: @cpac_tv @iciradiocanada
Steve Saideman @smsaideman
19K Followers 1K Following Director, @CdsnRcds; https://t.co/BxgBNB9jme; No longer posting as often (except announcements) thanks to the Nazi-in-chief Find me at @[email protected]
Stephen Maher @stphnmaher
46K Followers 5K Following Canadian writer. Author of The Prince, The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau. https://t.co/vB2H8janUL
Glen McGregor @glen_mcgregor
73K Followers 4K Following Journalist covering Parliament Hill and federal politics for @CityNewsTO. [email protected]
Vicente Aupí @VicenteAupi
3K Followers 995 Following Escritor y divulgador científico | Astrofotógrafo | Colaborador de @AEMET_Esp
Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory
2K Followers 2K Following History nerd. IC spare part. Currently researching escaping POWs and SOE in occupied Crete. And the Ancient and Medieval world. And historical food. And..
Joanne Archibald @joarchibald16
361 Followers 865 Following PhD Candidate @queensu. Historian. Cancer Survivor. Writer. Founder @ Livy Consulting. Speaker. Former Heritage Minutes maker. Big fan of the Blue Jays.
Cathrin Bradbury @CathrinBradbury
596 Followers 248 Following Journalist, editorial, writer. Author of The Bright Side, Penguin Random House, March 2021.
Darryl Fears @bydarrylfears
9K Followers 1K Following Env. justice reporter, Washington Post | Harvard @Niemanfdn fellow | Alum of LA Times, AJC & Detroit Freep. Howard U. Bison. https://t.co/2xjaeH19ks
Joshua Bailey @JoshuaBailey184
3K Followers 1K Following Science & conflict studies nerd / Depressed & alienated Baltimoron / Mutualist /YPG veteran Jin jiyan azadî My idiosyncratic views are my own
Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos
51K Followers 1K Following The Twitter/X des Expos de Montréal. News, statistiques, pop culture, et l’histoire de Nos Amours. #Expos
Martin Indyk @Martin_Indyk
37K Followers 2K Following Distinguished Fellow CFR, fmr US ambo to Israel, author Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of ME Diplomacy. Opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Peter Johnston @PeteAJohnston
5K Followers 5K Following Assistant Director, Narrative and Content at @I_W_M. Military historian, and explorer of museums, memorials and battlefields. All views here are mine alone
Wali - Torch & Sword @Wali_TorchSword
388 Followers 148 Following I'm a sniper and a foreign fighter against ISIL. Did a documentary about my experience.https://t.co/H8RMeJUWgH
Canada Declassified @CADeclassified
696 Followers 168 Following Canada Declassified is a digital repository of government records made available under Access to Information. Created by @timsayle.
Zoe Mason @ZoeMas0n
142 Followers 215 Following She/her | Writer, Researcher | @UofT | Recently: @JunoBeachCentre | Currently: @CADeclassified
Rushdi Abualouf @Rushdibbc
39K Followers 635 Following Senior #Palestinian journalist work for the #BBC for the last 20 years, what is written here represents my own views صحفي فلسطيني#
Ofer Cassif עופר .. @ofercass
27K Followers 179 Following קומוניסט | חבר כנסת מטעם חדש-תעל. מהפכות, ליברפול, איירון מיידן והפועל. شيوعي | عضو كنيست عن الجبهة الديموقراطية والعربية للتغيير - (MK of Hadash (DFPE
Charlie the Fox @SabCharlie
6K Followers 2K Following Dedicated hunt sab. Also interested in animal rights, anti-fascism, land rights and intersectionality. I also have extremely fluffy cheeks. #YPG Veteran
Anthony Loyd @A_Loyd_Times
6K Followers 702 Following Foreign correspondent for The Times since 1993.
Zara Akbari زارا .. @akbarizara
2K Followers 2K Following @Harvard MPA/ID @Columbia MBA |Anti-corruption|Ex Senior Advisor, MoF of Afghanistan|Strong Believer of Democracy| Human Rights Activist|RT # Endorsement
Matthew Connelly @mattspast
2K Followers 998 Following Director, Centre for the Study of Existential Threats; historian of secrecy, the future, and other hard targets.
Natiq Malikzada @natiqmalikzada
39K Followers 2K Following Human Rights Adv, AFG Civil Society member | Political Analyst | Journalist wt focus on human rights, politics, Afghanistan & Middle East @akhbar | RT≠ENDORSE
Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox
58K Followers 6K Following Former airborne soldier. Posts in a personal capacity. 🏴
Corinne Dufka @CorinneDufka
5K Followers 317 Following Consultant: West Africa - Human rights, governance, early warning - Former West Africa Director: Human Rights Watch; Re-tweets are not endorsements.
Dennis Molinaro 牟�.. @Dennismolin11
709 Followers 237 Following Legal historian @ontariotech_u, author, former nat sec analyst. 'The door is impossible to enter precisely because it is open.'
Shuv Majumdar @shuvmajumdar
6K Followers 2K Following Conservative Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage
Nicole Townsend @townsend_nic
992 Followers 568 Following PhD Candidate @UNSWCanberra – Australia's war in the Med and the Middle East (1940–45) | Researcher @AWM_OHP | All views my own |
Allan Downey @allan_downey
2K Followers 436 Following Dakelh (Nak'azdli Whut'en) Canada Research Chair & historian of Indigenous nationhood | Associate Prof in the Dept of History and Indigenous Studies @McMasterU
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Project Athena @TFProjectAthena
1K Followers 535 Following From the creators of Project '44, Project Athena is on its way. Mapping Canada in Afghanistan. Follow for updates!
diane doiron @dianedoiron65
46 Followers 77 Following In 2017 I opened the box that had carried my secrets for over 30 years. 2018 was of healing and forgiveness. I am ready to start 2019 with a clean slate.
Giles Milton @GilesMilton1
7K Followers 2K Following Writer and historian. THE STALIN AFFAIR to be published May 2024. Writer/narrator of Ministry of Secrets podcast. London Library trustee. FRHistS.
A Cambridge Diary @acambridgediary
53K Followers 74 Following The original Cambridge Diary. 5,000 continuous daily pictures of #cambridge New book 'Town & Gown' available now at https://t.co/JmfzBlMROL
Karan Deep Singh @Karan_Singhs
10K Followers 3K Following Award-winning freelance journalist, filmmaker, editor and photographer 🎥🗞️📸 • Frequently @NYTimes @WSJ • ✊🏽 🏳️🌈 • Let’s talk [email protected]
هيثم الشكرچ.. @AMB_Haitham
128 Followers 240 Following Good Will Ambassador of IHRC , Founder and Project Manager of IYMUN
Kathy Bunka @bunkaeh
2K Followers 950 Following Canadian Ambassador to Iraq/Ambassadrice du 🇨🇦en 🇮🇶. Former 🇨🇦 Chargé d'affaires to 🇸🇰. Opinions my own/mes opinions sont les miennes.
Chlo @chlocake
2K Followers 4K Following Historian✨CDP PhD candidate @KCL & IWM studying Op Herrick narratives ✨ network coordinator @BCMH_ECR_ ✨T1 diabetic 💉Insta: @chlocake ✨ currently: @HistoryHit✨
Cheryl Thompson @DrCherylT
4K Followers 1K Following Writer, Public Speaker, Researcher, Director/Creative Lead, Black Creative Lab, MOBA, #BlackCreativeLab #MobaProjects #ResearchCreation
Jelena @jelenadj.bsky.. @DureinovicJ
2K Followers 1K Following Historian @recetvienna @univienna. War, memory & veterans’ internationalism between Yugoslavia & Africa in the global Cold War. Football. @oeaw APART-GSK
CSN-RÉC @CSNREC
2K Followers 2K Following The Canadian Studies Network - Le Réseau d'études canadiennes. RTs not endorsements. https://t.co/BcjC57PmUV
Illia Ponomarenko �.. @IAPonomarenko
1.3M Followers 2K Following Live straight out of Bucha Buy Me a Coffee: https://t.co/2jsZNdSj2u Also find me on BlueSky: https://t.co/rqus6D0CZd
@[email protected].. @nisnis
3K Followers 1K Following Nieman Fellow ‘24. Covering the planet’s crises for @NYTimes, @NatGeo, @WashingtonPost, @CNN et al. Previously in China + SE Asia. Native Austrian, can't jodel.
Johana Wyss @JohanaWyss
536 Followers 731 Following Social Anthropologist at the Institute of Ethnology CAS | PI @MEMPOP_ERC #ERCStG 2022 | prev. @UniofOxford @maxplanckpress @KingsCollegeLon @IWM_Vienna
Dr Roel Konijnendijk @Roelkonijn
15K Followers 2K Following Ancient historian (Greece, Persia, war, history-writing). Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, @UniofOxford. Moderator at @askhistorians.
Avideh Motmaen-Far �.. @AvidehM
3K Followers 559 Following Conservative Nomination Candidate in Oakville West, Parle Français aussi! Osteopathic Manual Practitioner D.O. , Proud Canadian 🇨🇦 President @CouncilofIC
Habibullah Khyber @KhyberHabib
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Norimitsu Onishi @onishinyt
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Sam Bahour @SamBahour
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Dejan Djokić @ProfDejanDjokic
1K Followers 573 Following Historian. Tito's Last Soldiers @BritishAcademy_ @LeverhulmeTrust A Concise History of Serbia @CambridgeUP https://t.co/8Hxj3mbz8G W: https://t.co/ajf6s5F8wlA snippet from @michaelpetrou who has kindly provided the forward to my upcoming book, Woven in War. Coming spring 2024 from @Wintertickle
Today is the publication day for What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom, a book that I poured all my heart into. It is the story of my heroic compatriots: the women and men of who fight for a better Iran. Link: simonandschuster.com/books/What-Ira…
I was born on this day in 1988. Here is me hugged by my grandma and joined by rest of the fam. I am guessing the pic is in Tehran!
The Ottawa @oxfordalumni held our first annual dinner since the pandemic. @michaelpetrou spoke movingly about the stories of Canadian veterans and their families, which he collected for the @CanWarMuseum's "In Their Own Voices" oral history project. via.maharaj.org/itov 🍁🎓
Mackenzie King in today's paper. Again, I'll say that the fact that this article begins by saying people would have a hard time identifying King, just motivates me more as I write my new book on the history of Canada's Prime Ministers.
We are excited to share that Carmine Starnino (@cstarnino) is our new editor-in-chief. 👏 thewalrus.ca/new-editor-in-…
My book At the Edge of Empire comes out May 28. It's an epic work of memoir and reportage spanning 80 years, from my father in Mao's army to China's rise today. A most anticipated book for 2024 — Foreign Policy and Publisher's Weekly. Pre-order here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602734/a…
Albert Camus in his preface to L'Espagne Libre (1946) : "It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense."
AD | Ep 8 of A History of the World in Spy Objects from @spyscape, listen now! Justin Jampol, executive director of @wendemuseum of the Cold War, steps behind the scenes of his clandestine collection... Wherever you get podcasts, or here: tr.ee/lxy3Nz5spl #SPYSCAPE
A most beautiful Christmas Eve tradition. Thank you to all those who honour this tradition. ❤️🙏🇨🇦🇳🇱
Every Christmas Eve local school children come to Holten and Groesbeek Canadian Military Cemeteries in the Netherlands to light a candle in honour of each soldier laid to rest. The act is both humbling and beautiful and serves as reminder to be grateful for the peace we enjoy.
Happy Birthday to all those who have served with The Royal Canadian Regiment. Pro Patria.
Tonight the Regiment is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Ortona #DDayDodgers #CanadaRemembers #CabarFeidh
Unless its an Iranian home, in which case this is called Taarof and you absolutely should still take your shoes off
also when i have guests over they ask "shoes off?" and i just say "whatever makes you feel most comfortable" this is called hospitality
Sorry to hear about Gerald Owen, whom I did not know well but with whom I had a few chats during his time at The Globe. Quiet, very smart. Always had a kind thing to say about whatever squib I had just written, which he had always read. Here’s his obit: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
Somebody should write a book about them
My motion marks today's 85th anniversary of the return of the British Battalion of the International Brigades from the Spanish Civil War. 300 survivors were greeted at Victoria Station by Clement Attlee. The @IBMT_SCW and memorials around the country keep their memory alive.
OSS Boys U12 took down the Brantford CYO Hawks in double OT to capture bronze at the Chris Paulin. It was a wild game and so much fun to see boys grow over the weekend! @OShootingStars @ChrisGrubb22
From resisting the Taliban to volunteering and giving back to the Canadian community. Many interesting stories. Lovely to meet these amazing people today.
(THREAD) PERSONAL NOTE: 2023 was a year of awards, recognition, and now, sadly, the end of an era. These are my last days at @dallasnews.com, my professional home for more than 30 years. 1/5
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