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Catalytic Converters By ANDREW TABLER New York Times Magazine April 29, 2007 The Middle East is abuzz with talk of “Shiitization.” Since the war in Lebanon last summer, newspapers, TV news channels and Web sites in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere have reported that Sunnis, taken with Hezbollah’s charismatic Shiite leader Hassan Nasrallah and his [...]
From "Friday Lunch Club": Chirac will move into an apartment belonging to the Hariri family. Now Chirac and Khaddam can be neighbors in Hariri supplied residences. Jacques et Bernadette Chirac vont habiter provisoirement dans un appartement appartenant à la famille Hariri La nouvelle résidence des Chirac, quai Voltaire Also see old dirty laundry: Lebanese Judicial Document: "Amine [...]
Monitoring the Syrian Legislative Elections 2007: The Tharwa community has posted its latest roundup of the election process which is revealing. Low turnout. Violence in some rural areas. Local rivalries between branches of the government and competing patronage networks. Various methods of government manipulation. These are some of the topics discussed. In conclusion, it seems [...]
Anwar al-Bunni, Syria's leading human rights activist and lawyer, was sentenced to 5 years in prison on Tuesday. Here is the AFP report. SENTENCED: Syrian human rights activist Anwar Bunni (pictured) was sentenced April 24, 2007 to five years in prison by a Damascus criminal court for 'spreading false information.' (REUTERS) DAMASCUS – Syrian human rights activist [...]
WASHINGTON (AP)–The U.S. has imposed sanctions on 14 foreign people, companies and government agencies, including the Syrian navy and air force, as it boosts efforts to stop transfers of advanced weaponry to and from Iran and Syria. The 14 – which also include Lebanon's radical Hezbollah movement and firms from China, Malaysia, Mexico and Singapore [...]
Ibrahim Hamidi, Al-Hayat's Bureau Chief in Damascus, has written the following article about the results of the Syrian elections. He added this short note in English to highlight the most important points. The al-Hayat article is copied below. Dear Joshua, . This article explains what happened in the elections and the changes in the political balance in the parliament. The [...]
An interview with the Syrian Ambassadorby Shafique Jamal, MPAID1Staff WriterWednesday March 21, 2007 On Wednesday March 21 the Syrian Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Imad Moustapha, spoke at KSG. Sponsored by the Dubai Initiative, his presentation “The Middle East: A Perspective From Within” examined both US-Syria relations and Syria’s role in the Middle East. Moustapha [...]
Photo thanks to John Wreford, whose gallery can be found at www.johnwreford.com All the post election roundups are having a good time laughing at the Syrian elections for being a farce. Emblematic of the coverage are these smarty-pants comments by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of the New Republic. He writes: It is mandated by law that this alliance of [...]
Everyone interested in the election process in Syria should read Ammar Abdulhamid's Tharwa Project, which is running interesting commentary on the elections in both Arabic and English. The Tharwa Community has gathered commentary from several Syrian cities on the progress of the elections. The cartoons and photos attached to each article are as much fun [...]
The National Salvation Front has officially announced that it is opening its Washington office on May 1, 2007 and that it has hired former US Ambassador to Qatar, Elizabeth McKune, to represent it and lobby congress on its behalf. The NSF was formed over a year ago and is led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, the Vice [...]
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